PictureBook: Photo Readers
Your own photos, their level
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
PictureBook turns the photos already on your phone into a short English picture book, written at a reading level you choose.
THE BOOK IS MADE FROM YOUR OWN PHOTOS
This is the whole point. Your child does not read about a stock cartoon character — they read about the hill they climbed on Saturday, the dog they met, the house they live in. Each photo you pick is redrawn as a picture-book illustration, so the people and places stay recognisably yours while the book still looks like a book.
Pick six to twelve photos from a day out. Choose a difficulty. About ninety seconds later the finished book is on your shelf.
WRITTEN TO A LEVEL, NOT JUST "SIMPLE"
Most AI writing tools produce text that merely sounds childlike. This one checks its own work. Every page is measured against the level you picked — vocabulary against a sight-word list, sentence length, number of sentences, tense, and how much the sentence pattern repeats. Anything over the limit is rewritten automatically before you ever see it.
If a book still misses after three rewrites, we tell you so rather than pretend it passed.
ELEVEN LEVELS
From single words on a page up to complex sentences with varied structure. Lower levels are word books — one short repeating sentence per page — and the app says so upfront, so you know what you are getting.
READ ALOUD, WORD BY WORD
Tap play and the page is read aloud, highlighting each word as it is spoken, so a new reader can match what they hear to what they see. Runs entirely on your device.
MAKE IT YOURS
Edit any page's text and the app re-checks it against the level while you type. Insert another photo anywhere and it writes that page for you, matching the level and the voice of the rest of the book.
READS OFFLINE
Finished books are stored on your device. No connection needed to read them.
ABOUT AI AND YOUR PHOTOS
Illustrations are AI-generated. The photos you select are sent to our service and on to Google's Gemini API to generate them. Your original photos are never stored on our servers. Full details in the privacy policy.
ABOUT THE DIFFICULTY LEVELS
The difficulty score is our own internal measure, calculated from checkable rules about vocabulary, sentence length and sentence patterns. It does not represent a level in any third-party reading system, and it is not an assessment of your child's reading ability.
FOR PARENTS
PictureBook is a creation tool for grown-ups. If children appear in your photos, please confirm you are their parent or guardian, or have that person's permission.
SUBSCRIPTION
Your first book is free. After that:
Monthly - $9.99 per month, 8 books per month
Yearly - $69.99 per year, 6 books per month
Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it any time in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions. Unused books do not carry over.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://atom-saturn-567.notion.site/Terms-of-Use-PictureBook-3bec7f4e42e780d585e8e751b80c94c3
Privacy Policy: https://atom-saturn-567.notion.site/Privacy-Policy-PictureBook-3bec7f4e42e780f7ac25e49a3a241bef
Ratings & Reviews
SHARE A BOOK
Made a book you like? Share it. The app creates a web page anyone can open — no app needed on their side — with a cover, the pages, and a code they can scan to make their own.
You stay in control. Sharing is the only time a book leaves your device, it never happens unless you ask for it, the link expires by itself after 30 days, and you can revoke it at any time from the book's details screen.
ALSO IN THIS VERSION
• Settings moved to the top-left of the shelf, with your subscription inside it
• Share, export as PDF, and delete are now on a long press on the shelf
The developer, 三平 黎, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- 三平 黎
- Size
- 3.6 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 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.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English and Simplified Chinese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Monthly $9.99
- Yearly $69.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Supern Lee