Beyond Stories
This week
New narrator voices
Grown-ups can hear a sample of each voice before choosing. Every world can have its own reader, at its own gentle pace.
The worlds
Every world, live from the app
This list is fetched straight from Beyond Stories, so it is never out of date. Worlds marked Live now are ready to play today; the rest are being built and will switch on soon, no update required.
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News
What just landed
Worlds, voices and songs are added without an app update — so what is here today is genuinely what is in the app today.
This week
Songs in the story
Every so often the story breaks into a short rhyming song about what just happened — a brand new tune, generated uniquely for your child in that moment and never reused, with a button that glows when one is ready.
Ongoing
Rotating worlds
Six worlds show at once and change through the day, with a "New!" badge on whatever has just arrived.
How it works
Three taps and you are in a story
Pick a world
A picture, one word, and a short line about what happens there.
Listen
The story reads itself aloud while a new picture arrives. Nothing to read, so nobody is left out.
Tap an emoji
Three big buttons, three directions. The next part is already being made while your child listens.
For grown-ups
What we deliberately left out
The design constraints matter more than the feature list. Here is what a child can and cannot reach.
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No free typing, anywhere a child can reach They tap emoji, so they cannot prompt the model or write to anyone.
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No ads and no third-party analytics Nothing is sold to anyone, and nothing follows your child around.
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No other players No chat, no multiplayer, no friend lists. It is one child and a story.
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Nothing to buy inside the game Stars, purchases and account settings live in a grown-up menu, off the path a child plays through.
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No pressure to spend The star count is shown plainly, with nothing beside it suggesting you top it up.
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Every line is filtered Stories are generated fresh inside hand-written worlds, and checked before being read aloud.
Questions
The things parents ask first
What age is this for?
Roughly three to seven. Nothing needs to be read, so a child who cannot read yet can play the whole thing alone.
Does my child need to read or type?
No. Every line is spoken and every choice is an emoji. The only keyboard in the app is on the grown-up sign-in screen.
Is it the same story every time?
No — stories are generated fresh each time inside a fixed set of hand-written worlds, so the shape is familiar and the details are new.
What does it cost?
Beyond Stories is not free to play. A grown-up buys a small bundle of stars from the account menu, and each story uses a few of them. There is no subscription and no ads — just stars, topped up when you want to.
Can I keep a story and come back to it?
Yes. Each world keeps its own save slot, and slots survive a reinstall because sign-in is tied to your account rather than the device.