People wait, because asking feels like admitting the clock is running. But a voice is easy to lose. It sits in a voicemail that gets deleted, or on a phone that gets replaced, and then it is gone.
If your family has just had the news, a diagnosis or word that someone has weeks or months left, this is the thing you can do while there is still time. It does not ask much of anyone. A few short messages now are enough.
The simplest way to keep it is to record a few short messages while you can. Ask a parent or grandparent to tell one story, answer one question, say one thing they would want remembered. Then gather the voices of the people around them too, so the person is heard alongside everyone who loves them.
Chorus does this from any phone, with nothing to install. Each person records their own part from wherever they are. Every message is transcribed, so the keepsake holds both the voice and the words. It comes back as one book you can hear, read and hold.
Chorus fits any moment where the thing worth keeping is the people, not an object. Reach for it when someone wants to:
Gather voices for someone who has died, or save a voice while there is still time. A memorial keepsake that lasts, instead of flowers that do not. See Chorus in memory.
A 40th, 50th, 60th, 70th or 80th, for the person who has everything. Everyone who knows them records a message and it becomes one book. See Chorus for a big birthday.
A gift from a whole family or friend group where each person puts in something of themselves. See group gift ideas that are not just money.
Messages for a new baby from far-away grandparents, or a keepsake recorded a little at a time as a child grows. See a new baby and as they grow.
Voices from everyone at the wedding, gathered into one keepsake for the couple. See Chorus for a wedding.
Colleagues, friends, or a whole team each record a message for someone retiring, moving on, or moving away. One keepsake instead of a card everyone signs.
A 25th, 40th or 50th wedding anniversary, with the children and grandchildren each adding their voice for the couple.
When people live in different countries and cannot get together, each person records from wherever they are and it still comes back as one book.
Three one-time choices. Gathering the voices is free, and there is no charge until you order.
Record short voice messages of them, and of the people around them, and keep them together in one place. Chorus does this from any phone, transcribes every message, and gives you one keepsake to hear and read. Gathering is free and you order only when it is ready.
Gather them together with new messages from the people who loved them, so the voice is not sitting alone on one phone. Chorus keeps the voices and their words in one keepsake that lasts.
A book of voices, where everyone who loved the person records a short message and it becomes one keepsake to hear, read and hold. Flowers fade. Voices are what families keep.
Have everyone record a short message and gather them into one keepsake, instead of a card everyone signs. Each person records their own part from their phone, so it is easy to organise even across an office.
A book of voices from the whole family, where the children and grandchildren each record a message for the couple. It suits a 25th, 40th or 50th, and it works even when the family is spread across different places.
No. Everyone records from their own phone browser. One person starts the book and shares a link.