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A private storybook for your child

Don’t just store memories.
Build your child’s story.

From the first scan to the first day of school — photos, videos, voice, milestones, health records and letters for the future, gathered into one warm, private book that grows with them.

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First Heartbeat

Week 12 · saved forever

A letter, sealed

Opens on her 18th birthday

The problem

Your child’s first years are already scattered.

The scan photo is in a chat. The birth certificate is in Downloads. Four thousand photos sit in a camera roll where nothing is labelled and nothing is in order.

None of it is lost, exactly. It is just impossible to hand to them one day and say “this is your story”.

Growingwe gathers it into a book

One place, in order, by itself. Add a moment and it lands on the timeline, in the right chapter, next to everything else from that week.

What Growingwe does

Four things, done properly.

Not a photo backup. Not a medical app. Not a folder of files. A book your child could open in twenty years and recognise as their own.

Remember

Photos, videos, a voice you will want to hear again in twenty years — saved as moments in a story, not files in a folder.

  • Photos
  • Videos
  • Voice notes
  • Letters
  • Notes
  • Moods

Organise

Every moment lands on a timeline by itself. Pregnancy weeks, birth, first steps — in order, without you filing anything.

  • Story Map
  • Timeline
  • Milestones
  • Child profiles
  • Search

Care

Visits, prescriptions, vaccinations and growth, kept apart from the story and reminded from the dates you entered.

  • Doctor visits
  • Medications
  • Vaccinations
  • Growth
  • Appointments

Preserve

The birth certificate, the discharge summary, the school report — and a sealed letter your child opens years from now.

  • Document vault
  • Birth records
  • Certificates
  • Time Capsules

The Story Map

Their life, drawn as a road you can walk.

Every moment you save becomes a stop on a winding path through an illustrated world. Scroll back and the chapters recolour around you — peach for pregnancy, mint and sky for the first year, lilac and lemon for the toddler years.

It is the opposite of a grid of thumbnails. You can see, at a glance, how far you have come and what is still ahead.

Captured

A glossy dome resting on the road, with its stars on a scalloped plate.

Today

Larger, ringed in gold, glowing — and carrying its own “Add today”.

Still to come

A warm shape pressed into the paper with a gold key. Never a grey padlock.

The stars rate the moment, never you

They say how complete a memory is, so you know which ones are worth going back to. Nothing is ever marked late, missing or behind.

One star — the moment is recorded.

Two stars — it has a photo or a video.

Three stars — it has media and a note or voice.

The journey

The story doesn’t start at birth.

It starts at a positive test on a Tuesday morning. Growingwe is built to hold all of it — and to keep drawing the road forward long after the first birthday.

  1. Chapter one

    Before You Arrived

    The positive test, the first heartbeat, the bump photos, the 20-week scan.

  2. The day

    Hello, World

    Birth time, weight, the first cry, the first family photo — recorded as it happens.

  3. Chapter two

    The first year

    First smile, first bath, first food, first word — and every check-up alongside them.

  4. Chapter three

    Finding Her Feet

    First steps, first haircut, first birthday. The map keeps drawing itself forward.

  5. And onward

    School and beyond

    First day at school, first drawing, first award — a book you can still open in twenty years.

Pregnancy becomes chapter one

Everything you saved before birth — the scans, the bump photos, the first heartbeat — carries over untouched the day you record the birth and give your baby their real name. Nothing is migrated, nothing is lost.

How it’s organised

A vaccination record is not a memory.

So Growingwe keeps them apart. The story stays a story; the health records and the paperwork live beside it, searchable and reminded, without ever cluttering the book itself.

Story

The book itself

  • Memories
  • Timeline
  • Milestones
  • Photos & videos
  • Time Capsules

Care

Kept separately

  • Health history
  • Doctor visits
  • Medications
  • Vaccinations
  • Growth

Preserve

Kept safely

  • Birth certificate
  • Medical reports
  • School records
  • Official papers

Care

The paperwork of a childhood, kept straight.

