Your child's story,
kept forever
Memories that matter — captured, organised, and ready to print.
Piplet is a private, local-first memory app for the whole childhood. From first smile to graduation. Photos, voice notes, milestones, and activities — all on your device. No subscription to see your own photos. Print a beautiful book whenever you're ready.
How Piplet works
Simple to capture.
Powerful to keep.
Most parents take hundreds of photos a week and print almost none of them. Piplet changes the ratio — without changing how you live.
Capture as you go
Photo, video, voice note, or journal entry. Add a caption or let On This Day resurface it later. Everything stays on your phone unless you choose to share it.
Milestones find themselves
Tag first words, first steps, first goals. Piplet's 70 pre-seeded milestones prompt you at the right moments so nothing slips through the gap between photos.
Print when it feels right
The app assembles a book from your memories. AI polishes the captions if you want. You choose where to print — or save a PDF and go anywhere.
Built for the whole childhood
Most apps stop at age three.
Piplet grows with your family.
Every phase of childhood is different. Piplet adapts — from monthly capsule books in infancy to season stats and achievement vaults in the teen years.
- Monthly milestone prompts
- First smile, steps, word
- Monthly capsule books
- First words dictionary
- Voice recordings & audio
- "Things They Said" book
- Artwork scanner & Art Book
- Annual favourites snapshot
- School year template
- Activity & season tracker
- Game results & highlights
- Season book on completion
- Multi-activity dashboard
- Achievement vault
- Letter to future self
- Teen's own view of timeline
- Graduation book
- 18th Birthday Vault unlock
On This Day
The notification you'll actually want to get.
Every morning Piplet checks: did anything happen on this date in a previous year? If so, it sends you a quiet reminder — with a thumbnail from your camera roll, no server required.
The one-year anniversary notification is where parents decide to make a book. That prompt is built in.
Privacy by design
Your photos live on your phone.
That's the design, not a limitation.
Piplet is built local-first. Your memories are stored in an encrypted database on your device. Nothing leaves unless you explicitly choose to share it. No account, no cloud, no algorithm deciding what you see.
No account required
Full functionality without creating a profile or giving us an email address.
On-device storage
SQLite database encrypted on your phone. Photos stay in the app sandbox.
On-device AI
Photo curation and narration transcription run on your phone. Your photos never reach an AI server.
Always exportable
Your memories are always yours. Export everything, anytime, in open formats — for free.
| Feature | Piplet |
|---|---|
| Account required to use | |
| Photos stored on your device | ✓ Always |
| Cloud sync by default | |
| You control every share | ✓ Always |
| AI runs on your phone | ✓ On-device |
| Free full data export | ✓ Always |
| No ads, ever | ✓ Guaranteed |
Already have memories written down?
Piplet can read your Apple Notes — and import them.
Most parents already have years of memories living in their Notes app. Piplet parses them on-device, extracts dates and milestone keywords, and maps each note to the right place in the timeline.
"She just said 'biscuit'. Properly. Like she'd been practising. 11 March."
That note becomes a first-word entry, dated correctly, ready to compile into a book.
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Share from Apple Notes
Select any note and tap Share → Piplet. The app never has access to all your notes — only what you choose to share.
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Piplet parses on-device
Dates, milestone phrases, photos, and voice memos are extracted locally. Nothing is sent to a server.
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Review and confirm
See exactly what will be imported. Edit dates, captions, and child assignments before committing anything.
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Years of memories, in minutes
Backdated entries land in the right place on the timeline. Duplicate guard prevents re-importing the same note.
Print beautiful books
From phone to bookshelf.
One tap.
Piplet assembles the book for you. Choose your photos, let AI polish the captions, pick a size. Then order from a print partner or save a PDF and go anywhere.
Where your books get made
Print with a partner — or save your own PDF.
Piplet works with trusted print partners to produce your book. Or export a print-ready PDF and take it anywhere you like. No lock-in.
* Piplet may earn a commission when you purchase through Mixbook or MILK Books links. This never affects the price you pay, and we only recommend partners whose print quality we stand behind.
Simple, honest pricing
Use Piplet free, forever.
Upgrade when it's worth it.
The core product — unlimited capture, all 18 years of features, On This Day — is free. Always. We earn when you print a book.
- Unlimited capture & milestones
- All 6 life phases
- On This Day notifications
- Notes import from Apple Notes
- 3 share links (90-day)
- Unlimited book drafts
- Free data export, always
- Everything in Free
- Unlimited share links
- Permanent links (no expiry)
- Link view counts
- Password-protected links
- Family contributor access
- Everything in Family
- Encrypted cloud backup
- One annual print credit
- Priority print queue
- 18th Birthday Vault
Your memories in Piplet are always yours — free export, any time, forever.
We will never hold your photos hostage behind a subscription. We will never train AI on your family's memories. We will never show you ads. We earn when you print a book — and not otherwise. That alignment is the reason this app exists.
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