More easily buy tokens in bundles or buy subscription to make listening more seamless and less expensive! Get bundles of tokens and start listening with one tap. This version also includes some additional behind-the-scenes upgrades and updates to continue to improve the experience for you.

We continue to invest in improvements in behind-the-scenes capabilities that will improve the user experience for everyone, in particular to the listening experience. This update is no different. There are six significant upgrades to the pipes and plumbing here which should help smooth things out, and set the stage for improved experiences going forward.

Version 19.2 is mostly polish under the hood, plus a few things you'll notice. SEE WHO'S LISTENING Your published stories now show their listen count in My Library, with a badge at 10, 25, 50, 100 listens and beyond. When one of your stories reaches a new milestone, a note at the top of My Library tells you, even if notifications are off. Open any story in the Community Feed to see its listens next to its views and likes. PUBLISH FROM MY LIBRARY Stories you saved with Create Another Story can now be shared to the Feed or with friends straight from My Library. A story that's already in the Feed shows as In the Feed, so nothing is published twice. ALSO IN THIS VERSION - Tapping a listen-milestone notification now opens your story - Opening a shared story right after installing now shows the current Community Feed - Before iOS asks about tracking, a short screen explains what your answer changes - Reliability and performance improvements

Version 19.1 turns the Community Feed into something you can browse. A COMMUNITY FEED WITH SHELVES Stories are now arranged on shelves: Story of the Week, StoryFlight Picks, New This Week, Popular Right Now, Quick Listens, and shelves by mood and genre, from Cozy Bedtime Listens to Mysteries. Tap See All to browse a whole shelf. Open any story and More Like This shows you what to listen to next. MATCHED TO YOUR READER Shelves follow the age range you chose when you set up the app. Reading with someone younger? Pick a different age at the top of the Feed. KNOW WHEN READERS FIND YOUR STORY Turn on notifications and we'll tell you when your story gets its first listener, then again at 5, 10, 25, 50, 100 listens and beyond. Popular Right Now is ranked by what people are actually listening to this week. YOU CHOOSE WHAT WE SEND A new Notifications page in Settings lets you turn notifications about your stories on or off, and shows whether notifications are allowed on your device. PUBLISHING, SMOOTHER Publish a story and it reaches the Feed shelves within about a minute. Tap View in Feed to see it right away. Publishing from the share sheet now confirms it worked, and a story can no longer be published twice by accident. ALSO IN THIS VERSION - Pull down to refresh the Feed now works every time - Feed story text is easier to read in Light Mode - Opening the app no longer stops music or podcasts you're already playing

Version 19 is about hearing your stories sooner and sharing them more easily. LISTEN RIGHT AWAY Tap Listen and your story starts playing in seconds. No more waiting for a download and then finding it in your Library. A new narration engine gives voices more warmth and range. Every story you hear is saved to My Library automatically, so replays are free and work offline. Audio keeps playing when you lock your phone, with controls on the lock screen. SHARE A STORY, FREE Share with Friends and Share to the Feed now sit right on the story screen. Sharing sends the text and the illustration and costs nothing. Friends read it free on the web and can listen in the app. HEAR COMMUNITY STORIES Tap Listen on any story in the Community Feed. For 2 tokens it's yours: saved to My Library to replay any time, even offline. ALSO IN THIS VERSION - "Start Over" is now "Create Another Story", right under the share buttons - Story illustrations scroll with the story - On iPad, a progress screen while your story is written, and first stories now open as soon as they're ready

Version 18.4 - Fixed iPhone Letterboxing STORY LINKS NOW GO TO THE STORY When we point you at a story - a notification, a message inside the app, a link from us - you land on that story, open and ready to read. Before, you landed on the Community Feed and had to go find it yourself, which for an older story meant scrolling past a hundred others. Now it comes to you, however far down it sits. STORY OF THE WEEK We choose stories out of the Community Feed and put them in front of everyone. This is the release that makes that work: when we tell you your story was picked, tapping the message opens it. Your story does not stop at the feed. Stories shared there become illustrated shorts on our YouTube channel, narrated episodes with music and sound design on our podcast, and some of the characters become heroes other storytellers can cast into their own stories. We have been making these since March. What is new is that you find out when one of them is yours. ALSO - A filter no longer hides the story you followed a link to. - Notification links open the screen they name instead of your library. Writing stories is still free and still unlimited.

