Give your child their own phone number and email address. Family text it photos and voice notes, email it letters, or simply call it and leave a voicemail. It all waits in one private vault until their 18th birthday. No app. If Grandma can send a text, she can add to it.
The gift is the time you take to keep it.
RL+3Write it today and email it to julius@dear18.com. Not a writer? Call his number and say it out loud. Either way it waits, sealed, until his 18th birthday.
Today you asked me why the sky is blue. I didn't know, so we looked it up together on the kitchen floor. You were six, and you wanted to know everything.
I hope you never stop asking.
All my love,
Mom
The stories, voices and small details that are too meaningful to leave scattered across everyone's camera rolls. Each one can be sent the way your family already shares.
Julius gets his own phone number and email address. Anyone you invite sends to it the same way they already share with family. Grandpa can call it on a birthday and just talk. Each memory lands in his vault, dated and in order.
Add your child and their birthday. They get their own number and email address.
Add family by phone or email, or share a link. We text each of them a contact card to save. From then on they just call, text or email it.
On their birthday they get the key by email, and a keepsake card for you to hand over in person.
Julius gets an email with his key, and you get a keepsake card to put in his hands. He opens eighteen years of voices, letters and photos, sealed ones included, in the order they happened.
Your family's memories are not a product. We never sell, share, analyse or train on them. Not for ads, not for AI, not for anyone. That is the whole point of not being a social network.
"My mother has never downloaded an app in her life. She's sent forty photos this month."
"I write to her once a month by email. It's the most important thing I do."
"Grandpa left a voicemail for his 18th birthday. I haven't heard it. That's the point."
No. She texts photos, notes or voice memos to Julius's number, the same way she texts you. Email works too. We reply to confirm each one arrived.
It waits in your vault until you approve the sender. Nothing is added without you.
Whoever sends a note decides. Starting a text or email with SEAL keeps it sealed from everyone, parents included, until the 18th birthday.
Each child can have their own number. On a shared family number, start the text with their name, like "Julius: first day of school!"
No. Nothing in a vault is sold, shared with partners, used for advertising, analysed for marketing, or used to train AI. Your family is the only audience, and your child is the only recipient. We make money when families pay for dear18, not from what is inside it.
Your child gets an email with their key, and you get a keepsake card with the same code to hand over in person. The whole vault opens at once.
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