Reading at 8:30pm, one lamp on

Bedtime,
but savored.

A warm little world where you and your kid settle in together. Hand-painted stories, gentle narration, and not a single ad in the way.

No card. No ads. Your first five nights, free.
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Built for the parent reading aloud.

Everything storyoh does, it does so you can hand your kid a screen at 8pm without flinching.

ADAPTIVE READING

Stories that fit your kid.

Text size, tap targets, pace, and vocabulary all tune themselves to your kid's age band. You set it once.

A
Sprout · ages 4–6
The fox stopped by the river.
A
Sapling · ages 7–9
The fox stopped at the river's edge, listening.
A
Branch · ages 10–12
The fox paused where the river bent south, ears tilted toward something only she could hear.
GENTLE NARRATION

We read it with you.

Real voice actors, never AI-cloned. Replay any sentence; pick a slower pace for sleepy nights.

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WONDER QUESTIONS

One question worth carrying.

Each story ends with a small wonder. For the ride to school, or the breakfast you actually share.

Why did the fox listen instead of run?
What would you hide in your pocket?
HUMAN-MADE

Written by people. Read by people.

Named authors, paid voice actors. Never AI-cloned, never scraped.

Aisha MwangiNarrator · 24 stories
Lily ChenAuthor · The Fox & the River
TIME OF DAY

Cream paper to twilight, automatically.

Daybefore 7pm
Dim7–9pm
Deepunder covers
TOGETHER

Take turns reading aloud.

YOUThe fox stopped by the river.
MAYASomething was different tonight.
WEEKLY INSIGHTS

How bedtime is going.

24min
across 3 stories · up from 18

No ads. No streaks.

Built so you can hand over the tablet.

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Works on planes.

Stories save automatically for road trips and flights.

Auto-saveNo signal needed
JOURNEYS

Stories that build on each other, night by night.

Pick a theme. We thread 7–14 connected stories so the words, the characters, and the ideas compound. By night five, your reader notices things they missed on night one.

Maya's current journey

Brave Hearts

Ten nights of small-courage stories — about asking, telling, trying, and walking up the stairs alone. Rana the fox grows up across the trail.

Night 4 of 10·Next chapter unlocks tonight
  1. 01The Knock
  2. 02A Big Yes
  3. 03Smaller Than You
  4. TonightThe Garden After Dark
  5. 05Asking the Quiet One
  6. 06Up the Stairs Alone
  7. 07Three Wrong Turns
  8. 08The Long Walk Home
  9. 09A Hand Held Out
  10. 10Brave, Quietly
WHAT THIS TRAIL BUILDS
10 nightsAbout 7 minutes each
12 new wordsTucked in gently, never quizzed
Rana the foxReturns through the trail
3 threadsAsking · trying · staying
By night five, Maya started asking the quiet kid at recess if he was okay. She didn't know that was Brave Hearts. She just thought it was something Rana would do.
— Sarah K., parent of a Sprout · Brooklyn

Around the World

Folktales from fourteen places they haven't been yet. Maps tucked in the back.

14 nightsAges 7–12

Wonder & Why

Seven stories that end with a question worth chewing on. For the breakfast you actually share.

7 nightsAges 7–12

Kindness, Quietly

Ten friendship stories where no one needs to win — and the smallest gestures matter most.

10 nightsAges 4–9

Tiny Things, Big Hearts

Stories about a button, a feather, a key — small things that turn out to matter.

8 nightsAges 4–6

Once Upon a Long Ago

Folktales and myths from before any of us were here. Old shapes, fresh tellings.

12 nightsAges 7–12

Animals & Their Worlds

One creature each night — how they live, what they notice, where they sleep.

10 nightsAges 4–9

Shape a journey of your own.

Tell us a theme — courage, grief, a new sibling, a move to a new city. We'll thread a path that fits, in about five days.

HOW IT WORKS

Open a story in three taps.

From "What should we read?" to settled in under a minute.

STEP ONE

Pick your reader.

Tell us their age. We tune text size, pace, tap targets, and vocabulary to fit. Up to four readers on a family plan.

