Ages 3–4
30–45 words a pageSimple, rhythmic, full of sound words
Splash! Splash!
Splash! Splash! Two green boots. Splash! Splash! One big puddle. Milo jumps in. The water goes UP — and Milo laughs and laughs.
Every story safety-reviewed before your child sees it
Hundreds of beautiful bedtime stories.Or a brand-new one, starring your child, in 60 seconds.
FablePond is a pond full of illustrated stories to dip into tonight — and a story machine that writes a warm, gentle, one-of-a-kind adventure with your child as the hero.
- No card needed
- 3 free stories a month
- Free shelf always open
- Cancel in one click
Try it right here
Milo woke up to a morning full of adventure. The window was gold with sunshine, and the pond outside was already awake — hush, hush, went the reeds — as though the whole day had been waiting politely for one small person to open both eyes.
Every story in the library can be re-cast with your child as the hero, in about ten seconds.
Make your first story freeNo card needed · 3 free stories every month
Tonight's shelf
Ready to read the moment you sign in.
Nia and the Sleepy Lantern
Sample
Milo loved the hush of night, when the sky turned soft and blue. But one evening, one small star flickered weakly, dimmer than it knew how to be. 'Are you alright, little star?' Milo whispered from his window, tucked snug in his cloud-soft pajamas.
A real FablePond story — turn the pages.
Read one now. Make one after.
The library is the front door: hundreds of pre-drawn, safety-reviewed stories, filtered by age band, theme and length. Tap one and you are reading in a second — no waiting, no setup, no metering.
Then, when your child asks for a story about me, one tap re-casts any of them with your child as the hero — or writes something entirely new from scratch.
Start reading free60s
to a brand-new illustrated story
10s
to star your child in a library story
2×
safety review on every single story
3–9
years old, in three tuned age bands
Three steps, then it is just bedtime
Set up takes under a minute, and you never have to do it again.
Step 1
Tell us who is listening
A first name, an age band, and a few things they love. That is genuinely all we store — no birthdates, no photos, no last names.
Step 2
Pick a story, or make one
Open anything on the shelf and read it instantly. Or choose a theme and let FablePond write a brand-new illustrated story from scratch.
Step 3
Read it tonight, and forever
It lands on your child’s bookshelf and stays there — with narration, bedtime mode, and a printable PDF on Premium.
Our safety promise
Every story is checked by a dedicated safety layer before your child sees it — no scary, sad, or unsafe content, ever.
Stories are written under a hard rule set, then reviewed a second time by a separate safety pass that only decides pass or fail. Nothing skips it. If a story fails twice, it is never shown to anyone — you get a friendly note, your story credit back, and it goes straight to our review queue.
- No violence, weapons, injury or death
- No monsters-as-threats, no darkness-as-danger
- Nothing frightening — tension is mild and resolved within two pages
- Your child is never in real danger and never mocked
- Every ending is warm, safe and calming
- No romance, religion, politics or brands
And about your child's data
We store a first name or nickname, an age band and a few interests. Never birthdates, last names, photos, location, school or gender. Children have no accounts and never type anything into FablePond — accounts are adults-only. Read the Privacy Policy.
The same story machine, tuned three ways
Sentence length, vocabulary and plot complexity all shift with the age band you choose.
Ages 5–6
45–65 words a pageOne gentle challenge, resolved happily
The Wobbly Bridge
The bridge wobbled. Milo did not like wobbling. But Bramble the fox held out one paw and said, "Wobbling is just what bridges do while you are being brave." So they crossed it together, one slow step at a time.
Ages 7–9
60–80 words a pageRicher words and a small, kind twist
The Lighthouse Keeper’s Ledger
The ledger was ancient, its pages soft as moth wings, and every entry was written in the same careful hand — until the last one, which simply said: "Look under the third stair." Milo looked. What was waiting there had been patient for ninety-one years.
Everything else that makes bedtime easier
Narration you can fall asleep to
One warm narrator voice, generated per story and cached. Autoplay turns the page for you — and on the app it works from the lock screen.
A real, printable storybook
A watermark-free A5 landscape PDF: cover, one illustration and paragraph per page, and a "Made for {your child}" end page. Several parents have had them bound.
