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Every feature, in detail

Built for one calm
moment a night.

Each feature in Owl Aby earns its place by answering a real parenting question: What story tonight? Why is this happening? What can we do in 20 minutes? No filler. No streaks. No notifications begging you back.

Hero story · MVP

Your child is the story.

Pick a theme — first day of preschool, a new sibling, bedtime fears, big feelings, or "surprise me" — and your child becomes the main character. The illustration style stays consistent across every page so they feel a real attachment to "their" fox, dragon, or rabbit.

  • Built around name, age in months, interests & favorite animal
  • Themes that fit real parenting moments, not generic adventures
  • Short (~3 min), medium (~5 min), or long (~8 min) — tuned to bedtime
  • Stories are saved automatically. Tonight's favorite becomes tomorrow's request.
Narration bar

Calm voice · Linnea

A library of warm, neutral voices — pick the one your child finds most settling.

Linnea 15m sleep timer
0:110:32
Free + 6 voices on Premium Your voice · soon
Read aloud · MVP

A voice that knows
when to soften.

Owl Aby stories are narrated in a deliberately calm voice — slower, lower, with pauses that respect the moment. Set a sleep timer for those nights when bedtime takes longer than the story. The reader fades out gently, just like you would.

  • Six free-tier narrators across warmth, pitch, and pace
  • Sleep timer: 10, 15, 30 min — or until the story ends
  • Adjustable read speed for younger ears or pre-readers
  • Your-voice narration arriving in summer 2026
Maya, you decide

What does Maya do first?

Try painting
Build with blocks

Branching moments appear once or twice per story. Skip if your kid is half-asleep — the story continues regardless.

Co-creation · MVP

Let them be the storyteller.

At a few key moments in each story, your kid picks what happens next. It's the difference between a podcast and a campfire — they're not consuming, they're collaborating. For older kids, it doubles as a calm window into how they feel about a real situation in their life.

  • Two-choice forks: simple enough for a 3-year-old
  • Toggle off per-story for the nights when they just need to listen
  • Choices subtly shape the rest of the story, not the entire arc
Bedtime mode · MVP

Warm-dimmed, large
art, minimal chrome.

When you tap the moon, Owl Aby becomes a different app: deep plum-night background, soft gold accents, larger illustrations, almost no UI. Designed to not light up the room, and to not break the bedtime spell if you bump the screen by accident.

  • One-handed reach for every control
  • Locked landscape so the phone can lay flat on the pillow
  • Optional immersive mode: no UI, just the page and the narrator
  • Auto-engage at sunset if you want — never required
Behavior explainer

Why is my kid
doing this?

Calm, evidence-based guidance — with gentle "check with your pediatrician if…" framing built into every topic.

Tantrums
Why they peak at 3
Sleep regression
4mo · 8mo · 2yr
Picky eating
Tasting vs eating
Biting
Toddler vs preschool
Tips & advice · MVP

A calm friend at the
end of the day.

One short, age-tuned micro-tip per day on the home screen. A searchable explainer for the behaviors that send you into a 9pm Google spiral. Everything reviewed by pediatric advisors — and clearly framed as "this is what the research suggests," not as a substitute for your doctor.

  • Tips auto-adjust as your child ages out of one stage and into the next
  • Behavior explainer covers 40+ common patterns from 6 months to 7 years
  • "Check with your pediatrician if…" prompts built into every medical-adjacent topic
  • Bookmark anything to a private "for later" folder
I have 20 minutes, a 3-year-old, and it's rainy.
Sock-bin basketball
Roll socks into balls, set bin across the room. Count baskets together.
Make-your-own foxes
Trace hands on paper, fold into pointy-eared foxes. Name each one.
Activity finder · MVP

"What can we do in
twenty minutes?"

The most common parenting emergency. Tell Owl Aby how long you've got, who's home, and what the weather's doing. Get four activity ideas — each with a supply list of stuff you already own. No Pinterest crafting required.

  • Filters: indoor / outdoor, mess-tolerance, with or without siblings
  • Each idea includes a 1-minute setup guide
  • Save ideas to "for tomorrow" so you can prep at naptime
  • Activities grow with your child — what worked at 2 won't work at 5
Maya's library · 12 stories
Library · MVP

A bookshelf, not
a feed.

Every story your family tells gets a cover and a spine. It lives on Maya's shelf, ready for re-reading, downloadable for the plane, and tagged by theme so you can find "the one about starting preschool" three months from now.

  • Offline-first — download stories before a road trip
  • Tag by theme, age, or "favorite forever"
  • Smart suggestions for tonight, based on what worked recently
  • Family share: grandparents can read stories with the same kid
Caregivers
S
Sam (you)
Parent · admin
Active
J
Jordan
Parent · joined Mar 12
L
Grandma Lin
Grandparent · read only
Family · MVP

Both parents.
Grandma. The sitter.

Bedtime isn't always you. Owl Aby lets up to four caregivers share one child's profile — with sensible permissions. Grandma can read stories on FaceTime without seeing your account billing. The sitter can play a saved favorite without creating new content.

  • Roles: admin · parent · read-only
  • One subscription covers the whole family — no extra seats
  • Add a second child anytime; each gets their own profile and library
  • Stories are tagged with which caregiver was there — sweet for memories
Privacy, plainly

Three things we'll never do.

  • 1 Train AI on your child's data — stories, recordings, or profile
  • 2 Share with ad networks or sell to data brokers — there are no ads, ever
  • 3 Hold onto your data if you cancel — full export & delete in two taps

Read the full privacy policy — it's about 60 seconds.

Trust · MVP

Built for the kind of
parent who reads the policy.

We're parents too. We treat your child's profile, drawings, voice recordings, and saved stories the way we'd want ours treated. End-to-end encrypted in transit. Stored only as long as we need to. And never, ever used to train a model.

  • COPPA-aligned children's data handling (US) & GDPR-K (EU)
  • Family export: download every story, every recording, anytime
  • Delete-account is one tap → 30-day grace → permanent erase
  • Open security disclosure at security@owlaby.com
Coming this year

What we're building
next, gently.

A short, honest roadmap. We ship slowly because bedtime is the wrong place to be a beta tester.

Summer 2026

Your voice, narrating

Record 30 seconds. Owl Aby trains a private voice model — only used for your stories, never for anyone else. The kindest version of "I'll read to you" when you can't be there.

Fall 2026

Voice Q&A

Talk to Owl Aby. "My toddler won't nap." "She's biting at preschool again." A calm, conversational guide — never a chatbot tone, never a hallucinated medical opinion.

Late 2026

Milestone keepsakes

A gentle, non-anxiety developmental timeline. Save funny quotes, first words, that-week-she-only-ate-cheese moments. Export as a private family book.

2026

Meals & snack ideas

Age-appropriate. Allergy-aware. Picky-eater hacks that don't require a Whole-Foods run. The 5pm "what do I feed them" rescue.

2026

Routine builder

Visual bedtime and morning schedules your child can follow. Less "stop watching me brush your teeth" — more rituals they own.

2027

Multilingual stories

Read the same story in two languages on alternating nights. Spanish, Mandarin, French, Portuguese, Hindi, Arabic in v1.

Every feature, in your hands tonight.

Premium unlocks the whole library. Free for the first seven nights.

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