Your family's stories, in one place
Faces, recipes, photos and the stories behind them. Private to your family, and everyone you invite can look and add.
Your great-grandmother
Sunday sauce
2 cans San Marzano, 1 pork bone, basil last
Her recipe card, added by Aunt Maria
A sample family
The whole family adds to it, and asks it
Other tools ask one person to write, or one researcher to build a tree. In Olive every recipe, photo and story belongs to someone in your family, everyone can add what they know, and anyone can ask.
What you'll keep
Family
Who's who, and how you're related.
Recipes
The Sunday sauce, before the card fades.
Keepsakes
Letters, photos, the things they kept.
Memories
What they said at the table. How they laughed.
How it works
Start with your family
Add yourself, then your parents and grandparents. A few names is enough.
Invite them with a link
Send it by text. They open it, see the family, and can add what they know.
Add as you go
Snap a recipe card or tell a story. Olive puts it on the right page.
From a photo
Grandma’s Sunday sauce
Blurry kitchen light is fine
Ingredients and steps
On Recipes · on Rosa’s page
On the shelf in about a minute.
Ask from the chat you already use
Connect Olive to Claude, ChatGPT or Grok. Ask who someone is, find a recipe, or add a photo. Nothing is saved until you say so.
Claude · Olive
Asking about your family
Log Mommom's meatballs, here's a picture
Private by design
Only your family
Only people your family invites can see it. Every page needs a signed-in family member.
Never public, never sold
No ads, and your information is never sold. Your tree never shows up in search results.
Faces chosen by hand
Olive doesn't scan or recognize faces. A person picks each one.
Yours to keep
Ask for a copy of everything at any time. If you ever stop paying, your family still sees it all.
A real person reads every email at hello@thisolive.com. Read the privacy page
Questions families ask
Does Grandma need to download an app?
No. She opens the link you send her, in the browser she already uses, and signs in with a code from her email. No password to remember.
Who can see our family?
Only the people your family invites. If you share a link to someone outside the family, they see a small preview: a name and a face for living relatives.
Can everyone add, or just me?
Everyone you invite can look and add what they know. Each memory shows who added it, and the person who runs your family can fix or undo a change.
What does it cost?
Nothing while Olive is in early access, for the whole family. We will tell you well before that changes.
Can I bring in my Ancestry tree?
Not on your own yet. It's what we're building next. For now, start with a few names and add as you go.
What happens to our stories if we leave?
Email us and we send a copy of everything to the person who runs your family. Ask us to delete it and we will, within 30 days.
Start with one story
Add yourself and a grandparent, then send the link to family. Free during early access. See pricing
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