A story studio for ages 6–12
Obooga starts with a giant book and no idea what happens next. Your kid makes the choices and invents the twists. Their exact story becomes a free digital book, with an optional hardcover to keep.
Obooga holds the plot together. Your kid supplies the one thing his world is missing: imagination.
He reads the beginning aloud, reaches the blank part, and turns to the only person who can rescue the story.
“What kind of ship should it be?”
They choose paths, name characters, invent creatures, and add twists Obooga never sees coming. He reacts, writes it down, and reads their idea back.
The complete digital book is free to read, hear, and share. If it’s a keeper, their exact story can become a printed hardcover, with their name on the cover and their ideas on every page.
Why parents feel good about itObooga’s stuckness isn’t a gimmick. It’s the whole design. When a lovable expert runs out of ideas, the child becomes the capable one in the room: the namer of ships, the inventor of creatures, the one who knows what happens next.
That role reversal is inspired by dialogic reading, the well-studied practice of pausing a story and letting the child tell it. Obooga simply makes the pause irresistible, and writes down what your kid says.
“Kids never feel quizzed. They feel like the smart one. Because here, they are.”
Included, always
The complete story with full illustrations, narrated aloud by Obooga. Shareable with grandparents in one tap.
Coming soon
Their exact story as a real hardcover: thick pages, full-spread art, their name on the cover and the title page.
Ordering opens soon
A spread from a finished book
A storybook where the child makes the creative decisions that shape the plot: naming characters, choosing paths, inventing twists. Their name isn’t just inserted into a story someone else wrote. Every Obooga book is child-authored, and the byline says so because it’s true.
About 20 minutes for one complete adventure. The story moves at your child’s pace. Every page waits for them, and you can save progress and come back.
No. Obooga narrates every page out loud, with the words highlighted as he reads. Early readers can follow along; confident readers can turn the sound off.
Real plot decisions: which ship to take, what the creature looks like, what the twist is, what the book is called. Their words are woven into the story text and read back to them.
Their exact finished story: the same pages, art, choices, and title as the digital book, printed as a hardcover with their name on the cover. The digital book stays free either way.
No. AI doesn’t write the stories. Every story is hand-authored: every page of narrative, every choice your child is offered, every illustration, and every line of character audio was created or reviewed by a human before launch. Your child moves through that pre-approved world. AI is used only at a few narrow, carefully guarded moments: smoothing your child’s own words into a sentence, speaking their first name aloud, and drawing the one picture they describe themselves. Everything a child types passes through multiple layers of moderation first. If an AI service is ever unavailable, the story simply carries on with its pre-written material.
A first name (so the story can say it) and the story choices themselves. No child accounts, no ads, no messaging. A parent email is collected only if you choose to save progress.
Free to make. No account needed. One very relieved monster.
Enter the Story Studio