How it works
See a face
Open a photo. Every detected face has a gentle box around it.
Tap it
Tap the face you recognise — on the iPad, while you’re talking.
Give it a name
Type the name. We suggest matching people instantly, so nobody gets entered twice.
The story behind the photo
“Unknown” becomes a name — and a story.
This studio portrait sat unlabelled for decades — a family gathered for the camera around 1900, their names lost. Then a relative looked closely and knew them again. One tap, one name at a time — and the memory is saved, along with a record of who remembered it.
More than faces
It starts with people — then the places they lived.
The heart of Know the Story is people: the faces you can still put a name to. But a family’s story also lives in places — the farmhouse, the corner shop, the church down the road. The same platform can recognise buildings too: show it a place it has seen before, and it can help name the building in an old photo, the way it helps name a face. Faces first; the places they lived, close behind.
Why now
The people who can still name these faces are not getting any younger. Every name you capture together is kept for the next generation — with a record of who contributed it.
