What Is Quiddity? A Complete Guide to Voice-First Life Story Preservation

What is Quiddity?

Quiddity is a voice-first way to tell and keep a life story — your own, or the story of someone you love. An AI Biographer interviews you out loud, one question at a time. Afterward, every story you told is kept word for word, in your own voice, and shared only with the people you choose.

Quiddity is made by WizerAI for people in the United States and Canada. There is nothing to install: it runs in your web browser on a computer, tablet or phone.

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How does a Quiddity session work?

You talk, and the Biographer asks. It asks one question at a time, follows where you lead, and waits when you need a moment to think. There is no script to prepare and nothing to type. You can choose between two Biographer voices, Explorer and Confidante.

Your first conversation is a free five-minute warmup, and it needs no credit card. Paid sessions run up to 40 minutes each.

How it works walks through the whole path, from the first question to a finished archive.

What happens to what you say?

After each session, Quiddity finds every story you told and keeps it verbatim — exactly as you said it, with the pauses and the particular way you put things. Each story becomes a card on your life timeline, holding your recording and your words.

This is the Verbatim Law, and it is the heart of the product. Quiddity never edits, summarizes, or rewrites what you say. Once a transcript is saved, it is never changed. Only you can change a story, by recording it again.

Who can hear your stories?

Until you invite someone, your stories are yours alone. You decide, story by story, who can hear it: just you, your family, one specific person, or everyone. You can change your mind at any time.

The people you invite into your archive are called Guardians. For each Guardian, you decide what they can see while you are alive. These rules are enforced in the database itself, not only in the app. When someone you have shared a story with listens to it, they hear your actual recording — your voice, not a summary of it.

What do you end up with?

Whatever your age, and whether the story is yours or someone else’s, here is what a Quiddity archive holds:

• Story cards. Every story you tell becomes its own card on your life timeline: its title and chapter, your words exactly as you said them, your photos, and the recording.
• Your own voice. Each card keeps the actual recording from the conversation it came from, so the people you share it with hear the story told, not just read it.
• The Avatar. The people you share with can ask a question and hear an answer in your own recorded words. More on that below.
• A printed book, coming soon. A full-color hardcover of the stories you choose, with a QR code at the end of each story that opens that story online, recording and all. Nothing can be ordered yet; the printed book page says what it will be.

What is the Avatar?

The Avatar lets the people you share with ask a question and hear an answer from your archive. It answers only with words you actually recorded, word for word.

• Your words, never new ones. When a usable original recording of the right passage exists, the Avatar plays it. When one does not, it speaks your exact words in a synthetic stand-in voice — not a clone of yours. It never invents a sentence, paraphrases, or summarizes.
• It shows where the answer came from. Every answer names the story it was taken from.
• It says when it doesn’t know. If you never talked about something, the Avatar says so instead of guessing.
• A different voice introduces it. A separate narrator — the Biographer voice you chose, never your own — can say a short, pre-written line before or after an answer. It never speaks your story content.

Some ways of buying sessions include the Avatar, and any other archive can add it through a one-time Avatar Activation. The pricing page shows which ones include it and when it opens. Features has more on the Avatar and on sharing.

What does Quiddity cost?

You start with the free five-minute warmup, and it needs no credit card. After that, you can buy recorded sessions one at a time, in a pack, or with a monthly subscription, and your session credits never expire.

Prices change, so this guide does not list them. The pricing page always shows the current prices, what each option includes, the terms of the monthly subscription, and the full refund policy.

Can you delete a story?

Yes. You can permanently delete any story yourself from Account → Data & Privacy, and its stored files are removed within a day. You can also download your whole archive yourself at any time, free, from Account → Export Your Archive: your recordings, every story word for word, and your photos and videos, plus a PDF of your stories’ words. To delete your entire account, you send a written request under the Privacy Policy.

The one exception will be Memorial Mode, which is coming soon: once it seals an archive, that archive can never again be changed or deleted.

What is Memorial Mode?

Memorial Mode is coming soon. It will be optional, and it is meant for after you’re gone. It will close your archive for good, with a memorial page, shared with the people you named. It will be deliberately irreversible: once it completes, nothing in the archive can be edited, added, or deleted.

That is why it will ask you first. When it arrives, only a Guardian you have chosen will be able to request it, you will be emailed the moment they do, and you will have 72 hours to cancel. A sealed archive will have a memorial page, which a QR code can point to.

Who is Quiddity for?

• Anyone telling their own story. You do not need to be old, ill, or planning for anything. You need a story and a voice.
• Adult children and grandchildren recording someone they love. Setting Quiddity up for a parent explains how that works, including signing up on their behalf.
• People who speak more easily than they write. The blank page is the hardest part of a memoir. Here, there isn’t one.
• Families who want the voice kept, not just the facts.

How is it different from a written memoir or a home video?

• Your words stay yours. A ghostwritten memoir turns what you said into someone else’s prose. Quiddity keeps what you said.
• Someone asks. A notebook or a camera waits for you to begin. The Biographer asks the questions, and asks what happened next.
• You decide who hears each story. Every story has its own audience, and you can change it.

How do you start?

Start with the free five-minute warmup at quiddity.bio. Tell one small story, and hear what it sounds like kept exactly as you said it.