Stories for the little and big challenges of growing up.

Grow Story Time is a place where everything that happens —and everything they imagine— can turn into a story.

Tell us what your little one is going through and what they love. We write a fun story, made just for them, that can also help them learn something along the way.

Explore the library Search for stories by title, by age, or by the values they teach. And if you're not sure which one to pick, tell us what your little one is going through and we'll suggest a story for this moment. Create a story

Made for them One child at a time.
With values The natural way.
No lectures A good story comes first.
In the voices they love Yours can be one of them.

Bruno, Matilda, Cato and Clementine reading a story together in the meadow, with the moon, the stars and the mountains behind them.

Our narrators

Four characters. Four different ways to tell a story.

Every story can be told by one of our four characters, each with their own personality and their own way of telling it.

Bruno

I'm curious and adventurous. With me, every story becomes a new world to explore.

CuriosityAdventure

Matilda

I love imagining with you. Bring one idea, and together we'll help it grow.

ImaginationPlay

Cato

I take my time, notice what matters, and give every story room to breathe.

CalmReflection

Clementine

I tell stories with warmth and heart. I stay close when things get difficult.

WarmthComfort

Kids can pick whichever character they like best to tell their stories, or switch narrators with every new one.

Your voice can tell the story too

And if you'd rather tell it yourself, you can record it in your own voice —or grandma's, or the uncle who lives far away— so your child can hear it again and again.

The app has a recorder that's easy to use. The recordings may not be perfect. It doesn't matter. They're ours.

Hearing mom's voice, or dad's, or a grandparent who lives far away, is priceless.

The voices that matter most are the ones that stay.

How it works

Everything in one place, made for your family.

Library

Every story we have, all in one place. Search by title, by age, or by the values they work on. Or tell us what's going on and we'll help you find a story that might help.
Create

A story made especially for your kids: with their names, their age, the things they love and something they're going through right now. You pick the narrator.
Give

Make a story and send it to another family: a friend, a cousin, a grandchild, someone special. They open it with a link, and the story becomes part of their own library.
My Library

Where your family's collection lives: the stories you made, the favorites you saved, and the ones you were given. All together, ready to hear again whenever you like.
My Family

This is where you tell us who's part of your family. Knowing each child's age lets us fit the stories to where they are right now. That's why we ask for their birthday: Grow Story Time can grow along with them.
In your voice

Any story takes on a whole different life when you're the one telling it. You can record it in your own voice, or mom's, dad's, a grandparent's, or someone special. The recordings belong to your family: only you can hear them.

Why we do it

Almost no parent comes looking for “a story about courage”.

They come because something specific is happening at home, and they want to help their child get through it without lectures, without using fear as a lever, and without turning every moment into a parenting lesson.

We believe a good story is one of the most powerful tools there is for holding a child's attention — and, inside that attention, leaving something that stays: small messages and lessons that don't feel like lessons at all, but like part of a short, funny, personal story.

We got here the way a lot of families do: with a kid full of energy, looking for something other than a screen, and the feeling that the stories we could find didn't speak to what he was actually going through.

And we found something out: when the child himself —or his friends, his family, or the characters he invents— shows up inside the story, the story changes. It stops being something he just listens to. It becomes something he imagines, something that feels like his.

That's where a story can become much more than entertainment.

The child keeps the story. And the value stays with him.

How it all started

Hi, we're Cristina, Pablo, Santiago and Luka.

Santiago turned three this year and… wow. What a ride.

With Luka already older, we'd forgotten just how much energy a kid that age can have —and how much of a challenge it is to keep him busy, stay with him, and teach him new things—.

The easy way out was always right there: the screen, the TV, the iPad.

But Cris and I were worried about how much time he spent in front of them, so we started playing Santiago stories instead.

And we ran into two problems.

The first one was very practical: the stories were scattered across different platforms, mixed in with videos and music. Whenever we wanted to find one again, it took forever, or we simply never found it.

The second was a question that wouldn't let go:

What if stories could also help us teach him the things we really wanted to pass on?

The idea isn't new, of course. We've been learning through stories for thousands of years.

But the challenge was still the same: which story? What do we want to pass on? How do we make him actually want to hear it?

That's how Grow Story Time was born.

And as we started trying it out, we found something else.

When Santi shows up in the stories —or when his friends, his family, or the characters he makes up show up— the stories get a whole lot more fun for him.

And when the story is also tied to something he's living through, a challenge, or an idea we want to help him understand, it becomes a small tool for growing up too.

It doesn't replace the work of teaching, being there, and raising him.

But it can help.

It can mean that instead of staring at a screen, he imagines. That he has fun. That he asks questions. And that, almost without noticing, he starts discovering some of the values we want to share with him.

We also found out that making a story for someone else and giving it to them was something really special.

That's how Gift a Story was born.

Now, whenever a little friend has a birthday, or something big happens, or we just want to give a different kind of present, we can give them something where they're part of the adventure themselves.

We hope you have fun too, that you imagine, that you keep growing, and that you find plenty of those small moments of telling —and being part of— a story.

Our values

What guides us every day.

Purpose

Stories have to be fun. And, whenever we can, leave something worth keeping.
Structure

Creative stories, but well built: a beginning, a middle, a challenge, a resolution and an ending.
Safety

We never use fear as a tool. There can be excitement, tension and adventure, but always somewhere safe for the child.
Privacy

What's yours is yours. Whatever your family makes or records belongs to you and stays private.
Personalization

Every child is different. Stories fit their age, their world and where they are in growing up.
Closeness

We talk the way families talk, not the way a manual does. No therapy tone, no homework tone, no parenting lecture.