StoryBee is an AI storytelling platform for children. A parent, teacher or child gives it an idea, and it returns a personalized story with illustrations on every page and audio narration, written for a reader between 3 and 12 years old.
The StoryBee site reports more than 20,000 stories created by over 10,000 parents, with no ads in the product.
How a story gets made
- Idea: the user starts from a hint or theme
- Personalize: pick the characters and one of four or more art styles
- Generate: the story and its illustrations come back in about 60 seconds
- Listen: play it back in a narrator voice or in the parent’s own cloned voice
Language complexity and themes adjust to the child’s age, so the same idea reads differently for a 4-year-old and a 10-year-old. Stories also aim to build vocabulary and reading skills along the way.
Custom characters
Users build their own heroes, magical creatures and friends, and reuse them across stories with no limit on how many. A child can appear in their own story, and a favorite character can come back night after night.
Voice Studio
The Voice Studio clones a parent’s voice from a recording that takes about five minutes. Every story can then be narrated in that voice, so a child hears a parent read at bedtime even when the parent is traveling or working a late shift. Grandparents use it for long-distance storytime.
Playlists and printed books
- Audio playlists: more than 50 curated bedtime playlists, grouped by theme, mood or age, with auto-play
- Printed storybooks: any story can be designed as a book and printed on demand, then delivered to the family as a keepsake
Beyond bedtime
Storytellers can also publish stories as children’s podcasts narrated in their own cloned voice. StoryBee generates the RSS feed for Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube, tracks listener analytics and supports monetization.
Educators use StoryBee too. The schools and universities listed on the site include GEMS Education, International Community School in Singapore and California State University, Fresno.