The story behind the photo
Keep the photo.
Keep the story.
Every family has a box of photos that only one person can explain. Picmori asks three short questions about a picture and writes the answers on the back, before the story is lost.
- Free, no account
- Photos stay on your device
- Two minutes a photo
Pick a photo. Answer three things.
Turn 1 of 3
That photo can now explain itself.
Three short answers, written on the back. In fifty years they are the difference between a keepsake and a stranger.
Nothing leaves this page. A photo you add and the words you write stay in your browser and are gone when you close the tab. The sample photos are drawings.
How it works
Three turns, like the mark.
The Picmori mark has three parts. So does a photo that can explain itself.
TURN 1
Who
Name everyone, and say how they belong to each other.
TURN 2
Where and when
The place, the year, the season, as near as you can get.
TURN 3
Why it mattered
What was happening that day, and what happened next.
A photo keeps the faces. Not the names.
Names go first
A face without a name is the first thing a family loses. Every Picmori story starts with who, left to right.
The camera does not know why
A phone saves the date and the place. It cannot save why you were there or what happened an hour later.
Two minutes a photo
Three short answers, not a memoir. Small enough to do for one photo tonight and another next week.
Questions that get answers
Ask "tell me about your life" and people freeze. Hand them a photo and ask who is in it, and they talk.
Private by design
The story maker runs in your browser. Your photo is not uploaded, and there is no account to create.
Works with paper
Copy the three answers onto a card, into an album or into the caption field of any photo app you already use.
Photo story prompts
Questions for the photos you have.
Old family photos
For the box of prints where half the faces have no name.
12 questions
Photos with grandparents
Questions to ask a grandparent while they hold the photo.
12 questions
Wedding photos
The names and small disasters the album does not record.
12 questions
Baby's first year
A few words per photo, written while you still remember.
12 questions
Common questions
What is Picmori?
Picmori is a free photo story maker and a library of prompts. It asks three short questions about a photo (who, where and when, why it mattered) so the story is written down next to the picture.
Are my photos uploaded?
No. If you add your own photo to the story maker it is shown from your device inside the page. It is not sent to a server, and it is gone when you close the tab.
Is there a Picmori app?
Not yet. An app that keeps photos and their stories together is in development and is not available. Everything on this site is free to use now.
One photo. Three answers. Two minutes.
Start with the print you would save from a fire. No account, nothing uploaded.