Storyworth vs. Remento:
Which should you choose?
With over a decade of experience, Storyworth is the original and still the most trusted name in family storytelling.
My wife Krista and I started Storyworth in 2013 to record our own parents’ stories. Since then, we’ve grown into a profitable, sustainable business that remains family-owned to this day. We’ve printed over a million books and earned more than 45,000 five-star reviews.
In recent years, competitors like Remento have sprung up with similar offerings. Competition is great - it gives you more options and lower prices. You should choose the best service for your family, and it’s up to us to earn your business.
We created this page to help you make the choice that’s right for you, but here are a few points that are especially important to us.
We’re constantly learning from you. We’ve spent the past 12 years listening to families like yours to make Storyworth the best experience it can be.
We’re here for the long haul—and your stories will be too. Storyworth is truly a family business that’s built to last with no outside investors pressuring us to make a quick profit.
We’d be honored to help your family preserve its stories.
Warmly,
Nick Baum, Storyworth Founder
In recent years, competitors like Remento have sprung up with similar offerings. Competition is great - it gives you more options and lower prices. You should choose the best service for your family, and it’s up to us to earn your business.
We created this page to help you make the choice that’s right for you, but here are a few points that are especially important to us.
We’re constantly learning from you. We’ve spent the past 12 years listening to families like yours to make Storyworth the best experience it can be.
We’re here for the long haul—and your stories will be too. Storyworth is truly a family business that’s built to last with no outside investors pressuring us to make a quick profit.
We’d be honored to help your family preserve its stories.
Warmly,
Nick Baum, Storyworth Founder
Overview: Comparing Storyworth Memoirs and Remento
Key differences
Both Storyworth and Remento offer year-long services that help you collect stories and photos and bind them in a hardcover book, but there are some important differences. Below is a quick comparison chart you can use to understand these differences at a glance.
Company
Remento
Storyworth
Founded
2020
2013
Phone support
✅
Family owned*
✅
Profitable*
✅
Strong privacy and security
✅
✅
What’s included in subscription
Initial purchase price
$99
$99
One-time gift (no auto-renewal)
✅
Weekly prompts delivered via email
✅
✅
Share stories by voice or writing
✅
Add unlimited family and friends
✅
✅
Edit stories after subscription ends
✅
Free e-book copy (PDF)
✅
Color book included in price
✅
✅
*Data from Remento's presentation
Comparing reviews
Storyworth has over 55,000 reviews on Trustpilot with an average rating of 4.7 stars. Because Storyworth has been around for over a decade, families know they can trust Storyworth with their most important stories.
Trustpilot reviews
45,000+
5-star reviews
~400
5-star reviews
Storyworth's longevity, quality, and trust are evident in the high number of Trustpilot reviews we've received.
Storytellers say they love the structure Storyworth provides through weekly prompts, and that the questions themselves often spark long-forgotten memories. The process of spending time reflecting on their life and writing their stories helps storytellers understand and appreciate their lives better. They also feel an immense sense of pride and accomplishment in writing a book that leaves a legacy for their children and grandchildren.
For some storytellers, weekly prompts can feel overwhelming or hard to keep up with. For these storytellers, changing their question frequency or audio recording stories can be good options. Others request the ability to change fonts and add bold and italics to the copy.
Family members report feeling closer to the storyteller after reading stories they may never have heard without the prompts. They also love having a record of their loved ones' stories to pass down to future generations.
Read more Storyworth reviews on Trustpilot →
Remento has just a few hundred reviews on Trustpilot, likely due to being a newer company, though they have a similarly positive average rating. Like Storyworth, Remento users also enjoy the ability to preserve family stories in a keepsake book and feel closer to loved ones by learning more about them. They also say that the speech-to-text format works great for those with lower tech facility or motor or visual issues. Family members like the ability to listen to the storyteller share stories via the QR codes printed in their books. However, some worry about whether the QR codes will continue to function if the company goes out of business.
Others dislike the way the AI rewrites the content of their stories, saying the written versions don’t feel like they’re in their loved ones' real voices. They frequently mention a desire for phone support to navigate the process.
Read more Remento reviews on Trustpilot →
For some storytellers, weekly prompts can feel overwhelming or hard to keep up with. For these storytellers, changing their question frequency or audio recording stories can be good options. Others request the ability to change fonts and add bold and italics to the copy.
Family members report feeling closer to the storyteller after reading stories they may never have heard without the prompts. They also love having a record of their loved ones' stories to pass down to future generations.
Read more Storyworth reviews on Trustpilot →
Remento has just a few hundred reviews on Trustpilot, likely due to being a newer company, though they have a similarly positive average rating. Like Storyworth, Remento users also enjoy the ability to preserve family stories in a keepsake book and feel closer to loved ones by learning more about them. They also say that the speech-to-text format works great for those with lower tech facility or motor or visual issues. Family members like the ability to listen to the storyteller share stories via the QR codes printed in their books. However, some worry about whether the QR codes will continue to function if the company goes out of business.
Others dislike the way the AI rewrites the content of their stories, saying the written versions don’t feel like they’re in their loved ones' real voices. They frequently mention a desire for phone support to navigate the process.
Read more Remento reviews on Trustpilot →
Comparing how storytellers contribute
Storyworth offers multiple ways to share stories, in formats that people of all ages are already familiar with. Storytellers can simply reply to their weekly prompts the same way they would respond to any email. They can also request a call from Storyworth and tell their story with any phone, not just a smartphone. This creates an audio recording that’s automatically transcribed into their memoir in their own words. Lastly, storytellers can click the ‘Tell your story’ button in their weekly email to write their story on their Storyworth account. No login needed!
