Customer Stories
We love hearing back from our customers and appreciate getting feedback about using Keepster, making and sharing Keepster books. In this series of blog posts, we will share their stories. We hope they will inspire you as much as they do for us!
Saving Text Messages From A Loved One Who Passed Away
Learn how to memorialize & relive your most precious text conversations with dearly-departed loved ones
You shared unforgettable memories, they taught you things that will stick with you forever, and they impacted your life like no one else could.
There are no words to describe what it’s like to grieve someone who held a special place in your heart. And once they’re gone, every piece of themselves they left behind—no matter how small—is pricele...
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Resolution Hacks: Reflect on Milestones and Set Intentions via Text Messages
Tips to Create Digital Vision Boards for Better Results
A common practice during the new year is making plans to change habits or reflecting on ways to better an aspect of your personal life. These goals or changes are known as “New Year Resolutions”, we all make them each and every year. Maybe it’s to stay in shape or to be more patient. Did you know that you can give a gift to someone who is tr...
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Tyler’s Engagement Story with Keepster
Unique, Creative Engagement Idea: A Custom Proposal Book
We get excited every time a customer shares a story about the impact that a Keepster book made. Today, we're here to share how Tyler N. used Keepster for the ultimate unique engagement proposal idea. He created the cutest custom book based on his romantic text message history. The book was designed as an unforgettable tool to help him pop the ...
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Midori saved precious iPhone Messages in a Memorial Book to keep in a Memory Box
After losing her boyfriend a customer tells us about the Keepster message book that she made to save their texts.
Midori A., a verified customer, captured on video the moment when her Keepster message book arrived and to our astonishment, shared it on social media. In the post she shows herself, opening up the package that she’d been waiting for with enormous anticipation. Inside the box was the Keepster message book that she’d made for herself, filled with...
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Why my Keepster Message book is better than a photobook
A Keepster book of photos & favorite memories sprang to life in an extraordinary way when I added the texts from the years & years of our groupchat.
When my college friends and I moved into our first off-campus house, we had no idea what was in store for us then - or for the years ahead. We had gone from our dorm rooms with roommates and RAs and dining halls to a house that was all ours. Anyone who has lived with five women in one house knows it’s an all-consuming and very wild ride. The f...
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The Perfect Gift for That Special Someone You Met Online
For the person you swiped right on, who became your until-death-do-you-part one-and-only, here’s the slam-dunk gift.
Taking a convo off Bumble, Hinge, Tinder, or whatever app you met your soulmate on is often the beginning of something exciting. The text messages that follow are a treasure trove of early flirtation, awkward jokes, baring your souls, and realizing you might actually be falling for them even though you haven’t met IRL yet.
Digital nostalgia i...
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The ultimate holiday gift made with love: the cookbook my family texted me.
A single mother compiled her lockdown dinner recipes to create a Keepster cookbook full of love. The result? The perfect gift for this holiday season.
“Mom, what are we having for dinner?” is probably the thing I hear most in my house. It’s just me and the two kids, which means the question is always directed at mom. Back when we were living busy lives and the kids were in daycare or school or at a playdate, it wasn’t all that important. But when lockdown struck and we were inside for what fel...
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Marilu Henner Brims Over with Excitement about the Book She Made for her Husband!
A quality Valentine’s Day & Anniversary gift that far exceeded her expectations!
We’ve admired the multi-talented Marilu for many years - not only as an actress who has starred in movies, on Broadway, and in classic TV series, but also because of her achievements as a producer, radio host, podcaster, and a New York Times best-selling author.
Receiving a glowing review from someone who has authored no less than ten b...
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Saoirse’s Grandmother loved her book so much, that Saoirse made a second version - as a gift to herself!
A priceless gift for Christmas becomes a gift for all seasons
With Christmas approaching, Saoirse set out to make her grandmother a Keepster book for Christmas.
In any normal (non-pandemic) year all their family would gather at her grandmother’s house for the holidays, but with that being impossible in 2020, Saoirse really wanted her grandmother’s gift to be a comfort and a reminder of how much sh...
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One Millennial Reviews the Keepster Book Gifted to her Mom
Sabrina reviews a one-of-a-kind gift that her mom will cherish forever!
When our CEO, Jennifer, set out to give her life-long best friend a particularly special birthday gift, she became her own customer once again, deciding there was no better way to celebrate her best friend’s milestone than with a book of their messages, chats and photos.
Jennifer created a beautiful, hard-cover book coveri...
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One Mom’s Discovery of the Modern Family Newsletter: Keepster Books
A Family’s 2020 Story As Told by Their Texts
Do you remember the days of Family Newsletters?
I do.
Historically two pages long - folded into holiday cards or New Year well wishes, often printed in a font that leaned towards illegible. Such updates were aimed at filling in loved ones on family ongoings - from recitals and lacrosse games to lost teeth and new additions to the family, m...
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In Memory of a Forever Friend: A Quest to Memorialize a Best Friend’s Text Messages
Customer Review by Sara Pietela, Owner of Steady and Flight
Part 1: Sara’s Keepster Story - Loss, Love and (Never) Losing Messages
Sara lost her best friend, Lisa, in 2017. The death of her dearest friend and daily confidante was beyond heart-wrenching, and in her grief, Sara set out to ensure she could keep all memories of Lisa close to her heart - especially, their shared texts. Her best fr...
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Meet the Modern-Day Baby Journal: A book Filled with The Texts That Tell Our Surrogacy Story
Two Dads, one little girl, and a whole lot of messages and memories to keep forever. The story of one father’s journey to digital baby booking, with Keepster.
