Tucktales

A new bedtime story for your child every night.

Tell us your child's name, age, and a few favourite things. Every evening at the time you choose, a fresh, calm, personalized tale lands in your inbox — ready to read aloud. $3 a month, or $12 with custom AI-painted illustrations for each story.

No app, no kids account, no library to scroll. One email a night with one new tale, written about your child.

Personalized to your child

Your child is the protagonist by name, with their interests woven in. Not a library of generic stories — tales written about them, fresh every night.

Calm, on purpose

Every story is tuned for sleep: gentle pacing, sensory detail, no peril or chases, ending with the protagonist drifting peacefully off to sleep.

$3 a month, or $12 with art

About ten cents a night for the bedtime tale. Add AI-painted illustrations to each story for $12/mo. Cancel anytime, or switch plans from your manage page; a switch starts at your next renewal.

See what arrives — a real sample

The Night Kitchen Under the Moon

Generated for a 5-year-old whose interests were the moon, small animals, asking why.

Maya was the kind of girl who asked why about nearly everything, including things that did not seem to need asking, like why oatmeal was gray and figs were purple and strawberries were red, when they all grew out of the same brown dirt.

Every night before bed, her grandmother made her a little bowl of oatmeal with sliced strawberries and torn-up figs on top, and every night Maya ate around the edges first, saving the fruit for last, the way you save the best part of a story.

One night, while she was saving her last strawberry, Maya saw a mouse on the windowsill. It was small and grey and it was looking at her bowl the way Maya looked at the last cookie on a plate.

Yours will use your child’s name, age, and interests.

Questions

What ages is this for?

It works best for ages 2–10. The model is told the child's age and adjusts the vocabulary, sentence length, and themes accordingly. The story is short — about 600–800 words, roughly a 4–5 minute read aloud.

Is the story really new every night?

Yes. Each story is generated the same evening it's sent, using your child's name and chosen interests as inputs, and a different archetype each night so the stories don't feel repetitive.

Are the stories safe for bedtime?

Every generated story passes a content-safety check that rejects violence, peril, scary creatures, weapons, loss, and other content not appropriate for bedtime. If a story doesn't pass, the system regenerates with a stricter prompt before it ever reaches you.

How do I cancel, and can I get a refund?

Cancel any time from the manage link at the bottom of every story email — that stops future billing immediately. For refunds, two automatic conditions: if our cron didn't send a single story that month (delivery failure, our fault), you can refund that month for 90 days. If our logs show no one opened or clicked any story we sent that month, you can refund it for 30 days after the month ends — no need to explain. Anything else, email tucktales@forage.bot and we'll sort it with you.

What data do you collect about my child?

Your email, your child's first name only, their birthday, the interests you enter, the delivery time and timezone, and anything else you choose to add in the profile — brothers' and sisters' first names, subjects to avoid, or a note about where you are at the moment. No last names, no photos, no account for the child. We never sell or share any of it.

Can I delete everything you hold about my child?

Yes, and you do it yourself — no email, no waiting on us. Every story email has a “Delete my data” link, and it is also on your manage page. It shows you exactly what is about to go, then erases the profile, every story we wrote, and every illustration, and cancels your subscription in the same step. Story links stop working immediately. It cannot be undone. Your payment record stays with Stripe because we have to keep accounting records, and story emails already in your inbox are yours, not ours.

Can I have stories for more than one child?

At launch, one subscription is one child profile. To add another child, sign up again with their details — each profile gets its own stories.

What does the $12 illustrated tier add?

Each nightly story arrives with a custom AI-painted cover illustration — calm, picture-book style, generated fresh for that night's tale. The text and the bedtime feel are identical to the $3 tier; you're paying for the art. You can switch between the $3 and $12 plans yourself from the manage page linked in every story email. The switch takes effect at your next monthly renewal: nothing is charged when you switch, and there is no partial-month charge or credit.