There is nothing to pay yet.

Longtold is free while it is being built. When that changes you will be asked, not charged.

What that means

Free, and honest about why.

Right now

It costs nothing

Start a year for your storyteller, send the questions, get the stories. There is no card to enter and no trial counting down in the background.

When that changes

You get asked first

Nobody is moved onto a paid plan on our say-so. We will write to you first, and nothing happens unless you say yes.

What you are joining

Something early

Things move around, and now and then something is rough. There is a button on every page to tell us when you find one. Free is our way of saying thanks for putting up with it.

What it will cost, when it does.

The plans are worked out. Only the prices are not, so here is a preview of how they will work.

Month to month

Pay as the year goes

The questions, the stories, the whole thing, for as long as your family wants it. Stop whenever you like, and every story already told stays yours.

A year at once

The book comes with it

The same year paid in one go, with the printed hardcover included at the end of it. If you are giving it to somebody, this is the one.

While Longtold is free, the hardcover still has to be printed and posted, so a beta family buys theirs when the year ends.

Before you start

The things people ask.

Am I going to get a surprise bill?

No. Nothing is charged without you picking a plan first, and there is no card on file to charge. If you would rather not carry on when beta ends, you stop and keep every story your family has already told.
Who pays — me or my dad?

Whoever starts the year. Usually that is a son or daughter setting it up for the storyteller. The storyteller never pays, and neither does anybody on the reading list.
What if the storyteller stops answering?

Questions wait. A gentle nudge goes out, the pace is theirs to set, and the year can be paused from Settings. A book of thirty stories is still a book your family will fight over.
What happens when the year ends?

The book gets printed, and the choice is yours: wrap it there, or start a second volume with the same storyteller or a different one.

If you want to chip in.

A few people have asked how to help while it is free. There is no need, and nothing changes if you do.

What it goes toward

The servers, and the disk your family’s stories sit on
Every email and every text that goes out
The curator writing next week’s question
A second copy of every photograph, kept somewhere else

Choose an amount

Handled by Stripe. Your card details never reach Longtold, and nothing is stored on our side but the amount and the date.

Start a year while it is free.

Pick your storyteller, choose who gets the stories, and the first question goes out this week.

Start a year