Children have the greatest imaginations. Help unleash them.

An app that turns your child's imagination into storybooks. Your child dreams up the story, picks what happens at every fork, and adds their own ideas along the way, and Branchlings writes and paints it, page by page. No two stories are the same.

Branchlings tells each story just right for the reader's age, from babies to about 12. A grown-up reads to the littlest ones, with two simple choices. Preschoolers read together, with little prompts to talk about. Early readers follow along as each word lights up, and older children get longer chapter adventures with more choices.

Not yet. Branchlings is coming to iPhone and iPad first, and Android is coming soon.

In the United States, for now.

There's no free trial. Branchlings is free to download, with in-app purchases: you can design your child's character and read the sample stories, every path of them, before you choose a plan. Painting your character and new stories come with a plan, and stories you've made are always yours to read again.

Each plan adds story credits every month. A usual story uses about 3. Longer stories, "Ready instantly" stories (every path painted before you choose) and the storyteller voice use more, and the app shows how many before you start. Subscribers can add credit packs, and credits you buy never expire.

Two ways. A new story can start from their own words ("we find a unicorn at the beach who lost her shoes"). And at every fork, they can tap "My idea!" and say what happens next instead of picking a card. A grown-up can help type it, or use the keyboard's own dictation. Branchlings checks each idea for safety, reads it back, and the story follows it. You can switch "My idea!" off for each child in Settings.

Yes. Stories, pictures and the storyteller voice are made with AI from OpenAI, which works for us under contract and doesn't train its AI on what we send. It deletes what we send it within 30 days. Everything typed and everything written is checked for safety before your child sees it, and you can report any picture.

No. You design your child's character in the app, choosing their skin tone, hair, eyes, glasses and more, or describe them in your own words. If you'd like, a grown-up can also paint a character from a photo: it's only used to check it's safe and paint the character, and it's deleted within 7 days.

Yes. Sign in with Apple or with your email, and your family's stories and characters come back on any iPhone or iPad you sign in on.

Yes, on Plus and Pro. A grown-up can record themselves reading the pages, and your voice reads the story to your child, even on nights you're away. Recordings stay with that story, are never sent to our AI provider, and are deleted with the story, when its words change, or when you remove them.

Subscriptions are managed by Apple: on your iPhone or iPad, open Settings, tap your name, then Subscriptions. In Branchlings, the credits page has a Manage subscription button that takes you there. Deleting your account doesn't cancel a subscription.

In the app, open Settings, then Your family's account, then Delete account. Everything is deleted from our servers straight away. You can also ask us by email, or see our privacy policy for what we keep and why.