Read Me to Sleep turns public-domain classics into bedtime stories, narrated in the voice of a parent or grandparent. A slower pace, a lower pitch, and a timer that fades out mid-paragraph — never mid-word.
Any story in the library can be narrated by a voice you already trust. Slower than daytime, lower, and flatter on purpose — the way a story is read when the lights are already going down.
“…and the garden was very still, the kind of still you only find in places that have waited a long time for someone to come home —”
Two minutes of natural reading, on their phone. That is the whole sample.
The speaker reads a short consent statement on their own device. No confirmation, no voice. Ever.
Pick from the library by calmness and length. The app narrates it in the family voice, ready before the reminder rings.
Volume and pace taper over the final minutes, and playback stops at a paragraph break — never mid-word. Shake the phone and you get five more minutes.
When the timer starts, the app bookmarks the exact moment. The next night, it offers to begin ten minutes before you drifted off.
Dynamic range is compressed so a dramatic passage never jolts you awake. Front matter and footnotes are skipped.
Rain on a window, a low fire, or brown noise under the narration — and it keeps going after the story ends, if you like.
Brightness drops to ten percent when playback begins. Large controls. Everything works through the lock screen, so the screen stays dark.
Stories are pre-rendered into audio on your device. No signal, no problem — and no TTS cost at bedtime.
The library is public-domain literature — free to read, free to hear, free forever. Every story is tagged by how calm it actually is, because not every classic is bedtime material.
Serials continue automatically: tonight is Chapter 3, tomorrow picks up where Chapter 3 left off.
iOS and Android, soon. Leave an email and we will tell you when the first night is ready.