01The wiggly tummy
Tiko and the deep blue
A small turtle finds the word for the wiggle he feels at the edge of the deep water.
A bedtime stories app, built on child science
Stories that help your little one name big feelings.
Recorded in your own voice. One gentle feeling per story, the way a young child actually learns to feel.
How it works
Three minutes to set up. Then it runs itself.
Record once
Read a short script. That is all it takes to capture your voice, gently and for good.
Pick tonight's story
Choose from the sequence. Each story is shaped around a single feeling, by design.
Press play, lights off
Your child hears the story in your voice, with their own name inside it. No screen.
Free to download. 3 stories included.
The science
Why a story that names one feeling beats a story with a moral.
The body knows before the mind does.
Every story names a physical sensation before it names a feeling. Fear lives in the body before the mind has a word for it.
Why sensation precedes feeling.
One emotion per story.
A 4-year-old can hold one feeling at a time. The milestone for holding two arrives at five. The story never asks for more than the age allows.
Susan Harter, 1986.
Naming a sensation builds regulation.
People who identify emotions as specific bodily states regulate them more effectively. The sequence builds that vocabulary on purpose.
Lisa Feldman Barrett, 2017.
Five stories, ages 3 to 4. Each one introduces a single body sensation, and the child's dictionary of feelings grows.
01Wiggly tummy
02Heavy feet
03Droopy body
04Hot and heavy
05Puffed up
The stories
One feeling per story. The sequence grows with your child.
No epics. No morals announced at the end. Each story is a small, calm world where one feeling is named in the body and lived all the way through, in the warm register of a grandparent telling it.
02The tight grip
Kiki and the sharing tree
A bright parrot learns that holding on and letting go feel very different.
03The droopy body
Mimi's first day
Everything is new and a little heavy, until slowly it is not.
04The small flutter
Lumi finds her light
A firefly who feels tiny in the dark notices what her own light can do.
05The heavy feet
Mimi and the rainy day
A plan washes away, and a different kind of good afternoon arrives.
Hear it
The same story, in the voice they know.
Tiko swam closer to the edge.
His tummy felt wiggly.
He did not know the word for it yet.
Safety and privacy
A child's voice deserves real care.
Your voice stays yours
Encrypted at rest and in transit. Never sold, never shared.
Parent-controlled deletion
Remove your voice profile any time. Gated so it cannot happen by accident.
No ads, no tracking
Built for children. No advertising, no behavioural tracking, no surprises.
Made for young children
Designed with child-safety guidelines in mind, from the audio up.
For schools
The same program, run as a curriculum.
StoryHug is an SEL program for Indian schools implementing the NEP 2020 mandate. The classroom and the home run the same sequence, so what a child meets in class continues at bedtime.
Request a pilot- Aligned to CASEL competencies and the NEP 2020 social-emotional learning mandate
- One story per competency, sequenced for ages 3 to 4
- Runs through a classroom speaker and continues at home in the same voice
- Encrypted voice data, parent-controlled, procurement-ready
Your voice, every night.
Free to download. 3 stories included. No credit card needed.
Stories in your voice
Free. 3 stories included.