Gentle Tales app icon — a child reading on a crescent moon
Audio stories · iPhone & iPad

Bedtime, calmed.
Car rides, quieted.

Gentle Tales reads your child to sleep — and keeps the back seat happy — with soft, classic stories you can shape to fit the moment.

Free · 30 classic tales included · no screens, just listening

The Gentle Tales library: a Create a story card above classic tales like The Tortoise and the Hare and The Lion and the Mouse, tagged by length and mood.
A library tuned to your little one
The Create a story screen: pick a theme, length, language, child's age and fluency, and a scary level from cozy to classic.
Shape any story in seconds
The Tortoise and the Hare story page with Play, Customize and Download buttons, length and mood tags, and a gentle summary.
Preview, then play or download

Stories that meet the moment

Built for the parts of parenting that need quiet — the long drive, the slow wind-down, the second language at home.

Made for bedtime

Slow, soft narration and a sleep timer that fades out on its own. No bright screens — just a calm voice easing them down.

Downloads for the car

Save stories for long drives and dead zones. Background playback and Bluetooth car controls keep the back seat screen-free.

30 classics, gently retold

Aesop, Grimm, Andersen and folk tales — with the scary edges softened down to cozy, so the moral stays and the nightmares don’t.

Make a story to order

Pick the theme, the hero, the mood and the length — three minutes for a nap, twelve for a road trip. A new tale, ready in moments.

In your family’s languages

English, Spanish, Italian, French and more — with the vocabulary tuned to your child’s age and fluency, from native to just learning.

You read it first

Preview the full text before a single word is spoken. Adjust playback speed, and decide exactly what your child hears.

For every kind of quiet

The road-trip parent

Hours of offline listening that survives the no-signal stretches.

The bedtime parent

A soft, repeatable wind-down ritual that ends in sleep, not screens.

The nap-time parent

Three-minute stories that settle a toddler without overstimulating.

The two-language home

Everyday exposure to a family language, at the right level.

Tonight, let a gentle voice take the last shift.

Free to download with 30 stories ready to play. Start the wind-down in under a minute.