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Tellforth vs Remento
Remento is voice-first: prompts arrive by email or text, the storyteller records a video or audio answer, and its "Speech-to-Story" turns each one into a cleaned transcript or a polished written story. The book is larger-format with QR codes back to the recordings. The complaints cluster around two things: the AI rewriting people out of their own voice, and the subscription.
What Remento does well
- Recording instead of typing, by phone, with photo prompts
- Each answer is written up automatically, first or third person
- A larger 8×10 book with thicker paper and a customisable cover
- QR codes in the book link to the original recordings
Where Remento falls short
- Answers are written up one at a time; there is no designed book, no shape, no through-line
- A pattern of complaints that the rewritten stories do not sound like the person
- Subscription-based; access and the ability to keep adding depend on it
- No follow-up questions inside a story; each prompt is answered once
Side by side
| Remento | Tellforth | |
|---|---|---|
| How stories are gathered | One prompt at a time, answered by recording | Voice visits of 15 to 20 minutes with a live interviewer that asks follow-ups, plus a 30-second daily card; no typing, no login for the teller |
| What the AI does | Rewrites each answer into a story (or cleans the transcript) | Asks the next question, remembers everything, and writes a whole book only once the record holds what a writer needs; memoir mode uses only what was said |
| Voice | Reported complaints that rewrites lose the person's voice | Memoir mode keeps the teller's words and sayings; hearsay is marked as hearsay |
| What you get | A collection of written-up answers in an 8×10 book | A designed, finished book: a memoir in the teller's own words, or a novel built on the true story with what was invented listed at the back |
| Ownership | Subscription; check current terms on their site | You own every recording and word; export everything free, any time; no subscription |
| Price | About $99 a year (check their site) | One-time price; no renewal |
Verdict
Choose Remento if you want a quick, polished write-up of each answer and a large-format book. Choose this if you want a finished book with a shape, in the person's own voice, with follow-up questions, and no subscription.
Switching from Remento
- Download your recordings and transcripts from Remento
- They can be imported as told material and the interviewer continues from there
Sources
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