Every story starts as a wreck.
Boarded windows, rubble on the floor, "potential". This is the version you'll want to remember: it makes the ending unbelievable.
Talk for 30 seconds. It writes itself.
Record at the front door before your boots are off. Your voice becomes a diary entry with today's photos attached. Plaster hands welcome.
Built on borrowed weekends.
Every helper's hours logged with a tap. Dad's 214 hours on the roof stop being invisible and become part of the story.
Know where it went before it's gone.
Snap the receipt, pick a category, done. Charts answer the question your bank statement can't.
Tap a room. Relive its transformation.
Every room keeps its photos, hours, and story. Share it all with one link. The budget stays private, unless you want to show off.
In case the little house didn’t give it away
Homestory is an app.
You renovate. It remembers.
Talk, don’t type.
At the end of a work day, hold the mic for 30 seconds. That’s the entire effort. Dusty hands never touch a keyboard.
It builds the story.
Your words become a diary. Photos land on a timeline. Helpers’ hours and every receipt get filed. Your floor plan becomes a 3D dollhouse.
Share the journey.
One link shows the whole adventure to everyone who asks “how’s the house going?”. The budget stays private unless you decide otherwise.
The beta is deliberately small.
We onboard renovators in small batches and talk to every single one, because their stories shape the app. That means limited spots, free while it lasts, and a founder who answers your messages personally. When the batch is full, the door closes until the next one.
The core of the app
Three things, done properly.
Every photo, video and voice note. One place.
Everything you capture lands on a timeline, sorted by day and by room. Tap the kitchen in your 3D dollhouse and see every picture you ever took of it, from rubble to reveal, next to the hours and money that went into it.
- Photos and videos on a day-by-day timeline
- 30-second voice notes become diary entries
- Tap a room, relive its whole transformation
Every euro, filed the moment you spend it.
Snap the receipt, pick a category, done. Totals per category and per room, and charts that answer the question your bank statement can't: where did it all go?
- Receipt photo attached to every expense
- Totals by category and by room
- Private by default, always
One link for everyone asking "how's the house?"
Share a live, read-only page of your story: the 3D dollhouse, the photos and videos, the milestones. Friends follow along, cheer and comment. The budget stays hidden unless you decide to show it off.
- Read-only link, no app or account needed to watch
- Likes and comments from friends and family
- Choose to make your expenses visible or not
Your renovation, wrapped.
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And then: the storybook.
When it's finished, turn the whole journey into a printed storybook: the day one wreck, the voice notes, the helpers, the before and after. The kind of book you leave on the coffee table of the home it's about.
Made by someone with plaster on his hands.
Founder, currently renovating
"I built Homestory during our own renovation, with my dad on the scaffolding. Not because I love tracking things, but because one evening I realised I'd already forgotten what the house looked like when we started, and nobody was writing down what my family was giving us. Now it writes itself."
Your house is already writing its story.
Start keeping it.
Free during the beta. Small batches, limited spots, and we reply personally.