Which vaccine, on what date, from which doctor. What the paediatrician said in February. When the next appointment is. It is all somewhere already — Growingwe puts it in one place and reminds you from it.

  • Doctor visits, with notes, prescriptions and the reports attached
  • Medication schedules, reminded at the time you set
  • Vaccinations given and the next one due
  • Weight, height and head circumference over time
  • Appointments — and a nudge to write down how it went
  • A separate pregnancy health history for the mother

Growingwe is not a medical tool

It stores, organises and reminds you from schedules and records that you entered. It never diagnoses, never recommends treatment, never changes a dose, and never interprets a document you upload. Every health screen in the app says so.

Time Capsules

Write to the person they haven’t become yet.

A letter for their tenth birthday. A voice note from the week they were born. A message for the day they leave home. Choose a date, write it, and seal it.

  • Sealed means sealed. Once a capsule is closed it cannot be read before its date — not by the family, not by us, not even by the person who wrote it.
  • Text, photos, video or voice. Whatever you want them to have on the day it opens.
  • The countdown measures their life, not the file. Four percent of the way to eighteen is a far kinder number than a count of days.

Sealed until 12 August 2044

Written when she was 24 weeks in the womb

My Sofia,you are 24 weeks old today and you already kick when your father sings. I want you to know what this house sounded like while we waited for you.
— To be opened on your 18th birthday

The features

Everything in one book

Each of these is a designed part of the app. Plus features carry a gold key — locked, never hidden, and always with a real explanation.

Memories

A photo, a video, a voice note, a letter or just a sentence. Add a place, the people in it, how the day felt — or add none of that and still be done in seconds.

The Story Map

Your child’s life drawn as a winding road. Moments you have captured glow; the ones still ahead wait quietly with a key.

Milestones

First smile, first word, first step. Marked when they happen, never marked late — nothing here is ever behind schedule.

Pregnancy Journey

The story starts before birth. Weeks, scans, bump photos, appointments and a checklist — and at birth it becomes chapter one.

Health & Care

Doctor visits, prescriptions, lab reports, vaccinations and growth measurements for mother and child, held apart from the story.

Reminders

Medicine at 9am, the paediatrician on Thursday, the vaccination due next month — reminded from the schedule you entered.

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Privacy

Yours. Always private.

This is a book about a child, held by the people who love them. It is not a network, not a feed, and not somewhere a stranger can arrive.

Private by default

Nothing in Growingwe is ever public. There is no feed, no discovery, no profile for anyone to find.

No ads, ever

You are the customer, not the product. Your child’s photographs are not training data and not inventory.

You control every share

Every share names who will see it, by name, before it happens. Nothing leaves the app unless you send it.

Encrypted and audited

Documents and media are encrypted at rest, access is checked per item on every read, and every access is logged.

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Questions

The things parents ask first.

Is Growingwe a social network?

No. There is no feed, no followers and nothing public. Growingwe is a private book that only the people you invite can open, and every share names who will see it before it happens.

Can I start before the baby is born?

Yes — that is the point. Choose “I’m expecting” at setup and the story begins at the positive test. You give your baby a name for now, and everything you save before birth carries over untouched when you record the birth and set their real name.

Is this a medical app?

No. Growingwe stores, organises and reminds you from schedules and records you entered yourself. It never diagnoses, never recommends treatment, never changes a dose and never interprets a document you upload. Every health screen says so.

Who else can see my child’s story?

Only people you invite, and only the parts you grant them. Access is set per person rather than per role, so a grandparent can see the story without seeing health records or the document vault.

Can a Time Capsule be opened early?

No. Once a capsule is sealed it is immutable and unreadable until its unlock date — including by the person who wrote it. That is what makes it worth writing.

Coming to iOS and Android

Start your child’s story from today.

Growingwe is being built for iOS and Android together. Leave your address and we’ll write once — when there’s something real to open.

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