Once upon

Any idea, big or small, becomes a real book — a storybook, a coloring book or a puzzle book — written and drawn in minutes. Read it, color it and play it in the app, or print it out.

See the storybook shelf · Free printable coloring page

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What it looks like in your hands.

For the bedtime stories you build together
Prompt ready ideas for inspiration
Create any type of animation style you want
One tap makes a print-ready book file
Enjoy on the phone, tablet or printed
Create a storybook, colouring book or activities book
Multiple magical styles to choose from
Create colouring books for at home or on the road
Feed your ideas or ask AI to do it
Share your magical stories with family

A peek inside the app.

Story Nook home screen with the Create New Story button, in the new clay look.
The library with every book you have made.
A coloring page in the app.
The story reader.

Chapter one

It starts with what they say.

"An elephant. A tiger. One very small bird."Said out loud, at bedtime

Story Nook takes the idea and writes the story around it: a beginning, a middle, a brave bit near the end. Then it draws every page in the style your child picked.

The elephant, the tiger and the little bird on the cover all came from that one line.

Book cover: a grey elephant, a small fluffy bird wearing a leaf necklace and an orange tiger with a compass medallion, together in a sunlit bamboo jungle.
Elara and Rori's Jungle JourneyAnime
Elara and Rori's Jungle Journey. One of the styles a child can choose.

Chapter two

Every page, in one style.

Pick claymation and claymation it stays, page after page.

Claymation, this time. Twelve styles to choose from — and every coloring book prints for the car, the plane, or a quiet afternoon at home, or gets finished right in the app with a digital colour palette, tap by tap.

Book cover in claymation: a zookeeper kneels beside a bear in a green knitted vest while monkeys, a lion and a giraffe look on.
The Zookeeper and the Bear's Big Talk. Claymation.

Four of the twelve art styles.

A Story Nook storybook page in the 3D animation art style
3D animation
A Story Nook storybook page in the anime art style
Anime
A Story Nook storybook page in the claymation art style
Claymation
A Story Nook storybook page in the sketch art style
Sketch

And two more kinds of book.

A Story Nook coloring book page of an astronaut, a smiling rocket and planets, ready to print and color
Coloring book
Galaxy Explorers' Maze Adventure, a Story Nook puzzle book cover
Puzzle book
Leo and Maceo's Sweet Escape storybook cover.
Leo's bookHis name, on the cover
Stardust the Lonely Warrior storybook cover.
Maceo's bookOne of his adventures
Serena and the Whispering River storybook cover.
Serena's bookHer name, on the cover
Cody and Little Hawk's Great Creation storybook cover.
Cody & Little Hawk's bookTheir names, on the cover

A real book. A real name on the cover.

Leo has one. So do Maceo, Serena, and Little Hawk. Next time it's your child's name up there, and you'll be the one who wrote it, together, at bedtime.

And when the book ends, it doesn't have to. Ask for the next one and the same heroes come back, in the same style, for a brand-new adventure. Not a one-off. A series.

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Chapter four

The grown-up pages.

Every book opens in an editor: a Story Bible that keeps characters straight, Magic Edit for a quick fix, and one tap to a PDF or an EPUB. Want it in print? Story Nook makes the print-ready file for Kindle Direct Publishing; you upload it to your own KDP account, because Story Nook doesn't print or ship books itself.

The real Story Nook editor: Story Bible, Magic Edit, and Save as PDF, Publish (KDP), and eBook (EPUB) export buttons, with a book cover open.
The real editor. Story Bible, Magic Edit, and export to PDF, EPUB or print file.
No photo of your child. Ever.
Story Nook never asks for one, and never will. Your child's face doesn't belong in an AI model, and a real book doesn't need it: the hero is drawn from a description, and looks like no one but themselves.
They come back.
Each hero gets a character sheet, and the next book in the series is drawn from that same reference. Sequels, remixes, a whole shelf with the same heroes.
Fix a page, keep the hero.
Change a page in the editor and the character sheet goes with it, so a fix is meant to keep your hero looking like your hero. If a page comes back silly, fix it again; it's one tap.
Share the shelf.
Invite a co-parent or a grandparent, and everyone reads from the same library — new chapters land for the whole family, not just one phone.
Not a wasted minute.
A book takes about a minute to draw. Spot-the-difference, memory match and pair-up games fill that minute instead of a loading bar.
No ads. No tracking.
Nothing sold, nothing followed. The book is the product.
A grown-ups' area.
Behind a quick sum only an adult would bother with: hide the games at bedtime, set a screen-time timer.
Four languages.
English, Spanish, French and German, for the app and for the books it makes.
What does it cost?
Story Nook is free to download and your first 3 books are free. After that, Premium is $7.99 a month for up to 10 new books a month. More in the FAQ, and the safety page covers privacy.