Audio stories · for real days
The classics, and the heroes who built this country — at bedtime, on the drive, in the drop-off line.
When the lights go down
That's the moment we built the app for — warm narration, a gentle score, and a quiet musical tail, tuned for a dark room and a half-asleep listener with the phone face-down by the bed.
The shelves
Curated, full-length audio — no ads, no autoplay into the next thing, no glowing rectangle at bedtime.
American
Honest history and homegrown tall tales, at the right age. Paul Revere and Harriet Tubman beside Paul Bunyan and John Henry.
Classics
Grimm, Andersen, Aesop, Perrault — faithful but bedtime-appropriate. Not Disney-sanitized, not nightmare-fuel. The middle path.
Audiobooks
Full-length novels rewritten for young listeners and serialized for bedtime — with per-book progress so you resume right where they drifted off.
Sleep Sounds
Long-form ambient soundscapes — rain in the forest, ocean waves, a crackling hearth. Looped clean, no surprise thunderclaps.
Made for real days
Short enough for the school run, good enough to ask for again. One tap to the daily pick — the one obvious thing to play.
Background-safe audio for the commute and the long road trip. Set a sleep sound for the last twenty minutes and watch the back seat go quiet.
A warm narrator, a gentle score, and a quiet musical tail — so a half-asleep kid is never jolted into the next story.
A brand parents can hand a kid
Washington's character without scrubbing his slavery. The First Thanksgiving with the Wampanoag present. True to the source.
Audio only. No video, no autoplay, no glowing rectangle at bedtime. Just listening.
No ads, no upsells mid-story, no data sold. One simple subscription, the whole library.
Any story downloads for offline listening — flights, road trips, anywhere without a signal.
Simple pricing
Every pillar, every story, every sleep sound. Cancel anytime.
Billed through the App Store or Google Play. Manage or cancel anytime in your store account.
Good to know
Ages 4–10. Stories are tagged by age band (4–6, 6–8, 8–10) so the right thing surfaces first for each child in your family.
No ads. No autoplay into outside content. No data sold or shared for advertising. You hold the account and manage everything from the in-app Settings.
Curation. Every story is a public-domain classic, retold by writers and reviewers we trust, narrated for bedtime, and made to play cleanly story-to-story. No filler, no algorithm.
Yes — CarPlay and Android Auto are first-class. The app is designed to be glance-free: long-form playlists for road trips, short stories for the school drop-off.
Yes. Any story can be downloaded for offline listening — flights, road trips, anywhere without service.
Yes. Family Sharing is supported on iOS and Android. One subscription covers the household.
The library grows with the calendar. Holiday-anchored stories ship 6–8 weeks ahead of each federal holiday — see the Library page for what is shipping next.
Once Upon America is secular by positioning. When a classic source — Andersen, the Christmas Truce of 1914 — carries faith elements, we keep them in faithful retellings of those stories. We never add religious content the source doesn't carry.
The canon, and the heroes who built this country — ready for bedtime, the drive, and the drop-off line.
