A fresh Short Story tonight — personalized for your kids, the things they care about right now, even the family pet. Turn any silly idea into a story in moments.
Or continue a Storybook — a recurring world your family comes back to night after night. Same premise, new adventure, no recap needed.
Tell Quillow what tonight is — a birthday, a snow day, the week your kids can't stop talking about volcanoes — and your family is woven into a fresh stand-alone story. A new world every time.
Same premise. Same setting. Same guide character. A different adventure every night you open it. Kids start naming them — they ask for "the train one" again.
Before Quillow, my kids and I were inventing bedtime stories every night — and the ones we kept coming back to were the ones with a recurring premise. The Shrink Ray was the runaway hit: every night we'd magically shrink, then explore the inside of some household appliance, or have a tiny adventure in the backyard. Same shape, infinite nights. Quillow gives you that recurring shape — without having to invent it from scratch.
— Michael, maker of Quillow
Shrink down and explore the inside of things — appliances, drawers, tonight's leftovers. Wren the beetle is a regular.
A train pulls up at the foot of your kids' bed and takes the family somewhere new. Conductor Woolsworth runs the line.
Your family has a spaceship and a neighborhood out among the stars. Zip the repair-bot keeps the engines purring.
A bakery that opens after the family falls asleep. Each pastry Baker Olu makes turns out to be part of someone's dream.
Tiny knights guard the dreams of a sleeping kingdom — your family are squires. Captain Wick carries the lantern.
Plus more in the app — and you can build your own, whatever recurring premise your family already plays with.
Three minutes the first time you open Quillow. After that, names, ages, the things they're into right now, the pet, your city, what each kid is working on — none of it gets re-typed. It threads through every story automatically.
"In a blink, they were standing in a blocky world under a square moon. Hills rose in clean steps. Trees had chunky leaves. A mine cart sat on shiny rails nearby, and Tuxie landed on it with a pleased tail flick."
→ Oliver (6) is deep into Minecraft. Quillow built the whole story around what he loves about it — blocky worlds, square moons, mine carts on rails. The brand name never appears; the texture does.
"Tuxie, who was the official ship cat, opened one eye from the pilot chair and made a sound that very clearly meant: I do not approve of stowaways. Then he went back to sleep, because he was also the official ship napper."
→ Tuxie is the family's actual tuxedo cat. Promoted to ship cat for this story; demoted again when he naps.
"On a soft evening in Portland, when the sky was turning pink over the backyard…"
→ The family lives in Portland. Quillow folds in the city — pink Pacific Northwest evenings, soft rain, cedar-and-coffee weather — without ever turning the story into a tour.
Yes — and we're upfront. The stories are generated. The warmth, the personalization, and the choice of words come out of how Quillow is built — we've spent more time on prompting and read-aloud quality than on anything else. The sampler above is a real generation, not a hand-edit.
No. Quillow is for parents to read aloud. Pick a story, hold the phone, read. The reader UI is tuned for dim bedrooms so the screen doesn't intrude. Your kids hear your voice — that's the point.
Roughly 2 through 10. Quillow tunes the prose to each child's age, so a 4-year-old's story reads differently from an 8-year-old's. Update the ages as your kids grow and the stories adapt.
Below 2 is still board-book territory. Above 10, kids usually want to read on their own.
It stays with us. Names, ages, interests, your kid's name for the cat — never sold, never used for ads, never used to train anyone's model. We get paid for the subscription, not for your data.
Full details in the privacy policy.
Same plan the whole way through — no features get locked, no downgrades.
Try everything before you decide. Cancel before day 7 and you'll never pay a cent.
Get Quillow on the App StoreOr $39.99/year — saves about 16%. Cancel anytime in Settings.
After trial: $3.99/month or $39.99/year. Cancel anytime in Settings.
Family data stays private — never sold, never used for ads. No screens for the kids; parent reads aloud.
