Overview
What the paid plans cost
Everything you've used so far is free and stays free. The paid plans add life stories written from the weeks you pick, and room for more grids.
See pricesFree
Free — no card, no account needed.
The whole grid, and everything you do with it:
- Your life drawn as weeks, computed on your own device.
- Milestones and chapters, as many as you like.
- Export a poster or a wallpaper, at full resolution.
- Share a grid by link, or publish it at your own username.
- An account that syncs your grid between devices.
The paid plans
Two paid plans sit on top of everything free. Here is what each one adds; the prices are on the next page, read live from the payment provider.
Family
Everything in Free, and:
- Life stories written from the milestones and chapters you choose.
- 5 stories a week, renewed on the same day each week.
- Room for 5 saved grids on your account.
Grids you publish always carry a small OYLIW mark. It's on every plan, including this one — there's no version of the page without it.
Family Plus
Everything in Free, and:
- Life stories written from the milestones and chapters you choose.
- 12 stories a week, renewed on the same day each week.
- Room for 50 saved grids on your account.
- Exports carry a discreet version of the mark instead of the full one, at the largest size we render.
- Save any story as a printable page.
Grids you publish always carry a small OYLIW mark. It's on every plan, including this one — there's no version of the page without it.
What a story looks like
Marks go in. Writing comes out. This is one made-up life, marked and then written in the biography voice — four other voices are available.
A made-up life, not a real person's. These words were written by us as a sample, not generated.
What was marked
- 1932 — Born, fourth of seven
- 1942 — The occupation begins
- 1953 — Married
- 1954 to 1963 — Five children
- 1968 — A flat in a new estate
- 1989 — Her husband dies
What came back
The stall on the southern lanes
My grandmother was ten when the occupation began. It lasted three years. Her eldest brother was taken for questioning during it and did not come back. She was thirteen when it ended, and whatever she became afterwards she became on the other side of that.
She married at twenty-one. Her husband drove a lorry for a timber yard. Five children were born between 1954 and 1963, and through all of it she sold cooked rice from a stall, six days a week, for twenty-two years.
In 1968 the family moved to a flat in one of the new estates. All five children finished school. Two of them went to university.
Her husband died in 1989, when she was fifty-seven. She kept the stall four more years. She has kept the flat ever since — through eleven grandchildren, and then the great-grandchildren, and then the years when the visits settled into a standing arrangement rather than an occasion.
She is ninety-four. Sunday lunch is still at her flat, and she still cooks it.
What leaves your device when a story is written
What we send
The labels you ticked, word for word as you wrote them, and your age in whole years at each one.
What we don't send
Your birthdate. Every date on your grid — not one of them goes. Your grid's name, your name, your email address, and every id we hold.
Who receives it
What comes back may be wrong about your own life. A language model writes it, and it invents things that sound true.
This is information, not permission. The full wording appears before anything is sent, and nothing is sent unless you accept it.
It costs us money to generate each story, and this is a hobby project — so to keep it sustainable, generating stories is something you pay for. If you like what we're building, subscribing is how you keep it running.
Prices are shown in full before anything is charged. You can read them signed out.