Bedtime stories, starring your family
Tonight, Hazel
is in the story.
Once writes a bedtime story about your children, your dog, Grandma and the lake house — then helps you read it softly into sleep.
Free for 14 days · iPhone and iPad
“My grandchildren are in every story — and so are Grumpy, Honey’s house, and the golf cart. I’m obsessed.”
“A friendly dog went on an adventure.”
One of those is a story. The other is their story — and the look on their face when they hear their own dog’s name is the whole point.
How it works
Step 1
Tell it about your world
The people, pets, places and small treasures in your child’s life. A few now, more whenever you think of them. Every story draws from them.
Step 2
Choose tonight’s story
Who’s listening, who’s in it, and anything you’d like it to be about. Or tap once and let it surprise you.
Step 3
Read it together
A calm, dark page, written in word by word as you reach it — made for a dim room and a sleepy voice.
A new story every night. Never the same one twice.
Every story is written for your child and illustrated from a library of thousands of watercolor illustrations, so the shelf fills with books that look like no one else’s.
A story that follows you into sleep.
It follows your voice
Read aloud and the page keeps your place, scrolling with you so your eyes can stay on theirs.
Steer it as you go
Gentler if it’s getting exciting. More if they’re still wide awake. Sleepy when eyes are closing.
It says goodnight for you
Soft classical music if you like. When the story ends and the room goes quiet, the screen drifts to dark and the music fades away.
One subscription for everyone who tucks them in.
Up to 4 grown-ups
Your partner, a co-parent, the grandparents — each on their own phone, with their own sign-in.
Everything shared
The same children, the same Your World, and every story on everyone’s shelf.
One subscription
If anyone in the family has premium, everyone does. The month’s stories are shared by the household.
Invite someone from Profile › Your Family with a code that works for 24 hours.
How family sharing works →Private by design, because it’s about your children.
No ads. No tracking.
Nothing about your family is sold, profiled or used to show you anything.
Only with your permission.
Your family’s details are used to write your stories, and only after you agree.
Private unless you share.
Stories stay in your family. Shared links are private, unguessable, and expire after 30 days.
Gentle by design.
Peril is matched to your child’s age, every story is checked before you see it, and you can list anything to keep out.
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Grandma can be in the story — and get a copy.
Send tonight’s story by private link. It opens in any browser, written in just like it is in the app. No app, no account, nothing to install.
And up to 4 grown-ups can share one subscription, one Your World, and one shelf of stories.
For grandparents →Try every night free for 14 days.
One subscription covers the whole household. Or stay free with 3 new stories a month.
Yearly
$49.99 / year
Just $4.17 a month
Monthly
$6.99 / month
Cancel anytime
Questions
Is it safe for my child?
Stories are written to be warm and gentle, with tension matched to your child’s age, and every story is checked before you see it. You can add anything you’d like kept out of bedtime, and if something ever feels wrong you can tell us from the story itself.
What happens to my family’s details?
They’re used to write your stories, only after you agree, and never for ads. You can remove anything, or delete your account and everything with it, from inside the app.
What’s free?
3 new stories a month for your household, continuing each one a few times, read-along, bedtime music, the dark reader and sharing. Premium adds a story every night, every child in the family, and your whole shelf.
Can grandparents use it?
Yes. Send them a story by link — it opens in any browser — or invite them into your family: up to 4 grown-ups share one subscription.
Does it need an internet connection?
Only to write a new story. Stories you’ve already made are kept on your phone.
Is there an Android version?
Not yet. Once is for iPhone and iPad, in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand.
Tonight’s story is waiting.
Free for 14 days, then $49.99 a year or $6.99 a month. Cancel anytime in Settings.