Storytailor®
Storytailor Inc. · Writing · Image · Leaning
Storytailor is an AI story generator for kids that turns a drawing or a small idea into a personalized children's book you can read, listen to, and play out together.
About Storytailor®
What Is Storytailor
Storytailor is a web app from Storytailor Inc. that builds personalized children's books around one child: their interests, their questions, the day they are dreading, the joke they keep repeating. You describe a character or upload a drawing, pick a reading age, and the platform writes a story with narration, read-along highlighting, and two activities to try once the screen goes dark.
It is aimed at families with children ten and under, and at the adults around them. Teachers, librarians, and care teams get shared libraries, lesson plans, and staff roles on the organization plans.
Plenty of parents go looking for a custom storybook app and find one that only swaps a name into a fixed template. Storytailor works from a blank idea instead, which is why the same account can produce a story about a first day at a new school and a story about a pancake dragon in the same evening.
The limits matter too. Stories come from AI, so details can be wrong and need a read-through before you share them with a child. Storytailor is a storytelling tool, not an assessment or a therapy service, and it runs in a browser rather than as a native app.
Getting Started
- Create an adult account at app.storytailor.com with an email, Apple, or Google sign-in. Children never get their own login.
- Make a character. Type a description, or upload a clean scan of a drawing and confirm the details before saving it to your library.
- Start a story from a small idea: a feeling, an event, a question, or one of the prompt suggestions. Set the reading age and the language.
- Read or listen together, tap unfamiliar words in Wonder Words, then open the activity card for something to do away from the screen.
Product Information
A quick look at Storytailor®'s pricing, supported platforms, and performance.
Best for
The users, tasks, and scenarios where this tool fits best.
Users
- Parents of children ten and under, including parents searching for stories for kids with disabilities
- Teachers, librarians, and afterschool staff
- Care teams and child-life specialists
Tasks
- Explaining a change at home
- Vocabulary practice
- Turning artwork into a recurring character
Scenarios
- Bedtime on a school night, when you want AI bedtime stories that finish in one sitting and end with a shared activity.
- The week before a first day at a new school, when a story about a nervous character gives a child words for their own worry.
- A classroom topic launch, where one story gives a group a common reference point before the lesson begins.
Key features
Characters Built From a Drawing
The character maker accepts a photo or scan of a child's artwork and turns it into a cast member with a name, a personality, and a place in the story. You review the details before it goes into the library. That character can star in later stories, so a drawing from last summer keeps coming back. Uploads are for artwork only, not photographs of children.
Stories That Start From a Small Idea
You don't need a plot. A feeling, a question, or a single odd image is enough to start, and the prompt bar offers suggestions if the page stays blank. You set the reading age and the language before generating, which keeps the vocabulary and sentence length in the right range for the child in front of you. Every story comes illustrated.
Narration, Read-Along, and Living Portraits
Each story includes audio narration and read-along highlighting, so a pre-reader can follow the words while a confident reader takes over. Living Portraits animate the character's face on the page. These are the features that make Storytailor usable for read-along stories with a child who can't read yet or who is learning a second language.
Wonder Words for Vocabulary
Tap a word inside a story and Storytailor pronounces it, explains the meaning, and saves it for later. The word stays attached to the moment in the story where it appeared, which gives you a natural opening to talk about it. Over time the saved list becomes a record of the words a child has met, not a flashcard deck to drill.
Activities After the Screen Goes Off
Eligible child stories come with two off-screen activities that carry the story into play, drawing, or conversation. Some families connect Philips Hue lights and Sonos speakers so the room changes with the story; both are optional and nothing breaks without them. The activity card is the part that turns a five-minute story into an afternoon.
Care Circle and Shared Libraries
A Care Circle lets you give chosen adults access to specific Storytailor IDs and the libraries attached to them, with separate permissions for reading and for creating. Family plans cover six adults on one subscription. The organization plans add staff roles, shared libraries, and lesson plans, which is what makes the same product work in a school and at home.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Two free stories and two free characters at signup, enough to judge the writing quality before paying.
- Characters can reflect skin tone, a wheelchair, hearing aids, vitiligo, or a family situation, and the same detail can belong to an imaginary creature.
- Narration and read-along make the stories usable for children who can't read yet, including many kids who need extra reading support.
- Story translation into another language creates a new version with the same character, which helps bilingual households and language learners.
Cons
- Everything runs in a browser, so there's no offline mode for a car trip or a flight.
- The free allowance is one-time: two stories and two characters, with no monthly refill.
- AI output can contain errors or odd details, and an adult has to read each story before handing it over.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Every new account gets two free stories and two free character creations, including characters made from drawings, and the allowance doesn't reset each month. After that, Individual costs $14.99/mo for 15 new stories, and Plus costs $19.99/mo for 22.
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