Illustrated · Personalised · For ages 3–8

A bedtime story that remembers where it left off.

Every evening, the next illustrated chapter of your child's own adventure arrives in your inbox. Same character. New chapter. Nothing to download, nothing to remember.

Read one first.

Free, about twenty seconds, no card and no email.

Dinosaurs
The sea
Space
Animals
Magic
Diggers & trains
Baking
The seaside

No signup, no email. We don't keep anything you type here.

A sample chapter. Your child's own story is written for them, and continues every evening.

Chapter One

Chapter two arrives tomorrow evening at half six.

Continue the story →

Not a new story every night. The next chapter.

Most bedtime story services send something different each evening — pleasant, disposable, forgotten by Thursday. This one keeps going. The same character, the same world, picking up exactly where you stopped. Children don't get attached to stories. They get attached to someone.

Tonight's chapter

Chapter Twelve · for Mia, aged 5

Luna and the Light on the Water

Luna the fox could not sleep.

Out past the reeds, something was glowing. It was not a star. Stars stay still. This light moved. It moved slowly, the way a lantern moves.

Plate i · the light on the water

Luna crept down to the water. The mud was cold under her paws.

"Hello?" she called.

The light stopped. Then it came a little closer.

It was a frog. A very small frog with a very small lamp.

"I am Pip," said the frog. "And I am lost."

Plate ii · Pip, and the lamp

"Where do you live?" asked Luna.

"By the willow tree," said Pip. "But every willow looks the same in the dark."

Luna looked along the bank. She could see three willow trees. Maybe four. They all looked the same to her too.

Then she had an idea.

"Hold up your lamp," she said. "As high as you can."

Pip held it high. The little light shone out across the water. And there, in the water, was the shape of one willow tree. It had a small round door at the bottom.

"That one," said Luna. "That is your one."

Pip laughed. It was a small wet happy sound.

Pip went home. Luna went home too. She curled up in the warm hollow of the roots. She wrapped her tail around her nose. Outside, the water made a soft sound.

And Luna fell fast asleep.

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Pip stays. He's in chapter 13, and he's still there at chapter 30.

How we differ

 UsTypical
One continuing story, chapter by chapter ●—
Three or four original illustrations in every chapter ●—
Arrives on its own — no app, nothing to open ●●
Delivered at your bedtime, in your timezone ●—
Print any chapter — or the whole week ●—
Becomes a real printed book ●—

"Typical" means the common pattern across nightly story emails and AI story apps we've reviewed. Things change — if you spot something out of date, tell us and we'll correct it.

How it works

1

Tell us about them

First name, age, a few things they love, and who their character should be. Two minutes, once.

2

Chapter one, right away

Written and illustrated, then delivered by email at the time you pick below.

3

Every evening after

The next chapter lands at the time you choose — 5:30 to 7:30, your timezone.

4

It ends up as a book

Chapters stack up. At ninety, we can print the whole thing with their name on the spine.

It doesn't have to be a screen

You hold the phone, not your child — it's a script for reading aloud, the same as a book. But if you'd rather no screen at all, that's covered too.

Print tonight's

One link, one clean page. Read it off paper, no device in the room.

The Sunday booklet

Seven chapters, laid out as a little booklet. Print it once, read all week.

The book Soon

At chapter ninety, the whole story bound properly. Their name on the spine.

I'm not a parent.

I'm the kid who got read to. Same chair every night, my dad doing all the voices badly, me correcting him when he tried to skip a page. I don't remember much of being five. I remember that.

It was years before it occurred to me what it cost him. That he'd been up since six. That he'd read that book eleven times. That some nights he made one up because he couldn't face the same page again — and that the made-up ones were the ones I liked best, which must have been maddening.

This is the thing I wish he'd had. Not something to replace the parent — he was the entire point, and a story read by a phone isn't worth anything. Just the book, already open, at the right page, so the hard part is done and the good part is all that's left.

You still do the voices. That bit's yours.

— Jack, who made this

Price · what we store · how to leave

Monthly

£6.99

per month

Best value

Yearly

£49

per year — £4.08/month

Save 42%

More than one child? Family — up to three, £10.99/month or £79/year.

Thirty nights, or your money back

If it doesn't earn its place in your bedtime within a month, reply to any email and I'll refund you in full. No form, no questions, no offers to win you back.

Start tonight

Start their story

Chapter one arrives this evening, at the time you choose below. Every evening after, the next chapter follows.

Monthly£6.99/mo
Yearly£49/yr
Family£10.99/mo

This is where the chapters arrive.

Woven into the plot, not just mentioned. Two or three is plenty.

🦊A fox
🐰A rabbit
🐻A bear
🐉A dragon

The same character appears in every chapter. They'll get attached.

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What we store about your child

A first name, an age, and up to five interests. That is the entire list. No surname, no birthday, no photographs, no address, no location. It's used to write their story and nothing else, it is never used to train any AI model, and it's deleted the day you cancel. Reply to any email and I'll delete it sooner.

Questions

Is AI-written content actually any good for children?

Fair question, and there's a lot of bad AI children's content about. Ours is written to a tight brief — vocabulary matched to their age, gentle plots, always ending with the character settling down to sleep — and every chapter is checked before it sends.

But don't take my word for it. Put your child's name in at the top of this page and read one. It takes twenty seconds and costs nothing, and you'll know straight away whether it's for you.

Are the stories written by a person?

No. They're written by AI, to a brief I wrote and keep tuning, and checked automatically before sending. I'm telling you plainly because you'd work it out, and because I'd rather be the one who said it.

What AI buys you is that it can be nightly, personal to your child, and continuous across hundreds of chapters. No human could write a different story for every subscriber every evening. That's the trade, and you should decide if it's a good one — after reading a chapter, not before.

Isn't this just screen time?

You hold the phone, not your child. It's a script for reading aloud, the same as a book, and the illustration is there so there's something to look at while you read.

If you'd rather no screen at all: every chapter has a print link that gives you one clean page, and on Sundays you get the week as a little printable booklet. Some families never read it off a device at all.

Why not just use ChatGPT for free?

You genuinely can, and some people should. Two things you'd be doing yourself. First, remembering — every single night, at the hour you least want another task. Second, continuity: ours picks up from chapter 47 without you having to explain who Luna is or what happened at the lighthouse.

It's the difference between a story generator and a book.

What if a chapter is scary or wrong?

Every chapter is checked before it sends and regenerated if anything's flagged. If one gets through anyway, reply to the email — I read every reply, personally — and I'll fix it and refund you the month.

What happens if we miss a night?

Nothing. It's an email. Read it in the morning, read two on Saturday, or skip it entirely — the next chapter still comes. There's no streak to break and nothing to catch up on.

Going away? Reply "pause" to any email and it stops until you say otherwise.

How do I cancel?

One click, from the link at the bottom of every email. No phone call, no form, no offers to win you back. Within the first 30 days you get a full refund as well — just reply and ask.

My children are different ages — can they share it?

The Family plan covers up to three children at £10.99/month, and each one gets their own story with their own character. A single story starring several children at once is harder than it sounds and we'd rather not do it badly, so we haven't yet.

Can I give it as a gift?

Gift subscriptions are coming before Christmas — a year of nightly chapters for a grandchild, niece or nephew, ending with a printed book. Reply to any email if you'd like to know when they're ready and I'll tell you first.

Somewhere around eight, they stop asking. You don't get told when the last one was. It's just that at some point there isn't another.