A personalised story about them, ready in minutes.
Give Wayfable a name, an age and whatever they will not stop talking about this week. AI writes the story, narrates it and draws the cover art, in minutes. It plays on any phone, tablet or laptop, and on a Bluetooth speaker paired to one. Link a Yoto account and you can send it to their player in one tap.
What kind of night is it?
Most parents arrive here on a particular evening. Something is changing on Monday, or the landing light is not enough any more, or they have simply asked for trains again. Pick the night you are actually having.
These are rehearsals, not interventions. A story will not make Monday easy. It gives your child the words for it a few nights early, and something to ask you about on the way there.
Or it is nothing to do with a big change, and they are just obsessed. Last month it was Maya's pet gecko. This week it might be volcanoes, or the bin lorry, or nothing but trains. Every Wayfable story is written around whatever your child loves right now, so you are not talking them into it.
One idea in. Everything else is done for you.
Tell us about them
Their name, their age band, tonight's obsession or tonight's problem. One line is enough.
AI writes, narrates and illustrates
The story, the narrated audio and the cover art, ready in minutes. Read the written story and edit it before you spend a credit on the audio.
They press play
It plays on any phone, tablet or laptop. Link a Yoto account once, and any finished story goes to their player in one tap.
The story knows who they are, and how long you have.
You set each child up once. After that every story is written around that child: their name in the sentences, their age in the vocabulary, this month's obsession in the plot, and a length that fits the night you are having.
Their name, their age, their obsessions
A profile per child: first name, an age band (2–3, 4–5, 6–8 or 9–12), the interests they will not stop talking about, and the language you want the story in. If your child reads well above or below their age band, set a reading-maturity level and Wayfable writes to that instead.
Bedtime, Learn or Adventure
Bedtime for a gentle wind-down. Learn for real facts inside a story. Adventure for the big one where they are the hero. Six storyteller styles on top, from bouncy and rhyming to epic and atmospheric, so it sounds like the books they already ask for.
Brothers and sisters co-star
Up to 3 children star in one story, each written in by name, and every child's interests are woven in. When the ages are mixed, the plot and the length are pitched to the eldest and the vocabulary is held to the youngest, so nobody is lost and nobody is bored. Set a reading-maturity level on a child and Wayfable uses that band for them instead of their age. How sibling stories work →
You can also build an optional illustrated portrait, so the same child looks like the same child across covers and storybook pages. You pick the details, it stays switched off until you turn it on, and turning it on is a separate step you have to agree to.
A story starring two or three siblings costs the same as a story for one.
What the research found, and who it was watching.
Personalisation is not a gimmick, and it is not magic either. Three studies are worth knowing about. All three watched an adult and a child sharing a book, which is the moment we build for first.
They say more
In a study of 35 preschoolers sharing a book with an adult, children talked for roughly three times as long over the personalised part of the book as over the rest, and used more first-person words about themselves. Study, sample and limits →
More of the new words stick
In a repeated-measures experiment with 18 preschoolers, children ended up knowing more of the unfamiliar words placed in the personalised sections of a picture book than the words in the non-personalised sections. The book was read twice, a week apart, and the difference showed at the second and third testing points, not the first. Study, sample and limits →
You both enjoy it more
In an observational study of 7 parent and toddler pairs, children and parents both smiled and laughed more with a personalised book than with a matched non-personalised one. Seven pairs is a very small sample. Study, sample and limits →
Thirty-five children, eighteen children, seven pairs: small samples, largely from one research programme. Promising, not settled. That is the whole of the good news, and it is why you will not find a big percentage anywhere on this page.
All three studies watched an adult and a child reading together. None of them tested a child listening alone.
So we are not going to tell you that a Wayfable audio story does what those studies found. Nobody has tested that. The one experiment that went at the question head on found that putting a child's name into a story about sharing did not improve how well children understood it, and did not make them share more. And the best-evidenced thing anyone has found about the adult is not what you would expect: a lab study of 26 British mothers reading a digital personalised book with their 3- and 4-year-olds concluded that the parent's job is to expand the talk beyond the child's focus on themselves. The adult's part does not shrink when a book is personalised. Study, sample and limits →
Which is the division of labour we build for. Wayfable writes it and narrates it. You do the first telling. The player does the fourteenth night in a row.
Read the evidence in full, with every sample and every limit →
Or skip it and judge the product instead: read a free story →
However they listen, it just plays.
Every narrated story plays on whatever you already own: a phone, a laptop, or a Bluetooth speaker paired to one. A Yoto is not required. And once your Yoto account is linked, one tap sends a finished story to your child's player, the audio and the cover art together, with no files to move and nothing to upload. No ads, and no algorithm deciding what they hear next. On a linked Yoto it is screen-free entirely: the story is on the player, not on a phone.
- On any phone, tablet or laptop. Press play in Wayfable, and pair a Bluetooth speaker if you want it louder. No extra hardware to buy.
- On their Yoto player. Link your Yoto account once, then send any finished story to their player in one tap. No files to move, and no Yoto Make Your Own cards to assemble by hand.
- This is the replay channel. It is what turns "again, again" into something that costs you nothing at 19:00. It is not a stand-in for the first telling, and the research just above this band is about the first telling.
Wayfable is an independent product, not affiliated with or endorsed by Yoto.
And then what happened?
