Projector vs Storyworth: the short answer

Storyworth and Projector preserve different kinds of memories. Storyworth emails one storyteller a question each week, collects written or recorded answers, and prints them into a hardcover book at the end of the year. Projector takes the videos and photos your family already captured and streams them on your TV like a private streaming service. Choose Storyworth to get a parent’s life story written down. Choose Projector to actually watch your family’s recorded history together. Many families use both.

Projector vs Storyworth at a glance

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

About Storyworth

Storyworth is a family storytelling service founded in 2012. You buy it for a storyteller, usually a parent or grandparent, and every week for a year they receive a question by email or text, chosen from a library of more than 500 prompts or written by the gifter. The storyteller replies in writing, or records an answer by phone through Storyworth Voice and gets a cleaned-up transcript. Family members read the stories as they arrive. At the end of the year, the answers and photos are printed into a hardcover book of up to 480 pages. Storyworth also sells Storyworth Celebrations, a group book of memories and wishes for a birthday or milestone. It is a strong product for one job: getting a person’s story written down in their own words before it is lost. It does not ingest, organize, or play video.

Website: welcome.storyworth.com

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.

Storyworth pricing

No free plan | No free trial | 30-day refund before printing | Moderate pricing

Storyworth Memoirs are sold as a one-time purchase that covers a year of prompts and one or more printed books.

• Basic ($59): One black-and-white hardcover book of up to 480 pages.
• Color ($99): One full-color book of up to 300 pages. Pages up to 480 cost an extra $20 at printing.
• Unlimited ($199): Two full-color books of up to 300 pages, and as many storytellers as you want.
• Extra books: Extra book credits are $39 (black-and-white) or $79 (color) when added at purchase.

Full refund within 30 days as long as no book has been printed. Prices verified on Storyworth’s help center, July 2026.

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.

Storyworth reviews

Storyworth is one of the most reviewed family products online, with about 63,000 reviews on Trustpilot and a TrustScore of 4.5 out of 5. Storyworth also reports an A- rating with the Better Business Bureau.

What reviewers praise

• Book print quality and photo reproduction
• Weekly prompts surface stories families never thought to ask about
• Emotional impact of the finished memoir, especially after a parent passes

Common complaints

• The gift stalls when the storyteller stops writing after a few weeks
• Limited design and layout control when building the book
• Missed or late prompt emails and occasional customer-service frustration

Read Storyworth reviews on Trustpilot, Thingtesting.

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 Storyworth or Projector?

Choose Storyworth if the memory you want to save lives only in someone’s head, the storyteller is willing to write or talk for a year, and you want a printed book on the shelf.

Choose Projector if the memories you care about were already recorded, and they are scattered across phones, drives, and cloud accounts where nobody watches them. You want a gift that works the day it is opened, includes the whole family, and keeps growing.

Use both if you want the full picture. Use Storyworth to capture the story no camera caught, and Projector to bring the recorded footage into one place your family watches together. One saves the narration. The other saves the footage.