LibrariesWest vs Heritage Journal

Access LibrariesWest from your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. Manage your account, search the catalogue, renew and reserve books.

Heritage Journal brings your historical documents to life. Photograph, upload, or import documents from the web — birth certificates, parish registers, census returns, wills, military records, letters, and more — and Heritage Journal transcribes them using advanced AI with specialist knowledge of historical handwriting from the 16th to 20th centuries. DOCUMENT TRANSCRIPTION • Photograph documents in archives, churches, cemeteries, and from family collections using your iPhone camera • Import images directly from your Photos library — including screenshots of documents from Ancestry, FindMyPast, and other genealogy sites • Transcribe documents from any publicly accessible web URL • Expert transcription of handwritten and printed historical documents • Specialist knowledge of secretary hand, court hand, Latin abbreviations, and historical letter forms • Automatic translation of non-English documents into your device’s default language, with original text preserved • Editable transcription output — correct any errors before saving DOCUMENT LIBRARY • Every transcribed document saved with its original image, transcription, and translation • Searchable library of all your transcribed documents • Browse and revisit your complete transcription history FAMILY TREE INTEGRATION • When used alongside Heritage Compass, extracted names, dates, places, and relationships save directly into your shared family tree • No re-importing — Heritage Compass and Heritage Journal share a single family tree database • Documents attach to the people, places, and events already in your tree PRIVACY BY DESIGN • All documents and transcriptions stored locally on your device • No documents are stored by Siorai Labs • Document processing goes directly from your device to the transcription service SUBSCRIPTION • Monthly: £1.99/month • Annual: £9.99/year (save 58%) • Lifetime: £34.99 one-time payment • 50 transcriptions per month on all plans • Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase • Subscriptions automatically renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period • Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple ID account settings Terms of Use: https://siorailabs.com/terms-of-service/