Chat with Tella, your AI story buddy
Make magical storybooks together
Tellasaurus helps you and your kids create their very own illustrated AI storybooks — with characters you invent, stories you dream up, and narration you can listen to. Then share them with everyone you love.
Example books
Read one for yourself
Real storybooks made with Tellasaurus, start to finish. Free to read, no signup — and you can have any of them read aloud.
How it works
From idea to storybook in three steps
Step 1
Create a character
Pick an art style, then dream up a hero with Tella — or start from a photo of a pet, a toy, or a drawing.
Step 2
Dream up a story
Chat the idea through with Tella, your AI story buddy, and choose who's in it and how big the words should be. Tella writes and paints every page.
Step 3
Read, listen & share
Flip through the finished book together, let Tella read it aloud — then send a private link so family and friends can read it too.
Features
Everything a small storyteller needs
AI story buddy
Chat with Tella to dream up amazing stories
Every character and story starts as a conversation with Tella — a friendly AI dinosaur who asks just the right questions and builds on your kid's ideas until they're ready to become a book.
- Kids chat with Tella and watch their ideas grow into characters and plots
- Suggestion chips spark inspiration when imagination needs a nudge
- Every conversation stays gentle and kid-friendly
Characters
Invent heroes, villains, and trusty sidekicks
Kids brainstorm out loud with Tella, and their idea becomes a real character — with a portrait, a personality, and stats like brave, clever, and funny.
- Start from a photo — a pet, a stuffed animal, or a drawing becomes a character that still looks like itself
- Every character gets personality stats and a role: hero, villain, sidekick, or supporting friend
- Regenerate the portrait until it's exactly right
Stories
Written and painted while you get the blanket ready
Pick who's in the story and spark the plot together. Tellasaurus writes the words and illustrates every page — and your characters stay recognizably themselves, page after page.
- Characters keep their look across every illustration
- Stories generate in the background — watch the progress or come back when it's done
- Edit any page's words, repaint its picture, or swap in your own photo
Reading together
A storybook that reads itself aloud
Finished stories open in a page-flipping book made for little hands and big screens. Tap to hear Tella narrate, or turn on reading mode and let the book carry bedtime.
- Tella reads every page aloud — in the narrator voice your kid picks
- Reading mode auto-turns the pages — hands-free bedtime
- Big, friendly page-turn controls kids can drive themselves
Sharing
Made to be shared with the people they love
Every finished story gets a private link you control. Grandparents can read it right in their browser — no account needed — and other Tellasaurus families can save the story to their own bookshelf and listen along.
- One tap creates a private link — turn it off any time
- Anyone with the link can read the story in their browser, no app required
- Families who sign in can listen along and save it to their own library
Kid profiles
A bookshelf for every kid in the family
Each kid gets their own profile with a dino avatar, their own characters and stories, and their own defaults for art style, reading level, and narrator voice. Switching kids takes one tap.
- Eight dino avatars to pick from
- Per-kid defaults for art style, reading level, and narrator voice — seven voices to choose from
- Everyone's creations stay neatly separate
Art styles
Eleven looks, one imagination
Every character and story is illustrated in the style your kid picks — from soft watercolor to glossy 3D to plastic building bricks.
Reading levels
Stories that grow with your reader
Pick a level per story — the words, page count, and pacing adjust to fit.
Little Kids
Ages 3–5
Short, sing-song pages with playful sounds and cozy refrains. Every page gets a picture.
Big Kids
Ages 6–8
Full paragraphs with dialogue, jokes, and just enough suspense. Every page illustrated.
Middle Grade
Ages 9–12
Chapter-book prose for confident readers, with illustrations at the story's key moments.
More than a story
Every hero gets a whole world
The characters your kids dream up don't disappear when the story ends. They gather a home, a collection of favorite things, and a map of the whole cast — and it all comes back into the next story.
A home of their own
Every character gets a home
Tella paints each character inside their own home scene — a cozy den, a cloud castle, a seaside cove — surrounded by the things they love.
Things worth keeping
Belongings that come along
Give a character a collection of favorite things, then bring a few into a story. Tella writes them into the words and draws them right onto the page.
One world, mappedTheir whole cast, on one magical mapTella draws every character's home into a single illustrated world — tap any friend's name to go and visit them.
For parents
Built to be handed to a kid
Kid-safe by design
Age-scaled safety guardrails shape everything Tella writes and paints — cozy and gentle for the littlest kids, bigger adventures for big kids, with hard limits on graphic or grown-up content at every age. Grown-ups stay part of the story: we always recommend reading together.
You hold the account
Parents own the account and the kid profiles inside it. Kids create; you stay in charge.
Sharing you control
Stories are private until you share a link, and you can turn a link off any time. No public feeds, no comments, no strangers.
FAQ
Questions, answered
Is Tellasaurus free?
Getting started is free — sign up and start making characters and stories right away.
What ages is it for?
Stories come in three reading levels covering ages 3–12: Little Kids (3–5), Big Kids (6–8), and Middle Grade (9–12). Younger kids create together with a grown-up; older kids fly solo.
Can my kid listen to stories instead of reading?
Yes — every page has read-aloud narration, and reading mode turns the pages automatically so the book can carry bedtime by itself.
How does photo-to-character work?
Upload a photo of a pet, a stuffed animal, or a drawing. Tellasaurus turns it into a storybook character in the art style you pick — and it stays recognizable in every illustration.
Can we share stories with family?
Each story can be shared with a private link — grandparents can read it in their browser, and other Tellasaurus families can save it to their own library. You can turn a link off any time.
Is the content safe for kids?
Tellasaurus is built for kids: story chat and generation follow age-scaled safety rules — gentle for ages 3–5, more adventurous for older readers — with hard limits on graphic or grown-up content, plus safety filters on image generation. Like any AI, it isn't perfect, so we recommend enjoying stories together and reviewing what your kid creates.
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