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Every book has a movie inside it.
Drop in a book. Get beautifully narrated, illustrated videos — full films, binge-worthy summaries and scroll-stopping Shorts — in the book's own voice and language.
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🎙️ Warm, expressive voice
⚡ 12 Shorts from one book
- Public-domain classics
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- Word documents
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- Plain text
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- 30+ languages
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- Fiction & non-fiction
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- Children's books
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- YouTube
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The transformation
From a dusty page
to a scene you can feel.
This is a real page from a 140-year-old copy of Goody Two-Shoes. Drag the slider and watch it become a living illustration, ready for a narrator to bring it home.
- Every scene is drawn fresh for your story
- Characters keep the same face from first frame to last
- Narration matched word for word, with captions
How it works
Three steps. Zero editing timeline.
No storyboards, no voice actors, no stock footage hunts. You make the creative calls; Storybook Studio does the heavy lifting.
Approve your story
Meet your cast, pick a narrator's voice and read the script. Tweak anything with one plain-English instruction.
▶Publish everywhere
Download finished, captioned videos sized for YouTube, Shorts, TikTok and Reels, ready to post.
Showcase
Made entirely with Storybook Studio.
Real outputs, untouched. Hover a Short to watch it, and tap for sound.
Character consistency
Same hero. Every single scene.
Every character gets a portrait before a single scene is drawn, so Goody looks like Goody from her first step to her wedding day. That's the difference between a slideshow and a story people binge.
One book in, a content calendar out
One upload. A month of posts.
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Made for
Whoever you tell stories to.
Launch a faceless story channel this weekend.
Thousands of classics are free of copyright and full of drama nobody has filmed yet. Turn them into a steady stream of Shorts and long-form videos with a voice your audience comes back for.
- Hook-first Shorts written to stop the scroll
- Long-form summaries and series that rack up watch time
- Built from public-domain stories you can publish freely
Bedtime classics, read aloud and illustrated.
Give children the stories you grew up with, told gently and beautifully. It's screen time that builds readers, not just watchers.
- Calm, warm narration with word-by-word captions for early readers
- Lessons and chapters turned into short, memorable episodes
- Non-fiction explained as stories kids actually remember
Your book deserves a trailer. And a narrated edition. And a month of clips.
Upload your manuscript and get cinematic promo videos, a full narrated edition and social clips that send readers straight to your book page.
- Works from your own PDF or Word manuscript
- Your characters, visualised consistently across every clip
- Narration in your book's own language
Why it feels different
Not a slideshow with a robot voice.
A story, told well.
A narrator with feelings
Hushed for secrets, solemn for loss, bright for the happy ending. The voice follows the mood of every line.
A recurring cast
Faces, outfits and props stay consistent, so viewers fall for your characters.
Any language, natively
Narration in the book's own language, from English and Hindi to Spanish and French.
Once upon a time…
You stay the director
Approve the story, the cast, the voice and the visuals. Nothing ships without your yes.
Captions that pop
Word-by-word highlighted captions keep viewers watching with the sound off.
Non-fiction, storified
Philosophy, science and history become parables and explainers with a beginning, a middle and an end. Big ideas, finally easy to watch.
Early readers
People are already hooked.
“I turned a 200-year-old fairy tale into twelve Shorts in an afternoon. My channel finally has a posting schedule I can keep.”
“My kids ask for ‘the Goody one’ every night. The narrator sounds like she actually cares about the story.”
“I uploaded my memoir as a Word file and got back clips that made me tear up. That's my book, on screen.”
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The first 500 members get lifetime founder pricing, priority rendering and a direct line to shape what we build next.
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FAQ
Questions, answered.
Still curious? Join the waitlist and reply to the welcome email. A real human reads every one.
Can I really publish videos made from classic books?
Yes, as long as the book is in the public domain. Storybook Studio helps you find openly licensed books and shows each one's licence, so you know what you can publish. You can also upload books you own the rights to.
Who owns the videos I make?
You do. Download them, post them, monetise them. There's no watermark on founder plans.
Which languages are supported?
Narration is generated in the book's own language. English, Hindi, Spanish, French, German and many more are supported, with more added all the time.
Do I need any editing skills?
None. You approve the story, cast and voice at a few simple checkpoints, and finished videos come out the other end, captions and all.
Can I use my own manuscript?
Absolutely. Upload a PDF, Word document or plain-text file and it's treated just like a library book.
What about non-fiction?
Non-fiction gets its own treatment: clear explainers, or "storified" parables with an invented cast that make big ideas stick.
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