What you pay
LifePages
RoundOne flat £44, about $56.
Remento
Around $99 a year, roughly double.
Head to Head
LifePages vs Remento
Remento solves the single biggest failure in this category: a storyteller who is happy to talk for an hour and will not write three paragraphs. It records voice and video, transcribes it, and prints QR codes in the finished book that play back the original audio. That is a genuinely good idea and this comparison does not pretend otherwise.
LifePages
getlifepages.com
£44 (about $56)
Fifty guided questions answered by typing or speaking at the storyteller’s own pace, printed as a hardback.
3 rounds won · our pick
Remento
Around $99 per year
Weekly prompts answered by voice or video, with QR codes in the printed book that play the original recording.
2 rounds won
The verdict
LifePages wins
LifePages wins on price and on the length of what gets written — spoken answers run short, and a book of them is thinner than a book of typed ones. Remento wins the round that matters most if your storyteller genuinely will not type, and it wins the keepsake round outright: hearing the voice is something we do not offer and cannot claim to match.
How we compared these
Desk research against published pricing, features and terms read in September 2026, plus public customer reports. Remento’s QR playback is a real advantage and we have scored it as one.
5 rounds
Round by round
Each round is one thing that actually decides the choice. The overall winner is not always the one that wins the most rounds — some rounds matter more, and we say which.
If the storyteller will not type
LifePages
Speaking is supported, so this is not a dead end — but the product is built around guided written answers.
Remento
RoundThis is the entire design. Voice and video capture with transcription, and it is the strongest answer in the category for arthritis, tremor or failing eyesight.
What the finished book is like
LifePages
RoundGuided written answers run longer than spoken ones, so the book has more text in it.
Remento
Spoken answers are shorter, so books come out thinner than typed equivalents.
The keepsake beyond the text
LifePages
A printed hardback with photographs. No audio.
Remento
RoundQR codes in the book play the original recording. Families consistently describe hearing the voice as the part that mattered, and we cannot match it.
Whose words end up on the page
LifePages
RoundWhat the storyteller wrote or said, tidied for readability.
Remento
The AI narrative option can rewrite a transcript and smooth out the speech patterns some families specifically wanted kept.
In fairness to the runner-up
When you should choose the Remento instead
Buy Remento if the storyteller talks easily and writes reluctantly — that is not a small group, it is most people over eighty — or if hearing the voice afterwards is the point of the gift for you. The QR playback is the best single feature anybody in this category has shipped, and no price argument outweighs a book that never gets written.
Questions
What people ask about this comparison
- Which is better for a parent who will not use a computer?
- Remento. It is built around speaking rather than typing, and the printed book carries QR codes that play the original recording. LifePages supports speaking, but Remento is designed around it end to end.
- Is Remento more expensive than LifePages?
- Yes, roughly double — around $99 a year against a single £44 membership, about $56.
- Does Remento change what my parent actually said?
- It can, if the AI narrative option is used. That feature rewrites the transcript into smoother prose, which some families want and others specifically do not. Check the setting before a year of answers goes through it.
- Will the recordings still play in ten years?
- The QR codes resolve to files the company hosts, so playback depends on Remento continuing to operate. The printed text survives regardless. Worth knowing before you treat the audio as the permanent part.