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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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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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MagicTales.io
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Magic Bookshelf - AI Stories
✓ verifiedFreemium
Mobile app that generates personalized, narrated children's stories where the child and their chosen characters star.
1.6K 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)
Monthly: $9.99/mo (unlimited stories, narration, PDF export)
Annual: $6.67/mo (billed annually, unlimited stories)
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premium plan: $6.99/mo
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
- ✦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
- ✦Personalized story generation using AI
- ✦Family photo integration
- ✦Customizable story events
- ✦AI-powered story generation
- ✦Personalized stories based on child's interests
- ✦Printable illustrations
- ✦Audio stories
- ✦Customizable characters, settings, and plots
- ✦Visual character/avatar builder for kids
- ✦Personalized stories with chosen characters
- ✦Illustrated scenes and audio narration
- ✦Ad-free, kid-safe environment
- ✦Multi-language support
Use cases
- →Creating interactive fiction for fun
- →Collaborative storytelling and world-building
- →Generating illustrated short stories
- →Prototyping narrative game concepts
- →Creating personalized bedtime stories
- →Helping children practice reading
- →Classroom storytelling activities
- →Reading practice for language learners
- →Creating personalized storybooks for children featuring family members.
- →Creating personalized bedtime stories for children
- →Providing engaging reading material for kids
- →Making bedtime a special moment for parents and children
- →Create bedtime stories starring your child
- →Encourage reluctant readers
- →Co-create stories as a family activity
- →Provide safe, educational screen time
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