Why StoryPress
Why parents choose StoryPress
No overwhelm. No homework. Just 4 new words, a short game, and a story page — in about 10 minutes. Small enough to fit into any day.
Every Word Becomes a Story
Your child doesn't memorise a list. They meet words inside stories they help create — and that's what makes them remember.
A Book They Made Themselves
After 10 days, your child has a finished storybook with their name on the cover. Not a certificate. Not a score. A real book.
Built to be made, not watched
Screens are built to be effortless — endless fun a child just takes in, with nothing left at the end. StoryPress turns the same device the other way: your child meets words, imagines a story, colors it in, and makes a page that's truly theirs.
Three steps to a real storybook
How It Works
Other apps end with a score. StoryPress ends with a book.
A Growing Library
A growing library of books they made themselves
Every month, a new book. Every book, their creation — their name on the cover, their words inside, their colors on every page.
books a year
A new finished book every month — twelve of their own by the end of the year.
word encounters
Across a year of stories and games, words return again and again — until they stick.
a day
Short enough for any schedule. Long enough to make real progress.
“Jin's February Adventures”
10 pages · February 2026
“Lily's Spring Stories”
10 pages · March 2026
“Mia's Summer Garden”
10 pages · April 2026
Built on Research
We didn't invent a method. We built on what works.
Decades of vocabulary research, wrapped in something a child actually wants to do.
Research-backed words
Grounded in Dolch, Fry and the Science of Reading — trusted by educators in New Zealand, Australia, the US, and the UK.
Spaced repetition
Words return at carefully timed intervals — the same proven memory science behind the world's best learning tools.
Learning by creating
Children remember what they make — far better than what they're simply given. Every story page is active creation, not passive consumption.
Based on Dolch & Fry word lists · Nation's vocabulary framework · Biemiller's developmental sequences · output-hypothesis research.
We set out to give our daughter a voice in a new language. The app is just how we got there.
Yussi
AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND
Our Story
We built this for our daughter.
Then every family needed it.
Penny and I spent years in publishing — we made magazines, and we thought about books for a living: why they matter, why they last. Then our daughter moved to a new country at four, and English was a wall.
We tried everything we knew; nothing reached her. What finally did wasn't a lesson — it was a story she made herself. So we built that one moment into this.
My child creates a new story page every day —
— An Auckland family
and can't wait to show me what she made.
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