Is it safe for my child?

Stories are written to be warm and gentle, with tension matched to your child’s age, and every story is checked before you see it. You can add anything you’d like kept out of bedtime, and if something ever feels wrong you can tell us from the story itself.

What happens to my family’s details?

They’re used to write your stories, only after you agree, and never for ads. You can remove anything, or delete your account and everything with it, from inside the app.

A new story every night for your first week, then one new story a week for your household — continuing each one a few times, with read-along, bedtime music, the dark reader and sharing. Premium adds a story every night, every child in the family, and your whole shelf.

Can grandparents use it?

Yes. Send them a story by link — it opens in any browser — or invite them into your family: up to 4 grown-ups share one subscription.

Does it need an internet connection?

Only to write a new story. Stories you’ve already made are kept on your phone.

Is there an Android version?

Not yet. Once is for iPhone and iPad, in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand.

Made for the people you tuck in.

Once began with a simple bedtime truth: children light up when the story is about them — their dog, their grandma, the lake house, the things they love. So Once writes a new story around your family every night, and keeps every one.

Specific is the magic

A story about “a friendly dog” is forgettable. A story about Sully chasing a lava monster past Grandma’s blue house is theirs. Everything in Once is built around a family’s real world.

Calm, not stimulation

A bedtime app should be trying to end the evening, not stretch it. Dark by design, gentle music, a page that writes itself in at reading pace, and a goodnight that closes the story for you. No streaks, no badges, nothing to come back for but the story.

The whole family

Parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles: one shared world of people and places, one shelf of stories, and a link to send a story to anyone who loves them.

Kept

These nights go quickly. Every story stays on your shelf to read again, print, or save as a PDF.

Coming soon to the App Store