A story book your child reads to themselves — in your voice.
Every page is a big picture tile. Your child taps the lit one, hears you read that page, and the next tile opens. No reading needed, no grown-up needed.
- No ads
- No tracking
- No account to make
- Twelve classics included
How it works
Three steps, about ten minutes.
You make it once. They read it a hundred times, and every time it sounds like you.
Write the words
A line or two per page. Their name, their dog, the trip to the beach last weekend. TapTales picks a picture for each page, and you can swap any of them.
Record each page
Tap the microphone on a tile and read it. Or read the whole story aloud once and TapTales cuts it into pages for you.
Hand it over
Only the next tile is lit, so there's nothing to get wrong. Tap, listen, tap the next one. Pages they've heard stay open to hear again.
Your story, your voice
Grandma can read it too — from her own phone.
Add up to five people to your family. Each one records the pages in their voice, and your child picks who's reading tonight.
- ✓Everyone records on their own phone. Stories and voices sync through iCloud, so a grandparent across the country is one tap away.
- ✓You choose what each person sees. Share every story, or only the ones you pick for them.
- ✓A storyteller voice when you want one. With Pro, pick from five narrators and TapTales reads your story aloud for you.
Made for small hands
They can't wander off into your phone.
A tap on the ✕ does nothing. Leaving a story takes a press and hold, which a three-year-old doesn't stumble into.
- ✓Hold to exit. About a second and a half on the small ✕ in the corner. Add Face ID if you'd like a real lock.
- ✓Guided Access, walked through. TapTales shows you how to keep the phone inside the app.
- ✓Nothing to buy from a story. No ads, no links, no pop-ups. The grown-up parts are behind Settings.
Everything in the box
Small app. Does the one thing well.
No feed, no streaks, no characters selling anything. Stories you made, read the way you read them.
Twelve classics, already narrated
The Three Little Pigs to Stone Soup, read end to end by a storyteller. Ready on day one.
Three ways to start a story
Write it tile by tile, paste one you already have, or read it aloud and let TapTales make the tiles.
Pictures they recognise
Every page gets a big, bright picture. Pick from the set or use any emoji — the dog, the cake, the bus.
On every device you own
Stories and recordings sync through your own iCloud. Record on your phone, hand them the iPad.
Slow it down
Set the reading speed for new listeners. It applies to your recordings as well as the narrators.
Private by design
No account, no ads, no analytics. We never receive your stories or your recordings.
On the shelf from the first launch
Twelve stories to start with.
Every page narrated. Free, and they stay free.
- The Three Little Pigs
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears
- The Tortoise and the Hare
- The Little Red Hen
- The Three Billy Goats Gruff
- Chicken Little
- The Ugly Duckling
- Stone Soup
- The Enormous Turnip
- The Lion and the Mouse
- The Elves and the Shoemaker
- The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
Pricing
Start free. Upgrade if you want more.
The free app isn't a trial. Everything listed there works for as long as you use it.
TapTales
Nothing to sign up for.
- All twelve narrated classics
- Write as many stories of your own as you like
- Record three of them in your own voice
- Any story read by the iPhone voice
- Family sharing and iCloud sync
TapTales Pro
Cancel any time in your Apple account.
- Record as many stories as you want, in as many voices
- Read a story aloud once and get the tiles made for you
- Paste a story and have it split into pages
- Five stories a month narrated by a storyteller — pick from five voices
- One tap fills every tile with a picture that matches its words
Pro is an auto-renewing monthly subscription bought inside the app. Payment is charged to your Apple account and renews each month unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. See the Terms of Use.
Tonight's story, in your voice.
Make the first one in about ten minutes. It'll get read long after you've put the phone down.
Download on the App Store