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Every photo has a story

Your mom’s photos have stories only she can tell.

Chiku asks your parent about their old photos. Their answers become Talkies: short films in their own voice.

Start with one photo
  • No typing
  • No forms
  • Private by default
TalkieA woman in a pink suit stands by a white Chevrolet with its hood and trunk open beside a roadside restaurant signEvery time I see this one, I can feel how hot my feet were in those shoes.
The Pink Suit and the Overheated Impala
0:00

The camera roll problem

Thousands of photos. Almost none of the stories.

You scanned the shoeboxes and saved the albums. But the names, places and moments behind them still live in one person’s memory. Capture the stories while you can.

  • A couple cutting a wedding cake in the 1950s
    Who made the cake?
  • Two young women on roller skates
    Aunt Rose? ’41?
  • Two friends standing in front of a red barn
    Whose ranch?
  • Baseball players carrying a teammate in celebration
    Was Dad there??
  • A family standing on a lake dock beside a boat
    Which summer?

The good news? The stories aren’t lost. They’re just waiting for someone to ask.

How it works

Three steps. Use your voice.

  1. 1. Pick a photo

  2. 2. Just talk

  3. 3. Share a Talkie

For the storyteller

Made for them, not about them.

Being asked about their life feels good. Chiku listens like an old friend.

  • Nothing to type or learn
  • Follows their lead
  • Their stories, in their voice
“I just talk about my pictures. It feels like visiting with an old friend.”
EElizabeth, storyteller
“Forty years, and I’d never heard about Mom’s first dance.”
VVivek
“The Talkies are the first thing our kids ask to watch when we visit Grandpa.”
CCollins

Safety & Security

We build Chiku for our own families. Yours gets the same care.

Read our Safety & Security promise
  • Never used to train AI
  • Their voice is never copied
  • Only family can see it
  • No ads. Never sold.
An elderly woman’s hand, with gold rings, resting on old black-and-white photos of temples spread across a wooden tableMom, 87, and her photos

Why we built Chiku

Chiku began with my mom.

“At 87, her days had grown quiet. Then we pulled out photos from 70 years ago, and she came alive. Stories I’d never heard came pouring out.”

K. V., FounderRead our story

This holiday

Give the gift of
being asked.

Download Chiku, pick one photo, and ask. Your family will be watching that Talkie for years.

Download on the App StoreThe first 100 families get Chiku free for life