Personalized audio stories
A personalized story about them, read aloud tonight.
Give Wayfable a name, an age and whatever they will not stop talking about this week. It 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 real story from our free library. Yours would have your child’s name in it. Read it all →
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 cubby 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
Three steps, a few minutes.
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Tell us about them
A first name, an age and whatever is going on this week. Up to 3 children can co-star in one story at no extra cost.
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Make a free account
An email, a password and a checkbox to confirm you are over 18. No card. You get 3 trial credits.
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Listen in a few minutes
It is written, narrated and illustrated while you wait. Play it on any phone or laptop, or in Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts or Overcast. One tap sends it to their Yoto player, once a Yoto account is linked.
If a story misses
Change a detail and make another. Text stories are free within fair use: 50 a month, up to 10 a day.
Where it plays
Two ways a story leaves your phone.
On a Yoto player
One tap sends it to their Yoto player, once a Yoto account is linked.
Making your own Yoto cards? Free icon creator → Yoto Card Limits Guide →
In a podcast app
Every story also arrives as a private feed you paste into Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts or Overcast, and plays on any phone or laptop. Anyone with the link can listen, and you can reset it at any time.
Before you start
Four things worth knowing.
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.
How bedtime mode works →You give up almost nothing about them
A first name and an age is all it takes. No last name, 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 3 children co-star in one story, each by name, at no extra cost.
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 or laptop.
Screen-free listening →On the research: three small studies of an adult and a child sharing a personalized book are encouraging, none of them tested a child listening alone, and we make no claim beyond that. Every study, sample and limit →
What it costs
Free to start. Credits for the audio.
A credit is what one story costs: 1 to 2 credits for a narrated story, 2 for an illustrated storybook, and replay is always free.
Free
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3 trial credits when you sign up, no card needed. Text stories free within fair use: 50 a month, up to 10 a day.
Start freeFounding Explorer
$9.99/month
20 credits a month. Unused credits roll over. Cancel anytime.
Become a Founding ExplorerThe Story Starter Pack
$66.99 once
120 story credits, enough for 60 to 120 narrated stories, plus 24 starters about the school year. Can be a gift.
See the packEarly members keep $9.99 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 canceled any month, and every story you have made stays in your library either way. How credits work → · Story starter pack →
Tonight
Tonight's story could be about them.
3 trial credits when you sign up, no card needed. Text stories are free within fair use: 50 a month, up to 10 a day.