Little Stories: Bedtime Books


Rating: 4.6	Downloads: 1,000,000+
Category: Parenting	Offer by: Diveo Media – Story Books for Kids

Little Stories: Bedtime Books is a curated app designed to help parents and caregivers gently wind down children before sleep. It offers a collection of engaging and soothing bedtime tales, animations, and relaxation tools suitable for children aged 3 to 9 years old. The app provides a safe, focused digital space to soothe kids into restful sleep together, featuring thousands of stories directly on the device.

The key value of Little Stories lies in fostering bonding and creating dedicated, screen-free (or controlled screen) bedtime moments. It allows parents to support their child’s winding-down routine with carefully selected stories, adjustable sleep settings like ambient sounds, and gentle visual elements, making nighttime transitions calmer and more enjoyable for the whole family.

App Features

Parent Dashboard: Access your child’s recent reading history with a clean, easy-to-navigate interface. See favorite titles, bedtime reading streaks, and listening progress, allowing you to gauge their interests or participation without disturbance during the reading experience.
Multiple Reading Modes: Enjoy bedtime stories with text view for follow-along reading, listen-along narration mode, or a combination approach. This feature includes customizable text size and night-mode adjustable brightness for easy reading in dark bedrooms, enhancing comfort and focus.
Diverse Narration Options: Select from multiple voice tones, including calm female and reassuring male voices, for bedtime stories. These options can be paired with subtle background sounds like gentle rain or soft lullaby music to help block out distractions and create a personalized soothing environment.
Bedtime Story Routines: Set timers for reading sessions, schedule specific sleep sounds, and repeat favorite bedtime books automatically. This helps simplify establishing a consistent, relaxing nighttime ritual for children even when parents are temporarily unavailable, ensuring they still feel cared for.
Voice Control & Monitoring: Peacefully monitor your child’s interaction with the app, with controls to limit story time and usage frequency. You can easily pause, resume, or even lull a child to sleep silently by turning off all ambient sounds and visual displays once the story child has commenced listening.
Large Story Library with Markers: Browse thousands of stories categorized by theme, age, duration, and publisher. Specific favorites can easily be marked for quick access or added to personalized bedtime story playlists built directly within the app.

Pros & Cons

Pros:

A focus on calming bedtime routines helps children associate the app with winding down and sleep.
Vast selection of basic bedtime stories reduces reliance on physical books, especially useful during travel or trips away from home.
Offline access to a core library ensures stories are available anytime, even without Wi-Fi.
Simple, child-friendly interface makes navigation by children relatively straightforward.

Cons:

Limited audiovisual stimulation may not appeal to digital natives used to more interactive content.
Occasional slow loading times might occur with large multimedia files or during peak usage periods.
An absence of video or animation for many lower-tier titles might not satisfy all expectations for interactive media.
Targeted audience restriction – excluding much older age groups, limiting the app’s potential user base significantly.

Similar Apps

App Name	Highlights
Bedtime Stories Hub	This app offers fast playback on a wide selection of bedtime tales. Known for its intuitive parent controls and extensive collection of licensed bedtime story books, often with high-quality audio and illustrations.
Mini Readers Suite	Designed for young kids and emphasizing parent-child interaction with a focus on picture books. Includes text-to-speech with unique, adjustable voice profiles and relaxing sleep sounds tailored for very young listeners.
Calm Tales Suite	Offers a rich set of audio-only bedtime stories featuring diverse narrators and bedtime poems alongside curated audiobooks often focused on calming themes.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: My child is quite young (say, 3 years old). Is Little Stories overwhelming?

A: Definitely not. Little Stories offers many uncomplicated bedtime stories with limited animation, a single focus (calming), and avoids violent or complex themes. We partner with kid-friendly creators for suitable content.

Q: Does the app feature audiobooks?

A: Yes! A significant portion of Little Stories: Bedtime Books’ content library consists of older or classic children’s audiobooks suitable for bedtime listening, alongside original, shorter tales designed to soothe rather than entertain with complex narratives.

Q: Are subscriptions required for bedtime stories? Are there limits on basic features?

A: Basic access allows you to borrow a small number of stories for trial. For unlimited, ad-free borrowing and early access to new bedtime story content, a subscription model offers that flexibility, with various tiers designed to suit different budgets and needs.

Q: Is Little Stories available on my older tablet or gaming console?

A: Little Stories is primarily designed for access and age-appropriate use on mobile devices. Currently, the official version is only optimized for phones and newer, touch-screen compatible tablets running standard operating systems.

Q: What happens if my child falls asleep before finishing the bedtime story?

A: This is perfectly okay! The app often features continuously looping bedtime tracks or lets you save progress with automatic bookmarks. If narrated aloud, the parent controls can easily pause it, ensuring a seamless LBB session even if it’s cut short.