How it works
From an idea at the kitchen table to a book at bedtime
Six steps, then a pipeline that checks its own work. You are the last approval before your child sees anything.
The builder
Six steps, and you can stop halfway
Drafts autosave, so an interrupted bedtime does not cost you your progress.
- Step 1: Who is this forChoose the child profile the story is for. Their age sets the reading level, sentence length, and how much gentle tension the story is allowed to carry.
- Step 2: Pick a story typeThirteen presets, from a first-day-of-school story to a bedtime wind-down to an Alphabet Adventure. Each one changes the structure, not just the words.
- Step 3: Build the worldSetting, companions, and the details your child would notice — the dog's name, the favourite jacket, the tree in the backyard.
- Step 4: Learning and heartOptionally point the story at something real: sharing, a new sibling, moving house, trying again after a hard day. You choose the lesson; we keep it light rather than preachy.
- Step 5: Safety reviewBefore anything is written, we show you exactly what will be sent, with your own free text separated from our instructions and screened for personal details.
- Step 6: Review and createOne clear screen: what the story will be, how many books it uses, roughly how long it will take, and that it stays private. Nothing starts until you confirm.
Your words are treated as words, not instructions
Anything you type freely is stored, screened for personal details, and then handed to the model inside a fenced block as untrusted content. It is never merged into the instructions that govern the story, which is what stops a stray sentence from redirecting the model.
After you press create
What happens while you make tea
Generation runs in the background and survives a closed tab. You get a notification when the book is ready for your review.
We write, then we check
The text is drafted, screened, illustrated with a locked character design so your child looks like themselves on every page, and screened again.
You approve it first
The finished book lands in your review queue, not in your child's library. You read it, and you decide whether it gets published to them.
Then it is theirs to read
A calm reader with no buttons that lead out, no upsells, and no links. Read-aloud, tap-to-define, and a bedtime theme that dims the blue light.
The part that matters
It is still you doing the reading
Tales By You makes the book. The bit that a child remembers is sitting next to you while you read it.
That is why the reader has a caregiver panel with a few questions worth asking on each spread, and why it has nothing at all that tries to sell you something mid-story.