Extended Memory

Scan it once. Then just ask.

Extended Memory reads every document, receipt and note you keep — so instead of hunting through folders, you ask a question in your own words and get the answer, with the page it came from.

Coming to iPhone and Android.

What it does

Capture it once. Find it years later.

Documents

Scan a receipt, a lease, a passport. Multi-page scans become one PDF, sized to the page rather than letterboxed onto A4.

Notes and to-dos

Type or dictate. A to-do carries a due date and ticks off from the grid without opening it.

Email it in

Forward anything to your own address. The message becomes a note and its attachments become documents, linked to each other.

Filed for you

Tagged and read on arrival, using a vocabulary you control. Renewal and expiry dates are noticed before they pass.

Signed and sent

Sign a PDF with a signature drawn once and kept on the phone. Export any slice of the library as a zip.

Asking

You do not have to remember where it is.

Every document is read, every scan transcribed, every note indexed. A question finds the thing whether or not you can recall the day, the folder, or the word you filed it under — and the answer arrives with the page it was taken from.

It reads the whole page

Printed text, handwriting, a photographed router card, the small print on page four of a policy. If it is in your library, it is answerable.

It shows its work

Every answer lists the documents it came out of, and each one opens. You check the invoice rather than take the app's word for the number on it.

In your words, out loud

Ask the way you would ask a person — no filters, no field names, no folder to open first. Speak it if your hands are full, in any of eight languages.

Household

One library, the people who share it.

Invite the people you actually keep things with. Everyone adds to the same library, and everyone can ask it questions — so the answer does not depend on which of you happened to file the thing.

You decide what each person may do, per kind of thing: who can add, who can edit, who can delete. Changed at any time, not just at the invitation.

Privacy

Your library is yours.

Locked to your face

The app can ask for Face ID or a fingerprint before it opens, so a borrowed phone is not an open filing cabinet.

Take it with you

Export the whole library, or any slice of it, as a zip of your files plus everything derived from them in plain text and JSON.

Delete means delete

Emptying the trash removes the file and everything read out of it, on every device in the household.

Pricing

Three plans, and none of them says unlimited.

Storage counts documents only. Notes, to-dos and saved links never count against a plan on any tier, including the free one — they cost us nothing to keep, so they cost you nothing.

Free

$0

  • 1 GB of documents
  • 100 uploads a month
  • Unlimited notes, to-dos and links
  • Your library, just for you

Household

$9.99/month

  • 200 GB of documents
  • Everyone in the household
  • Deleted items kept for 90 days
  • One shared library

or $99 a year

Questions

What does it cost?

Free for 1 GB of documents. Plus is $6.99 a month for 50 GB and up to five people; Household is $9.99 for 200 GB and everyone. Notes, to-dos and links are unlimited on every plan, including the free one.

What sort of questions actually work?

The ones you would ask a person who had read everything: what something cost, when it expires, what a policy covers, how much you have spent on a thing this year, what the code on that card was. Answers are drawn only from your own library — if the receipt is not there, it says so rather than inventing a number.

Is a person reading my documents?

No. A document is read by machine when it arrives — text, dates, amounts — and that reading is what makes it findable. It is used to answer your questions and nothing else: not to train anything, not to sell anything, not shown to anyone outside your household.

Does it work offline?

Capturing does. Everything you add is written to the phone first and syncs when there is a connection — you never wait on a network to scan something.

What happens to a document after I scan it?

It is read for text, dates and amounts, and indexed so it can be found by asking. What that produces is used for searching and answering, and is not pasted back over the page.

Which languages?

The app is in English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Chinese. Answers and descriptions can be written in a language you pick for the whole household.