Personalized, illustrated stories that parents make for children aged 2 to 12, starring your family's own characters. Not a template with a name on it: a new story, written and drawn in about a minute.
Free tier includes 5 stories per month. No credit card required.
Families come to InkStak for three things. Every feature serves one of them: complete stories with characters your children love, readers matched to their lesson, and books worth keeping.
Bedtime in about a minute, starring your child, a pet or a favorite toy.
Create a cast of characters with names, species, personalities, and appearances. Every story stars the characters your child loves most.
Personalized children’s booksEvery scene gets a beautiful AI-generated illustration. Choose from seven styles — watercolour, storybook, retro cartoon, Ghibli-inspired, and more.
InkStak can read any story out loud — narration plays right on your device and keeps working offline. Available on Creator & Publisher; richer, more expressive voices are coming soon for Publisher.
Bedtime storiesFor younger listeners, turn on rhyming and the whole story is written in gentle, age-appropriate verse — lovely for reading aloud at bedtime.
Turn any story into an interactive adventure. Your child makes the choices that shape the story — a different ending every time.
Choose-your-own-adventure storiesAdd InkStak to your home screen and it works like an app — read your saved stories (and downloaded narration) even with no internet, perfect for car rides and flights.
Stories your child can sound out, and friendly answers to the questions they ask.
Pick a reading level for a child learning to read — from first words to reading solo — or set an age for a read-aloud story. Vocabulary, sentence length, and story length all adapt automatically.
Decodable storiesTurn a curious question into a friendly, illustrated explainer story — a fun way to help children learn about the world in words they understand.
Explainer storiesA series to come back to, a book to color in, or a printed copy on Amazon.
For readers aged 5 to 12, write full chapter books, then continue with new chapters whenever you're ready and build a whole series. On Creator and Publisher.
Chapter booksDownload as a formatted Word document, save as PDF, or export in the right format to publish your story as a real printed book on Amazon.
Publish on Amazon KDPGenerate print-ready black-and-white line art. Export the story, print it out, and let your child colour the illustrations themselves.
Coloring pagesNot quite right? Highlight any text to change a detail or rewrite a scene — InkStak propagates the update through the rest of the story. Refine a single illustration, or regenerate everything at once. Four levels of control, from a small touch-up to a full do-over.
No child accounts. No personal data shared without your permission. Stories stay in your library until you choose to share them.
Share your family's stories with the InkStak community. Discover and read stories from other families, and leave reviews.
From idea to illustrated story in about a minute.
Choose from your saved character library or describe a new one. Name them, give them a personality, choose their species and look.
Choose an age group, story genre, illustration style, and how long the story should be. Add a quick plot idea — just a sentence is enough.
Your story appears with illustrations ready to read. Save it to your library, export it, or share it with the community.
Meet Wren, one of InkStak’s starter characters, in each of the seven preset styles and in a My Style mix of your own choosing. Colouring Book turns any story into line art to color.
Page 1 to page 10: same kid. No template, no pasted face. These are pages from Wren and the Windmill Kite, a book made in InkStak. You make the character once, from words or a photo, and that look carries through every page and every story.
Export any story in Kindle Direct Publishing format — full-spread illustrations, page numbers, cover pages, and back cover with an AI-written synopsis. Upload directly to Amazon KDP and hold a printed copy in your hands. How the KDP export works · step-by-step KDP guide.
Every family can share their stories to the InkStak community — and earn rewards for it. Featured stories are free for every account to read. Creator subscribers also discover stories created by other families, leave reviews, and play through adventure mode branches on any shared story.
Make a character once, then change the stories around them as your child grows. The character looks the same in every picture and every story.
Short stories to read together, with a picture for every scene. Turn on rhyming for the youngest listeners.
Bedtime storiesFour phonics levels aligned to UFLI Foundations, set to the exact lesson your child is on. A story can open with a Words to look for page.
Decodable storiesWritten one chapter at a time, remembering what came before, and carried on as a series. On Creator and Publisher.
Chapter booksChoose-your-own-adventure and Explainer stories work at every age, with tokens, Creator or Publisher. How it grows with your child · How InkStak compares
Every plan includes the full story experience. Upgrade only when you want more.
Side-by-side comparison, character add-on packs, and answers to common questions.
Yes, that is what InkStak is built for. It covers ages 2 to 12: rhyming picture books for toddlers, Kid Reads early readers at four phonics levels, and illustrated chapter books for ages 5 to 12, with the same characters in every story. Chapter books need Creator or Publisher; the rest is on the free plan.
Not as lessons. Kid Reads stories use only the sound patterns taught up to the UFLI Foundations lesson you choose, so children practice what they have learned. InkStak is not affiliated with or endorsed by UFLI, and it does not track progress. Use it beside the phonics program your child follows.
No. InkStak accounts belong to parents and guardians only. Children don't sign up, log in, or have profiles. This is a deliberate privacy-first design — your children's information never becomes account data.
