A better place to honour someone you love.
Styx builds a memorial that holds a whole life. We gather their photos, use AI to find the moments that mattered and put them in order, and give everyone who loved them a place to add their own.
One payment. Kept for good. No ads, ever.
Scattered across everyone’s phones and nobody’s album. Gathered into one page, and kept.
What we do
We build the memorial you would never have time to build.
Everything you need already exists. It is just spread across a phone, a few social accounts and fifty other people. Styx puts it together.
We gather the photos
Connect their phone, their cloud library or their social accounts and Styx brings the pictures in. You are not hunting through drawers and old hard drives in the worst week of your life.
Our AI reads them
Styx scans the photos for faces, places and dates, groups them into the events that actually happened, the trip, the wedding, the move, and lays them out in the order they happened.
We write it up
Each moment gets a short, warm note describing what it was. Every word is yours to change, and nothing is published until you are happy with it.
Everyone adds their part
Friends and family add the photos and stories only they have. You approve what appears, so the page grows without ever getting away from you.
How we honour your people
A page that holds a whole life.
A life in short
A few lines that sound like them, not like a form.
A timeline
Every year that mattered, in the order it happened.
Their photos
Gathered, sorted and shown properly rather than buried.
Memories from everyone
The stories only other people can tell you.
Candles and flowers
A quiet way for visitors to show they were there.
A family tree
How everyone connects, across the generations.
Why choose Styx
Made for the people left behind.
We do the hard part
Grief is not the time to fight with an upload form. Styx gathers the photos, sorts them and drafts the words. You say yes or no.
Built from photos, not forms
A photo is worth a thousand words. We start with the pictures of a life and let them lead the story, instead of asking you to summarise a person in a text box.
Everyone has a place in it
Family, old friends, former students, neighbours, even their pets. The people who knew them help tell it, with you deciding what stays.
It keeps growing
Most obituary pages are finished the day they are published. This one gets fuller every time somebody remembers something.
You stay in control
Nothing appears without your approval, and you can make the whole memorial private or public whenever you like.
No ads. Not ever.
We will never sell space around someone’s name, and we do not sell data. A life is not a product.
On the day
Everyone who came can add to it.
The people at the funeral are holding the best photos of your mum, your dad, your friend. They are sitting on their phones and nobody ever asks for them.
Print a QR code on the order of service and they can add them there and then. By the time people have left the car park, the memorial has grown.
In memory of
Eleanor Hayes
Scan to share a photo or memory
styx.com/life/eleanor-hayes
Share it however suits you
A link to text round the family, and a QR code for the order of service or a card by the door.
They scan it and add
No app to download and no account to make. A photo, a memory, or a candle lit in their name.
You decide what stays
Everything waits for the family. Keep what belongs, quietly leave out what does not.
The part we automate
Our AI reads a life out of a photo library.
Thirty years of birthdays and holidays are sitting in phones, old Facebook albums and Instagram posts belonging to fifty different people. Nobody has the time or the heart to go through all of it in the week after a funeral.
So Styx does. It scans the photos for the faces that keep appearing, the places they were taken and the dates behind them, then groups them into the events that actually happened and writes a short note for each one. What took a family a month of evenings takes an afternoon.
It is a first draft, not the last word. Every grouping, date and sentence is yours to correct, and nothing goes near the page until you say so.
- Finds the people
- Recognises the faces that come up again and again, so the people who mattered are not lost in the pile.
- Works out when and where
- Reads dates and locations to place each photo in the right year and the right chapter.
- Groups them into moments
- A hundred photos from one week become one event: the trip to Yellowstone, the summer at the lake.
- Writes the first draft
- A warm sentence or two for each moment, ready for you to edit into something truer.
Their photos are used to build their memorial and nothing else. They are never sold, never used for advertising, and you approve every one that appears.
How it works
Four steps, and most of them we do for you.
Tell us who they were
Their name, their dates, and a line that sounds like them. That is enough to begin.
Connect their photos
A phone library, a cloud account or their social accounts. Styx brings the pictures in and the AI starts sorting.
Read it back and fix it
Move a moment, correct a year, rewrite a sentence. It is their life, so it should be in your words.
Share it, or keep it close
Publish a page anyone can visit and print the QR code for the service, or keep it private for family only.
How we compare
Most obituary sites have not changed in twenty years.
Legacy pages, funeral home sites, online guestbooks. They get the basics done, but a name, a paragraph and a comment box cannot hold a person.
The story
A single short paragraph, typed into a form by the person with the least sleep.
A full life told in moments, in the order they happened.
Photos
One or two if you are lucky, buried at the bottom.
Gathered from where they already are, sorted by AI, shown properly.
At the funeral
Nothing. The page is an afterthought nobody visits.
A link and QR code everyone can use on the day.
Who contributes
A guestbook of condolences that scrolls away.
Everyone who knew them, with the family approving.
Afterwards
Finished the day it is published, then it goes quiet.
It keeps growing every time somebody remembers something.
Ads
Funeral and flower ads around a person’s name.
None. Not now, not ever.
Privacy
Usually public, and hard to change later.
Public or private, your choice, any time.
Everything a life deserves, in one quiet place.
A QR code for the service
Print it on the order of service. Guests scan, add a photo, and leave a candle. No app needed.
Family tree
See how everyone connects, and let relatives find their place across the generations.
Flowers and candles
Visitors can leave a candle or a bouquet in remembrance. A small thing that means a lot to see.
Private or public
Keep it to the people you invite, or open it to anyone with the link. Change your mind any time.
Approvals for everything
Every photo and memory waits for the family before it appears on the page.
Pets too
The companions who shared a life deserve a place in the story. Styx makes room for them.
What it costs
$49 once. Then it is theirs, for good.
Flowers at a funeral cost more than this and are gone inside a week. This is the version that is still here in thirty years.
We charge because a memorial has to outlast the company that made it. Paying for it once is what keeps it online, keeps it private, and keeps advertising away from their name.
Visiting a memorial and adding photos and memories is always free, for everyone. A candle is a few dollars, and those are part of what keeps the whole thing running without ads.
What you are promised
It stays online
Their photos kept at full quality and backed up, not quietly deleted or compressed into nothing.
It stays theirs
No advertising anywhere near their name, no data sold, and no exceptions to either.
It stays yours
Take every photo and every word with you whenever you want, or close the whole thing down.
- Their timeline and life story, written for you
- Photos gathered from phones and social accounts
- Full quality photo storage, backed up
- A link and QR code for the service
- Unlimited photos and memories from guests, free for them
- Family tree
- Public or private, changeable any time
- Kept online for good, with no ads
Nothing is charged until you publish.
Cannot face it?
We will do it for you.
Send us the photographs and a few details and a real person builds the memorial for you, usually within three days. You correct it, and nothing is public until you say so.
Who is behind this
Styx is two best friends. We started it after somebody in one of our lives died, and the only way anyone offered us to honour a whole person was a form and a paragraph.
He said there had to be a better way. We could not find one, so we are building it. It is early and it is two of us, and we would rather say that than pretend otherwise.
Jaiten and Arjun
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