Bedtime Stories & Lullabies reads 44 illustrated stories aloud, then lets lullabies and sleep sounds carry on until a timer fades them out. This page covers narration, Personal Voice, the sleep timer, the dark screen and the free version, on iPhone, iPad and Apple TV.
iPhone and iPad on iOS 17 or later, and Apple TV on tvOS 17 or later.
44 illustrated stories, written for ages 3 to 9. They are short enough for one night - most take about eight minutes to read.
Five collections: animals, fantasy, dreams, adventures and classics. The classics are gentle retellings of Aesop, Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, alongside new stories written for bedtime. Nothing is scary.
On iPhone and iPad, yes. If you have created a Personal Voice in your device's Accessibility settings and allowed the app to use it, you can pick it as the narrator, and the story is read in your voice.
Yes. Choose a narrator voice and set the reading speed in Settings. You can also download a premium system voice; once it is installed it appears in the list. Narration works with no internet.
Yes. Switch Read Stories Aloud off in Settings and the app shows the illustrated pages for you to read out loud.
Each word brightens the moment it is spoken, so a child learning to read can follow the page instead of only listening. Turn it on or off with Highlight Words While Reading.
Nine pieces of music box and classical sleep music that play as one continuous set, with a four-second crossfade between them so nothing stops abruptly.
Rain, ocean, wind, stream, night hush and deep noise. They are generated live rather than played from a recording, so they never loop and never end.
Choose ten to ninety minutes. Everything fades out over the last thirty seconds instead of cutting off. On iPhone the countdown is shown in the Dynamic Island, and it keeps running if you leave the app.
While a story plays, the screen can go dark so nothing lights the room while your child falls asleep. The story keeps reading. Turn on Dim the Screen While Reading and choose how long to wait before it dims.
Yes. Turn Pages Automatically moves to the next page when the narrator finishes, so nobody has to touch the screen.
No. Stories, narration, lullabies and sleep sounds all work offline.
No ads, no accounts and no tracking, and no scary moments in the stories.
Two stories, two lullabies and two sleep sounds are free to try. A single purchase unlocks the whole library, and you keep it. There is no subscription.
44 illustrated bedtime stories read aloud, nine lullabies, six sleep sounds and a sleep timer that fades out.
A repeatable wind-down that ends on its own.
Keep the order the same every night. The routine is what tells a child sleep is coming.
Try this in Bedtime Stories & Lullabies →Personal Voice, on iPhone and iPad.
Creating a Personal Voice takes a while the first time, because the device builds it from recordings you make. You only do it once.
Try this in Bedtime Stories & Lullabies →Let the highlighting teach the page.
For children who settle better with soft sound in the room.
So the screen is not the brightest thing in the bedroom.
For a story the whole room can hear.
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