Their Ideas · Their Words · Their Book
Where Children Become Authors
Children describe their characters, worlds, and adventures through a guided conversation. Their words shape the story while illustrations appear from their descriptions, creating a book they can proudly share and keep.
How It Works
From first idea to finished book, children guide the story while HeyStori supports the process.
Children Begin With Their Own Ideas
Children share their ideas with the Story Avatar, describing their characters, settings, and what might happen in their story. Gentle prompts help them expand their thinking while keeping the story entirely their own.
Developing Ideas Through Description
As children describe their characters, places, and objects, illustrations appear based on their descriptions. This encourages richer language, imagination, and deeper storytelling.
Their Words Become the Storybook
The child's words are preserved as the story text while their descriptions shape the illustrations. Page by page, their ideas become a complete storybook they can proudly call their own.
Share and Celebrate Young Authors
Children can share their finished book with family, friends, or teachers. They can return to their characters and worlds to create new stories and continue developing their confidence as storytellers.
This week's favourites
Stories created and shared by families like yours.
“Hey there! I'm Stori. Together we're going to build the most amazing story ever. I'll help you dream up characters, imagine where the adventure happens, and decide what your heroes get up to.”
“As we go, you'll see your characters and world come to life with pictures, and you can change anything you like until it's exactly how you imagined it. When we're done, it all becomes a real storybook!”
Your child's story session is voice-led, safe, and guided every step of the way.
See HeyStori in action
Watch a child create their very own storybook in minutes.
Why Parents and Schools Value HeyStori
A creative storytelling experience where children turn their ideas into books written in their own words.
Encourages imagination and storytelling
Children imagine their own characters, settings, and adventures. By shaping the story themselves, they naturally develop storytelling skills and creative thinking.
Strengthens language and expression
As children describe their ideas, they practise vocabulary, sentence structure, and clear communication while seeing their words become part of a real story.
Screen time that creates, not consumes
Instead of passive entertainment, children use their time to create stories from their own imagination.
Every story begins with the child
Stories grow from a child's own ideas, interests, and stage of development. This keeps the experience personal and encourages children to explore their imagination.
A safe and carefully designed environment
HeyStori is built specifically for children. Stories are created in a moderated, age-appropriate space where parents can review content before it is shared. There are no ads, no open internet content, and no selling of personal data. Privacy and safety are part of the design from the start.
A book they can proudly call their own
Each story becomes a finished book created from the child's words and imagination, ready to read, share, and return to for new adventures.
Reviews
Stories from families who've created something special together.