Personalized bedtime films
A bedtime film starring your child
A gentle animated story where your little one is the hero, read in your voice, so bedtime feels like home even on the nights you can't be there.
14-day money-back guarantee · reviewed by a real person · every dollar counts toward their full film
✦ Only a few films made each week, every one finished by hand
Less than a single keepsake photo session, but this one moves and speaks in your own voice, for years to come.
For the parents who'd give anything for one more bedtime story. The ones working late, the ones on the road, the ones loving across two homes. Press play and you're there: your voice, their face, a story that's only theirs.
Watch a real one, start to finish
Not a trailer. A whole Tuckabye film, exactly the kind you receive, starring a make-believe child named Mila. (We keep real children private, so every sample uses a pretend child.)
Pull one off the shelf
A little library of finished films, each one made from a grown-up's answers about their child. Tap a book to open it, watch the film, and see exactly how it was made.
Will it really look like them?
We work from your photos to keep the little details that make them them: the freckles, the cowlick, the gap-toothed grin. The goal is a hero who really looks like your child, not a generic cartoon.
An example using a sample child, not a real customer. Your own film is made from the photos you send.
How your film is really made
A book can print your child's name. Making them the hero of a moving film, in your own voice, takes AI that did not exist a few years ago, and a real person who shapes and reviews every single one. Here is exactly how yours comes to life.
- You answer a few little questionsTheir name, their world, the worry that keeps them up, their favorite buddy. This is the heart of the story, and only you can give it.
- We write their storyA gentle arc shaped around your child and the exact bedtime feeling they need, not a template with a name dropped in.
- Your child becomes the heroWe paint them from your photos, the freckles and the cowlick, and a real person checks the likeness and redoes it until it truly looks like them.
- Your voice is woven inNarrated by you, or gently recreated from a short clip with your consent, so the story sounds like home.
- It comes to life in HDThe art is animated and rendered, and then a real person watches the whole film, start to finish, before it is ever sent.
- It arrives, just for youA private link, yours to keep forever.
So yes, AI helps make it. What makes it real is everything AI can't do alone: your actual child's face and voice, a story built only for them, and a real person who checks it and redoes it until it's actually right, every single time before it reaches yours.
Any adventure they dream of
You have free rein over your child's story. Pick a world below, or invent your own: a young wizard's first year at a school of magic, superhero skies over their real hometown, a dragon kingdom, grandma's garden grown giant. If you want a starting point, open any book on the shelf above and borrow its recipe.
they dream ✨
Story time becomes reading time
Every film carries gentle, word-by-word captions set in Lexend, a typeface built for early readers, so your child can follow the words along while they fall in love with the story.
Shine it on the ceiling
Point any little projector up at the ceiling and watch together lying down, looking up at their own story in the stars. Then use the glow to play: a dinosaur, a bird, a bunny, shaped with your hands. We even made a free printable shadow-puppet guide to start you off.
Get the free shadow-puppet guideBuild the five-minute bedtime cinema →“I made the very first Tuckabye film for my own son before it was ever for sale. He's asked to watch it 41 times. Now I make them for other families' kids too, and I personally review every single film before it reaches you, so I only take a limited number of orders each week. I keep my own family private, which is exactly the care your child’s photos and voice get here.”
the maker of Tuckabye
- 🔒 Private & deleted on request
- ✨ Reviewed by a real person
- ♡ 14-day money-back guarantee
You'd be one of our very first families, which is exactly why every film comes with a full 14-day money-back guarantee. No risk, just the story.
Pick their world & secure your film
Add photos & record your voice
Read along together at bedtime
Want to co-write it with AI? It stays in your own chatbot; you paste the result in after checkout.
Everything in their film
One film, made just for them, yours to keep forever. Here is where your $129 actually goes.
- A story written for your childTheir name, their world, and a gentle bedtime worry that resolves by the end.
- Artwork built from your photosYour child painted as the hero of the story, never a generic cartoon.
- A real likeness reviewA person checks that it actually looks like them before it reaches you.
- Your own voice, woven inNarrated by you, or gently recreated from a short clip with your consent, so bedtime sounds like home.
- Animation, rendered in HDBringing a still illustration to life takes hours of real rendering compute, and every film has to clear a quality pass before it earns the HD download.
- Word-by-word read-along captionsStory time quietly becomes reading practice.
- An HD film, yours foreverDownload it and play it anywhere. No subscription, and nothing expires.
- A 14-day happiness guaranteeWe revise it until you love it, or refund you in full.
