For service members & their families

The week before you leave,
record ten of them.

One for her birthday. One for his first day of school. One for a bad day when Mom can’t explain where you are. Short video messages, kept private and encrypted — your family can watch them now, on a date you pick, or hold onto them for someday.

Free while deployed for verified service members. Built by an Army veteran.

Before, during, and after

Before you go

In the days before you leave, record short messages — birthdays, milestones, “I’m proud of you.” Schedule each one to arrive on its date, or keep them ready for your family to watch anytime.

From the field

When the connection is weak, switch to audio-only — a voice message gets through where video can’t. Stuck for words? The record screen has prompts written for deployment: “What I want you to know while I’m away.”

When you’re home

The timeline keeps going — it becomes the family record of the year you were gone and every year after. Download everything, anytime, in formats that play anywhere.

Your account waits for you

Parent Memories has a check-in timer: if a member ever stops checking in, their videos are handed to the person they chose. Deployment would wreck that — so before you leave, set your return date and the timer freezes until you’re back. No warning emails, no accidental handover, nothing happens while you’re alive and overseas.

And if you want to check in from the field anyway, one tap on an email does it — no password needed.

  • Free while deployed — verified service members pay nothing during deployment
  • 20% off any paid plan when you’re home
  • Deployment pause — the check-in timer freezes until your return date
  • Audio-only recording for weak field connections
  • Recording prompts written for deployment — only military accounts see them
  • Military accounts kept for at least one year after inactivity — never quietly deleted
Start recording free

How “verified military” works

No hoops. Verification unlocks the deployment benefits above, and it’s handled by a real person.

A person reviews it, usually the same day

Send us anything reasonable that shows current or former service — we confirm eligibility, mark your account verified, and delete what you sent. We keep only the fact that verification succeeded, never copies of your documents.

Any branch, any era

Active duty, Guard, Reserve, retired, or separated — if you served, you’re eligible for the military discount. The free-while-deployed benefit applies during active deployment periods.

From one of you

It wasn’t until after my own time in the Army that my Granddad finally began opening up about his experiences in WWII. I often found myself wishing there was an easy way for him to record those stories so the rest of our family could hear them. Later, when my brother and friends deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, that familiar worry returned. I wanted them to have a reliable way to document their time and leave meaningful messages for their loved ones back home.

That’s where this idea started. The deployment pause, the free-while-deployed account, the audio mode for bad connections — none of it is a marketing tactic. It’s the service I wished my brother had.

— Troy Arnold, U.S. Army veteran & founder

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Ten messages. One week.

A few minutes each evening, and your voice is there for every milestone you might miss.

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