You know the saying when the student is ready, the teacher appears? I’d say the same goes for Keepster - the service that allows you to turn favorite messages into printed books, whose Instagram ad interrupted my doom-scrolling late one night.
“Turn meaningful messages into professionally printed message books!” the ad teased. Ready to welco...
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Why a Keepster Book Makes for a Fun Bachelorette Party Gift, Even When COVID Crashes It
I decided to turn the texts, chats and photos that captured my best friend’s virtual bachelorette and bridal experience into a custom Keepster book: a professionally printed, friendship keepsake book filled with the messages and memories from a truly unforgettable time.
My best friend was planning to marry her high school sweetheart in front of 150 nearest and dearests, on a sunny Spring day. Her mom hoped to host a beautiful shower. I planned to throw one wild bachelorette party. We had months of celebrations to look forward to.
COVID had other plans.
Addy has Crohn’s disease - planting her firmly in the...
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I Lost My iPhone and All My Messages: Now I Use Keepster
My wife told me to keep my messages safe, with Keepster. It took losing all my messages to remember, she’s always right.
I didn’t think I needed Keepster. I didn’t really care about my messages. I wouldn’t lose my phone. Anyway, I was sure I had a backup of something, somewhere. Turns out - I was wrong.
I regret not creating a Keepster back up. Here’s why.
When my wife, Sarah, first told me about Keepster, I told her that it sounded really cool and pretty ...
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My Best Friend’s Texts Are Getting Me Through 2020, Even Halfway Across The World
My best friend is my unpaid therapist, and I couldn’t face a global pandemic without her texts.
7 months into the most tumultuous, tragic, up-ending year our generation may ever live through, I can confidently say this: my best friend (and her messages, even nearly 6,000 miles away) are what have kept me sane.
I’ll admit, my best friend Sam deserves a Nobel Prize for her work as my unpaid therapist and... WhatsApp deserves an honorable ...
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Our Marriage Counselor Gave Us Texting Advice: It Worked
“Date your spouse. Digitally.”
Author’s Note:
This piece was originally written in February 2020 - pre-pandemic. My husband and I are healthy, safe, at home, and forever grateful we still like each other after quarantining together for 117 days (and counting).
Our marriage counselor tapped her hefty, silver pen against the notepad that never left her lap, shifting her ...
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A Keepster Book Filled with Family Messages, The Perfect Father’s Day Gift
Video Review by Verified Customer - Suzanne Brown
Part 1: A Tech-Novice Review of Keepster: Easy Desktop Download, Secure Text Backups, Reliving Messages and More
Lifestyle blogger, busy mom and verified customer, Suzanne Brown, was on the hunt for the perfect Father’s Day gift for her husband: something special, fun, and totally customized. Enter Keepster books: professionally pri...
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I Turned My College Freshman’s Texts into an Awesome Book of Memories
Turns out, It’s the Sweetest Gift I’ve Given Her
Thanks to a Keepster ad, I got to create what my daughter now swears is the “cutest present I’ve ever given her”: a beautiful book filled with our texts and chats, to remember the milestones and special little moments of her freshmen year.
College came too fast, didn’t it? Maybe it’s because my daughter is an only, or maybe because we mercifu...
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A life-long scrapbooker and writer realizes she is journaling, with Keepster
A much-appreciated customer generously shares what saving deeply personal messages means to her.
“Oh it is just lovely,” I exclaimed, as I admired the ornate vintage journal I held in my hand. It was beautifully bound with antique embossing. My heart sank at yet another reminder of my failure at journaling. Most of my circle of friends are diarists But I’ve never been the one to stick with it. As a writer, I consider my writing to be my jo...
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Valentine’s Day, Galentine’s Day & the Love Story I Had No Idea My Parents’ Texts Told
I was a self-admitted Valentine’s Day hater but one Keepster book, thousands of my parents’ texts & an afternoon spent helping my Dad bring their love story to life changed all that.
Helping my Dad make a Valentine’s Day Keepster book made me realize two things:
I want the kind of love my parents share and I should still celebrate all the love I have in my life, even if I’m the most single I’ve ever been since the 6th grade.
I sat beside my Dad as he selected the messages, customized the dedication page, and dropped i...
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Some of the Best Advice I've Ever Gotten Has Come Via Text
Thank you, iPhone (and Mom and Dad)
Picture this...
I’m having dinner with a group of friends. One of the guys gets a text from his Mom, and says “Hang on, I gotta tell her I figured it out, one second…” We all nod in understanding. When he’s done, he puts down his phone and his girlfriend laughs, patting his arm as she says “I swear, I used to pray my parents wouldn’t text me...
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An iPhone romance that broke my heart … Sorta
I had an entire (three month) “relationship” via text message, and it mattered. Way more than I ever thought it could. Then, he ghosted me.
Yup. You read that right. I know, I know, I can hear it all: But you didn’t even really know him!
Three months?! That’s nothing! How do you catch feelings for someone over an iPhone?! I know what you’re thinking because I thought it, my friends thought it - some even had the guts to say it.
We’ve all heard those stories of people who mee...
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I Turned my Favorite Group Chat into a Book
I have the world’s greatest best friends, and couldn’t imagine life without them...so I showed them what they meant to me, with a Keepster book.
I had always planned to move away from home. In fact, for a long time I didn’t consider Winnipeg my home - rather a place where I’d grow up but would move away from the moment I got the chance.
My attitude stayed the same until I had to start saying my goodbyes as I prepared to move to another country to pursue my lifelong dream. Goodbyes se...
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