Drømsle – Bedtime Stories

One story, then goodnight. Drømsle reads new bedtime stories aloud, in the tradition of Asbjørnsen and Moe’s Norwegian folk tales, but modern and funny. Each story is about six minutes long. Your child should laugh a few times and learn a little about being kind, without anyone spelling it out. The stories stay in Norway: snow on the farm under the mountain, a troll with the hiccups, the nisse – the little old man who looks after the barn at night – and a warm kitchen on a dark evening. Norwegians call that feeling kos. You may know it as hygge. Every story is read in British English by a calm voice, and ends as Norwegian tales do: “Snip, snap, snout, this tale’s told out.” Litte and Pitte are two little drømsles with a lantern on the tip of their heads. They live under the bed and listen to the story with your child. THE CHRISTMAS CALENDAR In Norway, a Christmas calendar can also be a story told in 24 parts. In Drømsle, a new Christmas story comes every evening from December 1 to 24. A little star, no bigger than a gingerbread cookie, comes to visit, and on Christmas Eve she goes home again. On iPad the calendar is a book on the shelf that opens on one large winter picture with 24 doors, and tonight’s door glows until your child opens it. If you miss an evening, the story waits. You can turn it off under Christmas in Settings. TWO WAYS TO READ • Read to me: the voice reads, and the book turns its pages by itself in step with the story, with a calm picture on every spread. • I’ll read: the voice is off. You read aloud from the book, your child looks at the picture, and you turn the page when you’re both ready. 60 STORIES IN EIGHT BOOKS Litte and Pitte, The Farm Under the Mountain, The Forest, The Valley, Grandad’s Crooked House, The City and The Island Kingdom. And Old Tales, where The Three Billy Goats Gruff, The Pancake and The Cat on the Dovrefjell are told anew. Every story has pictures, around 860 in all. ON IPAD The books stand on a shelf. Your child takes one out, and it opens on its contents. One tap on a story, and the book turns to it. In Read to me, the pictures are quietly alive: a little wind, falling snow, a flickering light. When the story is over, the book goes back on the shelf, and Litte and Pitte fall asleep. ON IPHONE An ordinary app for you: Stories has Continue, your favorites, the books and search, and Children shows what each child has heard. While the voice reads, you can follow the text, or pause and read it yourself. The story carries on when the screen locks. The sleep timer fades the voice out after 10 to 45 minutes, and you decide whether the next story starts. ON IPHONE DUO Open the phone, and the story becomes a picture book across the inner display, picture on one side and text on the other. Half open like a book or a laptop, each keeps to its own half. As a tent on the nightstand, the outer display shows only the picture. THE END IS THE END At bedtime on iPad, nothing starts by itself after the story. There is no sound apart from the story, and no points, badges or stars for what your child has heard. FOR YOU, THE GROWN-UP Behind the parent lock on iPad: • Several children, each with their own name, color and favorites. • Listening: what each child listens to, and when. • Bedtime: one story, then goodnight, a dimmed screen and a sleep timer. To get in, hold the ring at the top left for one second and answer a multiplication question. WHAT DRØMSLE DOESN’T DO • No ads • No account and no tracking • No notifications • No internet needed. All the stories are in the app. WHY DRØMSLE EXISTS Our daughters are four and five, and they want a new story every evening. Each story was tried on them at bedtime, in Norwegian, one by one. Made at home: the ideas for the stories are ours, polished over several months by our family, while the pictures, the voices and the English translation are made with AI tools. Shared with you.