Personalised audio stories
A personalised story about them, read aloud tonight.
Give Wayfable a name, an age and whatever they will not stop talking about this week. Add a brother or a sister and they co-star, at the same price. The personalised story is written, narrated and illustrated for you, in minutes.
On the morning of her fifth birthday, Maisie woke up and something was different. She could see a garden. Not the real garden outside her window - a different garden, layered over the world like a painting on glass.
A story from our free library, narrated by Wayfable. Yours would have your child's name in it. Read the whole story →
Where to start
Start with what is going on this week.
A big change coming, a fear that has taken hold, or a subject they will not drop. Pick one and read a line from that story.
From a finished story: Starting school
“Maya’s peg had a hedgehog on it, and the hedgehog, it turned out, was new here too.”
These are rehearsals, not interventions. A story will not make Monday easy. It gives your child the words for it a few nights early, and something to ask you about on the way there. Browse all story themes →
How it works
One idea in. Everything else is done for you.
Tell us about them
Their name, their age band, tonight's obsession or tonight's problem. One line is enough.
It is written, narrated and illustrated
The story, the narrated audio and the cover art, ready in minutes. Read the written story and edit it before you spend a credit on the audio.
They press play
It plays on any phone, tablet or laptop. Link a Yoto account once, and any finished story goes to their player in one tap.
What it costs
Text is free. Credits buy the audio.
50 text stories a month within fair use, every month, for as long as you have an account. Credits are only for the narrated audio, the illustrated storybooks and one-tap delivery to a linked Yoto. A narrated story costs 1–2 credits depending on length, and replay is always free.
Free
£0
Free forever, not a trial
- No card needed
- 50 text stories a month, within fair use
- Up to 10 a day
- 3 trial credits, so you can hear one narrated
Founding Explorer
£7/month
20 credits a month, which is 10 to 20 narrated stories
- Unused credits roll over and never expire
- Multi-chapter series and illustrated storybooks
- One-tap delivery to a linked Yoto account
- Up to 3 siblings co-starring, at no extra cost
- Cancel anytime
Pay as you go
£10 once
20 credits, one payment, nothing to cancel
- Credits never expire
- Multi-chapter series included
- Illustrated storybooks included
The Story Starter Pack
£50 once
120 story credits, enough for 60 to 120 narrated stories
- 24 ready-made starters about the school year
- Paid once. Not a subscription, and the credits never expire
- A story set at their school, with their teacher in it
- Makes a good gift: buy it as a code and they redeem it into their own account
Early members keep £7 for as long as the subscription runs, and we will give at least 30 days' notice here before the rate changes for new members. We are new, so in practice: there is nothing to cancel on pay as you go, the subscription can be cancelled any month, and every story you have made stays in your library either way. How credits work → · Story starter pack →
Before you start
Four things worth knowing before you start.
They fall asleep to it, not fight it
A bedtime story is paced differently from a daytime one. The sentences get shorter as it goes and the last minute is deliberately quiet, so the story winds them down instead of winding them up.
How bedtime mode works →You give up almost nothing about them
A first name and an age band is all it takes. No surname, no date of birth, and their name never reaches our analytics or logs.
Read the privacy policy →One story the whole family can share
Up to three children star in it together, each by name, so nobody has to take a turn waiting. It costs the same as a story for one.
How sibling stories work →Ready wherever you need a moment
The back seat, the waiting room, the hour before bed. Stories play on any phone, tablet or laptop, and one tap sends a finished one to their Yoto player, once a Yoto account is linked.
Screen-free listening →
On the research: three small studies of an adult and a child sharing a personalised book are encouraging, none of them tested a child listening alone, and we make no claim beyond that. Every study, sample and limit →
Where it plays
Two ways a finished story leaves your phone.
On their Yoto player
One tap sends the story, the narration and the cover art to the player, once a Yoto account is linked. Nothing to rip, resize or upload.
How Yoto delivery works →In the podcast app you already use
Every story also arrives as a private feed you paste into Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts or Overcast, which is how it reaches the car. Anyone with the link can listen, and you can reset it at any time.
Listening in the car →Tonight
Tonight's story could be about them.
Three free trial credits and 50 free text stories a month, within fair use. Type one line about your child and Wayfable does the rest.
Write their first story