Memowrite review: the price, the renewal, and the book
Their page shows $57. It does not say the plan renews.
We make a competing product. Ethos is ours. Read this the way you would read any review written by a competitor. Every fact about Memowrite below is linked to a page Memowrite publishes, at the foot, so you can check all of it.
We have not used Memowrite. Their product sits behind an email gate and we have no account. So there is nothing here about how it feels to use, in either direction. What there is: what they charge, what renews, what the book is, and what their reviews say. Where they publish nothing, we say so rather than guess.
The short version
Memowrite sends a fixed set of 50 questions and turns the answers into a small full color hardcover. The page limit is the largest we have found published anywhere in this market, at 500. Shipping is free worldwide.
Two things are worth knowing before you pay, and neither is on the page with the price on it. The plan renews. And the voice recordings are not kept.
What Memowrite costs
Their product page shows $57, with $94 struck through and a 35% off badge. That page does not say how long the plan lasts, and it does not say it renews. The only clue to the length is the address the buy button points at, which names a three month plan.
Their terms say the plan renews automatically for another period the same length as the last one, and that you must cancel at least 48 hours before it ends. Their help centre says it plainly: if you have not finished the book by the end of the plan, it renews. On what that renewal costs, they say it continues at the regular price of the plan, not the sale price.
In fairness: they also say the subscription cancels itself once the book goes to print, and you can cancel at any point before that at no cost. The renewal is what happens when the writing takes longer than the plan you bought. For a life story that is the normal case, not the unusual one.
We could not find a price for extra printed copies on any page they publish, so this article does not give one. Their terms say the fee is specified on the website. We could not find where.
What Ethos costs, for comparison
$99, once. Five copies bought together are $237, which is $47.40 a book, and one more later is $69. No plan, no renewal date, nothing to cancel. If the book takes six months instead of three, it costs the same.
What the Memowrite book is
Their product page lists a full color hardcover in A5, up to 500 pages with unlimited revisions, 20 cover designs, and free worldwide shipping on any number of books. Their how it works page says it is printed on archival quality paper.
500 pages is the largest published limit of any service we have compared. A5 is the smallest published size. We have not held one, so that is as far as we will go.
Memowrite
5.83 x 8.27 in
Archival-quality paper
Ethos
7 x 10 in
Thick coated paper
How it works, and the 50 questions
Their how it works page says you get access to all 50 questions from the start and can take your time. Their help centre says the questions are carefully selected and that you can skip any that do not fit.
What we could not find anywhere on their site is a claim that a later question is built from an earlier answer. We are not saying it does not happen. We are saying they do not publish it, and we will not tell you something about someone else's product that they have not said themselves.
For Ethos that part is the whole method, so here it is rather than a description of it.
He can talk. Nobody keeps his voice.
Memowrite lets him speak instead of typing, and it is not locked behind a higher plan. Their help centre describes a recording button beside each question, up to ten minutes at a time, as many times as he likes.
The same page says something worth reading twice. The audio is not saved. The speech becomes text, and the text is what remains.
With Ethos every recording is yours to download and keep. In twenty years the book is the thing you hand to someone. His voice is the thing you play.
Who writes it
On Memowrite the storyteller writes, and their how it works page says the Memowrite team then proofreads, edits and polishes every word. We read their pages carefully and they do not say whether that is a person or software, so we are not going to tell you which.
We will tell you about ours, because everyone in this market is loose about it. Nobody at Ethos reads the finished book. There is no editor and no proofreader. Software shapes what he said into chapters and keeps his voice. What we do instead is pull every name and every place we heard into one list and send it to you to check before anything prints, because a misspelled maiden name is the mistake a family notices and a computer does not.
Memowrite reviews and ratings
There is no independent review of Memowrite that we could find. The two pages that read like reviews are commercial: one carries an affiliate disclosure, and the other sits on a web address with the word advertorial in the path. That is not a criticism of their product. It means there is no disinterested account of it to send you to, and we would rather say that than link one and call it a test.
On ratings, here are both numbers we found, and you can weigh them. Memowrite's own pages show a rating widget reading 4.7 out of 2,142 reviews. On 26 August 2026, their Trustpilot page showed 4.3 from 2,866 reviews. We are not going to tell you what the difference means. Both are linked, both were read on the same day, and 4.3 across nearly three thousand reviews is a decent score for any company.
Where Memowrite beats us
- Free shipping, anywhere in the world
- Free worldwide on any number of books, per their help centre. We charge shipping on a single copy. Outside the US this may decide it on its own.
- More pages than anyone
- Up to 500 against our 400. A very long life with a lot to say fits in theirs and might not fit in ours.
- A cheaper way in
- $57 is less than $99. If the writing gets done inside the plan, and he is happy typing, they cost less. That is a real answer and we are not going to talk you out of it.
