Annual
$24.99per year
Save 30% — 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
$2.99per month
Cancel any time
7-day free trial. Subscriptions auto-renew through Apple or Google. Manage or cancel in your App Store / Play Store account.
Good to know
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.