Yes. You make a character once, from a description or a photo, and they keep the same face, hair and clothes in every picture and every story. From a photo, InkStak draws a storybook portrait in your chosen style; it is a new drawing, not a template with a face pasted in. You can see six pages of Wren and the Windmill Kite above, page 1 to page 10. If one picture isn’t right, you can redraw it.
Every illustration is created by advanced AI image generation, tuned for consistent, storybook-quality art. The app turns each scene from your story into the right picture automatically — you never have to write image prompts or describe the art yourself.
Yes — on the Creator and Publisher plans. Creator includes 1 KDP export a month; Publisher includes 3 picture-book exports a month plus unlimited chapter-book exports. The export creates a print-ready PDF in any KDP trim size (16 paperback sizes, including the 8.5″ square, and 5 hardcover sizes for books of 75 pages or more), with full-spread illustrations, cover pages, and page numbers. You upload this directly to Amazon KDP's interior file uploader. The app also generates a separate front and back cover PDF. We recommend reviewing Amazon's content guidelines before publishing.
Every story and review submitted to the community is screened by an AI moderation system before it's visible to anyone else. Content that doesn't meet our family-friendly standards is held for human review or rejected automatically. No personal information from the original story (plot prompts, character details, exact ages) is ever shared publicly.
InkStak applies content safety checks to every generation request. If a prompt contains themes unsuitable for children — violence, adult content, harmful subject matter — the system either steers the story toward a safe, age-appropriate version or blocks the request and explains why it can't be fulfilled.
The same applies to community sharing. Stories submitted for community access are screened before they become visible to anyone, and content that doesn't meet our family-friendly standards is held for human review or rejected outright.
Yes — sharing is rewarded on every plan. On the Free and Token tiers, every 2 stories you share earns 1 free story generation that month (up to 2 bonus stories a month, 10 over the lifetime of your account) — a way to keep creating even without a subscription.
On the Creator and Publisher tiers, every 10 stories you share earns 1 bonus KDP export that month (up to 2 extra a month). Rewards are granted the first time each story goes live after passing moderation.
Nothing is ever deleted. Cancelling reverts your account to the Free tier. Stories you've shared to the Community stay right in your library; the rest are safely archived and restored the moment you resubscribe. Character slot purchases are permanent, and you can resubscribe at any time to regain full access.
On the Free tier, story generation is capped at 5 per month, and your character library is limited to 2 characters (the first 2 you used while on the Free tier).
Yes — InkStak gives you four levels of control:
On the Free tier, image work is a shared allowance: 5 image regenerations per story in total (whether you regenerate one illustration, all of them, or the cover), plus 2 scene edits per story. Creator subscribers can regenerate and edit without token limits.
Stories can be generated for readers ages 2–12. The app automatically adapts vocabulary, sentence length, story complexity, and reading level based on the age you set. For the youngest children (ages 2–4) it generates very short, simple stories with big text and lots of images. For older children (ages 8–12) it generates chapter books with richer language.
Chapter books, and so stories for ages 8 to 12, are on the Creator and Publisher plans. Free and token packs cover picture books for ages 2 to 7 and Kid Reads stories at every reading level.
Native iOS and Android apps are not currently planned — InkStak is a progressive web app that works in any modern mobile browser and is designed to feel native on your device. You can add it to your home screen for one-tap launch and a full-screen experience:
Once you've opened it online once, your saved stories — and any narration you've downloaded — keep working offline, so bedtime and long car rides don't need a connection.
Yes. On the Creator and Publisher plans, InkStak can read any story out loud with a warm storyteller voice. Narration plays right on your device and keeps working offline once it's downloaded. On Publisher you can also download a story’s narration as MP3 files, to play on other devices such as a Yoto player, or save it as an audiobook. Richer, more natural and expressive voices are coming soon for Publisher.
You can match a story to your child in two ways. For a child learning to read, turn on Kid Reads and choose one of four reading levels, aligned to the UFLI Foundations scope and sequence: Level 1 covers UFLI lessons 1–34 (letter sounds and short vowels), Level 2 lessons 35–53 (blends and digraphs), Level 3 lessons 54–76 (silent e, endings and two-syllable words) and Level 4 lessons 77–98 (r-controlled vowels and vowel teams).
A slider under the level lets you pick the exact lesson your child is on. The story then uses only the sounds taught up to that lesson, and InkStak checks every word against it. For a read-aloud story, set an age instead — vocabulary, sentence length and story length adapt automatically.
UFLI Foundations is a program of the University of Florida Literacy Institute. InkStak's reading levels follow its published scope and sequence; InkStak is not affiliated with or endorsed by UFLI or the University of Florida.
Yes — for younger listeners you can turn on rhyming, and the whole story is written in gentle, age-appropriate verse. It's especially lovely for reading aloud at bedtime.
Yes. InkStak has an in-depth Help & How-It-Works guide that walks you through everything — creating characters, choosing styles and reading levels, exporting and publishing, narration, and more.
Free to start. No credit card. Your first story takes about 60 seconds.