Paperback
A$0 forever
For trying it on a few favourites.
- Up to 3 books
- 15 minutes of recording in total
- Child view and sleep timer
- One private family library
Bedtime stories, in the voices they know
Your voice,
at every bedtime.
Record yourself reading the books on your kids' shelf, from the old favourites to the chapter book you're halfway through. StoryNest keeps them in a private family library, so they can hear you read whenever they want, even on the nights you can't be there.
Free for your first 3 books · Private to your family
StoryNestRead by the people who love you
This book belongs to
your family
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1Chapter one · When bedtime gets busy
Some nights you're on the 7:42 home.
Late shifts, work trips, a new baby, a grandparent three states away. Bedtime happens whether or not you're in the room, and the story is usually the part everyone misses.
StoryNest lets you leave your reading behind for those nights. Your child picks the book, presses play, and hears you.
Still made story time.
2Chapter two · Press record
Read it the way you always do.
‹ Library REC
The Lookout
Chapter 2 · Read by
MumDadGrandpa
04:17
- 1
Pick a book off the shelf
Type the title and StoryNest finds the cover and author for you. Or snap a photo of your own copy.
- 2
Read it out loud
Do the voices. Pause for page turns. Stop and start as often as you need, and record long books one chapter at a time.
- 3
It's on their shelf
The recording lands in your child's library with its cover on, ready to play tonight.
Takes about as long as reading the book. Funny, that.
3Chapter three · The whole family reads
Grandpa can read from the coast.
Send a recording link to anyone who loves your kids: grandparents, aunties, the godmother overseas. They open it, read their book and tap save. They don't need the app or an account.
Their story turns up in your library, right next to yours.
Read by NannaRead by DadRead by Aunty JoRead by Grandpa
4Chapter four · Now they read to you
Then one night, they read to you.
Reading practice turns the tables. Your child picks a book off their own shelf, or one of our reading challenges, and records themselves reading it aloud. Every go is saved against the book with the date and length, so you can hear their reading grow over the term.
- Listen back whenever you like. Pin a note to the exact second a word tripped them up.
- Set a focus for next time, like expression, pace or tricky words.
- Reading challenges give them a fresh passage to have a crack at, and the recorder stops by itself when they finish.
- Optional AI feedback checks accuracy and words correct per minute, picks out words to practise and suggests five-minute activities to do together. It's off until you switch it on. How it handles their voice
Included with Hardcover
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Billie's practice
Reading challenge · The Lighthouse Cat · 1:48
96%accuracy
84words correct a minute
Words to practise
lantern 0:41whispered 1:02through 1:30
“Billie, your sea-captain voice was brilliant! Let's try lantern together: lan-tern.”
Mum: loved the cat's voice ♥
5Chapter five · Stories for the road
Long drives get a lot shorter.
Car trips, flights and rainy weekends at the caravan park all go better with a story. Each child picks up where they left off, and the sleep timer fades the story out once little eyes close.
Resumeright where each child stopped
5 to 45 minsleep timer
Chaptersfor the long books
6Chapter six · Lights out
Lights off. Story on.
Kids get their own view with their books, their favourites and nothing else to tap. There are no ads, no autoplaying videos and no feed to scroll. It's a pair of headphones and the next chapter, read by someone who loves them.
- A profile for each child, with their own favourites
- A sleep timer that fades the story out
- Recording and deleting stay behind the parent login
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Hi Billie!
Which story tonight?
The Lookout
Mum · Ch 4
Road Trip!
Dad
The Beach Shack
Grandpa
Pirate Voices
Dad · Ch 9
The Beach Shack
7Chapter seven · Just for your family
Private, and staying that way.
Your recordings live in your family's library and nowhere else. There are no public profiles, no sharing feed and nothing for strangers to find. You record your own voice reading books you own, so the stories stay yours.
We don't run ads, we never sell your information and we don't train AI on your children's voices. The privacy policy spells it all out in plain English.
Family
only
only
8Chapter eight · Choose your edition
Start free. Upgrade when the shelf fills up.
Hardcover
A$29 a year
About 56c a week, for the whole bookshelf.
- Up to 300 books
- Unlimited recording time
- Record chapter books chapter by chapter
- Family recording links for grandparents
- Reading practice, with optional AI feedback
StoryNest for Schools
Hear every student read, every week.
Class and school-wide reading practice, fluency tracking, your own passages and ready-made reading programs. Swap the paper reading log for something you can actually hear.
See StoryNest for Schools →Notes in the margin
The end.
Of the reading part, anyway. They'll be pressing play on it for years.
Free for your first 3 books