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MyTales
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI-powered interactive fiction tool that continues a branching story from your choices, adding generated images and shareable results.
17K visits/mo131K saves
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Kindred Tales
✓ verifiedPaid
Kindred Tales turns a loved one's memories into a printed hardcover memoir via email prompts, an editor or an AI biographer.
1.8K visits/mo2.2K saves
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Once Upon A Bot
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI tool that turns a short prompt into illustrated, narrated children's stories you can edit, translate, export and share.
5.5K visits/mo6.9K saves
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Ryan AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
Mobile app that generates personalized, narrated fairy tales for children based on their interests and chosen lessons.
812 visits/mo
Pricing
Starter: Free (5 story sections/day)
Storyteller: $9.99/mo (100 sections/day)
Bard: $19.99/mo (300 sections/day)
One-time: $99 (12 months of Bard access)
No public pricing
Memoir: $99 one-time (hardcover book)
Monthly: $9.99/mo (unlimited stories, narration, PDF export)
Annual: $6.67/mo (billed annually, unlimited stories)
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦Branching AI-generated stories driven by user choices
- ✦Multiple AI model quality tiers
- ✦AI image generation for story scenes
- ✦Daily section limits that scale with plan
- ✦Public or private story sharing
- ✦API access on the top tier
- ✦Personalized story generation using AI
- ✦Family photo integration
- ✦Customizable story events
- ✦Weekly email story prompts
- ✦In-editor writing with inline photo placement
- ✦Ali, an AI biographer that asks follow-up questions
- ✦Printed hardcover memoir
- ✦One-time purchase (no subscription)
- ✦Free US shipping and 30-day money-back guarantee
- ✦AI story generation from a text prompt
- ✦AI-illustrated story pages
- ✦Narration with selectable voices
- ✦Reading level adjustment by age
- ✦Multilingual creation and translation
- ✦Upload photos to feature yourself in stories
- ✦Edit and export to PDF or share via link
- ✦Child profile-based story personalization
- ✦Custom lesson, character and topic selection
- ✦AI-generated narrated audio for stories
- ✦Ability to continue or add prompts to existing tales
- ✦Shared library of community-saved fairy tales
Use cases
- →Creating interactive fiction for fun
- →Collaborative storytelling and world-building
- →Generating illustrated short stories
- →Prototyping narrative game concepts
- →Creating personalized storybooks for children featuring family members.
- →Preserving a parent's or grandparent's life story
- →Creating a meaningful family gift
- →Capturing memories for low-tech relatives
- →Creating personalized bedtime stories
- →Helping children practice reading
- →Classroom storytelling activities
- →Reading practice for language learners
- →Creating a bedtime story tailored to a specific child
- →Teaching a lesson or value through a personalized narrative
- →Giving a child an audio-narrated story to listen to independently
- →Discovering and continuing stories shared by other parents
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