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Sojourn - Bedtime Stories
For grown-ups, read aloud
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Fifteen stories written to be read out loud, a night at a time. Three are free, start to finish, and they never expire.
Bedtime stories written to be read out loud, by one person to another, in the dark.
Most of us stopped being read to somewhere around the age of eight, and never quite stopped wanting it. Being read to is not the same as reading. You give up the pace. You give up choosing what happens next. Someone else is minding the story, which leaves you free to lie there and receive it, a posture adults almost never get.
Sojourn makes stories for exactly that. They are not children's stories. Nothing here is simplified. The register is that of fairy tales — wonder, directness, a bit of mythic weather — carrying things you have to have lived a while to feel.
A NIGHT AT A TIME
A story runs three, five or seven nights. You read one night and stop, the way a chapter used to end whether you were ready or not.
Underneath the reading there is a score: a musical bed composed for that story and nothing else, room sound that earns its place or stays quiet, and small cues that arrive as the text reaches them.
Now and then the story asks the reader to choose. The following night bends to what they chose, and the listener never sees the choice being made.
READ ALOUD, OR NARRATED
Most nights, someone reads. Everything here is built to get out of the way of that. Pages turn on a tap. The light drops as the night goes on. Nothing pings.
Some nights nobody can. Travel, illness, a week that got away from you. A narrator reads it instead, and the score plays the same either way.
THE STORIES
A tern and a whale in love. An alpaca, an ice cream man, and a truck that keeps threatening not to make it. A lost-and-found where the lost things have built a life without you. A telephone operator who finds that the work of connecting people outlasts everything. New ones arrive regularly.
WHAT IT COSTS
Three stories are free. You choose which three, you get all of them start to finish, and they do not expire. After that, $6.99 a month or $49.99 a year unlocks the whole catalog and everything added to it.
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Ratings & Reviews
Sojourn now fills the whole screen on iPhone Duo, open or closed, and turns sideways when you do. In landscape, on Duo and iPad, the painting runs the full width of the screen with the words above it. You can now subscribe or redeem a code from Settings. Onboarding, the bedtime sheet and the end of each night scroll properly at large text sizes. Fixes a crash when tapping a notification on iOS 27.
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Information
- Seller
- Stalefish Labs, LLC
- Size
- 18.2 MB
- Category
- Books
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
9+
- 9+
- Infrequent
Mature or Suggestive Themes
Contains
Health or Wellness Topics
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Sojourn Subscription - Annual $49.99
- Sojourn Subscription - Monthly $6.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Stalefish Labs LLC