Audio stories for the moment your child is living through.
School nerves, a new sibling, big feelings, curiosity, connection, pure imagination. You read every word before they hear it.Built on real child development research, and nothing reaches your child until you've read it and pressed approve.
Stories they ask for again.
Every story stays on the shelf: the first day of school, the new brother, the swimming lesson. A little record of growing up — and you made every one.
Mia's First Day · the first minute
0:00 / 0:00A finished audio story in about two minutes.
- 01Choose a story
Pick from hand-built story seeds — ready-made starting points like "new sibling", "first day of school", "space adventure". Each one is designed for a specific age and purpose.
- 02Make it theirs
Answer a couple of quick questions about what's happening in their life right now. The story is written around their world.
- 03The story is written
Written around your answers, to a child development framework, in language that fits your child's age.
- 04You approve every wordThe promise
Read the full story before it becomes audio. Edit anything, or start fresh.
- 05It's read aloud properly
Narrated in your chosen accent, mixed with background music. Listen in the app, as an MP3, or on their Yoto.
Start with what's happening, not a blank page.
You never have to dream up a story from nothing. Tell us what's going on in their world — a first day, a new baby, a big question — then choose the kind of story that fits. Each kind is built on its own piece of child development research.
A story where a character just like them faces the same worry — and finds their way through it. How child therapists use stories: rehearse the hard thing safely, before it happens.
Turn that curiosity into a story where they explore and experiment for themselves. The story asks the questions; your child does the figuring out.
Pure imagination — pirate quests, magical doors, cloud kingdoms. The kind of stories that make bedtime the best part of the day. Built on the creative play research: pretending is how children practise thinking, and it needs no moral stapled on.
A gentle story shaped around your family, your routines, and the small things that matter to them. Built around your real routines, because attachment research says shared rituals are what build the bond.
A story for neurodivergent children — autism, ADHD, sensory sensitivities. Predictable pacing, literal language, and routines they can practise before they happen. Every support story gets an extra check for literal language before you see it.
You read it before they hear it.
Gently Told isn't an open prompt box for kids. It's a guided story-making tool for parents, and this is your review screen: read the story, change anything you'd like, then approve it to make the audio.
Read every word before your child hears it. Edit anything, or reject it and get your credit back. Topics are checked for safety before a word is written, and the language matches your child's age.
Bibliotherapy for the hard weeks, inquiry-based learning for curious ones, attachment theory for connection. Every story comes with a guide naming the studies behind it.
I built Gently Told because I wanted bedtime stories that were actually about my daughter: her name, her world, whatever she's going through that week. Something that helps her feel understood.
So I read the research properly: bibliotherapy, attachment theory, social narratives. Every story is built on one of those frameworks, and the guide for each one names the studies. It's just me and my wife building this, and a very opinionated three-year-old who tells us when a story isn't good enough.
Their stories, on their Yoto.
Read the story, press approve, and the audio is produced. One tap sends it to a Make Your Own card in their Yoto. A story about them, in their hands, no screen anywhere.
No Yoto? Listen in the app, or download the MP3 and play it on any speaker or in the car.
The first story is free. After that, buy a pack, not a subscription.
Make one for a real moment in your child's life, then decide if it belongs in your bedtime routine. Credits come in packs, never expire, and there's no subscription to cancel or feel guilty about.
- Narration in your chosen accent
- Background music
- A parent discussion guide
- MP3 download and Yoto sync
Prices shown in USD and processed securely by Stripe. Credits never expire, and are shared across every child on the account.
Every story starts with a hand-built seed — a story framework designed around child development research (bibliotherapy, attachment theory, or social narrative approaches). You choose the seed, add your child's details, and a unique story is written just for them. Content filters check for safety, and you approve every word before your child hears it.
The first story is free.
Choose the moment, add a name, read it first. Their shelf starts with one story.
