Free Tool
Ner — collect the stories people tell about someone you've lost
During shiva, visitors tell stories the family has never heard — and most are gone by the time the week is over. Ner gives you one link to share, so those memories arrive in one place instead of disappearing.
Free to create and to collect. Nothing is ever deleted.
Why it exists
The week ends, and the stories go with it
Anyone who has sat shiva knows the feeling. A colleague describes something your father did in 1985 that you never knew about. A neighbour remembers your mother at the door with soup. A cousin tells a story that makes the whole room laugh.
Then the week ends, everyone goes home, and almost none of it was written down. Years later those memories are still there in the people who hold them — they just need asking, and somewhere to go.
Ner is that somewhere. It is deliberately small: one page for the person who passed, one link you share, and everything people send lands together.
How it works
Three steps, and nothing to install
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Make a page for them
Their name, and you're done. It takes about a minute, and you don't need anything prepared.
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Share one link
Send it to family and friends however you already talk to them — WhatsApp, email, a group chat. You can also print a sheet with a QR code for the shiva house, so visitors can add a memory before they leave.
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The memories arrive together
Written memories, voice notes and photos all land on the same page. Nothing gets lost in a thread, and nothing is ever deleted.
What people can send
Written, spoken, or a photograph
Written memories
A few lines or a few paragraphs. Most people write more than they expect once there's a place for it.
Voice notes
Recorded in their own voice, the way they'd tell it out loud. Families often find this is the part they return to.
Photos
The picture nobody else has — from a wedding, a kitchen, a holiday thirty years ago.
Who it's for
Made for shiva, useful long after
Ner was built around the shiva week, when a house fills with people who each hold a different piece of someone's life. But there's no clock on it, and families use it in all sorts of ways:
- During shiva, so the stories visitors tell don't leave with them
- For a yahrzeit or an anniversary, when people are already remembering
- For a parent or grandparent who passed years ago and was never written down
- Before a memorial, to gather what people want to say
- Alongside a eulogy, to keep what didn't fit into it
Questions
Common questions about Ner
Is Ner really free?
Yes. Creating a page and collecting memories on it is free, and nothing you collect is ever deleted. You only pay if you later decide you'd like the stories turned into a printed keepsake or book.
Do the people sharing a memory need an account?
No. They open the link you send, write or record their memory, and that's it. Keeping it that simple is the whole point — a friend at a shiva house should be able to add something from their phone in two minutes.
Can we use it if the shiva was years ago?
Yes. Plenty of families start a page for someone who passed years or decades earlier. The stories are still there — people just need to be asked, and given somewhere to put them.
What can people add?
A written memory, a voice note in their own voice, or photos. Voice notes matter more than people expect: hearing how someone tells a story is often the part families treasure most.
Who can see the page?
Only the people you share the link with. It isn't listed publicly or indexed by search engines, and you stay in control of what's collected.
What happens to the memories afterwards?
They stay in one place, yours to keep. If you'd like them shaped into a printed memorial book, that's exactly what we do at Opus Eternal — the collected stories become the raw material.
Afterwards
When you're ready for something you can hold
Ner keeps the memories safe. Some families are happy leaving it there — a quiet page they can return to, free, for as long as they want it.
Others reach a point where they'd like it to become something physical: a properly written, beautifully printed memorial book that sits on a shelf and gets handed down. That's what we do at Opus Eternal, and the stories you've already collected become the starting point.
There's no pressure either way, and no need to decide now. You can also explore our other free tools, including the AI Life-Story Interviewer for someone whose story you can still record in person.
Start collecting the stories today
It takes a minute to make the page, and the link does the rest. Free, and nothing is ever deleted.
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