A Remento alternative where you ask the questions
Remento and Told Together are close cousins. Both start from the spoken word and both write it up for you. The difference is who is in the room. With Remento, your parent gets a prompt each week and records an answer alone. With Told Together, you have a conversation with them, and the story comes from that.
While Remento can feel like homework, Told Together is an opportunity to connect.
By Jamay Lau, founder of Told Together · Updated
At a glance
The Remento details below come from Remento’s own website, checked in October 2026.
| Told Together | Remento | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $39.99 a year, or $4.99 a week with a 7-day free trial | $99 a year |
| How stories are gathered | You record a conversation: a call, in person, or a recording you already have | A weekly prompt by email or text. Your parent records a voice or video answer |
| Questions and prompts | A library of questions by topic, and follow-up suggestions after each story. You ask them when you talk | One prompt a week, sent to your parent by email or text |
| Who is talking | Two of you, in conversation | Your parent, alone |
| Who starts each story | You, whenever you talk | Your parent, when they respond to the prompt |
| What you read | A written story composed from the conversation, in their words | A written chapter from their recording (Speech-to-Story) |
| What your parent needs | Nothing. A phone, or a link opened in a browser | A link. No app, login, or password |
| Languages | Talk in most major languages. The story is written in English | Not stated on the pages we read |
| The recording | Audio saved with every story. A printed story can carry a QR code to it | Audio or video saved. QR codes in the book play the recordings |
| Printed book | Not included. Print any story or save it as a PDF | Hardcover color book included: 8 by 10 inches, up to 200 pages |
| Guarantee | No blanket guarantee. We review every refund request | 30-day money-back guarantee |
Remento is a trademark of its owner. Told Together is not affiliated with Remento. Details were taken from remento.co in October 2026 and may have changed.
A conversation gets different stories than a prompt
A parent answering a prompt alone tells the version they have told before. A parent talking with their own child gets interrupted. “Wait, you never told me that.” “What did Grandpa say?” The follow-up question is where the best part of the story usually is, and only someone who knows them can ask it. We still give you questions to start from. The difference is that you are there to ask them.
It also solves the quieter problem with weekly prompts, which is that someone has to answer them. If your mother would never record herself talking to a screen but will happily talk to you for an hour, a conversation is the format that works.
You do not have to wait for them
With a prompt service, the pace is set by the person least likely to open the email. With Told Together you set the pace. Call on Sunday, and there is a story on Sunday.
Where Remento is ahead
- A hardcover color book is included, with QR codes that play the recordings.
- It keeps video as well as audio. Told Together keeps audio.
- It needs nothing from you after you buy it, which matters if you live far away and cannot call often.
Choose Remento if
- Your parent is comfortable recording themselves and will do it weekly.
- You want a printed book at the end of the year.
- You want video of them telling the story.
Choose Told Together if
- Your parent will talk to you but would not record alone.
- You want to be in the stories as the one asking.
- You want a finished story the same day.
- You have old recordings you want written up.
- You would rather pay $39.99 a year than $99.
Questions
Both services write a story from speech. Told Together works from a two-person conversation, so it has to tell the storyteller's words apart from the questions and leave the questions out. The result reads as their story in the first person.
Yes. Anyone can record or type their own stories. Most people find the conversation is what gets them started.
Not today. Each story prints cleanly or saves as a PDF, with an option to include a QR code to the original audio.
Storyworth is built around writing, Remento around recording alone, Told Together around a conversation.