Gifts for grandparents that connect the generations
The best gifts for grandparents involve the grandchildren: a grandchild interview recorded on a phone, a calendar of the kids’ drawings, a weekly video call, or EverTold, where Grandma and Grandpa tell their stories and each grandchild hears them told for them, with a story time version for bedtime.
The best gifts for grandparents are the ones that involve the grandchildren. They want time with them, and they want to be known by them.
Ideas grandparents love
EverTold: Grandma’s stories, told for each grandchild
Grandma talks; EverTold listens and asks the next question. Every story is written and narrated, and each grandchild hears it as a story about "your great-grandfather" or "your mom when she was little". Young kids get a story-time telling with simpler words and a gentler pace, perfect at bedtime. Her own recordings are kept privately for the family.
A grandchild interview
Help a grandchild prepare five questions and record the conversation on a phone. Both sides remember it.
A photo calendar made by the grandkids
Each grandchild picks or draws a month. It hangs in the kitchen all year.
A regular video call slot
Set up the device, show them how it works, and put a weekly time on everyone’s calendar.
Why grandparents’ stories matter to kids
Children who know where their family came from have a story to belong to. Hearing how a grandparent got through hard times, moved somewhere new or met the love of their life gives kids roots.
EverTold is built for that. The same story is told one way for adults and another way for children, so a six year old and a grown grandson can both listen to the same true story.
What only EverTold does
Each relative hears the story from their own place in the family
When Mom tells a story about her brother, her daughter hears it as a story about "your uncle" and her grandson hears "your great-uncle", read aloud in a warm storyteller’s voice. Every listener gets the version that makes sense to them.
Story time for the grandkids
A grandchild can tap a story at bedtime and hear it retold for a child: the same true story, simpler words, a gentler pace. Adults get the faithful telling.
A real conversation, not a writing assignment
EverTold asks a question out loud, listens, and follows up, like a patient grandchild on a phone call. It waits for them to finish. Nobody has to write a thing.
Their real voice, kept
The recordings of their answers are saved privately for the family, right next to the written stories, so you keep the way they actually sound.
Handed down for generations
A family library that keeps growing, paid for once. No subscription, no renewal, nothing to cancel.
The family can ask for more
Anyone in the family can send a question like "Mom, tell me about the farm". It goes to the real person, and their answer comes back as a new story.
The EverTold Forever Promise: One payment, no renewals, for as long as EverTold operates. Download everything any time. If EverTold ever closes, you get at least 6 months’ notice and then 90 days to download everything before anything is deleted. Read the full promise
A note from Dustin and Gabi
We are a husband and wife, and our family speaks two languages: Gabi’s side Portuguese, Dustin’s side English. When our kids asked about their great-grandfather in Brazil, who left home for the city as a teenager to build a life from nothing, we realized the details that make a person come alive had already been lost. He passed away before we asked him the questions that mattered most.
We still have parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles on both sides, with decades of stories we had never thought to ask about. So we built EverTold for our own family first, and we write these guides the way we choose gifts for them.
Give EverTold
One storyteller, a lifetime family library, paid once.
Two storytellers, usually Mom and Dad, sharing one family library, paid once.
One payment, no subscription. 30 day refund. Delivered by email on the day you choose.
Give EverToldQuestions
Can grandchildren listen to the stories?
Yes, as many as you like. Each listener says who they are once, and every story is told from their place in the family. Children can choose a story-time telling made for them.
What does a grandparent need to use EverTold?
A phone, tablet or computer with a web browser. They open the gift email, tap Start and talk. No app, no password.