No technical skills needed. If you can describe a character and tell a bedtime story, you can make the whole thing here — script, scenes, and pictures free; movies and your own cloned voice on the Creator & Studio plans.
Four steps, in order. That's the whole path.
Type a short description and WonderCast draws a stylized 3D avatar of your child. No photos needed — though you can add one if you want a closer match.
About 30 seconds of reading, and the stories can be told in your voice — even on the nights you're away. Or invite the grandparents to your family and let them read.
Pick a theme or type any idea. WonderCast writes the script, draws the scenes, and — on Creator & Studio plans — animates the video — and the Safety Agent screens every prompt first.
Hit play. Turn on the tools a reader might need, or let the whole thing play as an audiobook while the lights go down.
Generate your character once, and our Art Director Agent keeps them true — film-grade illustrated scenes, consistent from page to page, holding your child's likeness, favorite colors, and personality in every one.
The Identity Engine remembers how your child's character looks — face, hair, outfit — and draws them the same way in every scene, story after story.
Your child sees a short, cinematic story video made just for them. The player is quietly training reading skills — the same word-lighting you saw on the home page, plus the deeper tools.
Every word lights in sync with the narrator. The dotted one is a tap away from its meaning.
Text lights up in perfect sync with the narrator's voice, so eyes and ears learn the words together.
Tap any word for a definition generated for that sentence — not copied from a dictionary.
OpenDyslexic font, High Contrast, and a Focus Mask — built in for every reader, not bolted on.
Montessori-style grammar analysis, for the reader who wants to know why the sentence works.
Any story your family makes can be sung — a real recorded song with your child's name in the lyrics, for the nights when reading feels like too much and singing doesn't.
Pick a story you've made and WonderCast writes and records the song of it — same characters, same adventure, now with a melody your child will hum at breakfast.
The word-lighting from the reader carries into every song: lyrics glow in time with the voice, so a child who can't read yet still follows along — singing along that is quietly reading practice.
Open the mixer and switch each instrument on or off to hear how the song is built — piano, harp, drums, bass — or slide the voice away and sing it karaoke-style.
Song-making comes with the Starter, Creator & Studio plans.
Wondy the owl is right there in the app, and she talks back. Your child reads out loud and she follows along — when a word gets hard she leans in, no grades, no buzzers. Ask her anything out loud and she shows the way, and she only ever points to things already made for your family.
Hear her tonight in “Fern and the Sleepy Star”.
Nothing settles a child like a parent's voice. Clone yours once, and you can read tonight's story from a late shift, a work trip, or a deployment overseas.
And grandparents can read too: invite Grandma to your family and she gets her own login. She records about 30 seconds of reading on her phone — and then she can read to your child every night.
Families have already made over 700 stories here (as of Aug 2026). WonderCast Storybooks on the App Store — age rating 4+.
Clone your voice in about 30 seconds of reading — tonight's story is about two minutes away.
Start freeA quiet, parent-only view of what your child is reading and learning — the progress behind the bedtime magic.
Backed by science
WonderCast isn’t just entertainment. It’s a cognitive development tool built on peer-reviewed research in child psychology — three findings, and what each one does at bedtime.
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Information related to the self is encoded deeper in the brain — psychologists call it the self-reference effect. Children remember more of a story when they are its protagonist.
Rogers, Kuiper & Kirker (1977), Journal of Personality & Social Psychology02
Research shows hearing a parent’s voice measurably calms a stressed child. A settled mind is one that opens to the story’s emotional lessons: sharing, bravery.
Seltzer et al. (2010), Proceedings of the Royal Society B03
WonderCast requires choice. By deciding what happens next, your child uses executive function skills — turning screen time from a passive trance into an active creative workout.
Diamond (2013), Annual Review of Psychology
Most storybooks are ready in about two minutes. Movies take a few minutes for the cinematic rendering. You'll get a notification the moment it's ready.
No — a sentence describing them works too. If you do share photos, they're encrypted, never used to train AI models, and deletable whenever you like. More on how we keep it safe.
WonderCast is on iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV, with web access at wondercast.app on any browser.
Six free stories to read tonight — and you can make stories of your own free: 10 storybooks and 10 audiobooks to keep, with unlimited characters — and you can record your own narration. Total, not per month, no credit card. The stories you make are yours forever. Making songs starts on the Starter plan — though “The Wonderwood Lullaby” is free to hear anytime. See plans.
Every prompt is screened by the Safety Agent before a single word of story is written — it reads context, tone, and intent, not just keywords. Parental controls are on by default, stories are designed for co-viewing, and you can regenerate any scene that doesn't feel right. More on the Safety page.
Describe a character, borrow a voice, pick an idea. Tonight's story can star your own child — and quietly teach them to read it.
Start freeNot tonight? We’ll email you the six free stories — and one new free story a month.
