Every Ancestorii feature, and what each one does.

My Family is the private side of Ancestorii. Everyone you invite shares one library, and only members of your family space can open it. It holds:

• Memories: a moment in your own words, with up to 10 photos, one video and a voice note, shared in a private feed in the app. Relatives can add their own version of it as a tab.
• Albums: photos and videos from one chapter of life. Each picture can carry a date, a story thread the family adds to, and voice notes.
• Timelines: dated moments in order, each with photos, video, comments and voice notes, plus a PDF of the timeline (with an Ancestorii watermark) to download.
• Capsules: photos, a letter and voice notes sealed until a date you choose, when the capsule opens.
• Voice notes: recorded or uploaded on memories, album photos, timeline moments, capsules and stories, then converted automatically so they play on any phone.
• Loved Ones: a profile for each person (1 on Free, unlimited on Premium), with their dates and their life story in four chapters: Early years, Important moments, Special memories and Who they are.
• The Library: one shared home for every photo and video, sorted into folders and reused in albums, timelines, capsules and prints.
• Questions: send a relative one of 46 ready-made questions across 10 chapters. They answer in the app, the answer becomes a memory, and you get an email when it arrives.
• Writing help: optional suggestions for openings, captions and descriptions, powered by Anthropic's Claude. It is on by default and can be switched off in your profile.
• Invites: bring relatives in with a reusable share link or a personal email invite.

As memories add up, families also earn rewards in the app: print discounts from 10% at 10 memories to 50% at 175, and one free Chapter Memory Book at 100 memories once at least two people have contributed. Delivery is still charged on reward orders.

Our Stories is the public side: a free feed of real family stories that anyone can read without an account. The two never mix on their own: nothing from My Family appears in Our Stories unless a member chooses to publish it, and a published story can be taken down at any time.

Every story sits under one of seven topics: Family, Food & Recipes, Childhood, Love, Life Lessons, Traditions and Travel. Stories can carry photos, a video and a voice note. The feed shows the newest first, readers can also sort by Most Loved or Most Discussed, and there are no follower counts.

It is only for genuine family memories, so religious or political posts, hate speech, harassment, spam and self-promotion are not allowed. Each story gets an automatic check when it is published, and anything flagged waits for a person to review it. A third strike means a permanent ban from Our Stories, though it never touches anyone's private library. Read Our Stories or see how Our Stories works.

My Family is invite-only. Everyone inside a family space sees everything in it, and nobody outside it can, including other Ancestorii users. Private content is never shown in search results or recommendations.

That rule lives in the database, not just the app. Ancestorii runs on PostgreSQL through Supabase, with row-level security switched on for every table. The PostgreSQL documentation describes these policies as rules that “restrict, on a per-user basis, which rows can be returned by normal queries”, and if a table has no policy, the default is that no rows are visible at all. For family content, the policies only return rows to members of that family.

Photos, videos and voice notes sit in private storage. Supabase's documentation explains that files in a non-public bucket “are not accessible via a public URL”, so each one opens through a signed link that expires. The exception is Our Stories: photos in a published story are public, because the story is.

Ancestorii shows no ads and does not sell, rent or trade personal data. Ancestorii LTD is registered with the UK Information Commissioner's Office as a data controller, registration ZC149600.