Gifting

Keepster was first dreamt up as a solution to a gift giving dilemma. Our founder wanted to give someone a book of their text conversations - the ridiculous, the sweet, the sappy, the mundane, the maddening, the hilarious. She saw the meaning in those messages and knew the recipient would too! Turns out, most everyone loves revisiting old messages and the memories along with them. Also turns out, there wasn’t an easy way to create such a personalized book. Now there is. Easily create the greatest gift - filled with messages and moments that matter to you. Read our stories of giving the gift of Keepster.

Graduation Gifts to Delight Students of Any Age

Celebrate your favorite student’s success with these unique & creative graduation gift ideas

High school and college make up the defining years of our lives. In those halls, classrooms, and dorms, students go from who they were as teens to who they want to be. And when they graduate, a thoughtful gift is the perfect way to celebrate their hard work and pursuit of knowledge. But finding the right gift to honor them and expres...

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...

Gifts for Mom: A Guide for Mother’s Day 2023

Get that “WOW” reaction you’re looking for this year with these unique, creatively-inspired Mother’s Day gift ideas

Sometimes it can be hard to pick out the perfect gift for mom. You want to get something that makes an impact and feels special. Many modern-day moms are fortunate to have most things that they want within arms’ reach. A quick click, tap, or reminder to a voice assistant is all it takes to stock up on their necessities. While convenience is ...

Turn Text Messages Into Bound Books or Digital eBooks (PDFs)

Comparing benefits of Keepster printed vs. PDF eBooks as gifts

Looking to turn your most sacred text messages into a printed or digital book? Keepster is giving you the ultimate “how-to” guide in finding the right book solution for you. Comparing Printed vs. Digital eBooks (PDF) Benefits of Printed Text Message Books for Gifts A Physical Reminder If you are someone who likes the tangibl...

A Personalized Storybook for the #1 Mom

Turn the stories of the wonderful women in your life into a unique, custom gift this Mother’s Day

Making a Personalized Gift for Mom with Keepster Yes, you could always get the moms in your life some flowers and a heartfelt card this Mother’s Day… But if these are your go-to gifts, they can start to feel a bit stale over the years. If you’re looking for a personalized gift for mom—something truly thoughtful that she’ll cherish for ...

Gen Z is Turning Love Chats into Books

Modern Tips for Romance Online

Take your love chats to the next level this Valentine’s Day with these Generation Z inspired tips for your online romance. Learn some key strategies so you can secure the best gifts to convey the depths of your admiration. Tell the one you love just how much you truly care about them and the memories that you’ve shared together. In order for ...

Valentine’s Day Gift Messaging Book for Your Romantic Partner

Tell the Story of Your Love this Valentine’s Day

Do you have a unique love story to tell with your partner? You can now tell the story of your love this Valentine’s Day with the help of Keepster custom text messaging books. Let us help you paint the perfect storybook through messages and photos that have been a staple to your blossoming romance. Break free from the easy conventions of the ...

How To Make the Best “First Valentine’s Day Gift” for Your Partner

Tips for crafting custom stories from messages and photos you’ve sent in-real-life (IRL).

When you’ve just started dating someone and you’ve only been with them for a short time, figuring out the best Valentine's Day gift can be very stressful. You don’t want to overdo it, and you don’t want to underwhelm them, either. It seems like you can waste hours just trying to come up with the best DIY gift for your first Valentine’s Day...

Create the Ultimate Gift for Book Lovers: Make a Custom Book

Book Lover’s Gift Idea: A Custom Book Based on Personal Messages

If you’re looking for a great, unique gift for the book lover in your life this holiday season, it might be time to create a custom book! Write a book yourself using Keepster and deliver the ultimate, unforgettable gift. Book lovers can be hard to shop for, you never know what they’ve just finished reading. You may not keep up with the...

How To Write a Love Letter Using Keepster

Tips for Writing the Ultimate Love Letter Inspired by your Text Message History

Get Inspired to Write the Ultimate Love Letter Writing a love letter is one of the most common traditions since the invention of ink on parchment. A love letter symbolizes much more than words, it is a way in which to commemorate your love and show adoration for all the things that they do for you. Keepster wants to help you craf...

Give A Gift of the Messages that Mean the Most

Create a Custom Storybook with Keepster

The best gifts are those that stay with you. There’s a reason our refrigerators and walls end up covered with kindergarten art, calendars that feature aunts' faces, and gobs of great holiday photos. Keepster ups the gift-giving-game by helping you create custom gifts that mean the most. Keepster’s personalized books allow you to turn your bes...

Holiday Gift Guide 2022: The Best Personalized Gifts

How to Be More Thoughtful this Holiday Season for Anyone on Your List

In a day when just about anyone can get nearly anything just from whispering a wish into their smart speaker, it’s the thoughtfulness of gift-giving that counts. At Keepster, we know that gifts of the heart are at the heart of the holidays, so we’ve assembled a list of our favorite personalized gifts to give during the holiday season. This year,...

