Annual
$24.99per year
Save 48% — works out to about $2/month
Pricing
One subscription. Every story.
No tiers. No content paywalled to higher plans. Every classic, every American Story, every folk tale, every poem, every sleep sound — included.
One price. The whole library. Every device.
No ads. No upsells. No content locked behind a higher tier. Family-share built in.
Monthly
$3.99per month
Cancel any time
7-day free trial, cancel any time. Subscribe on the web, or through the App Store / Play Store.
Questions parents ask
- What ages is Once Upon America made for?
- 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.
- Is it safe? Are there ads?
- 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.
- How is this different from a podcast or Audible?
- 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.
- Does it work in the car?
- 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.
- Can you listen offline?
- Yes. Any story can be downloaded for offline listening — flights, road trips, anywhere without service.
- Can I share my subscription with my spouse?
- Yes. Family Sharing is supported on iOS and Android. One subscription covers the household.
- What about Christmas, MLK Day, the Fourth of July?
- 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.
- Are the stories religious?
- 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.