Founding families wanted · the first 100

Every story you trade becomes your legacy.

grandbabiez™ is a mobile app that creates a unique, private space just for you and each of your grandchildren. Every week there’s something real to talk about — and every story that goes back and forth is kept. The closer you grow, the richer the legacy.

Much better conversationsA question each week chosen for each grandchild — and they ask you back.
A legacy that lastsMilestones and stories from both generations, kept as your family’s digital heirloom.

Become a founding family See a family’s legacy

About ten minutes a week
No Charge for 3 years for founding families
Private — nothing public, nothing sold

A grandmother smiling at a message from her grandchildren on her phone

Sound familiar?

You’re not the only grandparent thinking this.

The things we hear most often from grandparents whose families live in other states.

“After ‘how was school,’ the two of us just run out of things to say.”

“By the time I hear about the school play, it’s already over.”

“I want them to know me — not just recognize me at Christmas.”

“We moved down here for the weather, and now I’m watching them grow up in photographs.”

Two voices. One lasting legacy.

Closer every week — and every word is kept.

Most apps help you talk. A few help you save a memory. grandbabiez does both at once, because the talking is how the legacy gets made.

1 · Much better conversations

Something real to talk about, every single week.

A question chosen for each grandchild — their age, their interests — so nobody has to think of what to say.
They ask you back. Your grandchild gets questions for you, too, so it’s never a one-way interview.
Answer however suits you — a few words, a voice note, or a video, whenever the week allows.
A private space with each grandchild, not one more noisy group text.

MMaya, age 9

PROMPT OF THE WEEK

Teach me something you’re good at.

Answer with video Read it aloud

2 · A legacy that lasts

And everything you share is kept.

Milestones — the lost tooth, the first meet, the new mark on the doorframe — so a faraway grandparent never misses one.
Stories from both generations, in your own words and voices. Theirs matter as much as yours.
Gathered into a digital heirloom. grandbabiez brings the milestones, stories and conversations together for your family to keep.
Carried forward — a grandparent’s history, humor and voice, for the grandchildren who come after.

From one family’s heirloom

MilestoneThe top tooth finally gives upLeo, age 7 · November

StoryThirty-Three Years in Room 114told by Pop · January

StoryMy First Meettold by Sofia, age 10 · January

You share

Your childhood, your wisdom, the stories only you can tell.

They share

Their milestones, their world, the questions they ask you back.

Your family legacy

Both voices, kept together: a digital heirloom that grows every week.

Not a one-way memoir. Not a call that’s gone when you hang up. A relationship you build together — and keep forever.

How it works

One simple weekly moment — and nothing to learn.

The whole thing is one weekly loop. You don’t manage an app; you answer a question that arrives, and talk.

The prompt arrives

A question chosen for your grandchild’s age and interests, in the private space you share.

You talk it through

A few words, a voice note, or a video — back and forth, at your own pace, whenever the week allows.

The story is kept

Stories from grandparent and grandchild alike are saved, along with the milestones along the way.

It comes back around

Your grandchild gets the next question to ask you, so the ritual keeps itself going — without anyone nagging.

A grandfather smiling at his phone on his patio

Simple on purpose

Built so the least confident person in the family can use it.

Large text by default, words on every button rather than icons, and nothing to configure — one thing on the first screen, no feed to scroll, no wrong button to press. And a real person, right here in The Villages, answers the phone if anything ever sticks.

See it for yourself

One year. One family. A legacy they’ll keep.

Meet the Whitakers: Pop and Nana here in The Villages, two grown children in Denver and Charlotte, and four grandchildren. Our demo follows a full year of their weekly prompts, back-and-forth, milestones and stories — and shows what it all becomes.

52weeks

208weekly exchanges

1,042messages back and forth

66stories kept

Inside the demo:

The family
Private spaces
Milestones
Story library
A family book
The Year One heirloom

Explore the Whitakers’ year

The Whitakers are a made-up demo family. Every person and message in the demo is fictional.

Emma’s space · with Nana & PopWeek 2

Question back · for Emma, 12

Ask Pop or Nana how they met. Ask what they remember about that day that nobody else would know.

Emma

The app says I should ask how you two met. I feel like I’ve heard ‘roller rink’ but never the actual story.

Pop

That’s because your grandmother tells it wrong. Here’s the true version.

Nana

He fell. That’s the true version. Everything else is decoration.

Emma

Pop. You fell over in front of Nana and she married you anyway?

Kept in the family’s story library

The Night I Fell at Skateland

“I’d tell you I got better at skating, but I didn’t. I got better at holding on. That turned out to be the important part.”

Told by Pop, spring 1975 · recorded October 2025

Why it’s different

A private family space — not another open platform.

One private circle, invited by the family — up to ten people, added by phone number. No feed, no discovery, no strangers, no advertising.

Simple

The grandparent can set it up alone. No one in the family becomes tech support.

Safe

Age-appropriate prompts, and a parent approves before a child joins.

Secure

Private by default. Encrypted, no public feed, no strangers, nothing sold — ever.

Built to follow COPPA — because these are children.

Nothing about a child is collected until a parent gives their consent, and parents can review, delete, or turn it off at any time. Children’s privacy is the floor, not the ceiling. Read our Privacy Policy · A note for parents.

Founding families · the first 100

Help us perfect grandbabiez — No Charge for 3 years.

We’re looking for our first 100 early-adopter families to use grandbabiez with their grandchildren and tell us honestly what works and what doesn’t. Live in The Villages? You’re exactly who we built it for.

No Charge for 3 years.

For founding families who share honest feedback while we perfect the app.

After that, the regular price is $14.95 a month or $149.95 a year — for your whole family circle of up to 10 people.

Tell us you’re inLeave your details here. It takes about a minute.
We get you set upWe’ll help you invite your family. A parent says yes before a grandchild joins.
Talk, share, and tell us what you thinkA few short surveys and the occasional friendly call. Leave anytime with one call.