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Card 833 of 9752026-09-24 issue

Observed arrival · 2026-09-24

TapTales turns a parent's voice into a tap-through storybook

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An iPhone and iPad app that lets adults make picture-tile stories for young children to tap through and hear read aloud.

Landing page captured for the 2026-09-24 issue.
For
Families making read-along stories for young children
Worth noticing
The starter shelf lists 12 narrated classics, from The Three Little Pigs to Stone Soup.

Field notes

The page says adults can start with a full spoken story or pasted text, then have it cut into tiles, or assemble pages one at a time. Pictures can come from a set or from emoji, and playback speed applies to both family recordings and narrator voices. The starter shelf names a dozen classics; the page also describes sharing selected stories with up to five family members through iCloud.

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$PaidCommerce or pricing visible
✦PrettyNotable craft visible
●ProPolished or operationally mature
◎NicheUnusually specific use

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