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StoryPals
Listen, figure out the story, then tell it back — story-sense with Webb the spider and friends, all spoken, for ages 3–5.
▶ Play it nowBuilt for sittings of about 10 minutes on the screen. That is our design budget, not a measurement.
Meet your mentor
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Meet the cast
StoryPals is a little band of animal friends who help you become a story detective — who, where, what's the problem, and how it's solved. Webb the spider is the hero; the cast are Webb's friends who each hold one part of a story. You listen, put it together, and tell it back in your own voice.
Webb
Retell the whole story — a spider who spins the story-web, telling it back part by part.
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Meadow
Who and where — a gentle fawn who shows the story's characters and setting.
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Tangle
The problem — a vine snake whose knot is the tricky part of the story.
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Trot
What happens next — a pony who trots beat to beat, putting the story in order and guessing why.
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What's inside
Learning goal
Listen, figure out the story, then tell it back — story-sense with Webb the spider and friends, all spoken, for ages 3–5.
How StoryPals handles your kid's data
- ✅ All progress, settings, and AI-generated content stays on the device
- ✅ No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
- ✅ Free — no ads, no in-app purchases
- ✅ No personal information collected from children — in line with COPPA (updated by the 2026 FTC amendments)
- ✅ No chat with strangers — play-together rooms use a short code and preset emotes, never typed messages
StoryPals runs on ForgeKit — the open-source Swift Package Manager framework that powers every Spark & Anvil app. ForgeKit ensures consistent accessibility, COPPA compliance, and design language across the portfolio, so your kid's progress and preferences feel coherent across every app they touch.
Coming to the App Store
StoryPals is in active development. Email us to hear when it ships — no marketing, no spam, just a one-shot launch announcement.
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