Comparison

Festivitas vs StoriesForMe

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Festivitas

Add animated festive lights and countdowns to your Home Screen with customizable widgets. Personalize shapes, colors, and effects to celebrate any occasion and make special moments sparkle.

Highlights
  • Animated festive lights on Home Screen
  • Photo integration in widgets
  • Transparent widget option
  • Countdown timers for events
  • Variety of animation effects
  • Extensive shape and color customization
Features
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Celebrate every occasion with Festivitas! Bring festive lights to your Home Screen with beautifully animated widgets that capture the holiday spirit. Festivitas offers a delightful range of light bulb shapes, color presets, and animated effects. Customize to your heart’s content with these merry features: - Add animated festive lights to your Home Screen. - Use your favorite photos in widgets to frame loved ones, friends, or pets with sparkling festive lights. - Create transparent animated widgets that make your festive lights blend seamlessly with your iPhone wallpaper. - Add countdowns to birthdays, holidays, trips, or any special moment you look forward to. - Choose from enchanting effects like Twinkle, Wave, Chase, and more. - Personalize your lights with a variety of designs: oval, circle, diode, heart, star, snowflake, bat, ghost, pumpkin, clover, egg, leaf, beer, champagne, cocktail, wine, lantern, and more. - Select from festive color palettes like Frosty White, Candy Cane Red, and Evergreen, or craft your own custom combination for that perfect personal touch. - Adjust the number of lights and their spacing to create your ideal cozy ambiance. - Configure the animation to match your mood, from calm and peaceful to lively and energetic. Festivitas for Mac Already enjoying Festivitas on iPhone and iPad? Decorate your Mac's Dock and menu bar with festive lights using Festivitas for Mac. Visit mac.festivitas.app for more info.

About

StoriesForMe

Create personalized audiobooks for children using AI. Customize stories with names, characters, and adventures for a magical, screen-free experience. Enjoy natural narration and shareable MP3 files.

Highlights
  • AI-powered personalized audiobooks
  • Customizable characters and adventures
  • Natural AI narration
  • Screen-free entertainment
  • CarPlay and Yoto integration
  • MP3 export for sharing
Features
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Grow brave, kind, and ready. I built StoriesForMe because my son couldn't handle losing. Every competition he didn't win turned into a rough night. I wanted him to hear a story about a kid just like him who got it, and figured out the next step, so I wrote one for him. Now he asks for his brave story before every game. You tell us what your kid is working through. We write them a bedtime story starring a kid like them, finding a way through it. Here's what you can pick from. Fears. The dark, doctors, storms, monsters, loud noises, thunder. Big changes. Moving, a new school, a new baby, a parent traveling, a new routine. Social stuff. Making friends, sharing, feeling left out, being bullied. Losing and mistakes. Blowing a game, breaking something, falling out with a friend. Big feelings. Anger, sadness, jealousy, frustration, feeling overwhelmed. Pick one. Your child hears a story about a kid with their name, their age, and a few traits that make them *them*. Warm narration. Five to fifteen minutes, depending. Works at bedtime, in the car on the way to the dentist, and in the ten minutes before the first day of anything. Every story ends with a couple of gentle questions you can ask together if your kid wants to keep talking. "How did Emma feel when it got dark?" Stuff like that. Not a quiz. How parents actually use it Some come for one specific worry their kid has this week. Pick the worry, listen to the story, have a calmer bedtime. Some are building character on purpose. We have collections around six traits: empathy, courage, kindness, grit, honesty, patience. Each collection is a set of stories that build on each other, so your kid gets a small journey instead of a one-off. Some are bracing for a big day. First day of school, new baby, moving weekend, a sleepover. Listen to a few stories in the days leading up to it, and the thing your kid is nervous about already feels a little bit known by the time it happens. Works with Yoto Send any story to your child's Yoto card with one tap. Screen-free listening, wherever your kid wants to sit with it. Privacy We built StoriesForMe to keep your family's stories on your account, not ours. See the privacy details on this page for exactly what we do and don't collect. Sign in with Apple supported. In-app purchases StoriesForMe offers optional story packs as in-app purchases for parents who want to create more stories in a given month.

Screenshots

Festivitas4 screens
StoriesForMe4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: StoriesForMe at 5.0 against Festivitas's 4.4. StoriesForMe also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 80%). Festivitas's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (89 vs 4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Festivitas sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and StoriesForMe sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

StoriesForMe holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Festivitas has 89 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Festivitas's written reviews are positive against 100% of StoriesForMe's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Festivitas ships an update every 4 days, StoriesForMe every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Festivitas versus StoriesForMe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFestivitasStoriesForMe
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (89 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings89 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.518.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size68 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSimon B. StøvringJimmy Vo

Customer experience

Festivitas

All ratings87 ratings
Positive85.1%
Neutral2.3%
Negative12.6%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative16.0%

StoriesForMe

Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Festivitas

One-time7
  • Full Version$3.99
  • Full Version$4.99
  • Full Version$5.99
Show 4 more
  • Full Version$6.99
  • Full Version$7.99
  • Full Version$8.99
  • Full Version$9.99
3 purchases

StoriesForMe

One-time3
  • One Story$1.99
  • Value Pack$4.99
  • Pro Pack$8.99

Questions

Is Festivitas free?
Festivitas is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is StoriesForMe free?
StoriesForMe is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Festivitas or StoriesForMe?
StoriesForMe is rated higher. Festivitas averages 4.4 out of 5 from 89 ratings, while StoriesForMe averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Festivitas or StoriesForMe have ads?
Neither Festivitas nor StoriesForMe shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Festivitas or StoriesForMe?
Festivitas ships an update every 4 days, and StoriesForMe every 2 months. Most recently, Festivitas was updated on October 30, 2026 and StoriesForMe on November 5, 2026.

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