For reporting and editorial work
Source-linked background on local-first archives, user-directed handoff, portable exports, and the limits of automatic-delivery claims. The 2026 continuity study includes its methodology and downloadable dataset.
Useful materials, with the relationship stated plainly
Verified LIFELOOK+ facts, educational contribution options, safeguards, and a printable permission-first family conversation handout.
Relationship and use safeguards
- No endorsement: Listing, citing, interviewing, or using a resource does not mean that LIFELOOK+ or another person or organization endorses the other.
- No professional advice: These materials are general education, not legal, clinical, medical, financial, tax, estate-planning, or emergency advice, and they do not create a professional-client relationship.
- No data sharing: LIFELOOK+ does not provide customer, vault, family, participant, or private-contact data to contributors or referring organizations.
- No unapproved relationship claims: LIFELOOK+ will not describe an integration, certification, referral relationship, sponsorship, or partnership unless the parties have expressly approved that exact description.
- No third-party marks: No third-party logo, quote, name-as-endorsement, or testimonial may be published without explicit written approval.
Approved product fact language
The statements below are the reviewed first-party descriptions approved for accurate reference. Please attribute product claims to LIFELOOK LLC rather than presenting them as independent findings.
- • LIFELOOK+ is a private, local-first digital legacy and life-story archive for web, iOS, and Android.
- • The core archive is free. Legacy Letters are one-time purchases: $4.99 for 1 Individual, $14.99 for 5, or $49 for Family Forever with unlimited Individuals.
- • Memories, letters, recordings, and practical records stay on the user's device and do not reach LIFELOOK+ content servers.
- • Web users can choose an opt-in, user-directed backup of an encrypted export file to their own Google Drive.
- • LIFELOOK+ does not detect death, automatically deliver messages, impersonate people with AI, or hold a recovery copy of a user's archive.
- • Recovery requires both the encrypted backup file and its separate 24-word recovery key.
Fact set last reviewed September 1, 2026. For architecture details and explicit limits, consult the linked technical and honesty pages rather than shortening a statement in a way that changes its meaning.
Ways LIFELOOK+ can contribute
For legal and care education
A plain-language distinction between preserving family stories and obtaining legal, financial, medical, tax, or estate-planning advice, plus a permission-first conversation exercise.
For communities and family historians
A printable facilitated-conversation handout, interview prompts, file-organization guidance, and browser tools that do not ask participants to submit their answers to LIFELOOK+.
For privacy education
A concrete local-first product case study covering device storage, optional user-directed encrypted backup, separate recovery-key custody, and stated product limits.
Possible formats include a source interview, factual briefing, demonstration, guest educational session, co-reviewed checklist, or permission-first conversation workshop. Any public wording, recording, quote, or co-branded material requires approval before publication.
Trust, research, and free tools
Printable educational handout
Permission-First Family Legacy Conversation
Free educational handout · Updated September 1, 2026
Permission-First Family Legacy Conversation
A gentle conversation starts with choice. The person sharing the story controls whether the conversation happens, what is discussed, whether it is recorded, and who may receive it.
1. Ask before you begin
Try: “Would you be comfortable talking about a few memories? We can stop or skip anything.”
- Explain why you are asking.
- Say whether you hope to take notes or record.
- Identify who may hear, read, or receive it.
- Accept “not now” or “no” without pressure.
2. Agree on boundaries
Before recording, agree on the purpose, storage place, audience, and any topics that are off limits.
- Permission to talk is not automatically permission to record.
- Permission to record is not automatically permission to publish.
- Reconfirm before sharing beyond the agreed audience.
3. Start with comfortable prompts
- What ordinary day from childhood do you still remember?
- Which family tradition matters most to you?
- Who taught you something you still use?
- What turning point changed your direction?
- What would you like future family members to understand?
4. Protect the person and the record
- Pause when the person seems tired or uncomfortable.
- Let them correct, remove, or restrict a section.
- Add names, dates, and context while they can explain them.
- Keep organized copies in locations the owner chooses.
- Do not put passwords or recovery keys in ordinary notes.
A simple closing check
Ask: “Is there anything you want changed or removed? Who may receive this? May I keep the recording where we agreed? Should we review that choice again before any wider sharing?”
Corrections and requests
To flag an inaccurate or outdated statement, request an accessible copy, or discuss a contribution, email privacy@lifelook.app. A request or conversation does not establish a partnership or endorsement.