English with fairy tales

Discover English through the magic of fairy tales.
I’ll Tell You a Story combines reading, listening and vocabulary practice in one simple, fully offline app. Explore a rich collection of classic and international stories in English, choose texts suited to your level and learn new words naturally, in context.
READ
Enjoy hundreds of fairy tales with a clear, comfortable reader. Search by title, author or collection, save your favourites, adjust the text size and continue from where you stopped.
LEARN
Switch to Learn mode and tap highlighted words to see their meaning and translation. Listen to the pronunciation, save useful terms in My Words and review them whenever you like.
LISTEN
Hear each story with English text-to-speech. Follow the highlighted sentence, change the narration speed and repeat passages to improve listening and pronunciation.
PERSONALISED FOR YOU
Choose your interface language and English level. The app suggests suitable stories and tracks completed tales, discovered words, learned words and reading time.
YOUR OWN VOCABULARY
Build a personal word list and move each term from New to Learning and Learned. Every saved word remains connected to the story where you found it.
READ AGAIN WITHOUT HELP
After completing a story, try the challenge mode: hide translations, read independently and check only the words you really need.
• 380 English stories
• 16 collections
• Estimated difficulty levels
• Interface and offline vocabulary support in English, Italian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Simplified Chinese
• Works without an internet connection
• No account required
Read. Learn. Listen. Let every story take your English a little further.