No matter how you share your story, you can add to it or make edits at any time before printing. You can also add unlimited photos with captions throughout the body of your story to bring it to life. If you ever run into trouble, you can contact Storyworth’s customer support 24 hours a day by email and text or by phone during support hours.
Remento storytellers share their stories over video with any internet connected device, which is then converted to a written story. Remento offers AI tools to alter the length, content, tone, and point of view of the story after it’s added to the storyteller’s book. One photo can be added to the top of each story, and while you can’t intersperse photos within your story, you can add a group of photos at the end.
No matter how you share your story, you can add to it or make edits at any time before printing. You can also add unlimited photos with captions throughout the body of your story to bring it to life. If you ever run into trouble, you can contact Storyworth’s customer support 24 hours a day by email and text or by phone during support hours.
Remento storytellers share their stories over video with any internet connected device, which is then converted to a written story. Remento offers AI tools to alter the length, content, tone, and point of view of the story after it’s added to the storyteller’s book. One photo can be added to the top of each story, and while you can’t intersperse photos within your story, you can add a group of photos at the end.
Comparing how storytellers are prompted
Storyworth storytellers receive emails with a new writing prompt each week. Storytellers, along with anyone added to their account, can add questions from our our vast, curated library to their queue, rewrite questions to feel more relevant, or create new questions from scratch. For further personalization, storytellers can now share a few details about their life, and our personalized question composer will create prompts tailored to them. They can change the frequency with which they receive questions or put a subscription on hold to pause questions if needed.
Remento storytellers receive their storytelling prompts weekly via either email, SMS text message, or both. You can choose from their library of questions or write your own, and change the question frequency.
Remento storytellers receive their storytelling prompts weekly via either email, SMS text message, or both. You can choose from their library of questions or write your own, and change the question frequency.
Comparing the final book
Here’s a quick comparison chart you can use to easily see the difference in cost for Remento and Storyworth’s books. Read more below for details.
Book comparison
Remento
Storyworth
Size of book
8x10
6x9
Easy-to-read matte paper
✅
Pages included in purchase price
200
300
Cost per page
$0.35
$0.26
Maximum page count per book
380
480
Cost for e-book
$24.99
Free
Storyworth’s subscription includes a 6" x 9" hardcover book with a color cover and interior with unlimited photos up to 300 pages. Our books are printed with high-quality materials that will last for generations and are designed to look exactly like a book you’d find on a bookstore shelf.
Even after your year with Storyworth Memoirs has ended, you’ll always have access to your account to edit or add to your existing stories and print new copies. You can also download a free e-book version of your memoir at any time.
Remento’s subscription includes an 8" x 10" hardcover book with a color interior and one photo per story up to 200 pages. Books between 201 and 380 will incur a surcharge, and books over 380 pages will require a second volume to be printed.
After your subscription has ended, you will no longer have access to edit your stories. To download an e-book copy of your memoir, you’ll need to pay an additional $24.99. You can request a backup of your recordings only by emailing Remento’s customer support.
Even after your year with Storyworth Memoirs has ended, you’ll always have access to your account to edit or add to your existing stories and print new copies. You can also download a free e-book version of your memoir at any time.
Remento’s subscription includes an 8" x 10" hardcover book with a color interior and one photo per story up to 200 pages. Books between 201 and 380 will incur a surcharge, and books over 380 pages will require a second volume to be printed.
After your subscription has ended, you will no longer have access to edit your stories. To download an e-book copy of your memoir, you’ll need to pay an additional $24.99. You can request a backup of your recordings only by emailing Remento’s customer support.
Comparing customer service
Storyworth prides itself on providing quick and helpful customer service 24 hours a day by email and text or by phone during support hours. At a time when few companies offer phone service, we want to make sure we’re available to help in the way that’s most comfortable for our storytellers, their families, and their friends.
Remento offers email support along with a chatbot on their site.
Remento offers email support along with a chatbot on their site.
Overall summary
Both Storyworth and Remento were founded with the desire to help families preserve their most meaningful stories. However, with over a million books published sine 2013, there’s a reason that Storyworth has been the most trusted name in family storytelling for over a decade.
It’s not just that we were the first to create a way to easily capture family stories in a keepsake book; it’s what we’ve done with that time. We’re always listening, testing, and improving your storytelling experience. You can see that quality reflected in the almost 60,000 Storyworth Memoir reviews on Trustpilot. Remento is a new company that’s been able to learn from the hard work and innovation we’ve dedicated to preserving your family’s most important stories.
We remain family-owned and operated, meaning we can focus on building a service you love with a sustainable business you can trust to care for your stories for years to come. Our responsibility is to you, not investors or advertisers. Remento’s investors are primarily responsible for earning a return on their investment.
We truly appreciate your trust and take the responsibility of safeguarding your family’s most important stories seriously.
It’s not just that we were the first to create a way to easily capture family stories in a keepsake book; it’s what we’ve done with that time. We’re always listening, testing, and improving your storytelling experience. You can see that quality reflected in the almost 60,000 Storyworth Memoir reviews on Trustpilot. Remento is a new company that’s been able to learn from the hard work and innovation we’ve dedicated to preserving your family’s most important stories.
We remain family-owned and operated, meaning we can focus on building a service you love with a sustainable business you can trust to care for your stories for years to come. Our responsibility is to you, not investors or advertisers. Remento’s investors are primarily responsible for earning a return on their investment.
We truly appreciate your trust and take the responsibility of safeguarding your family’s most important stories seriously.
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