The parents watching kids grow
They grow fast. Catch the small stuff now, seal some of it in capsules, and hand them their childhood later.
a home for family memories
Where your family's
story lives
A private place for the people you love most: one gentle feed, questions worth asking, a treasure box of moments, and letters sealed for someday. No ads. No strangers. Just family.
Who it's for
Made for the people
who made you
The keeper of stories
Grandma's recipes, dad's terrible puns, the way things really happened. A place where the family memory actually gets kept.
The far-flung family
Three time zones, one table. Porchlight keeps the small everyday moments flowing between houses, so nobody feels far.
The app, top to bottom
Everything a family
actually needs
Family Feed
Photos, stories, milestones, and voice notes in one gentle stream. Hearts and comments from people who actually love you.
The Flash
Once a week, at a moment nobody expects, the Flash goes off: one prompt, 24 hours, everyone answers. "The Flash just went off, go post yours!"
Pillow Talk
A question worth asking, every night. The answers become the kind of family record you wish your grandparents had left you.
Treasure Box
Where the good stuff lives. Snap a photo of today's crayon masterpiece, save a recipe, keep a quote you don't want to lose. All in one place, no scanner required.
Time Capsules
Write something today, seal it, and pick the day it opens: an 18th birthday, an anniversary, a someday. Worth the wait.
Shared Calendar
Birthdays that repeat forever, Sunday dinners, recitals. Days worth circling, visible to the whole family.
No ads. No algorithm.
No strangers.
Porchlight families are invite-only. Your memories live in your family's private space, never in a public feed, never sold, never shown to anyone you didn't invite. You sign in with a one-time code we text you, and every photo, voice note, and letter stays between the people at your table.The fine print lives in our Privacy Policy and Terms.
How it works
Three steps to
together, again
- 1
Start your family
Name it, tell us who you are, and Porchlight mints a warm little invite code like peach-fable-1917.
- 2
Pass the code around
Text it to the group chat, read it over the phone to grandma. Everyone joins with just their name and cell. No passwords, ever.
- 3
Let the story fill in
Share the small stuff, answer the weekly question, catch the Flash, seal a capsule. Forever starts quietly.
your people are waiting