A Valentine's gift made of every word you've already sent each other.
Flowers wilt and chocolate gets eaten by Thursday. Your message history doesn't — years of good-mornings, inside jokes, and you up? texts, sitting in your phone unread as a whole. Story of Us reads your own chat export and turns it into a short keepsake built from your actual words, ready to read together on Valentine's Day or any evening you'd rather feel like one.
Why it fits Valentine's Day
Valentine's is the one day built around saying it in words — this just uses the words you've already said. The pet name you made up without noticing, the year you texted the most, the hour you're most likely to reach for each other. It reads like the two of you, because it's built entirely from the two of you.
Where do you two talk?
Pick whichever app holds the history you want to use — each one walks through exporting it, screen by screen, before you ever get to the keepsake itself.
- iMessage — read straight from a Mac's
chat.db. See the export steps → - WhatsApp — export a chat straight from your phone. See the export steps →
- Messenger — a "message storage" download from account settings. See the export steps →
What you get
A short, private keepsake built only from your own history — pet names and inside jokes it noticed on its own, your year-by-year rhythm, your busiest hour, the words you reach for without thinking. You read it on your screen, then you can download it as a PDF to keep or print yourself, no subscription and nothing shipped. It's ready in about a minute.
Timing and delivery
It's ready in about a minute once your export is in, whether you're planning this weeks ahead or the morning of the 14th. Nothing gets shipped — you read it together on a screen, and you can download it as a PDF afterward to print yourself if you want something to hand over.
Privacy, plainly
The export itself never leaves your device — it's read right there in your browser, the same way a photo opens on your computer. To write the handful of captions that need real words (your busiest year, your first exchange, the phrase you didn't know you repeated), we send a much smaller slice to our server: your most-used words and phrases, counts and rhythms (who texts more, your streaks, your busiest hour), and a very small handful of sample messages — your first few texts and your most recent. Not the export file, not your full conversation. Read exactly what we send →
Good to know before you make one
- It's built for one relationship's own history — a group chat won't produce a clean two-person keepsake.
- A newer relationship still works fine; less history just means a shorter keepsake.
- It's a page you read on your own device, not a physical book we print and ship.
Make our Valentine's keepsake $5 · one time · iMessage, WhatsApp, or Messenger · stays on your laptop
Want to see a real one first? A peek inside a keepsake → · How it works →
Marking an anniversary instead? See the anniversary keepsake →
Questions
Do we need to have been together for years for this to work?
No — it's built from however much message history you have. A newer relationship just makes for a shorter keepsake; the pet names and rhythms still show up.
Can I make this the same day as Valentine's Day?
Yes — it's generated in about a minute once you drop in your export, so there's no lead time needed before the day itself.
Is this a physical card or box that arrives in the mail?
No — it's a private page you read together on screen. Download it as a PDF afterward if you'd like to print something to hand over.
Does it work for a group of friends, not a couple?
It's built for one-on-one message history, so it's meant for a couple's own chat rather than a group thread.
What do you actually see of our messages?
The export is read in your own browser, never uploaded. A small slice — your most-used words and phrases, counts, and a handful of sample messages — is sent to write the captions. Read exactly what we send on the privacy page.