Rootkin exists because names and dates can't hold a person. Hear why from our founder — it takes 80 seconds — and find every way to reach us below.
I started out building a family tree. Names, dates, who married who — a photo if you were lucky. Then one day I looked at what I'd made — and it was a skeleton. It tells you a person existed. It doesn't tell you who they were.
Because what you actually miss isn't the date on a box. It's the voice. The way they told a story you'd heard a hundred times — and you still leaned in.
My parents are gone now. And I keep coming back to the same thought: if I'd had this while they were still here, I'd have just hit record. At the kitchen table. All those ordinary afternoons. I'd have their voices — their stories, in their own words. Instead, those memories left with them.
That's the moment Rootkin changed. The tree was never the point. The voices were.
So you don't start with a form. You start with a question — and you press record. Rootkin holds the story, and the family grows around it. Every branch, full of someone you can actually hear.
Rootkin. A family tree, full of spoken memories.
Rootkin is built by a small, independent team in Florida. No investors setting the roadmap, no growth team mining your family's data — just people who believe a familiar voice is the most precious thing a family can keep.
That size is a feature. The people who build the app are the same people who read the support inbox, so when you write to us, a real person answers — often the person who wrote the code.
Pick a topic, tell us what's going on, and hit send. We read every message and typically reply within one business day.
Rootkin was started to help families capture the voices and stories that fade with time. Your message goes to a real person on our support team — not a queue, not a bot.
If it's urgent, say so in the subject line — we'll bump it.
Typically within 1 business day