Yes, it's a screen. It's also a book.Hand over a screen
Hand over a screen
without the guilt.
Digibooks photographs the picture books already on your child's shelf and reads them aloud in a warm voice. Their own books. Their own choice. And when the book ends, it actually ends.
Download for iPhoneTwo minutes to add a book.
No account, no subscription.
No account, no subscription.
Sideways · their side
Upright · your side
Your side is a workbench, not a toy.
Upright, the app is a plain tool for adults: every book you've added, what state it's in, the words we read off each page. Fix a line, reorder a spread, redo the audio. Your toddler never sees any of it.
Titles come off the cover automatically — no typing
A book only reaches the shelf once every page has audio
Add a book on Sunday, hand it over on Wednesday
Why Digibooks
They're their own books
Not a catalogue of things you've never read together. The one they held last night, off the shelf in their room — photographed once, then read aloud whenever you need it.It ends on purpose
No autoplay. No up-next. No countdown into something you've never seen. The book finishes and the app waits — the only way forward is a small hand choosing to press play again.HOW IT WORKS
One quiet Sunday. Then it's just there.
01
Photograph the book
Cover first, then each spread in a burst. About two minutes for a twelve-spread board book.02
We read the words
The text comes off the page automatically. Fix anything that looks wrong, then a warm voice records the whole book.03
Turn the phone, hand it over
Sideways is their side: a shelf of covers, nothing else to tap. They pick the book. No reading required.WHAT HAPPENS AT THE END
The screen that doesn't pull.
A book is about two minutes. Ten minutes happens because a toddler wants that onefive times — not because we queued up four more. Press play again, pick a different cover, or put it down. Nothing starts by itself.
Everything is on the phone already — works in a tunnel
Nothing to buy, browse, or wander into
A hold in the corner brings you back — a tap won't
What it doesn't do.
Replace you reading
Bedtime is still yours. This is for the car, the queue, the twenty minutes before dinner.Recommend anything
There is no feed, no algorithm and nothing to discover. The shelf only holds books you photographed.Lock the phone down
A determined five-year-old can still get out. The corner hold is built to defeat curiosity, not to be a security model — use iOS Guided Access if you need a real lock.Sound like you — yet
One warm voice reads every book today. Recording your own is coming.Start with one book off the shelf.
Photograph it tonight. Hand it over on Wednesday, in traffic, without the small sinking feeling.