- Twenty covers
- They publish 20 cover options. We do not offer that much choice.
Where we think we are worth the difference
He does not write. He talks, for about fifty minutes, and the next question comes from what he just said, so the story opens outward instead of working down a list. It arrives as one continuous book with chapters. Up to 50 family and friends can each be interviewed and their memories go into his book. Every recording stays yours. And it is one payment, so nothing renews while you are getting round to it.
$99, once
No subscription and no renewal date. Prices checked August 2026; features checked August 2026.
- A hardcover biography, 7 by 10 inches, full color inside on thick coated paper
- His whole life in order, from childhood to now, in chapters
- Up to 400 pages, so a long life costs the same as a short one
- A question a week, answered out loud. No typing, no app, no password
- Questions written from what he has already said
- Up to 50 family and friends, each with their own interview, all of it in his book
- Every recording, yours to download and keep
- The digital copy
- A list of every name and place we heard, to check before it prints
What our own customers say
★★★★★
I'm 74. Figured I had nothing worth writing down. Two months in, I had 180 pages. My grandkids read it together at Thanksgiving.
★★★★★
I just answered the questions. That's all I had to do. They sent me back a book that sounds like me. My daughter said she could hear my voice on every page.
★★★★★
Got this for my dad who never talks about himself. There are stories in this book none of us had heard.
★★★★★
Good experience overall. We gave it to my father in law and he answers his question every week. Printing took longer than we expected.
Questions people ask us
How much does Memowrite cost?
Their product page shows $57, with $94 struck through. That page does not say how long the plan runs or that it renews. The address behind the buy button names a three month plan. Their terms say it renews automatically for another period the same length, and their help centre says the renewal is charged at the regular price rather than the sale price you first paid. They also say the subscription cancels itself once the book goes to print, and you can cancel at no cost before that.
Is Memowrite a subscription or a one off payment?
A subscription. This is the thing most worth knowing before you buy, because the sale page does not mention it. If the writing takes longer than the plan you bought, it renews at the regular price. For a life story, taking longer than expected is normal rather than unusual.
What is the Memowrite book like?
Their product page lists a full color hardcover in A5, which is 5.83 by 8.27 inches, up to 500 pages with unlimited revisions, 20 cover designs, and free worldwide shipping on any number of books. That is the largest published page limit of any service we compare, and A5 is the smallest published page size. We have not held one, so we are not going to tell you how it feels.
Are Memowrite reviews trustworthy?
On 26 August 2026 their Trustpilot page showed 4.3 out of 5 from 2,866 reviews. That is a decent score for any company. Memowrite's own pages show a rating widget reading 4.7 from 2,142 reviews. We are reporting both and not telling you what the difference means. Separately, we could not find a single independent review of Memowrite. The two that read like reviews are commercial: one carries an affiliate disclosure, the other sits on a web address containing the word advertorial.
Does Memowrite keep the recordings?
No. He can answer by speaking rather than typing, and that is not locked behind a higher plan, which is more than some services offer. But their help centre says the audio is not saved and only the converted text remains. So there is no recording of his voice at the end of it. With Ethos every recording is yours to download and keep.
Have you used Memowrite?
No, and we would rather say so than pretend. Their product sits behind an email gate and we have no account. Everything on this page comes from pages Memowrite publishes, all linked at the foot, plus their Trustpilot page which we read ourselves on 26 August 2026. We have used StoryWorth and Remento, and our comparisons of those two say how they behave because we can back it.
Comparing more than one?
We put Memowrite side by side with ours here: Memowrite vs Ethos. And if StoryWorth and Remento are also on your list, the three way comparison has screenshots of both of those, because we have used them: StoryWorth vs Remento vs Ethos.
See the Ethos life story bookOne last thing. The number to look at is not $57. It is what happens in month four, when the book is not finished and the plan comes up for renewal. Ask that question of every service on your list, including ours, before you pay any of them.
Sources. Everything above about Memowrite comes from these pages, all read on 26 August 2026. Prices verified August 2026. Features verified August 2026. Competitor prices change, and if you are reading this much later, check them yourself.
- Memowrite product page — the price, A5 size, 500 pages, 20 covers, full color, free worldwide shipping.
- Memowrite, how it works — the 50 questions, access from the start, archival paper, and the proofreading claim.
- Memowrite terms and conditions — automatic renewal and the 48 hour cancellation window.
- Memowrite help centre, on renewal — the plan renews if the book is not finished.
- Memowrite help centre, on the renewal price — renewal is charged at the regular price.
- Memowrite help centre, on voice — ten minutes per recording, and that the audio is not saved.
- Memowrite help centre, on the questions — the questions are selected, and you may skip them.
- Memowrite help centre, on shipping — free shipping globally.
- Memowrite on Trustpilot — 4.3 from 2,866 reviews, read 26 August 2026.
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