For families living with memory loss

Keep their stories close.

Family stories, photographs and familiar voices, ready for a moment together.

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Watercolour of a blue teapot, bread and cups on a sunny kitchen table

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Fictional family example

Sunday at the kitchen table

Computer-generated narration. In your family, keep the original voice too.

On Sunday mornings, Nora would put the blue teapot in the middle of the kitchen table. There was always an extra cup, even when nobody was expected. Her brother would arrive with the newspaper tucked under his arm, and somebody would cut another slice of bread. They talked about the garden, the weather, and the same old stories. Nobody was in a hurry. It was an ordinary morning, and that was what made it lovely.

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How it works

Tell it once. It comes back when it matters.

No typing, no hunting for photos. A story told out loud becomes something your family can find, hear and hold, in the voice that told it.

First

Just speak

Sit down with a cup of tea and tell the story the way you always have. Memory Lane listens and gently asks the questions a good friend would. No forms, no typing, no digging through boxes for photos.

Then

Kept, and understood

Every story is saved word for word, in the voice that told it. Behind the scenes, Memory Lane links it to the people, places and years it belongs to. Ask about the summer in Bundoran, and its stories come back, not a list to search through.

Every day

There whenever it is needed

On a phone or a tablet, in the sitting room or beside a hospital bed. A companion you can talk to in real time, that draws on the memories saved for them and can play them back. Powerful underneath, simple to hold.

Your family decides what is shared, and your stories stay yours. See how we protect your stories.

The walk

A Walk down Memory Lane

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Down this lane lives a lifetime of memories.

Some days the path back is hard to find.

Memory Lane helps protect that path back.

What it does

Seven things no photo album can do

An album holds what a camera caught. Memory Lane was built to hold the rest, the stories, and to keep them the way a mind keeps them. Here is what that takes, and who stays in charge of every part of it.

It listens

Voice first: tell the story out loud and it is kept in that voice. Add photos by the shoebox, type when it suits, and a soft illustration is there for any memory that needs one.

A watercolor of an elderly woman at a kitchen table speaking gently toward a small vintage microphone, steam rising from her cup of tea

A person always reviews first

Nothing goes straight to the person you love.

A watercolor of three generations in a warm sitting room adding memories together: a woman speaking into her phone, a young man typing on a laptop, and a teenage girl sorting old photographs with her grandfather, steam rising gently from their teacups

Illustrations that anchor, never deceive

It paints what was never photographed. Always an illustration, never a fake.

A watercolour of a young couple walking home through the rain along a coastal lane, sheltering together under his coat, cottages glowing ahead

It remembers every story eight ways at once

Which is why asking for the farm finds Grandpa's homestead.

The People and places map in Memory Lane: Nora's memories, people and places connected as a living map of her life

A life, written nightly

While the house sleeps, the memories are woven into chapters.

A watercolour of an open handwritten book beside a lamp, with a fountain pen and a moonlit window

Their stories, heard again

Read back from the memories the family approved, or in the family's own voices.

A watercolor close-up of aged hands resting on a photo album as a page turns softly

Even the music remembers

Songs from when they were seventeen, because a song can reach a memory that words cannot.

A watercolour of a vintage wooden wireless radio on a dresser lined with blue and white willow-pattern plates

All of it for one calm screen.

Their screen brings one approved story into focus, with clear controls to play, pause or choose something else. Start when you are ready, and take it at your own pace.

Every piece above exists so that all of that machinery disappears for them. Just a calm morning. Their day, their music, their people, and their stories one at a time, in the voices they love.

An album holds what a camera caught. Memory Lane holds the rest.

A warm watercolor farmhouse kitchen, steam rising gently from the teapot and the range glowing

And when a day drifts out of reach, there are many ways back.

A watercolour of an older man telling a story across a sunlit kitchen table while two smiling family members listen over tea

Ask in your own words

Ask in your own words and it finds the right memory. Memory Lane searches by meaning first and exact words second, searching out the people, places, or things that made that memory special.

The knowledge graph map view: Nora's memories, people and places as a constellation of linked nodes

Connected like a mind

Stories link to the people and places inside them. From thousands of memories, Memory Lane creates and connects pages and can even build a private wiki of a person's life story, every line tracing back to the memory it came from.

A watercolour of a calm farmhouse kitchen: a navy teapot and two cups of tea on the table beside fresh bread on a board

Gentle by design

No quizzes and no wrong answers. Share an approved story, listen to familiar music, or spend a little time with the people they know. The family chooses what is available on their screen.

The People and Places map in Simple view, live: selecting the story Summers on Lahinch Beach draws animated connection lines to its people and places, then a second selection moves the connections to Our Wedding Day — Nora’s life, connected. The People & Places map exactly as a family or carer sees it, working.

Ask, and the story comes home.

A watercolor illustration of the patient screen: Good morning Nora, a card reading It's Tuesday 7 July and John is visiting at 3 o'clock today, a story card with lamp, teacups and old photographs, and three soft buttons reading Music from my time, Chat, and Ask me about your life

“Tell me about that day at Lahinch.” Memory Lane finds the memory and reads it back in the contributor’s own voice or, if none is available, a personalised voice can be selected, with the pictures and photos that go with it.

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A watercolour walk, one frame at a time, exactly as far as you scroll.

Real screens

See it working

These are real screens from Memory Lane, shown with our demo family so no real memories are on display.

The Share a memory screen with three choices: Speak it, Start with photos, and Type it — Three gentle ways in: speak it, start with photos, or type it.

A memory called The kitchen ceilidh showing its date, place, people and story — Each memory keeps its people, places and story together.

The People and Places map showing memories, people and places connected as a map — The People and Places map shows how a life connects.

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Our why

Built with love, for the ones you love

Memory Lane was created for families navigating memory loss together. We believe every memory matters, and that sharing them can bring connection and joy to everyone involved.

An honest note: Memory Lane is a way for families to keep and share their stories. It is not a medical device, does not provide diagnosis, treatment, or therapy, and is not a substitute for professional care.

Who we are

The people behind Memory Lane

Audrey O'Neill

Co-founder and CEO

Audrey leads Memory Lane with a scientist's care. She is an ASCP board certified medical laboratory scientist with a BSc in Medical Laboratory Science from West Liberty University, and degrees in Analytical Science and Applied Chemistry from Ireland. Quality and safety thinking runs through everything we build.

John Mc Bride

Co-founder and CTO

John is an AI and UX leader with more than 20 years building products where people and technology meet, from enterprise AI platforms at SAE International to web services used by millions of New York City families. He is a named co-inventor on US Patent 11,520,470.

LinkedIn US Patent 11,520,470

Memory Lane is made by Global Quest AI LLC, registered in Pennsylvania, USA (entity 14027826) since December 2024. You can verify us on the Pennsylvania Department of State business search.