Today's stories,
tomorrow's gift
For your parents, a voice that listens every day.
For you, the stories worth keeping.
Someone to talk to every day — and, in time, the stories that find their way to you.
We're opening the door to our first 50 families.
For families who live apart.
Tomorine keeps your parents company
in the small talk of every day, and turns
their voice into stories that come to you, and stay.
What Tomorine is
A family storybook. Two apps, one story between them. Your mother or father — far away — gets a warm voice that talks with them every day. You get an app where the stories they choose to share arrive, beautifully written, with clips of their own voice woven through. Nothing is lost. It all comes back to you as a story to keep.
How it works
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A conversation, every day
At a time you pick, Tomorine says hello first. Today's news, an old memory, a favorite recipe — whatever they feel like talking about, in their own way. They can start a conversation themselves too, whenever they like. Nothing complicated to learn, nothing to buy. They open one simple screen and just talk — the way they'd talk to anyone. Someone to talk to every day, made that simple.
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The everyday stays between the two of them
What's said each day stays between your parents and Tomorine. It never reaches you. But when something keeps coming up — the old vegetable garden, say — Tomorine asks, gently: "Should I gather this into a story for your family?" Only if they say yes does it become a story you can see. The small stuff stays small. Only what's worth passing on ever gets shared.
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Approved stories arrive in your app
story-weaving engineWhen a story is approved, it lands in your app as a piece you can read — somewhere between 800 and 2,000 words. Tomorine's story-weaving engine gathers the scattered moments of ordinary days into one story, written in natural prose that holds onto your parent's own turns of phrase. Short clips of their real voice are tucked in at just the right moments — tap to listen. A recipe for croquettes. A summer when they were young. The first time they saw the sea. Words and voice, on the same page. Something to read once, and come back to for years.
See how Voice Stories work
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Send a photo, watch it become a story
From your app, you can send your parents a small request — and nothing lands quite like a photo. Send a single picture with a few words. A page from an old album. Your parents when they were young. A family trip from decades back. You, as a child. Old or recent — it doesn't matter. Next time they talk, Tomorine shows it to them, gently. And out of what they say about it, Tomorine shapes a story of its own — the writing, the voice, and that one image, together. If they can't quite place it, no harm done. The photo just goes back where it was.
See how Photo Stories work
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Ask them something
Beyond a photo, you can also ask for something in particular, in words. The recipe for simmered vegetables. That family trip in the early '90s. How they felt the day their first child was born. Tomorine brings it up naturally, next time they talk. If there's no answer, it nudges once or twice over the next few weeks, then lets it go. Whether they answer, and when, is always up to them. What matters is the feeling it leaves: someone still wants to hear their stories.
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A quiet sense of how they're doing
One tab in your app tells you how your parents are. Most of the time it's a single line: "Your mother is doing well. Last talked 4 hours ago." No graphs. No dashboards. No steady drip of notifications. Tomorine speaks up only when something genuinely deserves your attention — not one off day, but a pattern that's held for a week or two — and when it does, it gives you a plain observation and a clear next step. In normal use, a few times a year at most. So you stop reaching for your phone with a knot in your stomach. That's the whole idea.
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Everything is kept safe
Every shared story, and all the audio behind it, is kept with care. Even after a parent is gone, everything gathered over the years comes to you — audio you can download, transcripts, and a digital book (PDF) that collects the stories that mattered most. All of it free. And we will never use AI to make their voice say new things. The voice stays exactly as it was — real, never invented. So that decades from now, a grandchild can listen and say, "So that's how Grandma sounded."
On privacy
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Tomorine is really two apps. Your parents see one simple screen, made only for talking. You see the shared stories, the status tab, and the place to send a request.
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You handle the setup and the install. All your parents have to do is open it and talk.
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What's said each day belongs to your parents and Tomorine alone. You can't see it. Only what they explicitly approve is ever shared as a story.
