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One why a night. Then you close the phone.

Five good minutes with your kid. Every night.

The question is coming anyway. Your kid will ask why the moon follows the car. You'll be tired. Whybird is one card a night — a story, a question for them, an answer in their words — so you never have to look it up.

The first journey is free. All seven nights, no card.

A small bird watches the moon from the back seat of a carNight 1 / 7
Journey to the Moon

Why is the moon following our car?

Whybird sat on the back seat as the car rolled home. Trees swept past — but the moon stayed right there in the window.

Ask themStory · 30 sec
The ritual

Built for bedtime, not for engagement metrics

No infinite feed, no streak-baiting notifications. One card, five quiet minutes, and then the night is yours.

01Day

One bedtime card

A short story to read out loud. A curious question with no right answer. An explanation in words a five-year-old holds on to.

Five minutes, then close the phone.

02Week

One 7-night journey

Seven cards make one story arc. Monday sets up Thursday, Sunday is the ending. Kids don’t wait for a fact — they wait for what happens next.

Four journeys ready at launch.

03Year

One chronicle

Every answer your child gives is saved with the date. A year in you don’t have forty facts — you have forty evenings and their own theories of the world.

Kept safe in your private iCloud.

The library

Four seven-night journeys, ready at launch

Handwritten stories and hand-drawn covers. Every card read out loud to a real child before it ever reached your bedroom.

Journey to the Moon cover7 nights
Journey 1Free journey

Journey to the Moon

Space, gravity & why we come home

Follow Whybird as she builds a cardboard rocket and flies to the lunar surface.

Seven bedtime cards included
Into the Ocean cover7 nights
Journey 2In the pass

Into the Ocean

Waves, salt & lights in the deep

Dive under the sea to find out why waves never stop and why fish carry their own lights.

Seven bedtime cards included
Inside the Body cover7 nights
Journey 3In the pass

Inside the Body

Hearts, dreams & where crumbs go

Explore the small world inside us — from a rumbling stomach to the place dreams come from.

Seven bedtime cards included
Safe and Brave cover7 nights
Journey 4Private & careful

Safe and Brave

Boundaries, secrets & saying no

A quiet seven-night script for body safety, private parts, and secrets that feel too heavy.

Seven bedtime cards included
The chronicle

What they said, kept forever

Every answer your child gives stays in your private chronicle, with the date beside it.

A year in, you don't have forty facts about space. You have forty evenings and a five-year-old's theory of why the moon is shy. That is the part parents come back for.

October 14Journey 1 · Night 3
Illustration from night three of the moon journey
Their answer
“Because the moon is shy and wants to stay near our car.”
— Mia, age 5
Journey 4 · Safe and Brave

Including the talk you keep putting off

Written with child psychologists

One journey isn't about space or oceans. It's about body autonomy, private parts, heavy secrets, and why it is never — ever — the child's fault.

  • Why your body belongs to you
  • Why some parts of you are private
  • Why saying no is allowed
  • Why some secrets feel heavy
  • Why you need more than one grown-up
  • Why it is never your fault

Seven nights written with care — no fear, no lecture, no scary voice. Just the exact sentences that are hard to start on your own. This journey cannot be shared from the app. It's for your family.

Nothing is generated while your child is listening

Every card was written and read by a human before it ever reached your bedroom. No model improvises at 9:40 PM. No answer arrives that nobody checked.

Works offline
Zero ads, zero tracking
Data not collected
Pricing

The first journey is free

All seven nights of Journey 1 — the Moon — free, no card. When you're ready for the rest:

Monthly
$9.99/ month

Every journey, current and upcoming. Cancel anytime from Settings.

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Yearly
$49.99/ year
$119.88 billed yearly

About $4.17 a month — the price of one bedtime book, for a whole year of nights.

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Lifetime
$99.99

Pay once. Yours forever — every journey we ever make, no subscription.

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Questions, answered

No. The entire first journey — seven nights of Journey to the Moon — is free. We never ask for a card to start.

It’s built for parents reading to children roughly four to eight. The explanations use clear, accurate images a young child holds on to.

No. Every card and story is written, reviewed, and read aloud by humans before release. Nothing is generated while you hold your phone.

Your child’s answers and chronicle live on your device and in your private iCloud. We run no servers and collect no analytics.