Coming to iPhone
The box in the closet, finally read.
Somebody in your family kept the letters. Heirloom photographs them, reads the handwriting, and gives you an archive you can search — and an Archivist who can tell you what is in it.
How it goes
One
Scan a sitting
Lay the pages out and photograph them. The sitting is kept as a permanent record of what came out of the box that afternoon.
Two
The handwriting is read
Pages are sent to Anthropic to be read. Back come a transcription, a date, and a guess at who wrote it — all of it yours to correct.
Three
Ask the Archivist
Ask about a name, a year, a house. Every answer cites the page it came from, so you can go and read it yourself.
What comes back
The frost came early and took the last of the beans. Do not worry about us — we have the stove, and your father’s cough is better than it was in the spring.
Letter from Margaret, November 1943 — read from the scan, filed under her collection, and yours to correct a word at a time.
The app
Where your family’s pages live
Your archive is stored on this iPhone. Pages are sent to Anthropic to be read, and the answers come back to you. A meter counts the ink your reading spends — counts, never pages. That is the whole arrangement, said plainly, because it is your family’s papers we are talking about.
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Heirloom is coming to iPhone
Write to us if you have a question, or if you want to hear when it lands.