Which app works if my mom only speaks Cantonese?

GramGrams handles both Cantonese and Mandarin: she speaks Cantonese, you hear it in English as she's talking, and you keep the recording in her voice with a transcript in Chinese and English. Baohua Stories also takes Mandarin and Cantonese, returning written stories in both languages. Most of the rest of the category is English-only or offers Chinese with no translation, which leaves you a recording your children can't read.

How is GramGrams different from Baohua Stories?

Baohua sends a written prompt your parent answers on their own each week, and returns a finished written story in Chinese and English. GramGrams is a conversation you have together in person, translated as it happens, and what you keep is their actual voice plus a two-language transcript. Baohua is better if you live far apart and want something arriving reliably; GramGrams is better if you can sit down together or if the voice itself is what you want to keep.

Does StoryWorth support Chinese?

Stories can be written in Chinese on StoryWorth's website, but their printing software supports most languages rather than all of them, and the product does not translate. A story your mother writes in Chinese reaches your English-reading children in Chinese.

Can my mother use this if she doesn't use apps?

Yes. The phone is yours and stays in your hands — she doesn't install anything, doesn't make an account, and doesn't touch a screen. She talks and you hold the phone. That's the whole of what's asked of her.

Do we get the stories in both Chinese and English?

Yes. Every conversation produces a transcript in Chinese and in English, alongside the original audio in her voice, plus a keepsake page you can share with relatives who read either language.

What does it cost, and is it a subscription?

It is not a subscription and nothing renews. The first 3 conversations are free, $19 adds five more, and $99 is the full package with the keepsake page. Every option is a one-time payment.

GramGrams

Your mother's stories are in Cantonese. Your kids only read English.

Two products actually address this, and they work differently. Baohua Stories sends your parent a written prompt each week and returns a finished story in Chinese and English. GramGrams puts the two of you in the same room and translates while you talk.

The difference is what your parent has to do and what you keep. Baohua asks them to answer a prompt on their own and gives you a written story; GramGrams asks them to have a conversation with you and gives you their voice, in Mandarin or Cantonese, with a transcript in both languages.

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Side by side

Every figure below was read on each company’s own website, not from a roundup, and re-checked on August 27, 2026.

GramGrams compared with StoryWorth, Remento, Storii, Baohua Stories
Feature	GramGrams	StoryWorth	Remento	Storii	Baohua Stories
What your parent has to do	Talk, in their own language. No writing, no typing, no app to install.	Write their answers, by email or on the website. Phone recording with transcription is included from the $109 tier up.	Speak into their phone on their own, answering a prompt. No writing.	Answer a scheduled phone call and talk. Nothing else.	Answer a weekly written prompt, on their own.
Languages	Chinese, Spanish, Tagalog, Vietnamese, English	The site itself is in English and Spanish. Stories can be written in any language, but printing may not support it.“We offer Storyworth in English and Spanish. […] stories can be written and viewed in any language on our website. Our printing software supports most but not all languages.”	Not published. The product and site are English.	Calls go out in English or Spanish only. Questions in other languages have to be submitted by hand.“At current we are only sending out calls in English or Spanish”	Chinese only — Mandarin and Cantonese in, English out. More immigrant-family languages are on their roadmap.
Translation between you	Yes, live — while the conversation is happening, so you can actually talk to each other.	None. A story written in Chinese stays in Chinese.	Not offered.	Not offered.	Yes, after the fact: the finished story is delivered in both languages.
Starting from a photo	Yes — bring out the old photographs and the questions are written from what's in them, in your parent's language.	Photos attach to a story that has already been written. They don't prompt one.“You can add photos to any Storyworth story”	Yes — a photo can be uploaded as the prompt, instead of picking a written one.“Or upload photos to learn the story behind each one.”	No. Images can be added to an answer after the call, but the prompt is the call.“those with access are also able to add images, videos or additional audio recordings to the question answer”	Not published. The prompt shown is a written question.
Price	Free for the first 3 conversations, then $19 for five more. $99 one-time for the full package.	$59, $109, or $199 depending on tier	$99 for the first year	$59.99 for the gift box, listed as reduced from $119.99	$99 one-time, first story free
Subscription?	One payment. No subscription, no renewal, ever.	One-time for the $59 and $109 tiers. The $199 tier auto-renews at $99 a year.“auto-renews yearly at $99, cancel at any time”	One payment for the year. Renewal is optional, at $99 a year or $12 a month, and recordings stay yours either way.	Twelve months of calls on an activation code. Renewal pricing is not published; the FAQ says payment applies only while calls are being sent.	One payment covering the year.
Printed book	No printed book. A keepsake page you arrange yourself — photos, quotes, and clips of their voice — on one link the family can open.	Yes — one hardcover included, shipping included in the US.	Yes — one full-colour hardcover included, with QR codes to the original audio on every page.	Audio-first. A book is not the deliverable.	Not published.

