Projector vs Remento: the short answer

Remento helps one storyteller record stories by voice or video, then uses AI to turn the recordings into written chapters and prints them in a hardcover book with QR codes that play the original audio. Projector streams the videos and photos your family has already captured on your TV, like a private streaming service. Choose Remento to record a parent’s stories now. Choose Projector to watch the footage you already have, together, on the big screen.

Projector vs Remento at a glance

Try Projector free: start with 15 videos or 5GB on the free plan.

About Remento

Remento is a family storytelling company founded in 2020 by Charlie Greene in Los Angeles, after he filmed interviews with his mother following her cancer diagnosis. It raised a $3 million seed round led by Upfront Ventures. A storyteller answers guided prompts by speaking, either audio only or on video, with no app or password needed. Remento’s Speech-to-Story technology turns each recording into a polished, editable written story. At the end, the stories print in a full-color hardcover of up to 200 pages, and each story has a QR code that plays the original recording, so the storyteller’s real voice stays with the book. Remento is built around capturing new stories from one person, not around organizing or streaming the videos a family already has.

Website: www.remento.co

About Projector

Projector is a private streaming service for your family’s videos and photos. It turns the memories scattered across phones, cloud accounts, hard drives, and digitized tapes into a personal channel that looks and works like the streaming apps you already use every night. You upload or sync your media once, Projector organizes it by the people, places, and events it contains, and you press play on the biggest screen in your home. Projector has native apps for Roku, Apple TV, Google TV, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung, and LG, plus phone, tablet, and web. Unlimited family sharing is included at no extra cost, so grandparents, kids, and cousins in other states can watch the same library. Your library stays private: it is never posted to a social feed or used for advertising, and you can name a successor to take over the account so the archive is passed down, not lost. Projector does not digitize physical media. Tapes, film, and slides are converted first by a digitizing service, then streamed in Projector alongside everything else. On the roadmap: an AI assistant that scans local and cloud storage, recognizes people and events, and builds a ready-to-watch library automatically.

Remento pricing

No free plan | 100% money-back guarantee | Moderate pricing

Remento is sold as a yearly package per storyteller.

• First year ($99): One year of access for one storyteller, unlimited collaborators, unlimited recordings, and one hardcover book credit of up to 200 pages, shipped free in the US.
• Renewal: The subscription renews after a year if you want to keep recording. You can cancel in My Account.
• Add-ons: Extra books, a storyteller workbook, family conversation cards, and photo digitization through Legacybox are sold separately.

Remento offers a 100% money-back guarantee. Check remento.co for current renewal pricing and page-count add-ons.

Projector pricing

Free plan | 14-day free trial | Moderate pricing

Every paid Projector plan includes the same features. You only choose how to pay.

• Free: 15 videos or 5GB of storage, so you can try streaming your own memories on your TV before you pay.
• Premium Monthly ($7.99/month): Unlimited streaming, storage, uploads, family sharing, and TV app installs. Cancel anytime.
• Premium Annual ($79.99/year): Everything in Premium, with a 14-day free trial. Works out to about $6.67 a month.
• Premium Lifetime ($799.99 one-time): Everything in Premium, paid once, with no renewals.
• Gift: Projector can be bought as a gift for a parent or grandparent at projectorstream.com/gift.

Remento reviews

Remento has about 1,700 reviews on Trustpilot with a TrustScore of 4.8 out of 5, and it has replied to every negative review.

What reviewers praise

• Easy for older storytellers, with no app or password to manage
• Keeping a parent’s real voice through QR codes in the book
• Patient, responsive customer support

Common complaints

• Book length is capped at 200 pages before add-ons
• The subscription renews after the first year
• Some storytellers struggle with their own device or connection

Read Remento reviews on Trustpilot.

Projector reviews

Projector has more than 450 ratings across Google Play, the Apple App Store, and Amazon, and more than 100,000 downloads on Google Play.

“Projector Stream is incredibly easy to use and makes sharing photos and videos effortless.” (App Store review)

“I recommend Projector to anyone who wants to consolidate endless memories into one easy to use app.” (App Store review)

“I love this service for watching and sharing your old family videos.” (Trish G., Projector customer)

Should you choose Remento or Projector?

Choose Remento if you want to record a parent or grandparent telling their story in their own voice, and you want a printed book that plays those recordings back.

Choose Projector if your family already has years of video and photos that nobody watches, and you want them organized and playing on the TV for everyone, with no writing or recording required.

Use both if you want the full picture. Record new stories with Remento while your storyteller can still tell them, and stream the decades of footage you already own with Projector. Remento saves the voice. Projector saves the moments the camera caught.