Romantic Gifts to Keep You Warm All Winter

The Best Romantic Gifts for Her in the Winter

Enjoy the holidays with the one who makes life worth living each and every day by showing them you care with these romantic-inspired gift ideas. Get the gift for the special occasion that matters most whether that be on Valentine’s Day or an Anniversary it matters on your preference. A Luxurious, Fluffy Blanket - Get a fluffy, indulgent blank...

Keepster Wedding Books Featured on Style Me Pretty

Unique Ideas for Custom Wedding Album

We have always been huge fans of the Style Me Pretty site and were so honored to have them review Keepster and the experience with our app to make a custom wedding album and memory book, based on text messages and photos, making a special love story last forever. Style Me Pretty is always committed to helping loved ones find the perfect weddi...

30 QUOTES TO CELEBRATE & HONOR YOUR GRANDMA, AUNT, SISTER OR FRIEND.

Inspiration for celebrating the special women in our lives - for mother’s day, birthdays or any occasion!

Mother’s Day is the day for honoring and celebrating our moms who have raised and loved us as much as they could. But what about all the other amazing women in our lives who’ve also participated in our nurturing? Whether we choose to call them our ‘other moms’, fairy godmothers or guardian angels, whether we choose to celebrate them on Mother’s ...

50+ Best Mother's Day Quotes

We share our favorite quotes to include in your DIY Message Book to create a memorable gift that captures the uniqueness of your relationship.

Mother’s Day is the occasion to show how much you love and appreciate the mom in your life but how best to show her how much you appreciate her being there for you during good times and bad, in moments big and small? Whether she’s your mom, your grandma,a new mom, or even an honorary aunt, she’s the one you are constantly checking in with, shari...

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...

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...

Why a Keepster book was the ultimate anniversary gift for me and my long distance love

I used Keepster to make an anniversary present that could sum up and celebrate my perfectly imperfect long distance relationship.

My boyfriend and I have been together for ten years, but so much of that has been spent apart. We met as teenagers, and the whirlwind romance that followed was accompanied by some of the most embarrassing texts, complete with every possible abbreviation: “Wuu2 2moro, want 2 go on a d8?” was how he first asked me out, and shockingly I said yes! B...

How Keepster Helped Me Find a Birthday Gift for a Friend Who Is Like a Brother

The story of two friends and how they memorialized the key messages of their lives in a printed book.

How do you tell a friend how much you appreciate them? How do you say happy birthday and thank you to someone who has seen you through everything, thick and thin? In the movies, you see those cliche clips of the person who becomes the lifelong servant of someone who saved their life. My man Monroe—someone who has been my friend since elementary ...

10 Ideas for Christmas Gifts that are Meaningful

Ditch impersonal gift cards! Celebrate the gift of connection with Keepster Message Books

Filled with family, friends, and all the traditions that come with the season, Christmas abounds with meaning. But when it comes to gifts, we’re always wondering what to get the people on our list. Often, that indecision turns into the inevitable purchase of a spiritless gift card. Fortunately, you don’t have to hunt down the perfect Chris...

10 Gift Ideas for Friends for Every Occasion

What should you give your bestie when they already have the best of everything?

It’s that time of year again—or maybe it isn’t and you just want to show your friend how much you love them—but you can’t figure out what to give them! You can’t give them a photo of you two because, duh, you did that last year. And the year before. Jewelry is out—because how impersonal? Unless it’s handmade—but you’ve done that, too. In ...

8 Perfect Holiday Gift Ideas for Everyone on Your List

Give a personalized gift to everyone on your list this holiday season with Keepster Message Books!

Who doesn’t love the holidays? The lights, the festivities, the cozy moments, and of course, the gifts. But we all know that looming question that every holiday season brings: what do I get everyone? It turns out the perfect holiday gift for men, women, loved ones, friends, and even co-workers is already on your phone —the text messages, conv...

How to Give the Happy Couple a Gift They’ll Want to Open Again (and Again).

Keepster Books: A Unique Wedding Gift, that's also a Priceless Time Capsule!

With almost any wedding approaching, the question always looms large; what's a gift that’s completely original, celebratory, thoughtful, and completely befitting of the big occasion? Before you head off to the engravers or settle for a gift card, rejoice, we have the answer! Using Keepster, you can draw together messaging conversations and p...

Celebrate This Pride Month with a Smile … and a Gift Book for Your Favorite LGBTQIA Person

When you can’t meet in person to celebrate, texted conversations, smile emojis, and photos can provide big benefits.

Ah, the Joys of Seeing Smiles in Person! One thing that Covid certainly taught us, is that keeping in touch with loved ones by texting conversations has proven to be an invaluable lifeline. Fortunately, as more and more people are becoming vaccinated, we can start seeing those texted smiles in person. What better timing than June to finall...

How to celebrate the Coolest Guy in your life - by making a personalized book of all his messages!