What each one asks your parent to do

Mandarin and Cantonese are where this category's language support usually stops, so the practical question is narrower than it looks: which of these can your parent actually use, and does anything come back that your children will be able to read?

GramGrams

Talk, in their own language. No writing, no typing, no app to install.

StoryWorth

Emails your parent one question a week for a year, then prints their written answers as a hardcover book.

Write their answers, by email or on the website. Phone recording with transcription is included from the $109 tier up.

Remento

Sends a weekly prompt your parent answers by voice, alone; turns the recording into a written chapter and prints a book with QR codes back to the audio.

Speak into their phone on their own, answering a prompt. No writing.

Storii

Phones your parent three times a week and records their answers. Nothing to install, nothing to touch — the one other product usable by someone who won't use a screen.

Answer a scheduled phone call and talk. Nothing else.

Baohua Stories

Built for Chinese-American families specifically: a weekly question your parent answers in Chinese, returned to the family as a written story in both Chinese and English.

Answer a weekly written prompt, on their own.

GramGrams and Baohua Stories, honestly

Baohua Stories is the one product here built for the same family we're built for, and it's a good one. If what you want is a written family story in both languages, arriving reliably each week without either of you having to schedule anything, that is exactly what they do — and they are the same price we are.

Where they're different: it is a written, prompt-based product your parent answers alone. Nobody has to sit down together, which is a real advantage when you live in different cities and a real loss when the person is eighty-eight and the point was the afternoon as much as the transcript. It also means the artifact is a written story rather than her own voice, and it can't be used the way a conversation can — at a bedside, on a bad day, when there won't be a next week.

If your parent is well and you're far away, they may serve you better than we will. If you can be in the room, or if the voice is the part you can't lose, that's what we built.

What GramGrams doesn’t do

Our full package costs more than StoryWorth's cheapest book

There are two honest halves to this. Getting started here is cheaper than anywhere else on the page — the first 3 conversations are free and five more are $19, which is less than any entry tier listed above. But that tier is conversations only: no keepsake page to send the family. The full package is $99, the same as Remento and Baohua, and more than StoryWorth's cheapest complete tier — which ends in a printed book your parent writes themselves. What the money buys here is the translation: your parent talking in their own language and you understanding them in the moment, rather than reading a translated version afterwards. If you and your parent are comfortable in the same language, one of the others will serve you better, and you should take it.

There's no printed book

StoryWorth and Remento both end with a hardcover in your hands. We don't print one yet, and if the object on the shelf is the point of this for you, buy the one that prints it. What you get instead is a keepsake page you build yourself: the photographs with captions, the lines worth keeping in both languages, and clips you can press play on to hear them say it — arranged in the order you want, under a title and a dedication, on one link that opens on any phone. It is closer to a family album someone actually curated than to a transcript, and unlike a book it holds their voice.

Questions people ask

Which app works if my mom only speaks Cantonese?: GramGrams handles both Cantonese and Mandarin: she speaks Cantonese, you hear it in English as she's talking, and you keep the recording in her voice with a transcript in Chinese and English. Baohua Stories also takes Mandarin and Cantonese, returning written stories in both languages. Most of the rest of the category is English-only or offers Chinese with no translation, which leaves you a recording your children can't read.
How is GramGrams different from Baohua Stories?: Baohua sends a written prompt your parent answers on their own each week, and returns a finished written story in Chinese and English. GramGrams is a conversation you have together in person, translated as it happens, and what you keep is their actual voice plus a two-language transcript. Baohua is better if you live far apart and want something arriving reliably; GramGrams is better if you can sit down together or if the voice itself is what you want to keep.
Does StoryWorth support Chinese?: Stories can be written in Chinese on StoryWorth's website, but their printing software supports most languages rather than all of them, and the product does not translate. A story your mother writes in Chinese reaches your English-reading children in Chinese.
Can my mother use this if she doesn't use apps?: Yes. The phone is yours and stays in your hands — she doesn't install anything, doesn't make an account, and doesn't touch a screen. She talks and you hold the phone. That's the whole of what's asked of her.
Do we get the stories in both Chinese and English?: Yes. Every conversation produces a transcript in Chinese and in English, alongside the original audio in her voice, plus a keepsake page you can share with relatives who read either language.
What does it cost, and is it a subscription?: It is not a subscription and nothing renews. The first 3 conversations are free, $19 adds five more, and $99 is the full package with the keepsake page. Every option is a one-time payment.

Have the conversation while you still can

The first 3are free, and you don’t need a card to start. Sit down next to them, press record, and ask one question.

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How we checked

Every claim on this page was read on the vendor’s own website — never from a comparison roundup, including the ones these companies write about each other. Claims are re-read at least every ninety days; the oldest on this page was checked on August 27, 2026. If you find something out of date, we want to know.

StoryWorthwelcome.storyworth.com
Rementowww.remento.co
Storiiwww.storii.com
Baohua Storiesbaohua.app