WanderStory

About

ChatGPT and Claude.ai (API) store conversations and may use them to train future models — your most personal life narrative becomes training data. Google Docs scans document content. Every cloud writing tool that processes your text on a server is reading your memoir. USC Shoah Foundation research found that over 90% of Holocaust survivors have never formally documented their testimony — the barrier is not willingness but access to a safe, supported process. The same dynamic applies to any population whose story has been suppressed, criminalized, or erased: LGBTQ+ elders whose histories were never recorded, immigrants whose survival stories exist only in memory, people with complicated family histories they've never been able to write down safely. WanderStory is a local-first memoir tool with Luen AI running entirely on-device — your story never touches an external server, never trains a model, and is never read by anyone you haven't given access.

Features

• Your story never trains a model: ChatGPT/Claude.ai cloud model rejected — Luen runs locally only
• Google Docs scanning: document content stays on your device, never cloud-processed
• Holocaust survivor design: safe, structured, trauma-informed — testimony collection built in
• LGBTQ+ elder oral history: community memory that mainstream publishing has never captured
• Structured memoir templates: birth-to-present, thematic, era-based — whatever structure fits your life
• Oral history recording + transcription: spoken memory captured and transcribed locally
• Chosen family story preservation: document relationships and histories that biological family never will
• Export to ebook or print: your story in a format you can share, on your terms
• No word limit, no subscription gate: document everything — volume is never a constraint
• Privacy levels: private-only vs. chosen-network share vs. community archive contribution (opt-in)