Don't let the answer be “everyone's.”
Hertis keeps you and your parents woven into each other's days — moments, voices and stories flowing gently across any distance.
between your kitchen and the one you grew up in.
the length of a Sunday call that skips everything that actually mattered.
of the voice you'd most want back: the everyday one, telling the story you've half forgotten.
Distance is a fact. Feeling far is a choice.
The whole idea, told the way it feels. Sound on.
How they met. The house they grew up in. The dish you still think about. Ask one small question and they answer simply by talking. Press play and you hear it just as they told it: the pauses, the laughter, the way they say your name. A photo is one way in. Their voice is the rest.
One gentle question at a time, answered out loud whenever they feel like it. The Story Vault writes it down, gathers it into chapters, and keeps the questions nobody has asked yet waiting underneath. With Hertis Family.
Ask for the dish you grew up on. They tell it in their own voice (“a little of this”, “until it looks right”), and you play it back at your own stove.
A blessing for everyone. Advice for one grandchild. A letter sealed until a birthday years from now. In their voice or in their own words, and free on every plan.
At each year's end, the year's real moments become your Memory Film, carried by their own voice wherever they recorded it. With Hertis Family.
Recipes and their gifts are free. The Story Vault and the Memory Film come with Hertis Family. Your parents never pay.
No feeds to manage. No apps to teach. Hertis threads four small moments through everyone's day — and the distance quietly stops mattering.
One warm prompt each morning — answered with one tap or a spoken word. No typing needed, no menus, no learning curve. The app meets them; never the other way around. Some mornings the question is yours. Pick one of five or write your own, and it reaches them the next morning with your name on it. You hear when they answer.
A photo of the kids, a voice note from the car. It arrives like a knock on their door — not another notification in the noise.
A soft gold light the whole circle can see: they're around, they shared something today. It comes only from them opening Hertis or sharing, never their location or health. Presence, not surveillance: care, not cameras.
On Sundays, Hertis gathers your family's week into one card, ready to share. A week with enough moments and a photo also becomes a short film, carried by their voice notes where they recorded them. Your first Sunday film is free; more films, and a Memory Film at each year's end, come with Hertis Family.
The parent's side of Hertis is warm, large and utterly simple: a place to tell their stories and give what they want to give, not another app to learn.
Your side holds everything — the moments, the coordination, the play, and the archive quietly growing underneath it all.
Everything else in Hertis exists to create one more warm exchange between people who love each other.
Someone kind to talk to in the two o'clock lull, free for them on every plan. It can look up the news, a score or the weather. It says plainly that it is an AI, their words stay private unless they choose to share them, and it keeps turning them back towards you.
One tap each evening that says “I'm here, all is well” — and the family answers with small embers of their own. You can also light a small light in your own evening, wherever you live, and their lamp names who lit one. On a birthday, a big day or a hard day, ask the whole family to light one together: one lamp evening a month is free, more with Hertis Family. Presence, never surveillance.
One deeper question each week for the whole circle. You answer first, then everyone's answers appear side by side, in writing or in their own voice. With Hertis Family.
Photos, voices and small hellos flowing both ways — with hearts, replies and warmth built in.
Plan a call, a coffee or a visit. They say yes with one tap, and everyone is reminded when it's close.
Birthdays orchestrated across the circle — and on the day itself, anyone on earth can leave a wish at their door. No app needed.
Seal a message today; it opens on a wedding day, a birthday, a someday. Love, scheduled.
Every Sunday the week becomes one beautiful card — the warmest photo, the voices, the lamp-lit nights — ready to share anywhere. With Hertis Family, keepsake books to read in the app or save as a PDF, and a keepsake of their voice.
On Sundays, a week with enough shared moments, including a photo, becomes a short film: its most-loved photos and your family's captions, carried by your parent's voice notes where they recorded them. Your first film is free; after that, with Hertis Family.
Most mornings your Home shows one moment from your family's own past. Spin for another, or send it into your parent's day. With Hertis Family it can come from your whole history.
