Preserve your family's memories in one private digital archive

The Chronickel is a private digital family archive where families can preserve and share memories, stories, photographs, letters and family history in one organized place.

The Chronickel gives you a private place to preserve and share.

You decide who can see and contribute to your archive. You can also create digital Time Capsules that stay sealed until a future date, keep sensitive personal documents in an encrypted family Vault on eligible plans, and export your archive so your family's history never depends on The Chronickel alone.

Family memories often end up spread across phones, old computers, photo libraries, messaging apps, email accounts and boxes of documents.

The Chronickel gives them a lasting home.

Record the stories only your family remembers. Preserve photographs and letters with the context that makes them meaningful. Build an archive that your children, grandchildren and future generations can explore instead of inheriting disconnected files with no story behind them.

1. Create your family space. Start free and begin adding stories, photographs, family history and the people who matter to you.

2. Invite the people you trust. Decide who can view, contribute to or help manage your archive.

3. Preserve it for the future. Add memories over time, create Time Capsules, use the Vault on eligible plans, and export your archive whenever you choose.

See how The Chronickel works

Your family archive is private by default.

Invite the people you trust and give them the level of access that suits them — Owner, Editor, Viewer or Friend. Access can be changed or revoked, and important activity is recorded.

The Chronickel is designed for sharing family history without making your family history public.

Your memories stay within your chosen circle, protected from public feeds, searches, and strangers. Only you can make some of your stories Public.

Read how we protect your family's information

A family archive should not disappear because a service changes or disappears.

The Chronickel lets you export your archive as a browsable offline copy. Your stories, family history and unlocked Time Capsules can remain with you outside the service, giving your family another way to preserve what you have created.

Your memories belong to your family. Your archive should too.

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Some memories are meant for later.

Write a letter to your child to open on a future birthday. Leave reflections for a grandchild. Create an anniversary message, a wedding-day letter or something meaningful for a date years from now.

The Chronickel Time Capsules stay sealed until the date you choose and are available on every plan, including Free.

Explore digital family Time Capsules

Memories and important documents do not always belong in the same place.

The Chronickel Vault provides encrypted storage for sensitive personal documents such as passports, wills, deeds and other important family paperwork. The Vault uses a separate passphrase from your normal account sign-in and is available on Family and Legacy plans.

Learn about the encrypted family document Vault

Family can be relatives across generations, friends, comrades, classmates who share a history, or a team, club, congregation, community, even pets, whose story deserves to be remembered.

More ways to use The Chronickel.

Use The Chronickel to organize your collectibles, manage your shop or startup inventory, or bring structure to anything else worth keeping — you name it.

One flexible service. Endless ways to use it.