Vunali
Read me that one again.
Forty illustrated stories for children 2 to 8. Nothing in them autoplays, nags, or sells your child anything, and when the story ends the app goes quiet. Five of the stories are free, with no card and nothing to cancel.
Coming to iPhone, iPad and Android. Five stories are free; the rest of the library is $7.99 a month or $69.99 a year, with a one-time lifetime option too.
Your child picks the story.
Ten kinds of story, each with its own colour and its own cover, so a child who cannot read yet can still choose. Forty to start with, and more stories to come.
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The Loudest Dinosaur
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The Moon Lost a Button
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The Dragon Who Squeaked
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Why Does the Orange Float?
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The Tortoise and the Hare
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King Midas and the Golden Touch
Four steps, and none of them is a fight.
It is 9:30 and you have one story left in you. Everything you have to do happens before the story starts. The rest of it belongs to your child.
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They choose it themselves
A picture, a colour for the kind of story, and the minutes and the age on every cover. A four-year-old can pick a story before they can read its title.
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You read it together
A whole page of picture and a few lines of story, set in an easy-to-read typeface at whatever size suits the two of you.
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The room gets darker
Turn on bedtime and the page dims like a room with one lamp left on. The light settles around the words as the story runs.
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It remembers the page
Stop wherever you like. Tomorrow the story opens at the same picture, with nothing lost and nothing to explain.
The same face, story after story.
You have probably seen this go wrong. The girl's coat is red on page four and orange on page nine, and your child stops leaning in a while before you work out why.
The pictures are made with AI, and we would rather say so
You will hear it from us and not from a comment thread. What we will not do is let a character change between one story and the next, because that is the part that actually breaks the story.
Six things it will never do to your child.
Not one of them is coming later.
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No adverts
Not between stories, not on the shelf, not anywhere.
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Nothing follows your child around
No advertising profile, no tracking, nothing handed to anybody else.
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No streaks, points or badges
Nothing rewards, ranks or nags.
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It does not autoplay
The story ends and the app goes quiet. It will not fill the silence for you.
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No cartoon host
Nothing talks at your child or performs for them.
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No prices where a child can see them
Anything to do with money sits behind a gate only a grown-up can pass.
Five stories are free. No trial, no card.
Read them tonight, and again next month. Nothing counts down and nothing has to be cancelled. If your child wants the rest, choose a monthly, yearly, or one-time lifetime payment in the Parent Room.
Free
five stories, always
- The Sea Has a Downstairs
- The Loudest Dinosaur
- The Moon Lost a Button
- The Dragon Who Squeaked
- Why Does the Orange Float?
Whole stories, first page to last, in every language the app speaks. Two of them open a series.
$7.99
a month for all forty
Or $69.99 for the year. A one-time lifetime option will also be available in the Parent Room. Each option covers the growing library; no purchases appear inside a story.
What parents ask first.
Does it work without Wi-Fi?
Yes. Downloaded stories read anywhere, with no signal at all. The downloads themselves wait for Wi-Fi so they never use your cellular data.
Is my child's reading sent anywhere?
It stays on the device. With an account it also syncs, so a new phone picks up where the old one stopped. There is no advertising profile and nothing goes to anybody else.
What if I cancel?
Cancel any time in the Parent Room. You keep paid access through the period you have paid for. Downloaded paid stories rely on that access, while the five free stories stay. Lifetime access does not renew.
How old is it for?
Two to eight. The shortest stories run about four minutes and the longest about twenty, and every cover says the age and the minutes before you open it.
What languages does it read in?
Seven, and every word of the story rather than only the menus: English, Español, Deutsch, Français, Italiano, Português and 中文. Your child reads in the language you speak at home.
Does it read the story aloud?
Not yet. For now the reading is yours, which is why the words came first. A narrated version, with each line lit as the voice reaches it, arrives in English and Spanish first.