The comparison
Love StoryWorth? This is the bedtime version.
StoryWorth turns your mother's memories into a book you read. Fablewood turns her voice into audiobooks your kids fall asleep to. Families with both report zero regrets.
Two different gifts wearing the same shape
Both are a year, priced like a gift, built around a weekly ritual with someone you love. From there they point at different hearts:
| StoryWorth | Fablewood | |
|---|---|---|
| The output | A hardcover memoir | Keepsake audiobooks |
| Made of | Written answers to prompts | Their voice, reading aloud |
| The audience | Adult children, someday | Grandkids, tonight at 7pm |
| The ritual | A weekly email question | The phone rings; they read |
| Tech asked of them | Email and typing (or dictating) | Answering a telephone |
| Price | $99/year | $99/year, never auto-renews |
Why voice, why now
A memoir preserves what happened. A recording preserves how they sound: the pauses, the character voices they commit to, the way they say your kid's name. Children too young to read a memoir are exactly the right age to fall asleep to a voice, which means the gift gets used hundreds of times before it ever becomes an heirloom.
And grandparents who freeze at a writing prompt are often wonderful the moment you hand them a story to read; the book does the thinking, and their delivery does the loving.
Can they tell their own stories on Fablewood?
Yes, and they should: "tell Maya about the winter the pipes froze" is a bedtime story nobody else on earth can read. Many families alternate between books and memories; both become audiobooks in the same library.
The easiest version of all of this
A loved one answers the phone and reads. Fablewood turns the call into a finished keepsake audiobook in your family's private library, ready for bedtime, the car, and every player below.
$99 for a year · unlimited stories · never auto-renews
Questions, answered plainly
Is Fablewood a replacement for StoryWorth?
No. StoryWorth makes a written memoir for adults; Fablewood makes bedtime audiobooks for children. Plenty of families run both: memoir for the parents, story line for the kids.
My mom did StoryWorth and loved the ritual. Will this feel similar?
The rhythm is the same (a gentle weekly moment), but easier: instead of writing an answer, her phone rings and she reads aloud. If she liked being asked, she'll love being listened to.
Does Fablewood ever use AI voices?
Never. It's really her, every word. We clean the phone-line noise and change nothing else.
StoryWorth is a trademark of StoryWorth Inc. Fablewood is an independent product, not affiliated with or endorsed by StoryWorth.