Parler turns the stories of your family’s daily life — the sign on the way home, the chore chart, what happened at recess — into your child’s reading lessons: real books, read aloud word by word, in 15 languages.
“We flew our kite higher than the trees.”
Le fort en coussins 🇫🇷
El dragón lector 🇪🇸
Why this actually works
Reading sticks when it’s about
Workbooks teach in the abstract. Parler builds reading from the stories of your family’s daily life — the menu they read, the chore they checked off, the bug in the garden — so every new word is memorable, useful, and meaningful.
Words, tied to real moments
Vocabulary your child lived sticks. Words from a flashcard fade. Capture a chore chart, a menu, a poster, a recipe, and Parler reads it back so the sound joins the memory.
Their list, their library
Kids choose what to add: today's adventures, the bug they found, what they want for breakfast. Curating their own reading material teaches ownership, not compliance.
A second language, naturally
Talk about everyday life in your home language; Parler reads it back in the language they're learning. Both languages on screen, side by side. The most useful French is the kind you actually use after dinner.
What ends up in their library
Their day, drawn and read aloud.
Six everyday moments, translated into six languages — and each illustrated in a different art style, because every story can be drawn in any style your kid loves: watercolor, crayon, paper cutout, 3D movie, even a printable coloring page. Press play on any of them and hear exactly what your child would hear — word by word, in their reading language.
3D animated movie“I read my own menu at the diner.”
Crayon drawing“I made my bed and brushed my teeth.”
Storybook watercolor“I found a ladybug in the garden.”
Paper cutout“I built a sandcastle taller than my dog.”
Flat cartoon watercolor“We made pancakes shaped like dinosaurs.”
Coloring book page“I read my own book to the class.”
How it works
From a real moment to a real book.
- photo_cameraStep 1
Capture the world.
Snap a sign on the way home, the back of a cereal box, a hand-written note. Parler pulls every word and reads it aloud, highlighting each one as it goes.
- editStep 2
Or write what just happened.
“My brother and I built a fort out of pillows.” Parler turns one sentence into a page: voice, translation, illustration, all paced for a beginning reader.
- auto_storiesStep 3
Watch it become a real book.
AI illustrations match the moment your child described. Coloring book, watercolor, paper-cutout, your call. Print it as a picture book, fold one of 25 card templates and mail it to grandma.
- record_voice_overStep 4
Read it out loud, get a score.
Kids record themselves reading any sentence — up to 5 takes each. Speech-to-Text scores per word and shows a colored heart; the personal best per sentence sticks around.
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Draw, color, send.
A real drawing canvas: brush, fill, gradient, text layers. Turn a photo into a coloring page, color it in, then print it, send it to grandma's mailbox, or put it on a t-shirt.
The real thing
This is what your family actually gets.
Straight from the app — the parent dashboard, the storybook reader, the scanner that turns any printed page into a read-along, Grandma’s own mailbox following the kids’ progress, and a Family Circle where a co-parent shares the whole account.
Every reader at a glance — scores, pages, stories, and the hearts family sent.
The reader — words wrap the art, light up in time, and score the child’s own reading.
Scan a whole French chapter — each page gets its audio while you keep shooting.
Stories you write together — each sentence voiced, recorded back, and scored.
Grandma gets her own mailbox — kids send her cards, she follows their reading and reacts.
The whole circle in one place — a co-parent manages everything with you, grandparents follow along, and every send needs your OK.
- 15+
- regional reading voices
- 100+
- translation languages
- 25
- printable card templates
- 0
- ads, feeds, or algorithms
A better thing to do on a tablet
Tablet time you don’t have to negotiate.
Designed against the things that make modern kids’ apps feel extractive. No feed, no autoplay, no nudges back in.
No ads, no algorithm, no feed
Children only ever see what their own parents have added. There is nothing to scroll, nobody to friend, no notifications.
Active, not passive
Reading aloud, recording themselves, illustrating their own sentences. The screen is doing work for them, not at them.
Tablet time worth defending
If their tablet time has to happen — flights, errands, sick days — make it the kind that builds vocabulary instead of dopamine debt.
What’s inside
Everything they’ll read, make, and share.
One subscription, the whole toolbox: reading, recording, drawing, printing, and sharing — all under your per-child controls.
Capture and read any book page
Snap a photo of a printed page; Parler reads it aloud and highlights each word in time. Pages save into a personal library with folders, tags, and search.
Write stories together
Compose a story one sentence at a time. Each sentence gets a native-language voice, a translation, optional AI illustration, and a printable book layout.
Illustrate any story, in any style
Every sentence can be drawn in the style your kid loves — storybook watercolor, flat cartoon, crayon, paper cutout, 3D movie, even a printable coloring page. Or skip AI entirely: upload a photo or draw it yourself.
Record yourself reading
Up to 5 takes per sentence, each with a scrubbable waveform and a score. The personal-best score sticks around even after takes are cycled out.
Reading score with per-word confidence
Speech-to-Text scores each take 0–100. The heart goes red → orange → yellow → green; per-word opacity shows exactly which words need practice.
Draw and color
Brush, fill, gradient fill, eraser, text layers, a thick palette. Generate an AI coloring backdrop from a prompt or a photo, then color over it.