STEP TWO

Choose tonight's story.

The library suggests a short one for sleepy nights or a longer one for road trips. Or pick a favorite they've asked for twice.

STEP THREE

Settle in together.

Tap to turn pages, or let narration read aloud. Cream paper by day, twilight by 8pm. You set the pace.

FOR EVERY AGE

One library. Three reading worlds.

storyoh grows with your kid. Switch profiles, and the whole app shifts to fit.

Sprout · Ages 4–6
22px reading"The fox stopped by the river."
  • Oversized text, 56px tap targets
  • Narration auto-plays softly
  • 5–8 minute stories
Sapling · Ages 7–9
18px reading"The fox stopped at the river's edge, listening."
  • Balanced text, 48px tap targets
  • Tap to turn pages, narration optional
  • 8–12 minute stories
Branch · Ages 10–12
16px reading"The fox paused where the river bent south, ears tilted toward something only she could hear."
  • Standard text, 44px tap targets
  • Chapter bookmarks, narration off by default
  • 12–18 minute stories
A REAL STORY

Read a page before you sign up.

Every story is written for storyoh by a human author, then voiced by a real reader.

The Fox & the River

The fox stopped at the river's edge and tilted her ears toward the water. Something was different tonight. The reeds bent the way they always bent. The moon sat in the river the way the moon always sat. But underneath, a small song was moving, threading between the stones, looking for someone to follow it home.

Chapter 1 · Narrated by Aisha M.
1:48
WHAT IT BUYS YOU

Bedtime, but better — really.

Four real things storyoh changes about your evenings, starting tonight.

A calmer wind-down.

Stories are paced to settle a kid down, not rev them up. Most parents see lights-out drop by 12–18 minutes within a week.

Vocabulary that sticks.

Words sit one notch above grade level. Tap any tricky word for a gentle inline meaning — never a quiz, never a popup.

Something to talk about.

Every story ends with one "wonder question." For the ride to school, or the next breakfast you actually share.

The mental load, lifted.

Tonight's pick is already chosen — tuned to your kid's age, mood, and the time on the clock. No "what should we read?"

PARENTS

Quiet wins.

What parents tell us, in their words.

My six-year-old asks for storyoh instead of YouTube. That's the whole review.
Sarah K.
Parent of a Sprout, Brooklyn
Finally a kids' app that doesn't try to sell my kid something every fifteen seconds.
Daniel & Kemi O.
Parents of a Sapling, Austin
The stories are actually good. My ten-year-old finished one and asked who wrote it.
Priya R.
Parent of a Branch, Toronto
PRICING

Free to try. Family-friendly to keep.

No card to start. One plan when you're ready. Cancel in a tap.

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  • Five free nights
  • One reader profile
  • All ages, all bands
  • Day / Dim / Deep modes
FAQ

Questions parents ask.

Is the kid side actually walled off from settings and billing?

Yes. Once a story is open, the kid never sees parent UI. Any exit toward settings, billing, or profile-switching passes through a soft math gate (“What's 7 + 4?”) for older kids, or a hold-three-dots tap for ages 4–6. Never a PIN — those get written on paper.

Is the narration AI-generated?

No. Every story is read by a real voice actor at a gentle pace, recorded for bedtime. We pay the people who read for us.

Does it work on planes and road trips?

Yes. Stories you've opened recently download automatically for offline reading. On the Family plan, you can also “save for offline” any story in the library.

Will you sell our data or show ads later?

No. We don't have an advertising business model and we don't plan to. We make money when families subscribe. That's it. We store a small login cookie and your reading history. That's it.

What devices does storyoh run on?

iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets, plus the web. One account works across all of them — Maya's library follows her from the iPad on the couch to the phone in the car.

How do I cancel?

One tap from Settings → “End subscription.” No “Are you sure?”, no confirmation page, no win-back offer. We don't do dark patterns.

One lamp on. One journey. Tonight.

Start with five nights, free. No card. No ads. You'll know in a week whether storyoh belongs in bedtime.