Hands-free storytelling

Put the book down.
Tell the story.

Your hands free to be the lion. Your eyes on your child. Story Isai listens as you tell it, in your own words, and brings the sound at exactly the right moment.

Coming soon to Android and iPhone
Long before there were books, stories lived around the fire. A voice would drop to a whisper… and then, ROAR! Then stories got stuck on the page: read line by line, eyes down. Story Isai gives them back to you.
Two bedtimes

See what happens when your hands are free.

Sound on. Each film is under a minute.

A dad makes a toy mouse tiptoe across a sleeping toy lion; his daughter giggles.
47 sec

The Smallest Friend

The book goes down, the toys come out. A sleeping lion, a brave little mouse, and a snore right on cue.

In a tent at night, a dad holds a torch under his chin and makes claws with his hands; two children lean in.
44 sec

The Thing Outside the Tent

A torch, two wide-eyed kids, and a twig that snaps just as the voice drops to a whisper.

Why hands-free matters

A story is a performance, not a page.

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Eyes on your child

When your eyes are on the page, you miss the gasp. Hands-free, you see every face your child makes, and you play to it.

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Hands to play

Be the lion's paws, the tickle and the hug. Pick up the toys, make claws, hold the torch under your chin.

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Your own words

No script and no lines to hit. Tell it the way only you would tell it, and the sounds follow what you mean.

Listen

Same line. Same voice.

Play both and hear what your child will hear.

A father reads from a picture book at the bedside, eyes on the page.
Without Story Isai
“The lion was fast asleep, when a little mouse ran across his nose.”
The same father; a lion and a mouse spring from the phone lying face down by the lamp, and the child grins.
With Story Isai
“The lion was fast asleep, (snore) when a little mouse (scamper) ran across his nose.”

Turn your volume up to hear the sounds.

How Story Isai works

Tonight, in three steps.

Story constellations in the night sky: a lion, a mouse, three pigs, a goat on a bridge.
Step one

Hear it once

Pick a story. Our narrator tells it to you first, with all its sounds, so you know it by heart.

Step two

Phone face down

The screen goes fully black. Nothing glows, nothing to look at, so your child looks at you.

A dad performs a spooky story in a tent for two children.
Step three

Tell it your way

Whisper, roar, act it out. Story Isai listens and brings each sound at exactly the right moment.

A father in an armchair tells a story into his phone; a sleeping lion, a mouse and music notes float out on a golden ribbon.
Or record it

For the nights you can't be there.

Record a story in your own voice. We add the sound effects and the music, and your child can play it any night: your voice, with the lion's snore and the mouse's scamper.

Every recorded story can be told live later, too.

The screen goes black

No pictures. No glow.
Just your voice.

Most apps want your child's eyes on the screen. Story Isai goes fully dark, because your voice is the story, and your child's eyes belong on you.

Always your voice

Story Isai never tells the story for you. It only adds the sound.

Gentle while you tell

Sound effects arrive when they should, with only soft music beneath you.

No subscription

Buy a pack of stories once, and that's it.

A child asleep with a toy lion while a parent watches; story constellations glow in the night sky above.

Bring back the magic
of bedtime stories.

Told by you.

Story Isai is coming soon to Android and iPhone.