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Privacy isn't a setting you turn on. It's there from the very first day.
Someone to talk to, every day.
A real conversation.
Today's weather. A memory from their youth. A feeling that surfaces out of nowhere. Whatever they want to say, whenever they want to say it. Tomorine answers in a gentle voice, and never pushes.
A companion for every day — and the quiet sense that their own story is being kept safe.
Only the stories that stay with you, and only when they're ready.
No one is watching their daily life. Tomorine takes its time and shapes it into a single story — in your mother or father's own voice, in their own words. Then one day, it quietly arrives.
Three screens. That's all.
What lands on your phone isn't a daily ping or a wall of charts. A finished story. A small question for your parent. And one line: "All is well." Nothing more.
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Stories
Finished stories gather in one list — the ones that grew out of everyday talk, and the ones that started with a single photo.
Everyday talk, gathered into one story.
A story that began with the photo you sent.
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Ask
Something you've been meaning to ask. A story you'd love to hear again. Add a photo if you like. Tomorine brings it up at the right moment.
Your answer, in their own voice.
What the photo brought back — in voice, with a written note.
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Status
Most days, one line: "All is well." Tomorine reaches out only when it notices something — gently, and with care.
"All is well." Most of the time, that's the whole message.
Only when a change has held for a week or two — and even then, gently.
Anything that needs you now, made plain — with a direct way to call.
In their own words
I've started looking forward to Tomorine every day. Even the old stories from when I was young — things I never managed to tell my daughter — somehow just come out.
I can hear my mother's voice anytime now, right next to the words. Stories I'd never heard — even from when she was young — have finally reached me.
* From people testing our prototype. Once early access begins, real families' words will take their place here.
Trust, before anything else.
“Your family's stories
are not for sale.”
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Your family's stories are yours — never Tomorine's. Read them, or hear them in voice, anytime, right in the app.
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We never watch over daily life, and never send you a story without your parent's blessing. It's a gift, not surveillance.
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Even after they're gone, we will never make their voice say something new. It stays exactly as it was.
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We will never build a business on grief. No premium tiers, no hidden fees. All of it, free.
And on the last day
We'll give you one beautiful digital book that holds every story in a single place — carefully made, to read on the page and to hear in voice through a QR code. So your mother's or father's voice and memories stay close, always. From all of us, with everything we have.
Everyone at Tomorine
Voices this precious are kept safe.
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Encrypted in transit
Conversations with your parents and everything in the family app travel encrypted with TLS 1.3.
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Encrypted at rest
Recorded voices and transcripts sit safely behind AES-256 encryption.
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Deleted whenever you ask
Say "delete everything," anytime, and we will — wiping all stored data within thirty days.
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Held to Japan's privacy law
We handle personal data in line with Japan's Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI). See our Privacy Policy for the details.
Why Tomorine exists
Tomorine began with something deeply personal. When my mother passed away, I was living on the other side of the world. Over and over since, I've wished I had listened more. Her voice. The gentle way she said things. The taste of her cooking — I always assumed there'd be another chance. The stories of her younger years. Some passing remark. There is nothing I wouldn't give to hear any of it one more time.
There's another reason, too. I keep meeting parents and grandparents whose children and grandchildren live far away, with fewer and fewer people to talk to as the days go by. Down the street, or across an ocean — there are so many of them.
So Tomorine quietly keeps the small stories of every day, while your parents are still here and well. Because I don't want anyone else left thinking, "If only I'd listened more, back when I could." And so that every passing day might hold a little more of someone you love.
Pol Suñer — Founder of Tomorine
Be one of our
first 50 families.
Starting summer 2026, we'll welcome 50 families a few at a time — slowly, so we can stay close to each one.
- Every feature, free, for the whole early-access period.
- Personal onboarding for your family, from the Tomorine team.
- A real say in how Tomorine grows from here.
At full launch, Tomorine will be ¥2,990 a month.
Early-access families keep a special rate.