Stories about what worries kids
Milo is scared of a shadow on the wall, doesn’t want to brush his teeth, and feels nervous before preschool and his first haircut. By the end he finds out it isn’t so scary.
Milo
For parents of kids aged 3–6, on iPhone and iPad
A cozy story before sleep
A parent reads aloud, the child looks at the pictures, and the evening ends quietly — no games, no flashing buttons, no ads.
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iPhone and iPad · iOS 17 or later · 3 stories free
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- 12 storiesfor kids aged 3–6
- No adsand no third-party tracking
- No accountsopen it and read
- Works offlineevery book is on the device
Features
Built for bedtime reading, not screen time
No games, no rewards, no auto-advancing pages. Just a book you read together.
Felt-style illustrations
A cozy picture on every page. One button hides the text so your child can simply look at the illustration.
A pleasure to read aloud
Short sentences, gentle humor and a calm ending. The ten languages are literary adaptations, not machine translation.
How it works
Three steps. That’s it
- 01
Pick a story
The library opens right away. Tap a book and it opens — no extra screens.
- 02
Read aloud
Page by page, at your own pace. Nothing turns by itself or plays unasked.
- 03
A calm ending
The story ends softly and you are back in the library. The next one can wait for tomorrow.
In the app
What it looks like
Upright, a page splits into picture and text. Sideways, the illustration fills the screen and the text can be hidden.
iPhone · library
Which story shall we read tonight?
iPhone · portrait, with text
Fears turn into play
iPhone · landscape, no text
Just the picture
iPad · library
The same library on a big screen
Free and subscription
Three stories free. The whole library with a subscription
The free stories stay free forever. A subscription unlocks the rest and new stories as they arrive.
Free
forever
- Milo and the Night Without Fear
- Milo and the Little Bear’s Teeth
- Milo and the Train to the Big Fish
- No ads, no account
Milo subscription
Price shown in the App Store
- The whole library — 12 stories
- New stories as they arrive
- Works with Family Sharing
- Purchases behind a parental gate
The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. You can manage it in your Apple Account settings.
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What was hard and how I solved it
A layout for any window
On iPad the app runs in windows of any size. The layout follows the window’s proportions rather than device orientation: a wide window gets a full-screen illustration with text on top, a narrow one gets a vertical page.
Controls that stay out of the picture
The system toolbar couldn’t fade smoothly together with everything else, so I built a separate control layer over the illustration that hides as one piece.
Light illustrations, same quality
Final pictures are stored as HEIC instead of PNG: the library is much lighter and the felt texture stays intact.
Stories in ten languages
Children’s text can’t be translated line by line without losing rhythm and tone. Each story is adapted as literature and spot-checked by native speakers.
- Interface
- SwiftUI
- Subscription
- StoreKit 2
- System
- iOS 17 or later
- Data
- Everything on device, no server