About GrowJourn

How it works

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  Pick your hero

  Choose a name and personality for your adventurer, or pick from our suggestions.
• ✨
  The story begins

  A unique adventure generates fresh, with a watercolour illustration painted just for this moment.
• 🔀
  Make choices

  At each scene, your child decides what happens next. The story goes wherever they want to take it.
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  The adventure branches

  Every choice shapes the world. No two stories are ever the same.

Why I built this

Growing up, I loved those adventure books where you got to decide what happened next. The thrill of being the one in charge, turning to a different page based on your own choice, was unlike anything else on the shelf.

When I had children of my own, I wanted to share that feeling with them. But I quickly discovered something: they had opinions. Strong ones. They didn't always want the options they were given. They wanted to go somewhere entirely their own.

And when I actually listened to their ideas, they were wonderful. Wildly imaginative, funny, surprising. Their instincts for a good story were better than I expected.

So I built GrowJourn to meet them there. The child brings the idea: the hero, the seed of the adventure. The app builds a world around it, one choice at a time. It's their story, shaped by their imagination, illustrated as it unfolds.

If your children are anything like mine, I hope they love it.

A note for parents

No personal data is collected from children. Stories aren't linked to any child profile, only to an optional parent account used solely to save stories and your story balance.

There are no ads, no third-party tracking, and no data sharing. You can play anonymously without creating an account at all.

All story content is generated with young readers in mind: age-appropriate, imaginative, and safe.

Get in touch

Have a question, a suggestion, or just want to say hello?