Gifts for grandparents
Grandparents are family here, not an audience.
A grandparent invited into a grandchild's capsule is family in it, free, permanently. They hear what the family shares, replay the child's own voice, and leave their own. Relatives further out can still call or text the family number with no app at all.
- $99 once
- Lifetime access
- iPhone and Android
Family invited to leave messages never pay, and are never shown a price. The code never expires, so you can buy it long before you hand it over.
Hear their voice. Leave yours. Stay part of the same capsule.
Which gift is yours?
Two different gifts get called the same thing here. It helps to say which one is yours. One is given so a grandparent is part of a grandchild's story. The other is given by a grandparent, to the parents of a new baby.
Both end up in the same place, which is one capsule the whole family adds to.
If you want a grandparent included
- The gift usually goes to the child’s parents, and they invite the grandparents from there.
- An invitation costs the person receiving it nothing, permanently.
- One payment of $99, and it never renews.
If you are the grandparent
- One payment of $99 covers the parents for life, and it never renews.
- When they invite you in, you pay nothing. No price is ever shown to you at all.
- You need no app and no account of your own to buy one.
Grandparents are invited family, not an audience
When the parents invite a grandparent in, the grandparent gets the whole thing. The app is a free download on their own phone, iPhone or Android, and it is free for them permanently. Inside it they see and hear everything the family chooses to share, and what they add is kept for the child with everything else.
- Their grandchild’s voice, coming back. Treasures is a shared album of the child’s own words and laughs. Family can replay it any time, at any age.
- Their own voice, going in. A voice message, a photo, a written note. A story about the child’s parent at that age, told by the person who was there.
- A web browser, if they would rather. Invited family can also add to the capsule from any phone’s browser, with no app.
And a phone number, for family further out
Not everyone a family wants in a child's story should see everything in it. For the circle past the grandparents, a great-grandparent, an aunt, the friend who is basically family, the capsule has a second door: one private phone number.
They call it and leave a voicemail, or text it a message or a photo, from the phone they already own, and it lands in the child's capsule alongside everything else. Calling or texting it needs no app, no account and nothing to download, and none of the family's own messages are shown to them. What they leave is kept; what the family shares stays the family's. The number is there from the start for a first and second child; for a later child we set one up when asked.
How to give it
A gift lands on the account of whoever opens it, and it stays there for life. Usually a parent opens it and invites the grandparents. If you are the grandparent giving it, you still buy it for the parents and join when they invite you.
- Buy the gift. One payment of $99. No account or app is needed to buy it, and the code never expires.
- Email it or print the card. Add a note, have the code emailed to them, or leave their email blank and hand over the printable card from your receipt.
- They invite the grandparents. Once it is on the parents' account, they invite whoever they want. Invited grandparents are free and stay free.
How the payment and the delivery work, and the refund policy, are all on the gift page.
Nothing to keep up with, nothing counting down
A gift can quietly hand someone a job. This one does not. There is no prompt waiting to be answered, nothing that expires if it sits untouched, and no streak or count anywhere to fall behind on. One message in a year is a use of it, not a failure of it.
A message can be completely ordinary, and nothing is listening in. Recordings are never transcribed, analyzed or turned into a voiceprint. Messages kept for the child open only when the child opens their capsule, with no date or countdown. There is more on how privacy works on the home page.
Far away counts the same as down the road
A grandparent three time zones away contributes in exactly the same way as one who lives ten minutes from the house. There is nothing to schedule, and no video call anyone has to be free for. They leave a message when they think of something, and can hear the child's own words whenever the family shares them.
What it costs
Recording for one child is free: voice, photos and notes, on your own device, offline, with no account and nothing uploaded. The family features are $4.99 a month, $29.99 a year, or $99 once, and all three open the same thing for the whole account: a capsule for every child, the family phone number, and invited family, always free for them. The one-time payment is the one you can give. Recording, playback and backup continue if a plan lapses, and exporting the recordings is always free.
The app itself is a free download, on either phone.
Give it whenever you like
$99 once
Email it the day you buy it, or print the card and hand it over in person. Whoever opens it has it for life, on whichever phone they end up using.
Give Tiny Treasures- Lifetime, never renews
- The code never expires
- Unopened gifts refundable for 30 days
- Secure checkout by Paddle
Questions people ask
Do grandparents use the app, or the family phone number?
An invited grandparent is family on the app. It is a free download on iPhone or Android, free for them permanently, and inside it they can hear everything the family chooses to share, replay their grandchild’s own voice, and leave voice messages, photos and notes of their own. The family phone number is a second, smaller way in, meant for relatives further out: someone calls or texts it from their own phone, what they leave is kept for the child, and none of the family’s messages are shown to them. The number is there from the start for a first and a second child; for a third or later we set one up when asked.
Do grandparents ever pay for Tiny Treasures?
No. A grandparent, aunt, uncle or friend invited into a capsule pays nothing and is never shown a price, whichever plan the family is on: monthly, yearly, or the one-time payment. That holds if the plan was a gift somebody bought, and it holds if a paid plan later lapses; recording, playback and backup keep working, and only adding new people stops. The one exception is the child's other parent, who can be offered the chance to help pay for the family, and is never required to.
Who holds the capsule if a grandparent buys the gift?
Whoever opens the gift. A Tiny Treasures gift is a one-time $99 payment that lands on that person’s account for life, so when it is bought for a new baby it is usually given to one of the parents. They invite whoever they want into the capsule from there, and everyone they invite, grandparents included, is free permanently and is never shown a price.
Can grandparents hear their grandchild’s voice, or only leave messages for them?
Both. Treasures is a shared album of the child’s own voice, their words, laughs and little phrases, and invited family can replay it any time, at any age. Grandparents can also leave their own voice messages, photos and written notes in the same capsule.
Who can hear a message a grandparent leaves?
It depends how they leave it. A message recorded inside the Tiny Treasures app belongs to the person who recorded it: they choose whether the family may hear it now or whether it stays private until the child opens their capsule, and nobody else can change that choice. A message left by calling or texting the family phone line works differently: it is kept for the child and is also readable by the child's parent, who can share it with the rest of the family or delete it, because someone dialling a number was never asked to choose.
Can grandparents leave something before the baby is born?
Yes, once the parents have invited them. A capsule can be started before the birth, and it is private to the parent by default: it appears to nobody else until the parent explicitly invites someone, so it cannot announce a pregnancy on their behalf. Nothing is scheduled or sent off a due date.