Our story

The tree was never the point.
The voices were.

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.

Spence LloydFounder, Rootkin 1:28
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When I was younger, both my parents were alive, and there were many, many stories that they told me over the years about our family that I have no record of today.

I really wish that I had had a way back then to easily record what they were saying and maintain those memories — so that I and their grandchildren, and maybe their great-grandchildren, could hear and treasure those stories just like I did as I was listening to them. But that simply wasn't available at that point, and so all of those stories and all of those memories… I mean, I have dim recollections of them, but they're basically lost.

I've been working on a family tree app that enables you to — easily create a family tree, just by using your voice.

If you have someone in your life that maybe is not going to be around a lot longer, and you want to… record and memorialize stories that they can tell today that maybe they can't a year from now, or ten years from now — then send them a message today, and ask them to record a memory.

Rootkin. A family tree, full of spoken memories.

A small company, on purpose

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.

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