The most useful thing a story can do at seven in the evening is not end. A Wayfable series keeps one world, one cast and one child running across chapters, so "what happens next?" has an answer and you are not inventing a new world every night.
This is also the honest way to read the £7 plan. It is not twenty new stories a month to get through. It is a world that gets deeper and a shelf that fills up: the four or five stories your child asks for by name, and the chapters that grow out of them. Every story you have made stays in your library, filed under the child it was written for.
Replay is the point, and it is free: you spend credits to make a story, never to play it again. Research on repeated shared reading is encouraging, but every study we know of had an adult reading aloud rather than a player, so we make no claim about what replaying a Wayfable story does for your child. The evidence, with every sample and every limit, is set out in full on our guide page.
Multi-chapter series
Keep one world, one cast and one child going across chapters, instead of starting from nothing every night.
A library that remembers
Every story kept, tagged and replayable, one shelf per child, for as long as your account is open. Nothing here is rented: you spend credits to make a story, never to play it again.
The fourteenth listen costs nothing
You spend credits to make a story, never to play it again. Replay is free, on any device, for as long as they want it.
Read one right now, free.
Every story here was written and narrated by Wayfable, the same way yours will be. These are library stories rather than personalised ones, so what you are judging is the writing and the voice. No login, no card, no catch. If the writing is not good enough, you will know in four minutes and it will not have cost you anything.
What we hold on your child, in plain words.
This is the part of the policy most companies bury. Ours is short enough to read, and this is nearly all of it.
A first name and an age band. No surname, no date of birth.
We store your child's first name and an age band, for example 4–5 years. No surname, no date of birth, and no likeness unless you build an optional portrait, which is a separate step you have to agree to.
Their name never goes to the picture.
We never send children's names for image generation: cover art is drawn from scene descriptions with every name stripped out first. The narrator is sent the finished story text, so it reads your child's name aloud in the story. Nothing else from their profile goes with it: no age, no interests, no account details. Our AI providers are contracted not to use your family's data to train their models. They may hold a request briefly for security and abuse monitoring under their own terms, and for nothing else.
Yours to see, correct or delete.
We never sell children's data, and we never share it for advertising or marketing. It goes to the AI providers that write, illustrate and narrate the story, and to Yoto if you choose to link an account. Nobody else sees it, and every one of them is named in our privacy policy. You have the full set of UK GDPR rights, deletion included, and if we get it wrong you can complain to the ICO.
One thing we do share, so you hear it from us rather than find it later. If you accept advertising cookies, a securely hashed version of your email address goes to Meta so we can tell whether our ads worked. Decline the cookies and it does not. Cookie settings are at the foot of every page.
What a credit actually buys.
Three things come out of one idea. Two of them are free.
The written story
Free, and 50 of them every month, every month, within fair use. Read it, edit it, keep it in the library. No credit is spent until you ask for the audio.
Narrated audio, and the cover art
1–2 credits depending on length. A warm, natural AI read-aloud, plus AI cover art drawn for that story rather than picked off a shelf. Once your Yoto account is linked, one tap sends it to their player too.
Illustrated storybooks
Turn a favourite into a picture book PDF with page art, one to print, or to read together on a wet Sunday.
Nothing is rented: you spend credits to make a story, never to play it again. Every story you make stays in your library for as long as your account is open, filed under the child it was written for.
Text is free. Credits buy the audio.
Writing a story is the part a general chatbot already gives away, so we give it away too: 50 text stories a month within fair use, every month, for as long as you have an account. Credits are only for the parts we actually do, which are the narrated audio, the illustrated storybooks, and getting them onto a linked Yoto account in one tap. A narrated story costs 1–2 credits depending on length.
Free
Free forever, not a trial. No card needed.
- 50 free text stories a month within fair use, up to 10 a day
- 3 free trial credits at signup, so you can hear one narrated
- Bedtime, Learn and Adventure modes
- Every story you make stays in your library
- No credit card required
Founding Explorer
20 credits every month, and anything you do not use rolls over. £7 a month is our founding rate for early members, who keep £7 a month for as long as the subscription runs. We will give at least 30 days' notice on this page before the rate changes for new members.
- 20 credits every month: 10 to 20 narrated stories, depending on length
- Unused credits roll over and never expire, so a quiet month is not a wasted one
- Replay costs nothing, so four stories they love beats twenty they don't
- Multi-chapter series, so one world runs across chapters
- Illustrated storybooks
- One-tap delivery to a linked Yoto account
- Every child in the family, up to 3 co-starring in one story
- Cancel anytime
Pay as you go
20 credits, one payment, nothing to cancel
- No subscription: buy once, use them whenever you like
- £10 for 20 credits, one payment
- Credits never expire
- Narrated audio, 1–2 credits depending on length
- Multi-chapter series and illustrated storybooks
Credits that never expire, and a founding rate that holds for as long as you stay, are promises, and promises depend on us still being here. We are new, so here is what that means in practice: there is nothing to cancel on pay as you go, the subscription can be cancelled any month, and every story you have already made stays in your library either way.
Free tools and guides for Yoto parents.
Free for every Yoto parent, whether or not you ever make a story with us. No account, no card, nothing to install.
Tonight's story could be about them.
Three free trial credits and 50 free text stories a month, within fair use. Type one line about your child and Wayfable does the rest.
Write their first story