Bedtime mode
A dim, warm-tinted reader that will not wake anybody up, for the last three pages when the room is already dark.
Tonight’s suggestion
One library pick and one story idea, chosen from what your child loves, waiting on the bookshelf every evening.
Star your child in anything
Any library story can be re-cast with your child as the hero in about ten seconds — the illustrations are already drawn.
A bookshelf that is yours forever
Cancel any time and every story you have made stays readable. We will never hold a family’s stories hostage.
What parents and teachers say
“The first time my daughter heard her own name in a bedtime story she sat bolt upright and made me read it three more times. We are now on story forty-one.”
Rachel M.
parent of a 5-year-old, Bristol
“I use the library at wind-down time and let the class vote. The safety layer is the reason I was allowed to use it at school at all.”
Daniel O.
Year 1 teacher, Manchester
“We printed the PDF of the one about her new baby brother and had it bound. It was the best five pounds I have ever spent.”
Priya S.
parent of a 4-year-old, Leeds
Illustrative testimonials shown during launch — replace with verified customer quotes before public release.
Reading is always free. Making is where we charge.
The free shelf never runs out and is never metered. Pay only when you want the whole pond.
Free
Dip a toe in the pond
Free
- The free shelf — ~30 rotating illustrated stories
- 3 personalised story creations each month
- 1 child profile
- Read as much as you like — reading is never limited
- — Narration audio
- — PDF downloads
- — Bedtime mode
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Premium
The whole pond, every night
$12.99/month
or $119/year — about 24% off
- The entire library — every title, always
- Unlimited story creation (fair use: 8 a day)
- Star your child in any library story
- Standard 12-page stories
- 4 child profiles
- Warm narration audio
- Printable storybook PDFs
- Bedtime mode
Family
For grandparents too
$19.99/month
or $189/year — about 21% off
- Everything in Premium
- A higher fair-use ceiling — 10 stories a day
- 8 child profiles
- 2 extra adult seats — share the bookshelf
- Priority story generation
14-day money-back guarantee on your first subscription · Cancel in one click · Refund Policy
The things parents ask first
Safety is the whole product, not a feature. Every story — library or newly created — is written under a strict rule set (no violence, no weapons, no death or injury, no monsters-as-threats, nothing frightening, always a warm ending) and then reviewed a second time by a dedicated safety pass before anyone sees it. If a story fails review twice, it is never shown: you get a friendly message, your story credit back, and it goes to our review queue.
A first name or nickname, an age band (3–4, 5–6, 7–9), and a few interests. That is all. No birthdates, no last names, no photos, no location, no school, no gender. The form will not even accept them. Your child never has an account and never types anything into FablePond — accounts are adults-only.
About 60 seconds for a brand-new illustrated story from scratch. Re-casting an existing library story with your child as the hero takes around 10 seconds, because the pictures are already drawn. Library stories open instantly.
The free shelf — roughly 30 rotating illustrated titles — is always open, and reading is never metered. Free accounts also get 3 brand-new personalised story creations every month and one child profile.
They stay yours. Your bookshelf remains readable forever — we will never hold a family’s stories hostage. Cancelling only stops new creations and closes the premium half of the library. Cancellation is one click in Settings, exactly as easy as signing up.
Yes. Each story locks a single visual description of its hero and a fixed seed, and every page is drawn in the same soft watercolour-and-coloured-pencil house style. Your child looks like the same child on page one and page twelve.
Teachers are welcome — pick the teacher role at signup. The Family plan gives you 8 reader profiles and two extra adult seats. Stories are for personal and classroom use; they are not licensed for resale.
No. Child first names are sent to our generation providers solely to write that one story, and our provider accounts are configured so this content is not used for model training. We keep anonymised generation telemetry to improve the service — never names.
Premium and Family subscribers can download any story as a watermark-free A5 landscape storybook PDF — cover, one illustration and paragraph per page, and a "Made for {your child}" end page. Several parents have had them spiral-bound as birthday presents.
Yes — a universal iPhone and iPad app with offline reading, narration with lock-screen controls, and an iPad two-page book spread. Your account and subscription are managed here on the web, and you simply sign in on the app.
Still unsure? Email us — a person answers.
Tonight's story is already waiting.
Sign up free, meet your child's bookshelf, and read something lovely in the next two minutes.
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