Add old photos, and now and then your parent sees one with “Who's in this picture?” and one button to answer out loud. Their answer becomes the story on that photo. Adding and telling are free; hear the first three free, and the rest with Hertis Family.
Turn a spare tablet into a photo frame for your parent. The family's newest photos come by on their own, and they can talk to the Companion from the frame. With Hertis Family.
A Sunday quiz written from your family's own month — and a dial that spins the archive back to a moment you'd forgotten you had.
A private family channel, and a daily two-generation game everyone can play with one tap.
They write in their language, you read in yours — and the original words are one tap away. With Hertis Family.
Give a year of Hertis Family for a birthday or just because, with a few words of your own waiting for them when they open it.
With a single payment, the Legacy Guarantee keeps every moment your family shares open, even if a plan lapses. In the app, whoever looks after your circle can name up to ten people who would get a way to download a complete copy if Hertis ever closed. And if you want a copy of anything now, write to us and we will help.
One payment · US$149
Per family, not per person. Your parents never pay, and their giving is never behind a paywall.
Digital keepsake books are included with Hertis Family · Gift a year to any family · Prices in US dollars. Your app store shows your exact price, and any tax, before you pay.
Hertis was designed for them first. Their side is deliberately simple — a morning question, a few large buttons, voice instead of typing. No settings to manage, no groups to keep up with. If they can answer a phone call, they can use Hertis.
Hardly anyone likes being interviewed, and Hertis never asks for a life story all at once. It asks one small question at a time — an everyday one each morning and, with Hertis Family, gentle questions about their life, like the dish they made most often or the street they grew up on — and they answer only when they feel like it, simply by talking. A recipe, or a few words for a grandchild, is often the easiest way in.
No. It's someone kind to talk to on the days nobody is free. It says plainly that it's an AI, their words stay private unless they choose to share them, and it keeps turning them back towards you. It's free for your parent on every plan. With Hertis Family, the family may also get a gentle note, such as “in lovely spirits today”.
Use both. Hertis works alongside your family chat, and sharing everyday moments on Hertis is free too. What a chat never does is ask. Every morning Hertis sends your parent one small, everyday question, and you can pick or write tomorrow's question yourself. With Hertis Family it also asks about their life, like the street they grew up on or the day they met, and keeps their answers in their own voice: their story gathered into chapters, a Memory Film at each year's end and keepsake books to save. You don't pay to talk to them. You pay so their story gets asked, and kept.
Never. It's a founding rule of the product: the parent never pays and never sees a price, and the everyday things they share, from moments to recipes to their gifts, are free on every plan. Plans are carried by the family — and any family member can be the one who carries it.
Better — a Founding Month. The moment your parent says their first hello, the whole circle gets every Hertis feature free for 30 days. No card, no auto-charge, nothing to cancel. When it ends you simply keep the free plan, and everything your family made stays exactly where you left it.
Nothing is deleted. You move to the free plan: your last 30 days stay on view, and everything older waits safely, exactly as you left it, until you come back. Memorial spaces are never paywalled under any circumstances. No family will ever pay to grieve. If you want every moment to stay open whatever happens to a plan, that is what the Legacy Guarantee is for.
Your memories are encrypted, private to your circle, never sold, and never used to train AI models. We have no tool that opens your family's photos or voice notes — we never built one. We're also honest about the limit: Hertis is not end-to-end encrypted, because the app has to be able to read your memories to weave the yearly film, translate languages and run the Companion. The full picture, including the technical detail for whoever in your family checks these things, is on our Trust & safety page.
No. The Glow only reflects whether they opened Hertis or shared something, never their location or health. It's reassurance, not an alarm, and Hertis is not a medical or emergency service. If you're ever worried about someone, call them, and in an emergency call your local emergency number.
Yes, with Hertis Family. Hertis bridges languages both ways — they write or speak in theirs, you read in yours, and the original words are kept and one tap away. The original is sacred; translation is a courtesy.
Hertis is on the App Store and Google Play now. Get the app: it’s free to start, and your parents never pay.
Hertis is on the App Store and Google Play now.
