Growing Stories: Fairy Tales

One family, picking the books and drawing every page. The first story is free forever and opens without an account. We add new ones as we make them.

Growing Stories is a small shelf of classic tales, retold and illustrated by hand for four- and five-year-olds.

You tell it who is reading, and the first story opens. No account, no card.

Each book runs around twenty pages, short enough that a four-year-old reaches the end. You read it aloud, one picture filling the screen at a time, and your child swipes when they are ready. Nothing autoplays, and no story is queued behind the one being read: when the story ends, the app ends with it.

THE STORIES

Every one is a public-domain classic, read, cut and rewritten by hand for the age it is meant for. Your child is the one it happens to, the one who steps onto the island and the one who builds the house of bricks. Every picture was drawn for the page it sits on, and redrawn when it wasn't right.

Each reader on the account picks who they look like in the pictures and keeps their own place in every book, so a younger sibling never loses an older one's page.

WHO MAKES IT

One family, in the evenings, once the dishes are done. It started as a way to get one boy to sit still long enough for a story. Every book was picked and rewritten by hand from there, which is why the shelf is short and grows slowly. Nothing on it is produced on demand by a machine.

READING TIME

After a set stretch of reading, a message suggests a break. Fifteen minutes by default, adjustable from five to thirty, and it never locks the screen mid-story. Each reader gets their own run at it. Colors stay soft rather than bright, and the app follows your phone's light or dark setting.

Stories are written for ages 4 and 5. More age bands are on the way.

PRIVACY

No ads and no ad networks. No third-party analytics or tracking SDKs. We collect nothing directly from a child and never sell personal information. The first reader you name stays on the device, and reaches us only if you create an account. Where there is an account, a parent holds it and children are profile names on it. You can delete your account, your children and all reading progress from inside the app at any time.

The app is available in English, Italian, Spanish, French and German. Stories are currently in English.

SUBSCRIPTION

Treasure Island stays free, always, and it opens without an account. The Grow subscription opens the rest of the library, monthly or annual, billed through your Apple account and canceled there. Subscribing needs an account, because a subscription has to belong to someone. No trial countdowns and no reminders to upgrade.

Questions or feedback: support@growingstories.app

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