How it works
Two minutes to set up. Four touches at bedtime.
Everything a child does happens on the cube. Everything a parent decides happens in the app.
Setup, once
- 1
Scan the card in the box
The app reads the cube's serial and its one-time code. Nothing to type.
- 2
Plug the cube in
In about half a minute its light pulses and it says it is ready to be set up.
- 3
Pick your Wi-Fi
The app shows the networks the cube can see. Choose yours and type the password once. The cube keeps it; your phone does not.
- 4
Hand it over
The cube says "I'm online", then asks your child their name. That is the whole setup.
No email confirmation before the first story, no payment screen in the middle of setup. Those can wait for the morning.
Bedtime, every night
- 1
Press the top
The whole top of the cube is the button. A small chime says the cube is listening.
- 2
Say what you'd like
"A story about a dragon who is scared of the dark." Eight seconds, in your child's own words.
- 3
A storyteller begins
A story made just for that request, for your child's age, in a voice they chose. About two minutes long, and it ends with sleep.
- 4
Press again to stop
One touch pauses everything, and the storyteller says goodnight. No menus, no screen, no volume wars.
What happens in the two seconds before the story
The cube sends your child’s eight seconds of speech to Talepuff’s servers, where it is turned into words and the recording is discarded. The words are checked. A story is written for that request, for your child’s age and in the storyteller’s style, and it is checked again, sentence by sentence, before the voice reads it. The first sentence usually arrives in two to three seconds; the rest follows as it is spoken.
Every story is kept in your family’s library. Ask for “the one about the dragon” tomorrow and the cube plays it back, for free and instantly. Stories continue as series when a child asks “what happened next”.
If the internet is down, the cube has a small set of stories on board and tells one of those, so bedtime never depends on your router.
The storytellers
Grandpa Oak
Slow, warm and a little gravelly
Woodland animals, patient heroes, stories that end by a fire
Nana Willow
Gentle and musical
Kind witches, gardens, lullaby endings
Captain Barnaby
Booming, then a whisper for the good bit
Ships, maps, treasure that turns out to be friends
Pip the Fairy
Quick and bright
Tiny adventures, talking teacups, giggles
Sunny Sage
Calm and clear
Space, dinosaurs, how things work, then sleep