One photo.
One epic storybook.
The photo already on your phone — the one where everyone's actually smiling — becomes a printed storybook your whole family stars in. Upload it, tell us your story idea, and see your book's title and cover in three looks. Free, usually under two minutes.
- Free to see your cover
- No account or password needed
- You approve every page before it prints
The Wishing Tree
starring Faraday
Four taps to your cover
No forms, no account, no art skills. Here's the whole trick — and the part where you decide comes before the part where you pay.
Upload one family photo
Bring the whole crew — no cropping, no cutting Grandpa out of the corner. We find every face in the picture, up to eight of them, in about fifteen seconds.
Tell us who’s who
Tap a pin, type a name — “Mia, big sister.” “Grandpa.” Leave someone blank and we’ll leave them out of the story.
Give us the idea
One or two sentences is plenty — we’ll take it from there. Stuck? Tap a story spark: dragon adventure 🐉, camping 🏕️, bedtime 🌙, superhero 🦸, safari 🦁.
Meet your book
Usually under two minutes later, your book’s real title appears — with its cover in three looks. Pick your favorite, and that’s the book we’ll make. Don’t love the first batch? One free do-over. Still not sold? Close the tab — it cost you nothing.
Same scene. Three looks. You pick.
Every cover arrives three ways. You don't describe the look you want. You point at it.
Your free reveal works exactly the same way: one cover, three looks, side by side. Pick a favorite and that exact cover becomes the front of your printed book. Not feeling any of them? You get one free re-roll. Either way, you've judged the art with your own eyes before a dollar changes hands.
Create my story — free to startUp to eight stars. One photo.
Every family has one photo that's more than a photo — the lake-trip one, the everyone-made-it-to-Thanksgiving one. Upload it whole. Tap a numbered pin on each face and say who's who: kids, cousins, Grandpa, even Dad photobombing in the back row.
Everyone you name gets a part in the story; anyone you leave blank quietly sits this one out. Nobody sneaks in, and nobody gets left out by accident. Then bedtime changes — Mia isn't pointing at the lake-trip picture anymore. She's turning pages where she, Dad, and Grandma are the heroes of it.
Your photo stays private — it only guides the art. It never appears in the book.
A real book, with real weight, on a real shelf.
This isn't a PDF. It's an 8.5-inch square picture book, printed and shipped to your door. Softcover if you like it light; hardcover — the one most families pick — for the satisfying thunk when it lands on the nightstand. Two genuinely different bindings, one book they'll pull off the shelf themselves.
Every order also includes the full digital story, so bedtime still works from a phone at Grandma's house, three states away. And shipping? Already in the price. The number you see is the number you pay.
The Backyard Dragon
starring Mia, Leo & Dad
Nothing prints until you say so.
“What if I hate it?” Fair question. A book that ends up in your kid's hands deserves a higher bar than click-and-hope — so after you order, the book team crafts every page around the cover you picked, and then the brakes are yours.
You preview every page
We email you the moment your book is ready. Read the whole thing on any device — every word, every picture — before it goes anywhere near a press.
One round of changes is included
Something off? Mia’s hair, a word you’d never say, a page that misses the moment — tell us anything.
You give the green light
Your book prints only after you approve it. Not by default, not on a timer — only when you say go. Then we email you again when it ships.
Your photo stays private
It lives in private storage, it only guides the art in your own book, and it never appears in the book — or anywhere else.
And before any book prints, a person on our team reads it page by page. Every book. Every time.
See the cover free. Pay when you love it.
You'll see your book's title and its cover in three looks before you spend a cent — the order button only shows up after the reveal. Two bindings, one honest number each.
$39.99Softcover
- 8.5-inch square printed book
- Full digital story on any device
- Shipping included
- Preview every page before it prints
- One round of changes included
- Prints only after you approve
$49.99Hardcover
- 8.5-inch square printed book
- Full digital story on any device
- Shipping included
- Preview every page before it prints
- One round of changes included
- Prints only after you approve
No shipping fee at checkout, no surprise line items.
Create my story — free to startNo account, no password — just an email so we can deliver it.
The questions every parent asks
Their favorite book is hiding in your camera roll.
One photo, a couple of names, one story idea — and usually under two minutes later you're looking at your book's title and cover in three looks, free. Love one? The printed book starts at $39.99, shipping included, and nothing prints until you've read every page and said yes. Don't love it? You've spent nothing but the two minutes.
No account. One free re-roll. You approve every page.
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