AnyTales
Bedtime Stories for Kids
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AnyTales makes bedtime easy and magical with calming audio stories of timeless fairy tales. Gentle narrations, cozy music, and a soothing atmosphere help kids relax, dream, and drift off peacefully. Sweet dreams, guaranteed! 🌙✨
Hey Product Hunters! 👋
I’m Andrew, a proud dad and IT geek who’s thrilled (and slightly nervous!) to finally introduce you to my little passion project: AnyTales, Bedtime Stories for Kids! 🌙✨
As the dad of a wonderfully energetic 7-year-old daughter, I’ve faced the universal bedtime challenge more than once. Some evenings she was bouncing off the walls, and nothing seemed to calm her down. Not white noise, not soft music… until we discovered the magic of storytelling. 🧚♀️📖
After exploring numerous apps and services, I quickly realized many of them relied heavily on AI-generated content or unfamiliar tales. Call me nostalgic, but I wanted my daughter to fall asleep to the classic, timeless stories I loved as a kid. Stories filled with warmth, wisdom, and a bit of magic. But finding these beloved classics in one cozy, calming, and kid-friendly place proved challenging.
So I decided to build it myself. 🚀
The trickiest part was figuring out the content rights. Luckily, most classic tales enter the public domain 70 to 100 years after the author’s passing. That made it safe and ethical to share the enchanting stories we all grew up with.
And that’s how AnyTales was born. I’ve created both a comforting website (https://anytales.com) and a cozy iOS app (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bedtime-stories-anytales/id6739168587), lovingly curated and designed with soothing narration and gentle background sounds. My daughter was my first beta tester (and a tough critic!), and soon friends and family joined in with great feedback and suggestions.
Today, I’m really excited (and still a little nervous!) to share AnyTales with you, the amazing Product Hunt community. 🎉 Your thoughts, feedback, and suggestions would mean the world to me.
If you’ve got little ones, I’d love it if you gave AnyTales a try at bedtime tonight. I can’t wait to hear your stories and theirs too!
Thanks so much, everyone! Much love and sweet dreams! 🌟
Andrew
FinalCuts.pro
This is pure heart, Andrew. Love how you’ve wrapped nostalgia and storytelling into a calming experience. Curious—are you thinking about adding a “favorites” or playlist feature so kids can revisit the stories they love most night after night?
@shreyans_assistiv Thank you so much for the kind words - you just made my day!
A “favorites” feature is exactly what I’m working on next. I’ve already heard from a handful of parents who’ve said their kids keep asking for the same tale every night (“Goldilocks AGAIN!” 😅), so the ability to bookmark and queue stories is high on the roadmap. Plus a gentle-music layer with a simple toggle so you can switch the background music off anytime.