Version 18.3 - Tap a story, land on the story. STORY LINKS NOW GO TO THE STORY When we point you at a story - a notification, a message inside the app, a link from us - you land on that story, open and ready to read. Before, you landed on the Community Feed and had to go find it yourself, which for an older story meant scrolling past a hundred others. Now it comes to you, however far down it sits. STORY OF THE WEEK We choose stories out of the Community Feed and put them in front of everyone. This is the release that makes that work: when we tell you your story was picked, tapping the message opens it. Your story does not stop at the feed. Stories shared there become illustrated shorts on our YouTube channel, narrated episodes with music and sound design on our podcast, and some of the characters become heroes other storytellers can cast into their own stories. We have been making these since March. What is new is that you find out when one of them is yours. ALSO - A filter no longer hides the story you followed a link to. - Notification links open the screen they name instead of your library. Writing stories is still free and still unlimited.

Version 18.2 - Improved 3 Chapter Stories The old Create screen asked you to choose one of five ways to start before you'd made anything. Most people never got past it. So we rebuilt the whole thing around the only question that actually matters: who is this story about? CREATE IS A HUB, NOT A MENU Open Create and you see your heroes - used this week, journeys mid-chapter, drafts still open, and the ones who have never had a story yet. Tap one and you're straight into the story. Search across your entire cast by name or trait. THE STORY IS PROPOSED, NOT INTERROGATED No more five screens of questions. Fable proposes the setting, what's unusual about it, how your hero feels about it, the trouble, how they feel about that, and a twist - all on one card, before you've typed anything. CHANGE ANY LINE Don't like the twist? Change it. Change something early and everything after it is proposed again, and we tell you before it happens. Cancel and you get your original card back exactly as it was. ONE STORY OR THREE CHAPTERS - NOW JUST A SWITCH Hero's Journey used to be a separate place with its own dashboard. It's now a control on the story card: pick one story or three chapters and carry on. Journeys under way live on the Create screen with the rest of your work. A NEW HERO IN TWO QUESTIONS Two questions, or Surprise Me, and you get three finished heroes with portraits. Keep the one you want; keep an extra for 1 token if you can't choose. The full seven-question builder is still there for anyone who wants it. PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF Unfinished stories no longer disappear when you close the app. The Still Writing shelf lists your open drafts with the real deadline on each one, and re-opens on the exact question you stopped at. YOUR FIRST STORY IN ABOUT THREE MINUTES New storytellers now get one short setup screen, six ready-made heroes to choose from, two questions, and then a finished illustrated story. No locked characters anywhere in it. FIXED - Three Chapter Stories Work More Seamlessly - Clearer navigation of the token usage - Easier to understand cost model with clearer presentation and easier navigation Writing stories is still free and still unlimited.

Version 18.1 - Create, rebuilt, improved. The old Create screen asked you to choose one of five ways to start before you'd made anything. Most people never got past it. So we rebuilt the whole thing around the only question that actually matters: who is this story about? CREATE IS A HUB, NOT A MENU Open Create and you see your heroes - used this week, journeys mid-chapter, drafts still open, and the ones who have never had a story yet. Tap one and you're straight into the story. Search across your entire cast by name or trait. THE STORY IS PROPOSED, NOT INTERROGATED No more five screens of questions. Fable proposes the setting, what's unusual about it, how your hero feels about it, the trouble, how they feel about that, and a twist - all on one card, before you've typed anything. CHANGE ANY LINE Don't like the twist? Change it. Change something early and everything after it is proposed again, and we tell you before it happens. Cancel and you get your original card back exactly as it was. ONE STORY OR THREE CHAPTERS - NOW JUST A SWITCH Hero's Journey used to be a separate place with its own dashboard. It's now a control on the story card: pick one story or three chapters and carry on. Journeys under way live on the Create screen with the rest of your work. A NEW HERO IN TWO QUESTIONS Two questions, or Surprise Me, and you get three finished heroes with portraits. Keep the one you want; keep an extra for 1 token if you can't choose. The full seven-question builder is still there for anyone who wants it. PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF Unfinished stories no longer disappear when you close the app. The Still Writing shelf lists your open drafts with the real deadline on each one, and re-opens on the exact question you stopped at. YOUR FIRST STORY IN ABOUT THREE MINUTES New storytellers now get one short setup screen, six ready-made heroes to choose from, two questions, and then a finished illustrated story. No locked characters anywhere in it. FIXED - Onboarding now loads faster with a progress screen to show you what's happening Writing stories is still free and still unlimited.

