✦ No app. No screen. It just arrives, every night.
A bedtime story that grows up with your child.
Set it up once. Every night at story time, an original story lands in your inbox — starring your child, their toys, their world — and each one remembers the last. Nothing to prompt, nothing to open but tonight's story.
It remembers
Every story builds on the last — the same toys, the same magical places, callbacks your child will spot.
Calm by design
Every story resolves early and winds down to a soft goodnight. Never a cliffhanger at bedtime.
You set the rules
Your “never include” list is enforced on every single story, and every story is safety-checked.
Their life, in their stories
Tell the stories what's happening — a line is enough
A new best friend, a big day coming, a wobble about something new. Drop a quick note in their story world — or simply reply to tonight's story email — and tomorrow's story quietly picks it up, then lets it fade naturally, so no note outstays its welcome.
“She's best friends with her toy bunny at the moment”
Bunny becomes tonight's loyal sidekick.
“Nursery graduation on the 18th”
The nights before gently walk her through the big day.
“A bit nervous about starting big school”
Her story hero meets something new and big too — and finds their brave, one small step at a time.
Growing brave hearts
Stories that build confidence, grounded in child psychology
Every story follows rules drawn from research on how children grow resilient — emotion coaching, growth-mindset praise, and the story techniques child psychologists use to prepare children for big changes. Not lectures. Never a lesson announced. Just stories that quietly do the work.
Feelings are named, never dismissed
When something's worrying your child, their story hero meets the same feeling somewhere safe — and it gets a kind, child-sized name. Research on emotion coaching shows a named feeling is a feeling half-tamed.
Courage in small steps
Story wobbles are never solved by the scary thing going away — the hero walks toward it, one small brave step at a time, and their own action saves the day. That's how real confidence is built: mastery, not rescue.
Praise for trying, not for being
Our heroes are told “you kept going”, never “you're so clever”. Decades of growth-mindset research shows praising the process — effort, persistence, trying again — is what raises children who seek out challenges.
Big changes, gently previewed
Starting school? Moving house? In the nights before, the stories walk through what will happen — in order, warmly, with the familiar things that will still be there. Predictability shrinks fear.
Why Bedtime Letters exists
“Every night I read my daughter a book — and then I make up a story of our own. It's always linked to something she did that day, something she played with, or something coming up that I can use to build her confidence. She absolutely loves it. Bedtime Letters is that ritual, for every family — even on the nights when you're too tired to invent one more adventure.”
Mark — founder, and a dad who tells stories every night
For the loving parent
You know bedtime stories matter — you just can't always summon a brand-new one at 7pm. Bedtime Letters keeps the ritual alive on the nights you can't, and makes the nights you can even richer.
For the whole support system
Forward tonight's story to grandparents so they can read it down the phone. Everyone who loves your child can be part of the same story world — the same characters, the same running jokes, from anywhere.
Simple pricing
One plan. Seven free nights to fall in love first.
The Story
$12.99/month
A new written story every night, that remembers and grows.
First child included · +$5.99/mo per additional child
- ✦ Nightly original story by email
- ✦ Full story-world continuity
- ✦ Parent controls & avoid-list
- ✦ Read-aloud web view
The Story+
$19.99/month
Everything in The Story, brought to life with pictures and a voice.
- ✦ Everything in The Story
- ✦ A matching illustration each night
- ✦ Soft narrated audio version
- ✦ Up to 2 children
The Keepsake
$26.99/month
All of Story+, plus a printed book of their best nights.
- ✦ Everything in The Story+
- ✦ Monthly stories compiled to a PDF
- ✦ Optional printed keepsake book
- ✦ Birthday & milestone stories
First 7 nights free. No card to start. Cancel anytime.