What is Story Mode?
Story Mode is a reading-rep app for elementary-age kids. Quick, low-pressure reading practice moments, built right back into play.
Parents know it best: childhood has evolved. Reading practice used to mean picking up a book, a board game, even the back of a cereal box. Today there's endless fresh videos, a catchy song every week, and one trend after another. It's easy for a kid to get lost in the buzz.
Story Mode puts a little reading back in a child's day and hands them the win: read a short passage, get cheered on by a friendly Ally, and open the fun back up. A few good reps, a real victory, then back to play. Read. Win. Play.
How it works
Story Mode works alongside the screen-time limits you already set. You decide when screen time is up, and Story Mode becomes the answer to how your child earns it back.
Choose Your World, Choose Your Ally
Choose from ten reading worlds, from Space to the Ocean floor to Dinosaurs, plus a friendly Ally to read along with.
Read a little
A short passage, read aloud. Any tricky word is one tap away from a kind, simple hint. No getting stuck, no frustration.
Earn the fun
Finish the reading and screen time opens back up, with a little celebration and never any pressure. Kids feel the win; parents stay in control.
A tool for parents, an adventure for kids
Parents choose when it's time for a reading rep. Kids choose how. To your child, Story Mode feels like choices, worlds, and small victories: an opportunity, not a wall. Behind the scenes, it's a supplemental screen-time tool that puts you firmly in the driver's seat.
- Quick Round? Or Bonus Round?A Quick Round earns screen time; Bonus Rounds earn extra.
- You choose what's gatedPick which apps sit behind a reading moment, and which stay open.
- You set the earningDecide how much screen time a reading round is worth, and the daily cap.
- Ten reading worldsTopics kids actually care about, from Space to the ocean floor.
- Grade levels 2–5Passages matched to where your child is right now.
- Tap-any-word helpGentle, plain-language hints so no reader gets stuck. Unlimited. No wall.
Built for parents' peace of mind
Story Mode was made with a simple promise: your child's reading time should be safe, private, and free of the things that turn screens into a worry. Simple to use, with parental controls that stay in your hands.
- No ads
- No tracking
- No account required
- No chat, no strangers, no social feeds
- Your family's information stays on your device
A parent progress report may arrive in a future update, always as a 100% optional sign-up, never required to use the app.
Read the full Privacy Policy.
About us
Story Mode is made by Story Mode LLC, an independent studio in Colorado, USA. It began with a simple wish: to help children get their reading reps in, quietly and kindly and low-pressure, while giving the grown-ups who cheer them on a screen-time tool they can trust.
Read more about Story Mode, or reach us any time at hello@getstorymode.com.