Photo → coloring page
Upload a portrait or pet photo, pick a style, and Parler turns it into a coloring-book line drawing the kid recognizes themselves in.
Book mode + clean view
A fullscreen picture-book experience with word-by-word highlight. A single tap hides every control so it's just the image and the words.
Print real greeting cards
25 templates, click-to-edit greetings, cover from a kid's drawing or AI art, a real 3D book-flip preview. Print double-sided, fold in half, mail it.
Put a drawing on a t-shirt
Their masterpiece becomes a real product — t-shirts, mugs, totes, hoodies via Printify. Order from inside the app, ship to grandma.
Co-parent in one library
Invite a partner or grandparent. Both adults see the same children and the same library. Custody-friendly, divorce-friendly, real-life-friendly.
Family viewers
Grandparents get a read-only mailbox of what you share — no app, no password. They react with emoji; the kid sees the hearts back home.
15+ voices, 100+ languages
Reading voices across English, Français, Español, Português, Deutsch, Italiano, 中文, 日本語, العربية. Translation supports every Google Translate language.
Per-child controls
Decide what each kid can do: capture, delete, write stories, generate illustrations, record, get scored. Open the runway up as they grow.
Activity feed + progress
Captures, recordings, scores, shares — one glanceable feed per account. A sentence count and last-read time without the surveillance feel.
Print stories as picture books
Any story prints as a real picture book with illustrations and the child's name on the cover. Their show-and-tell, on paper.
Tap any word, hear just it
Word-by-word highlight syncs to the audio. Tap a word to hear it alone. Repeat sentences. Step forward one word at a time.
AI, used the right way
For the right things. Not the easy ones.
Most kids’ apps point AI at engagement metrics. Parler points it at the moments when a child is doing something hard: sounding out a new word, writing their first sentence, stretching into a second language. We use AI to help them, not to keep them tapping.
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AI for craft, not consumption
Imagen draws what your child wrote, not what an algorithm thinks they want to see next. There is no feed, no infinite scroll, nothing autoplays.
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Their data stays theirs
Stories, illustrations, recordings live in your private storage. Nothing trains a model. Content moderation runs server-side before anything is voiced or drawn.
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Designed for slow attention
Kids pick a sentence and stay with it. Replay, re-record, illustrate it, print it. AI helps make the moment, not chase the next one.
Pricing
Pay only for the pictures.
Reading, listening, captures, translations, and recordings are unlimited on every paid plan. The one thing that uses a credit is generating an AI illustration. Cancel anytime.
Starter
For one family that reads together a few times a week.
- check50 illustrations / month
- checkUp to 3 children
- checkUnlimited reading + listening
- checkCancel anytime
Family
For a busy household with daily readers.
- check150 illustrations / month
- checkUp to 6 children
- checkUnlimited reading + listening
- checkPriority email support
Pro
Daycares, tutors, and big families.
- check500 illustrations / month
- checkUp to 15 children
- checkUnlimited reading + listening
- checkBulk-print friendly
Free trial included. Need more illustrations mid-month? Top up with a one-time pack. Pack credits never expire.
FAQ
Everything a grown-up wants to know.
Phonics apps drill abstract syllables. Parler reads what your child captured or wrote that day: a menu, a chore chart, a story about their afternoon. The vocabulary attaches to a real moment, which is how language actually sticks.
It's especially great for bilingual families, but it's just as useful for monolingual readers learning to decode, kids learning a second language at school, and adults polishing one. Each child sets their own reading language.
You decide. Per-child toggles cover capturing pages, deleting, changing speed, writing custom sentences, generating illustrations, which illustration styles are allowed, whether they can record themselves, and whether their recordings get scored. Default is conservative; open it up as they grow into it.
Yes. Invite a co-parent and you both see the same children, the same library, the same usage. Works for two-household families and for grandparents who want to add bedtime stories from afar.
Yes. Invite a family viewer with a link — no app, no password. They get a read-only mailbox of drawings, stories, pages, or cards you've shared with them, and can react with emoji. The kid sees the hearts back home.
Stories print as a real picture book. Cards are a 25-template builder with a real 3D book-flip preview that prints duplex on Letter — fold in half and mail. Drawings can be ordered through Printify as t-shirts, mugs, tote bags, or hoodies, shipped directly.
Never. You sign in with Google. Each child gets an 8-character code you share with their tablet. Codes are reusable and can be rotated from your dashboard.
There is a free trial with 10 illustrations. Paid plans start at $4.99/mo (Starter, 50 illustrations) up to $24.99/mo (Pro, 500 illustrations and up to 15 children). Reading, listening, captures, translations, and recordings are unlimited on every paid plan. Pack credits to top up never expire.
A handful of bounded jobs, never as a feed: drawing illustrations from your child's sentences (Imagen), turning an uploaded photo into a coloring page that actually looks like the photo (Gemini image), shaping better illustration prompts, scoring kid recordings per word (Speech-to-Text), and reviewing custom sentences for kid-safe content. No feed, no recommendations, no model training on family data.
Stored in your private Firebase project, viewable only by you and the co-parents and children you invite. Delete a child and their pages, stories, and recordings go with them. Close your account and everything goes away in 30 days. See /privacy for the full picture.
Sign in with Google, add your kids, write the first sentence together. The first story takes about a minute to set up.
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