Capture kids’ ideas.Watch them grow.
From a little idea to a story, a game, a growing record of how they think.
Bedtime rambles. Car-seat monologues. Wild ideas about dragons, dinosaurs, aliens, and worlds only they could invent.
Nothing out-imagines a small child
Bedtime rambles
“Mom, what if a dragon lived in my bathtub?”
Car-seat monologues
“What if dinosaurs could drive?”
Sudden lectures
“Do you know why the moon doesn’t fall down?”
Games they invent
“You be the monster. I’ll be the firefighter!”
Some of these words may only happen once. You only need to record it or tell us about it.
How it works
They tell it
Hit record while they ramble at dinner, upload the voice memo you already took, or just type what you can remember. Made-up words and sideways grammar are the whole point — nothing gets corrected.
You choose what it becomes
The same story turns into a storybook you read together, or a game that plays by the rules they invented. One tap decides. A longer story earns more pages — one sentence makes one page, which keeps it quick and keeps it cheap.
They play with it
Read it together, or hand them the tablet and let them tap through the game they invented. It lands on their own profile with the stickers they’ve collected so far.
Two ways to keep a story
Both of these came out of a four-year-old talking. They’re live — turn the pages, tap the monsters.
Pages you read together
Four to ten pages, their exact words above each drawing, and the characters waking up as you turn to them. A tap reads the page aloud for the ones who can’t read yet.
📖 The storybook
The Dragon in My Bathtub
a story told by a 4-year-old
“There was a dragon and he lived in my bathtub.”
1. He lives in my bathtub
“But he was sad, because all his bubbles runned away.”
2. All his bubbles runned away
“So I catched them. One, two, three, four, five!”
3. One, two, three, four, five!
“And then he was happy and we had a bubble party.”
4. A bubble party
turn the pages — characters come alive on their own
Something they can tap and play
The same characters, but playable — shoo the monsters off, mend the grey houses, uncover the castle. Big slow targets for little fingers, and you decide whether losing is even possible.
🎮 The game
Not a story generator
A place for their stories to live
Every storyteller gets a profile — an animal, a colour, and a wall with every story they’ve ever told you on it. Books on one side, games on the other, stickers along the top. Siblings get one each, and compare them constantly.
A profile is not an account. Children never sign in, never type an email, never meet a stranger. You set it up and you keep the keys.
See a storyteller’s profile →Emma
Louis
Mei
Stickers
The grown-up’s room
Your recording, your child, your call
- 👀 See it before they do. Games are written fresh from each story, so by default one has to be played through by a grown-up before it opens from a child’s profile. Switch that off if you’d rather not.
- 🔒 Sandboxed by design. A generated game runs walled off from everything — it cannot reach your account, your data, or the rest of the app.
- 🙅 No child accounts. Children are profiles under your account. No child logins, no email addresses, no strangers, no feed to scroll.
- 🔗 Sharing off if you want it off. One toggle removes the share button everywhere, so nothing can get a public link by accident.
- 📦 Take it all with you. Export every profile and every story as one file — or delete the lot, whenever you like.
What it keeps, exactly
The point is the story, not the polish.
Their words, untouched
We never tidy up what they said. If the vacuum truck is a “VACUU”, it stays a VACUU — on the page and in the game.
Whatever language they speak
The story comes back in the language it was told in. Mandarin in, Mandarin out — no translating, no mixing.
Real crayon wobble
Thick strokes, dot eyes, blush cheeks, lines that wiggle like they were drawn on the kitchen floor. No slick vector art.
Reads itself aloud
A tap on any page reads it back, for the ones who can’t read yet but want to “read” it to you anyway.
Any recording works
iPhone Voice Memos, WhatsApp voice notes, the video you took at breakfast — mp3, m4a, wav, webm, ogg and flac.
Yours to take away
Every story downloads as one file that opens in any browser, forever. Export the whole family in a click, or delete it all just as easily.
Questions, answered
What is Little Storyteller?
A way to keep the stories your child makes up. You record or type what they said, and it comes back as a hand-drawn crayon storybook or a little game they can play — in their exact words, kept in their own profile.
Who is it for?
Grown-ups who want to hold on to what their child invents. It suits little ones from around three, when the made-up stories start and long before they can write any of it down themselves — and it keeps working for as long as they’ll tell you stories.
What can one story become?
Either a storybook — 4 to 10 illustrated pages that keep their exact words — or a game with a couple of levels built around the same characters. You can also keep the same story both ways.
Does it work in Chinese?
Yes. The story comes back in whatever language it was told in, and Chinese recordings are transcribed and illustrated in Chinese — never translated, never mixed. The site itself is available in Chinese too.
Do you keep the recording, or just the words?
Both, once you have an account. A transcript holds what they said and loses how they said it, so the recording is kept alongside the story and there’s a button to play it back — the words are on the page, but that is the voice. Without an account the audio is used to make the story and then it’s gone: storing a child’s recording needs an account it can belong to.
Do children use it themselves?
No. The account belongs to you, the grown-up, and children never sign in. You do the recording and the keeping; they do the telling, the reading and the playing. That means there are no child accounts and no child email addresses anywhere.
Are the games safe to hand over?
Each game is written fresh from your child’s story, so by default a grown-up plays it through once before it opens from a child’s profile. Games run walled off in a sandbox with no access to your account or your data, there is no way to lose and no game-over screen, and anything that moves drifts slowly enough for a three-year-old to catch.
Will it change or “clean up” what my child said?
No — keeping their exact words is the whole point. Made-up words, funny grammar and mispronunciations survive into the transcript and onto every page.
What audio files work, and is there a limit?
mp3, m4a, wav, webm, ogg and flac. Signed in there is no practical size limit; without an account keep it under 4MB — a compressed voice memo holds about 17 minutes, though an uncompressed .wav runs out in under two. There is also a daily cap on how many stories can be made, because each one costs real money to draw: three a day without an account, twenty once you sign in. It resets every 24 hours.
Do I need an account?
Not to make, read, play or download your first story. An account — free, one click with Google or a magic link — is what gives each child a profile of their own and keeps everything across your devices.
Who owns the stories?
You do. Recordings are only used to make the thing you asked for, every story downloads as a single self-contained file, and your account has an export-everything button and a delete-everything button right next to each other.
The things they say today become the stories you keep tomorrow
They say it. You save it. We make it real.
Make your first story — free →