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The Voicebooks recording studio showing a book page, the record button and the page dots

Bedtime stories in the voices they love

You can't always be there.
Your voice can.

Record yourself reading their books, one page at a time. They hear you at bedtime — from the hotel. from the deployment. from Grandma's. from the other house. from the night shift. from anywhere.
Free to start. Kept forever.

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For every reason you can't be there

Bedtime doesn't wait for you to get home

Voicebooks was built for the nights you're somewhere else. Every one of these has a page of its own.

For

Parents who travel for work

Bedtime from the hotel

For

Military families

Bedtime through a deployment

For

Grandparents far away

Grandma reads, from three time zones over

For

Separated co-parents

Both voices, in both homes

How it works

A book, a page, a red button

The Voicebooks studio asking which child a recording is for
The Voicebooks recording studio showing a book page, the record button and the page dots
The Voicebooks Library screen showing a family's recorded books and the people who read them
A child's shelf in Voicebooks with the books recorded for them
  1. The Voicebooks studio asking which child a recording is for

    Say who it's for

    Every recording starts with one question — who is this for? Pick Maya and it's Maya's. Say her name. Mention the dog.
  2. The Voicebooks recording studio showing a book page, the record button and the page dots

    Read one page at a time

    Three, two, one. Read the page. Hear it back. Keep it or do it again. Two pages tonight, the rest on Thursday — the book waits.
  3. The Voicebooks Library screen showing a family's recorded books and the people who read them

    It lands on the shelf

    Publish, and it's on the family's shelf that night. Grandma's version sits beside yours; the child picks whose voice reads.
  4. A child's shelf in Voicebooks with the books recorded for them

    They hear you

    A child opens the app as themselves and your voice reads them their book. Screen on, or lights off with the phone face-down. And you're told they listened.

The thing people miss

Not a reading.
A reading for Maya.

The most-missed screen in the app is the first one. Who are you recording for? Answer it and everything you say between the pages becomes hers — the name, the aside, the goodnight in the middle.

Families record the same book twice, word for word, and never notice the app was asking a different question.

Recording it for one child

A grandmother on her sofa reading a picture book aloud to her phone, propped on the coffee table

Everyone records

Grandma's version. Uncle Pete's version. Every version.

People are always free — unlimited recording artists and listeners on every plan, the free one included. Invite anyone with a link.

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Grandma

Does all the voices. Has never once finished a book in one sitting. Doesn't need to.

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Uncle Pete

Three time zones away and somehow the favourite reader in the house.

A Voicebooks mascot holding a tablet

Dad

Records from hotels. Says goodnight between the pages.

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The babysitter

Reads it slightly wrong every time, which the kids insist on.

What's in the box

More than a voice recorder

A child's shelf in Voicebooks with the books recorded for them

Listen-only bedtime

The story without the screen. Phone face-down, lights off, voice on.

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The Voicebooks playlists screen with tonight's queue and saved playlists

Playlists

Tonight's books in order, saved for next week. Loop, shuffle, skip by book.

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The sound sheet for a Voicebooks recording, choosing background music and Voice Care

Music underneath

Fifteen gentle beds, composed for reading aloud, ducked under your voice.

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A Voicebooks stay showing the other house, the rhythm and the code

Stays

The kids at the other house, with their stories, on the custody rhythm.

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The Voicebooks Family tab for a classroom, listing the seats

Classrooms

Free for teachers. The class's books, read by the teacher, sent home on a slip.

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A Voicebooks recording artist's public page with releases, reviews and a follow button

Recording artists

Public readers families follow — and pay for personalized recordings.

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The Voicebooks screen for approving a smart TV's pairing code

Smart TVs

Apple TV, Android TV, Fire TV, Samsung, LG. Pair from a phone, no typing.

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The Voicebooks Profile tab with the family switcher, photo, name and sign-in options

Sign-in & safety

Google, Apple, Face ID, passkeys. A PIN between the kids and the settings.

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The sound sheet for a Voicebooks recording, choosing background music and Voice Care

Voice Care

The hotel room taken out of every take. The original always kept.

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Two Voicebooks mascots — a grown-up and a child — side by side, smiling

A voice that stays

Some of the voices in Voicebooks belong to people who aren't here any more

A grandmother who recorded forty books. A father who read one a night through a deployment and didn't come home. The recordings keep playing — on any plan, for as long as the family wants them. We take that more seriously than anything else we do.

The keepsake

I'm away three weeks in four. My daughter asks for "Daddy's Gruffalo" whether I'm home or not. My wife says she doesn't notice which nights I'm gone. Mostly, I'm glad.
A dad in Manchester · consultant, one five-year-old
Three Voicebooks mascots — a grown-up between two children — smiling

The gift

Give a year of bedtime to a family with someone away

A code, sent by email on the day you choose. New parents, the grandparents, the family whose dad ships out in March. Nobody needs an account to give one.

Give Voicebooks

Every voice they love. One family plan.

People are always free — unlimited recorders and listeners on every plan. You choose how big the bookshelf gets.

Yearly saves 42%

Starter Shelf

Try the whole magic loop, free forever.

$0 forever

No credit card, no clock.

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  • 3 books on your family shelf
  • Unlimited recorders — invite anyone
  • Unlimited listeners & listening
  • Every recorded book plays forever
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Family

The whole catalog. Every voice. Every night.

$69.99 /year

Founding Families: first year $49.99, then $69.99/year.

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  • Unlimited books from the full open catalog
  • Offline listening for travel & bedtime
  • Multiple versions per book — mom and grandpa
THE KEEPSAKE TIER

Family Plus

Your own bookshelf, beautifully kept forever.

$99.99 /year

The grandparent-gift favorite.

Go Plus
  • Unlimited books from the full open catalog
  • Offline listening for travel & bedtime
  • Multiple versions per book — mom and grandpa
  • Upload your own books — photograph titles you own, then record them
  • AI Voice Care — gentle enhancement for shy, tired, or stuttering readers
  • Keepsake exports — download the family voice archive, milestone montages
  • First look at new premium titles

Questions, answered

The short version. The help page has the long one.

Yes, to start and to stay. The free plan has three books on the shelf, unlimited recorders and unlimited listeners, forever. Paid plans size the shelf; nothing else.
No. People are always free. Invite anyone with a link and they record on your plan.
Everything you've recorded keeps playing. A plan only limits adding new books to the shelf — that's the Archive Promise, and it's in the terms.
No. A child picks their own name on any phone or tablet in the family, or on the TV. The grown-up side is behind a PIN.
The catalog has hundreds of picture books; add the ones you own to the shelf and record them. Family Plus lets you photograph a book of your own.
Family is $9.99 a month or $69.99 a year (a founding-family first year is $49.99). Gifts are one-off. The free plan is free.

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