Why a Keepster Book hits the spot for a Father’s Day gift

Father’s Day is fast approaching: How will you be celebrating the Kings of Cool in your life (or even simply, Dad Jokes?)? Hear us out: a Keepster book is a gifting opportunity you won’t want to miss. Let’s face it, any parent relationship can be filled with trials and tribulations, but plenty of good things too. If you’d like to show your...

Messages and Photos make a Baby Book Like never before!

A brand new way to document the journey to motherhood - perfect for parents, baby, family and friends.

We tend to document the arrival of a new baby from the moment it is born … but what about all the marvelous mini-milestones that lead up to the birth? So often we forget that the essential part of the story is right there in our texts, and being the remarkable chapter that it is, it is equally deserving of being saved. Your messages - s...

Preserving Digital Memories Shouldn’t Cost Precious Environmental Resources

Keepster’s Commitment to Sustainable Gift Giving

At Keepster we believe that for many there exists the basic human need to save memories in a tangible way. This memory keeping extends to safekeeping favorite digital memories and messages, which is why we built the technology to turn messages, texts, and photos into Keepster books. Our mission is buoyed by when we hear from happy Keepster cu...

How To Create the Perfect Mother’s Day Book of Texts

More than ever, thoughtful gifts seem like the right choice. Here’s some inspiration for a super thoughtful gift for any Mom.

If you’re looking to gift your Mom, Mama, Madre, Ma or the beloved mother-figure in your life a gift that’ll blow her away, we invite you to consider creating a book filled with your shared texts and photos. Imagine a Keepster book full of your day-to-day back and forths: bits of news, silly moments, sillier selfies, photos that’ll never mak...

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...

5 Creative Ways to Gift Wrap Your Keepster Book

Easy, At-Home Gift Wrapping Ideas for you!

You’ve discovered the most thoughtful (and hope you’ll agree, thrilling) gift! Your favorite text threads, memories, and messages will live on, in print - as a quality keepsake that you can’t wait to give. There’s just one last thing to do - wrap it up! Add one last special touch to what we know is guaranteed to be a unique surprise! At Keep...

7 Ways to make your Keepster Book a great looking romantic gift.

For Valentines, Anniversaries or just because ... design the gift of a lifetime.

We exist because of romance. This is our’ raison d’etre’. Literally, our founder created Keepster because she wanted to make a book of texts as a gift for Valentine’s Day. So, welcome! You found the right place to create a jaw-dropping gift for the love of your life, your soulmate or your crush. Whether it’s for Valentine’s, or to celebrate an...

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...

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...

Cars, Floral Walls, and Texts Turned Treasure: The Unparalleled World of Kardashian Gift Giving

Some texts are pure gold. This one was 24K gold.

Kanye West and Kim Kardashian West have an undoubtedly unique love story - one that the public has watched play out with a certain level of fascination, fan or not. If you haven’t been keeping up with the Kardashians, you might have missed this PSA: Kanye and Kim are the unmatched King and Queen of expressing love a la outlandish gifts. To be fa...

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...

The Perfect Holiday Gift Isn't In Stores …

It's On Your Phone!

Keepster Newsletter Wishing you a Happy (& stress-free) holiday from all of us at Keepster! It’s the most wonderful time of year...but with that comes the pressure to find the perfect holiday gift. The clock is ticking… But don’t panic! You’re already halfway there … The gift that is sure to spread holiday cheer is right here, on your ...

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...

‘Tis the Season to be Thankful For…

Cell Phones!

For the month of November, we’re glad to share a rollicking song! But before we do, let’s get straight to it. Holiday Gifting is looming ahead! Look no further! In just a few clicks you can create the most meaningful, one-of-a-kind gifts for everyone! Simply turn your favorite texts and photos into Keepster books. In the words of a hap...

How The Modern Day Baby Journal Made My First Mother's Day!

Using messages and photos you've shared with your friends and family to make a Keepster Baby Journal.

Our precious baby is eleven months old today ... and what they say is true: you really don’t know the kind of love you’re capable of until they place that squirmy, pink, squishy and in our case - screaming - bundle into your shaking arms. Our daughter changed our whole world. No, that’s not it, she became our whole world. From the mom...

Why I Give My Kids Gifts to Celebrate Mother's Day

There are so many great messages I've exchanged with my kids ... so I put them into Keepster books for each of my beloved children

Another year, another Mother’s Day is rolling around. I can’t believe it - you blink, and 26 years years of devoted and endless mothering have come and gone. To say it has been the privilege of a lifetime to be a mother would be a true understatement. That's why this Mother's Day, I decided to give my children gifts to celebrate. After all, they...

A Keepster Couple "Why My Impossible-to-Shop-For Husband Loved Getting a Keepster Book"

Keepster’s capability to turn those cherished texts and photos into a soft or hardcover book was the perfect gift.

Hi, I’m a sentimental millennial Some people are impossible to shop for: either they have it, they don’t need it, or they’d rather skip presents all together! My husband would be one of those people. I don’t mean to make it sound like he’s difficult - he’s wonderful and the sweetest but when it comes to any holiday that calls for gift-gi...

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