A new social media app aims to help families record and save the life stories of friends and loved ones on recorded voice audio. In the era of widely proliferating podcasts, the Saga app looks to give families their own little productions to save in perpetuity.
The Saga system sends chosen contacts weekly questions from the app users or from a collection of prewritten options collected by the app’s designers. Those family members contacted can then pickup their downloaded Saga or dial a phone number and start recording their memories.
In the era of endless podcasts, the new Saga app offers families a chance to record their own life ... [+]
Saga’s creators built the app to confront the problem of saving family memories for groups who lack the means to do so otherwise. Many families lack a loved one gifted in writing down the lore of ancestors or current friends and loved ones. Other groups might not have the same level of tech or social media savvy across all of its members, meaning some people could get left out of enjoying the recollections.
The Saga design can step in when needed to enable users to create a private family podcast where each episode might cover how the parents met, what the grandparents’ journey to America was like, an uncle’s wartime heroism, etc.
The resulting recordings end up saved and shared privately through the user’s registered family portal on the app, giving all family members and approved friends the opportunity to return and listen to the stories. They can also comment on any given recording for all family members to see.
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The memories are gathered via the app or through phone-ins for individuals who aren’t overly social media capable. Once collected, the story collection is presented and curated like any professional podcast presentation.
Saga is now available in the iOS app store. During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the app’s designers are offering one month of free service to the first 100,000 families registered by May 31.
