Everyone’s memories.
One finished birthday film.

A birthday memory film brings photos, video clips and recorded birthday messages from friends and family into one finished film that follows the person’s life so far. It is not a slideshow you assemble by hand: Videmory puts the memories in the order they happened, plays the video as it was filmed, places the messages where they belong in the story and edits the result to music.

The organiser creates the birthday and shares one invitation link. Friends and family open the link, add their name, and upload photos, videos and a short message from a phone or computer. Videmory works out when each memory was taken, the organiser adds a year or an age where nobody is sure, and the app makes the film. You watch the complete film, with a watermark, before you pay anything.

No. The invitation link and a name are enough. Nobody installs anything and nobody creates an account. Each contributor sees only what they added themselves; the organiser sees everything.

Yes. Scan or photograph the print and add the digital copy. A scan carries the date it was scanned, not the date it was taken, so add the year, the decade or the person’s age when you know it. Our collecting guide covers scanning, dating and gathering from relatives.

Most milestone films work well with somewhere between sixty and a hundred and fifty photographs plus a handful of messages, but there is no minimum and the film simply grows with the collection. The photo-count guide shows the arithmetic.

Yes — and because everyone contributes privately from their own phone rather than in a group chat, it is easier to keep quiet. The surprise guide covers deadlines, who to tell and how to handle the reveal.

Making the film and watching the complete preview are free. Under the introductory launch offer your first finished film is AU$49 and each additional version is AU$15 — the same offer as Travel — paid once, in Australian dollars, with no subscription. Introductory pricing is available for a limited time and may increase in the future. Birthday is being tested ahead of public launch and the launch date has not been announced; contact us about availability for your celebration.

No. Everything works in a browser, so the same birthday opens on a phone, a tablet or a computer. Most people collect on their phone — that is where the photos are — and do the small amount of tidying on a computer, where the life story lays out across a proper screen and a year or an age is quicker to add. There is not much of it to do. To pick up where you left off on another device, open the invitation link or type the join code, choose “I am the organiser”, and enter the organiser PIN you were shown when you started.

Yes, and it is the fastest way to date a pile of scans. Name a file with the year, decade or age at the front — 1985 - Nan’s kitchen.jpg, Around 1985.jpg, 1980s - School.jpg, Age 27 - First flat.jpg — and Videmory offers that date as a suggestion, with the rest of the name as a suggested caption. The same goes for video files, and for a folder named “Around 1985” added whole from a computer. Camera names like IMG_1985 are ignored on purpose, and every suggestion waits for the organiser to accept it. The collecting guide has the details.

Only people with the invitation link can join, contributors see only their own uploads, and the film goes to the organiser. The organiser can delete the whole birthday at any time, which permanently erases every photo, video, message and copy of the film for everybody, including for us.