Read it yourself, page by page
Tap record and read. Listen back, trim the start and end, set the level, add a fade. Do a whole book in one sitting at the kitchen table.
Doodle Dragon Studio
Your voice, reading their story
Doodle Dragon Studio turns the drawings on your fridge into a proper illustrated book — and then you read it aloud into it. The pictures are theirs. The voice is yours. Nobody else can make that.
Drawing, recording your narration, and exporting are free and unlimited. Studio Plus adds AI illustration and private cloud backup.
The part that still matters in twenty years
Plenty of apps will read a story to your child in a synthetic voice. None of them can do the one thing that actually counts. Recording your own narration is free, unlimited, and needs no internet — it is not the premium feature, it is the point of the app.
Or let someone else read it
Import an audio file so a grandparent, a co-parent, or someone on the other side of the world can be the voice instead.
Music underneath, voice on top
Add background music for the whole book and turn on “lower music under narration” so the words stay clear.
Then it's a thing you own
Export it and keep it. A recording of a four-year-old's story, read by you, is not something you can buy or regenerate later.
Three ways to start a page
Every project begins with something you already have — a drawing from the kitchen table, a photo from a trip, or an idea you can describe out loud.
Start from a sketch
Draw straight onto the canvas or photograph a drawing they already made. Keep it exactly as it is, or turn it into a polished illustration that still looks like theirs.
Sketch to illustrationStart from a photo
Bring in a holiday photo, a birthday, a first day of school. Adjust it with simple looks, or reimagine it as a storybook illustration.
Photo to illustrationPlan a book from one idea
Choose a theme, describe the book you want, and get an editable page plan. The app can suggest suitable pictures already in your Library.
AI page planningFrom a blank page to a finished book
Pick your pictures
Drawings, photos, or images you made earlier in the app. Everything lands in your project library with a label showing where it came from.
Set the story
Choose who it's for, how long it should be, and the tone. Add names, places, and details you want kept in — or skip all of it and write the story yourself.
Edit every page
Change the words, swap the picture, reorder pages, adjust the layout. Nothing is locked and nothing is final until you say so.
Read it aloud into the book
Record yourself reading every page. Trim it, level it, add music underneath. This is the step people keep — and it is free and unlimited.
Export and share
A page-by-page PDF, a video with your narration, clip sound, and music mixed in, or a project file you can hand to another device. Exporting is free and works offline.
What you can make
Picture Story
A short illustrated book with an opening, editable story pages, and a closing.
Travel Diary
Trip photos, stops, highlights, and notes arranged as an editable travel keepsake.
Family Keepsake
A short album for a birthday, a new sibling, a grandparent. Photos and captions, with illustrated alternates where you want them.
Little Biography
A child's story organised around milestones, favourite things, and a closing letter.
Milestone Book
Celebrate a birthday, a first year, or another meaningful occasion in chronological pages.
Blank Book
No opinions, no defaults. Choose your own layout for every page and build whatever you have in mind.
A lot of it works with no internet at all
Drawing, colour looks, light and colour adjustments, page layout, recording narration, and exporting a PDF or video are on-device features. They cost nothing, work in aeroplane mode, and never send your pictures anywhere.
- Record narration in your own voice, on every page, with no limit
- Import audio so someone else can be the voice
- Add background music, and lower it under the narration
- Full drawing canvas with brushes, colours, eraser, undo and redo
- Import photos and video clips from your phone
- Adjust light, contrast, colour, and warmth, plus curated looks
- Build and edit unlimited projects with as many pages as you want
- Export a PDF or a video, and back projects up as .ddstory files
Popular help topics
Straight answers to the things people ask us most.
Add narration and music
Record yourself reading the book, import audio, generate narration, and add background music that ducks under the voice.
Getting started with Doodle Dragon Studio
Install the app, understand the four main screens, and make your first page in about ten minutes.
Export a PDF or a video
Turn a finished project into a page-by-page PDF, a story video, or a portable project archive — and what to do when export fails.
Turn a sketch into an illustration
Draw or import a sketch, review the description and style, and generate a finished illustration that still looks like the original drawing.
Back up and move your projects
Export a portable .ddstory archive or use optional Studio Plus cloud backup to restore projects on another device.
Manage your Studio Plus subscription
Subscribe, restore purchases, change plan, cancel, and understand what happens to your books afterwards.
Built for parents, safe for the whole family
The grown-up drives
AI creation belongs to the account holder, who must be 18 or over. Children draw, tell the story, and watch it come together — they never have an account of their own.
Read moreNothing is sent without a review step
Every AI request shows you exactly what will be sent and what it will cost before it happens. Free projects never contact an AI service at all.
Read moreYour work stays yours
You own what you make. Projects stay local by default, optional Studio Plus backup is private, exports use portable formats, and cancelling never locks you out of your local books or existing cloud restores.
Read moreStart with one drawing
Pick a sketch off the fridge, make it into a page, and record yourself reading it. Recording is free, unlimited, and works with no internet at all.