For smarter kids and saner parents.

We all deserve a few quiet minutes. We built a reading-focused app to give you a break while your kids read, learn and grow.

Animated, Read-Aloud Stories

Reading-Centric Games

Magical Story Creation

Written by people you can trust.

Kidbox features original stories from counselors, therapists, teachers, and parents like you. Your kids are in good hands.

The learning arcade.

We’ve created a library of games that reinforce the books your kids read, and help them become a better reader.

Story creation built for kids.

We designed a kid-safe, fun way for kids to unlock their imagination and create stories of their own!

Kids choose elements they want in their story

The story machine brings their ideas to life!

We needed this before we built it.

Between the three of us we have five kids, and we have all handed over a tablet at 6pm and felt bad about it. Kidbox is the version we wanted: quiet for you, worthwhile for them, and honest about what it is.

You’ve got questions. We’ve got answers.

What ages is Kidbox for?

Two to eight. The youngest kids listen and watch, the middle group follows highlighted words, and the oldest read on their own and play the skill games.

Is this just more screen time?

It is screen time, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. The difference is what is on the screen: finite stories with a beginning and an end, no autoplay feed, no ads, and no recommendation engine pulling for another twenty minutes. Plus, every story can be ordered as a real printed book — for reading with no screen at all.

What do you do with my child's data?

Reading activity stays inside your family's account and powers your parent view. We do not sell it, we do not use it for third-party advertising or retargeting, and creators only ever see aggregate totals for their own stories.

Can my kid really make a story?

Yes, in a creation experience built for kids and separate from the parent one. Anything a child makes is private to your family by default, and you decide whether it goes anywhere else.

What happens after the 3 free stories?

Nothing disappears and nothing auto-charges. You will see the Family plan when you reach the end of the free reads, and you can decide then.

Who can publish on Kidbox Studio?

Anyone with a story worth telling, whether that is a therapist, a teacher, a grandparent, or a first-time writer. Every story is reviewed before it reaches the family app.

Your break starts tonight.

Kidbox Studio: out of your head, and on to the page.

We built Kidbox Studio for everyone who’s ever thought "I’ve got an idea for a children’s story!". It used to take months (or years) to write a story. Now it takes hours. It’s time to get that idea out of your head and into the world.

Create

Our magic creation and editing tools make it easy to bring your story to life. Start with an idea, or bring the whole script.

Publish

Your story reaches families instantly through the Kidbox app (and we handle printed orders too).

Earn

Monthly rev share based on what kids read (or physical books sold). Real money, your bank.

Jordan Gross — Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Clinical supervisor and training specialist at the New York Psychotherapy and Counseling Center, and grief therapist at Wolfson Therapy.

Dave Malkoff — TV writer & producer

Creator of Nickelodeon's hit comedy Side Hustle, and a writer on iCarly (reboot), Henry Danger and Victorious.

Rachel Hoffman — Executive functioning coach

Executive functioning coach with more than ten years of teaching experience.

Patricia Beauchamp — Screenwriter & essayist

Screenwriter with credits in TV and film, and an essayist published in The Atlantic and the Los Angeles Times.

Balloon Rescue

Pick the letters in a mystery word before its balloons pop — spelling and word-building.

Grammar Train

Tap the train car holding the requested noun, verb, or adjective — sentence structure made concrete.

Homophone Hotel

Send the right sound-alike (new or knew?) to its room — using context to tell words apart.

Misspellings

Find the correct spelling among believable mistakes — faster word recognition in books.

Potion Lab

Swap a bland word for the most vivid one — shades of meaning that make stories come alive.

Odd One Out

Spot which picture doesn’t belong — categorization and reasoning between words and ideas.

Match Game

Flip cards and remember where each matching pair hides — attention and visual memory.

Jokes

Guess the punchline, then reveal it — prediction, wordplay, and a love of language.

A story for every interest, and every lesson.

Whatever your kid is into, and whatever you want them to learn, we’ve got the stories.