Wise Tales: Bedtime Stories

Folk picture books, read aloud

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

50 illustrated folk tales, read aloud one sentence at a time. Words light up as they're spoken, and the sleep timer waits for the page to end. Offline. No ads. Wise Tales is a quiet little library of illustrated folk tales from around the world, told one sentence at a time. Tap a story, dim the lights, and let the words come to life. Press play and Wise Tales reads the tale aloud. Every word lights up as it is spoken, so a child who is still learning to read can follow right along — and tapping any sentence sends the narration back to it. Choose a gentle pace (Cosy, Calm, or Lively), let the pages turn themselves, and lock the screen while the story keeps playing. Then set the sleep timer. It never cuts a sentence in half: when the time is up, Wise Tales finishes the page and stops softly, so a tale can carry a child all the way into sleep. 50 TALES, HAND-ILLUSTRATED Momotaro sails for the island of ogres. Anansi bargains with the sky god. The tortoise quietly beats the hare. 50 stories gathered from Japan, Greece, West Africa, India, Bengal, Korea, China, Arabia, Anatolia and Europe — each one painted page by page, and each one short enough for a single bedtime. WHAT'S INSIDE • Read-to-me narration that lights up each word as it is spoken • Hand-painted artwork on every page • A sleep timer that stops cleanly at the end of a page, never mid-sentence • Hands-free pages that turn themselves while the story plays • Lock-screen and Control Centre playback, with the page art • Day, Night and Auto reading themes for a dark bedroom • Your place in every story, remembered • Works fully offline — every story and every voice lives on the device • iPhone and iPad ONE LANGUAGE — YOURS Wise Tales speaks thirteen languages: English, Japanese, Spanish, French, Bengali, Arabic, Korean, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish and Chinese. Choose the one your family reads in and the whole app follows it — every story, every title, every narrated word. Arabic reads right to left, as it should. FOR BEDTIME, AND THE QUIET HOURS • Parents and children reading together at the end of the day • Early readers following along word by word • Long car rides, flights and waiting rooms with no signal • Anyone who wants one short folk tale before sleep A LITTLE MAGIC TO START A handful of tales are free to read in full, and the first page of every other story is open to read and to hear. When you are ready for the whole shelf, Wise Tales Plus opens every tale — monthly or yearly, and you can cancel any time. If you bought the one-time unlock earlier, it still opens everything, at no further cost. No ads. No account, no sign-up. Just stories. Once upon a time is only a tap away. Open Wise Tales and begin. Wise Tales Plus is an auto-renewing subscription, monthly or yearly, charged to your Apple Account. It renews unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel any time in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://hadicuet.github.io/wisetales-legal/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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Wise Tales is now a bedtime storybook, pure and simple. Every tale is read aloud in one language — the one your family reads in — with each word lighting up as it is spoken, hand-painted art on every page, and a sleep timer that finishes the page before it stops. If you have been reading in two languages: the translation line under each sentence, and Echo mode with it, are gone. It was the hardest call we have made. One language on the page turned out to be the calmer, quieter bedtime, and it let us make everything else better. Nothing else changes — all 13 languages, your library and your place in every story carry over exactly as they were. Pick your language any time in Settings. Thirty-three new tales have joined the shelf, too — among them Aladdin and the Magic Lamp, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Rapunzel, The Little Mermaid and The Monkey King. Thank you for reading with us. Sweet dreams.

The developer, Abdullah Al Hadi, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .

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Seller
  • Abdullah Al Hadi
Size
  • 97.6 MB
Category
  • Books
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
English and 12 more
  • English, Arabic, Bengali, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Turkish
Age Rating
4+
In-App Purchases
Yes
  • Wise Tales Plus — Yearly $14.99
  • Wise Tales Plus — Monthly $2.99
  • Unlock All Stories $9.99
Copyright
  • © 2026 Abdullah Al Hadi