For grandparents, aunts, uncles, and everyone who tucks them in from far away.
Once writes bedtime stories starring a family’s own children — and the people who love them. Here’s how you can be part of it.
Get a story by text
When a parent shares a story, you get a link. Tap it and the story opens in your phone’s browser, written in word by word, the way it is in the app. Nothing to install, nothing to sign in to. Make the words bigger with the Aa button at the top.
Be in the stories
Parents add the people in a child’s life to Your World — Grandma, Papa, the blue house, the dog. Stories bring you in by name, the way the family knows you.
Give them a year of stories
Buy a gift of Premium in the Once app and send it by text: a new story every night for everyone in their family, for 3 or 12 months.
How gifts work →Join the family
If you’d like the app too, a parent can invite you. Up to 4 grown-ups share one subscription, the same Your World, and the same shelf of stories — so you can read to them on a visit, or over a video call.
“My grandchildren are in every story — and so are Grumpy, Honey’s house, and the golf cart. I’m obsessed.”
Is the link safe to open?
Story links start with getonce.app/s/, are made only when a parent chooses to share, and can’t be guessed. They never ask for a password or payment, and they stop working after 30 days. If you weren’t expecting one, check with the family before opening it.