An invitation for families with children 5 to 8

Read it again

Those three words are the whole test. We’ve built your child their own ongoing story world: the same cast every night, a brand-new adventure each time, and your child is always the one it happens to. It writes itself while you wait and reads itself aloud in the dark. We want to know whether they ask for another.

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What it is

Lights off. Your child taps three pictures on your phone. Thirty seconds later a story begins that has never existed before, with them as the main character, read aloud in a voice you chose together.

It isn’t a library. Nothing is being shuffled or pulled off a shelf. Every story is written that night, for your child by name, at their age, with a friend they picked and a silly animal who tags along and refuses to help.

And it doesn’t reset.The cast stays put. Robin the astronaut is the same Robin next week, still unable to leave a button unpressed. When a story ends, your child can tap once and carry the same adventure on to a next episode. Children don’t come back for plots. They come back for people they already know.

What your child does

  1. Picks who it’s aboutPrincess Mira, Captain Theo the Pirate, Robin the Astronaut, and seven more. The same characters every time, so kids fall in love with them.
  2. Picks where it happensCandyland, Dinosaur Valley, Under the Sea, and twelve more magical lands.
  3. Picks who tags along and is sillyCranky Cat, who rolls his eyes at the magic and walks off. Sydney the Sloth, who says he’ll catch up and never does. Clumsy Clyde, who is excited about the wrong thing.

This started as a real bedtime ritual. For years I made up stories for my own two kids about Sugar Pop and Sugar Plum, who were, not very secretly, them. There was always a grumpy cat called Sugar Meow who wandered in, made a face at whatever amazing thing was happening, and wandered out again. They waited for him every night.

I’m building the version I wish I’d had on the nights I was too tired to invent one.

Alexandra Janelli, founder, and the parent who invented Sugar Meow

What we’d love from you

Two weeks of bedtimes, and a few minutes telling us the truth afterwards.

  • Did they ask for another one?This is the only question that really matters. A polite “that was nice” is a no.
  • Did they stay with it, or drift off? Both are useful. Tell us roughly where.
  • Did they lose the thread?If they asked “wait, who’s that?” we need to know exactly where.
  • Did anything land wrong?Too scary, too babyish, too slow, a word they didn’t know.
  • Which character did they go back to?The one they pick twice is the one that’s working.

Being straight with you

It’s free, and there’s nothing to buy
No card, no upsell, no trial that turns into a subscription.
Stories take about thirty seconds to start
The story is being written while you wait. A short video plays in the meantime.
The voice is a computer, and sounds like one
It’s good, and it isn’t a person. We’re still tuning the pace.
Some stories will be better than others
Tell us about the bad ones. They’re more useful to us than the good ones.
Your child’s name and age are used to write their story
Nothing is shared or sold, and you can have it all deleted by asking.

One thing for grown-ups only

Behind a PIN, you can pick a gentle theme for each child: falling asleep, bad dreams, fear of the dark, big feelings. It never becomes a lesson or a meditation. It shows up as a small cloud who learns to hold its rain until morning, and the child just hears a good story.

I’m a hypnotherapist, and this is the part I actually know something about. Leave it switched off if you’d rather. Most nights it should just be a fun story.

Try it with your family

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Thank you, genuinely. A story app lives or dies on whether a five-year-old wants it twice, and you’re the only people who can tell me that.

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