Version 18.0 - Create, rebuilt. The old Create screen asked you to choose one of five ways to start before you'd made anything. Most people never got past it. So we rebuilt the whole thing around the only question that actually matters: who is this story about? CREATE IS A HUB, NOT A MENU Open Create and you see your heroes - used this week, journeys mid-chapter, drafts still open, and the ones who have never had a story yet. Tap one and you're straight into the story. Search across your entire cast by name or trait. THE STORY IS PROPOSED, NOT INTERROGATED No more five screens of questions. Fable proposes the setting, what's unusual about it, how your hero feels about it, the trouble, how they feel about that, and a twist - all on one card, before you've typed anything. CHANGE ANY LINE Don't like the twist? Change it. Change something early and everything after it is proposed again, and we tell you before it happens. Cancel and you get your original card back exactly as it was. ONE STORY OR THREE CHAPTERS - NOW JUST A SWITCH Hero's Journey used to be a separate place with its own dashboard. It's now a control on the story card: pick one story or three chapters and carry on. Journeys under way live on the Create screen with the rest of your work. A NEW HERO IN TWO QUESTIONS Two questions, or Surprise Me, and you get three finished heroes with portraits. Keep the one you want; keep an extra for 1 token if you can't choose. The full seven-question builder is still there for anyone who wants it. PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF Unfinished stories no longer disappear when you close the app. The Still Writing shelf lists your open drafts with the real deadline on each one, and re-opens on the exact question you stopped at. YOUR FIRST STORY IN ABOUT THREE MINUTES New storytellers now get one short setup screen, six ready-made heroes to choose from, two questions, and then a finished illustrated story. No locked characters anywhere in it. FIXED - Setting suggestions were being built without your hero's name, trait or skill attached to them. They now use your actual hero, everywhere in the app. This is a real quality difference. - The white bands at the top and bottom of the screen are gone. Writing stories is still free and still unlimited.

Continued refinements and enhancements under the hood to make the new Cast & Create feature even better. Don't want to build a hero from scratch? Now you don't have to. Browse our growing Character Library and cast ready-made heroes straight into your story — each with their own personality, quirks, strengths, and flaws. Drop them into any setting you can imagine, hand them a problem worth solving, and see what happens. Free heroes you can cast right now Premium heroes unlock for just 1 token New characters added regularly — check back often, the roster keeps growing

Minor bug fixes addressing a navigation issue on the iPhone

Cast & Create - Don't want to build a hero from scratch? Now you don't have to. Browse our growing Character Library and cast ready-made heroes straight into your story — each with their own personality, quirks, strengths, and flaws. Drop them into any setting you can imagine, hand them a problem worth solving, and see what happens. Free heroes you can cast right now Premium heroes unlock for just 1 token New characters added regularly — check back often, the roster keeps growing

Minor bug fixes in this version to streamline the creation of your Hero's Journey

Under the hood improvements designed to enhance the quality of the stories as well as some minor bug fixes.

Some minor under-the-hood improvements and continued user experience enhancements of the chapter-building mechanics.

Now that story creation is free, we've made some additional changes under the hood streamlining story creation and fixing some minor bugs.

Story creation is now FREE while audio downloads are now two tokens. We also made some minor improvements in functionality and experience under the hood.

Some user interface improvements to go along with improvements made to the backend for chapter creation in the hero's journey as well as some minor improvements. Jump into building chapters, evolve your character, deepen their commitment and see what happens as they face the antagonist and return changed by the experience.

Ported the new interface to the iPad.

Updated UI and improved guided user experience to make it easier to create the stories that you want to make. We're trying to make it simpler for you to get your ideas into your stories in the way you want to create. We'll continue to make changes like this as we go with the goal of streamlining the story creation process - giving you the freedom to create. We want to turn your ideas into your stories in as easy a way as possible.

Minor bug fixes.

Addressed some content moderation issues that some users were experiencing with creating a profile necessary to share stories on the Community Feed. Craft your Hero's Journey! Take your existing heroes on a three chapter epic adventure in just a few clicks. Create an audio book by enriching your hero with new attributes and characteristics. Develop your characters further, put them in new settings and develop the plot. Create more sophisticated stories over three chapters. Make Aristotle proud. Joseph Campbell's got nothing on you as you craft your own personalized Hero's Journey with characters that you define, shape and grow.

Craft your Hero's Journey! Take your existing heroes on a three chapter epic adventure in just a few clicks. Create an audio book by enriching your hero with new attributes and characteristics. Develop your characters further, put them in new settings and develop the plot. Create more sophisticated stories over three chapters. Make Aristotle proud. Joseph Campbell's got nothing on you as you craft your own personalized Hero's Journey with characters that you define, shape and grow. Fixed a subtle bug in the interactive story feature that certain users may have been experiencing.

Craft your Hero's Journey! Take your existing heroes on a three chapter epic adventure in just a few clicks. Create an audio book by enriching your hero with new attributes and characteristics. Develop your characters further, put them in new settings and develop the plot. Create more sophisticated stories over three chapters. Make Aristotle proud. Joseph Campbell's got nothing on you as you craft your own personalized Hero's Journey with characters that you define, shape and grow. Addressed some bugs that certain users were having with creating "sequels" with existing characters. Tightened up some backend logic.