Nothing Frightening Happens
The problem in a story is something noticed, mistaken, or waited for — never something threatening or urgent, and it is never allowed to raise the tension.
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Obbo Bedtime
A New Story Every Night
Choose the world the stories live in and, if you like, the characters who live in it. Obbo writes a fresh five-minute story for it every night — one that gets quieter as it goes and ends on a goodnight.
Built to end
It Is Not Trying To Keep Them Awake
Almost everything else made for a child’s attention is built to hold it. A bedtime story has the opposite job: it has to run down, settle, and stop.
It Gets Quieter As It Goes
Gentle events early, then a gradually calmer end. Sentences are written shorter and softer as the story comes to rest.
No Twist, No Cliffhanger
The ending has to land on a settled image of rest. A twist, a jolt of energy, or an unanswered question at the close is ruled out.
Four questions
What You Tell Us
Who's In It?
Add your child and whoever else belongs in the stories. Or skip it, and the world gets a cast of its own.
What's The World?
A curious little fox exploring a new corner of the forest. A sleepy dragon visiting cloud kingdoms. Whatever the stories should be about — and if you are stuck, ask for ideas.
Pick A Voice
One narrator, reading slowly and quietly. You choose how that voice sounds.
Choose A Rhythm
A new story every night, only on the nights you pick, or just one, right now.
Their story
Their Name, Every Night
Add your child as a character and the stories are about them, night after night. They are the show's lead — not a guest name dropped into one episode — and later episodes cannot quietly move on to someone new.
Your Child, By Name
A name, an age and pronouns for every character you add — written as themselves, not as a name dropped into a stock story.
They Stay The Leads
Later episodes vary the situation and the setting, and are required to keep your characters at the centre. They cannot be rotated out for someone new.
The Same World, A New Night
You set the world once. Each night brings a different gentle thing that happens inside it, so the show stays familiar and new at the same time.
The Same Goodnight
Every episode opens with the same settle-in line and closes with the same goodnight, word for word. The repetition is the point — the familiar part is what makes it a routine.
How it sounds
Made To Be Fallen Asleep To
A bedtime story is written slower, read slower and mixed quieter than anything else Obbo makes. Each of those is a deliberate setting, not a side effect.
Written Slower, Not Just Read Slower
A bedtime script has far less to get through in five minutes, so nothing has to be rushed. The slowness is written in, not just performed on top.
A Bedside Voice
The narrator reads slowly and close, with the brightness taken out of the voice — the way you would read sitting on the edge of the bed.
Nothing Jolts
Every episode plays at the same quiet volume, so tonight never starts louder than last night, and paragraphs get a long, unhurried beat between them.
A Lullaby For That Story
The music underneath is written for that story's own world, from an instrument palette chosen for the listener's age — music box and celeste for the youngest, calm ambient for older kids so it never feels babyish.
Sounds Made For That Story
Rain on a window, a boat creaking, the hush of a wood at night. The sounds in a story are made for that story, used sparingly, and kept at the same quiet volume as everything else — so they settle a scene rather than wake anyone up.
The rest of it
What Else To Know
The practical part: who it is for, where the ideas come from, and what it costs.
Toddler Through Teen
Pick the ages listening and the story is written for them — the words, the pace, and how much happens all follow from it.
Ideas From Somewhere Safe
Ask for story ideas and they are built from an offline library of classic folk-story shapes. Nothing is drawn from open internet posts.
No Ads, No Endless Feed
A story is audio, start to finish. They hear the story they came for, without ads, autoplay, or another one queued up behind it.
What A Story Costs
Stories start at $2. You only pay for the ones you make.
In Their Language
Set the story up in English, Spanish, Danish or Japanese. It is written and read aloud in that language from the start — not translated afterward.
Start Tonight's Story
Answer a few questions and tonight’s story is ready in a few minutes. Stories start at $2.