A keepsake photo session is gone by dinner and costs more. A stuffed animal is forgotten by next year. This one moves, speaks in your voice, and plays every night for as long as they ask.
Their story starts here
See them in their story tonight
$29their first scene, credited in full toward their film
A finished, watchable scene of their story, in your voice. Love it and the full film is $100, your $29 already counted in.
Your family's privacy, in plain English
The more of your real child you trust us with, the more the film truly becomes them. So here is exactly what happens to their photos and your voice, in plain words, with no legal fog.
Your child's photos
They become the hand-painted illustrations. We turn them into art with an image AI, kept set so your photos are never used to train it, and we delete them once your film is done.
The fuller detail
The image tool runs through a routing service that does not store or train on your data by default, and we keep any training-eligible provider switched off. Your photos are deleted from our storage within 30 days of delivery, or the moment you ask.
Your voice
It becomes the narration, in your own voice. We use a voice AI with its help-improve-the-model setting turned off, and we delete the voice copy we create as soon as your film is finished.
The fuller detail
We remove the voice clone and its recordings from the voice tool right after your film renders. A provider may briefly keep a copy in routine backups before it clears. Nothing is ever used to train a model, sold, or shared.
- Who sees my child's photos?
- Only the person who makes and reviews your film, plus the trusted AI tools that turn your photos into the artwork. No one else, and never the public.
- How long do you keep them?
- Only as long as it takes to make your film and honor the 14-day guarantee. We delete your photos and voice from our storage within 30 days of delivery, and you can delete them yourself, or ask us to, at any time. We keep them longer only if you choose to save them for future films.
- Can I delete everything myself?
- Yes, any time. The moment you order we email you a private link where you can delete your photos and voice in one tap, and we email back to confirm. You can also just reply to any email and a real person will take care of it.
- Is my voice or my child's face used to train AI?
- No. We keep the model-training settings turned off at the AI tools we use, so your data is used only to make your film, never to train a model, and never sold or shared.
- Are my files secure?
- Everything is uploaded over an encrypted (HTTPS) connection and kept in private storage that is not public, searchable, or shown to anyone else. We also never see or store your card details: payment is handled entirely by Stripe.
- Could a stranger ever see our film?
- No. Your finished film is delivered by a private link, just to you, and never posted publicly. Every sample on this site uses a make-believe child, never a real customer.
If anything here is ever unclear, email hello@tuckabye.com and a real person will answer.
Questions, answered
How are the films made?
With a blend of AI artistry and real human care. We craft the illustration and gentle animation from your photos, narrate it in your voice, then a real person reviews and finishes every single film before it reaches you, so it’s truly one of a kind.
How soon will I get the film?
Most are finished and delivered within 3 to 5 days, and every one is reviewed by a real person before it reaches you. Need it for a specific night? Email hello@tuckabye.com first and we’ll confirm.
Whose voice narrates it?
Yours. Record right here on your phone or upload a clip, read it aloud yourself, or, with your consent, let us gently re-create your voice from a short sample.
When do I add photos and my voice?
Right after checkout. Once you’ve secured your order, you’ll add a few photos of your child and record your voice on the next step (about three minutes). You can re-record as many times as you like.
Can I buy this as a gift?
Yes! Use the gift option at the bottom of this page: you buy the film and get a gift certificate to pass along, and the parent adds the photos and voice when they redeem it. Prefer a hand? Email hello@tuckabye.com and we’ll arrange it together.
Are my child’s photos and voice safe?
Here is exactly what happens to them. They are stored privately, never sold, and never shown publicly. We use them only to make your film, with trusted AI tools that illustrate and narrate it, and nothing is posted anywhere. You can have everything deleted at any time by emailing hello@tuckabye.com, and we confirm when it is done. If you would rather we keep them for future films, that is your choice to make, not the default.
What exactly do I get?
A downloadable HD film starring your child, yours to keep forever, with gentle word-by-word read-along captions.
What is the $29 first scene?
A finished, watchable opening scene of your child's film: fully illustrated, animated, and narrated in your voice, theirs to keep. If you love it (you will), every dollar of the $29 counts toward the full film, so completing it is $100, never $129 plus $29. And you only ever record once: the same photos and voice make the whole film later, nothing to redo. No subscription, no obligation.
What if I don’t love it?
Email hello@tuckabye.com within 14 days and tell us what you’d like: a revision, or a full refund. That’s your call, not ours, no revisions required first. Most things are a quick fix, but if you’d rather have your money back, you’ll have it. Happiness guaranteed.
Where can we watch it?
Anywhere: phone, tablet, TV, or computer. It’s a standard video you can play or download.