I Built an AI Children's Book Generator (PictureBooks.io) - Looking for feedback!

[Thunderfall]

Hey everyone!

I want to share something I've been working on that's completely different from Civ or gaming.
It's called PictureBooks.io and is a tool for creating personalized children's storybooks.

What it does:

• Generate fully illustrated children's stories in minutes using AI
• Has a large collection of free books in the Community Library
• Can regenerate image for any page easily
• Can edit story title and text after story generation
• Premium AI voice narration to read stories aloud
• Story translation
• Export stories as short-form videos (ex. YouTube Shorts/TikTok-style reels)
• Download as PDF
• Print stories
• Prompt Review & Edit before actual image generation
• Prompt Inspector to review prompts used to generate every page

Why I built it:​

I have a 2 year old boy and have been using AI a lot to create new books to read together. This tool gives complete control on every part of the book creation process.

It's free to try:​

You can create stories for free.
If any of you have young kids or grandkids, give it a shot and let me know what you think!
(And if you find it useful, subscribe and be my first customers!)

PictureBooks.io - Create Personalized AI Children's Stories

The AI storyteller for parents. From first words to first chapters. Create personalized, magical stories for your child with AI.

picturebooks.io

PS: Also, since I know this community is great at finding exploits and bugs - if you break the UI or find something weird, please let me know! I'm still polishing the code.

 

[amadeus]

Number One speaks!

 

[Birdjaguar]

Hey TF, I’ll try it when I get home in a couple of days! Can I add my own text and have it create related pictures?

 

[Thunderfall]

Yeah, you can enter your prompt for the story.
After the book is created, you can also edit the title and any story text easily. Can also regenerate a specific image in the book as well.

 

[Thunderfall]

Rebranded the site as PictureBooks.io instead, since toddlerbooks.ai unnecessarily make the target audience of the books smaller.

 

[Thunderfall]

As part of the re-branding, I have added 2 new art styles: Comic Book and Claymation.

 

[GenMarshall]

Interesting concept. Though I'd probably just use an AI prompt as a tool to refine my writing and research. Along with catching any spelling and grammar (at least in a dialogue setting in a comic) mistakes.

Number One speaks!

 

[Thunderfall]

You made that video? It's pretty good!

 

[Thunderfall]

Check out this book just I generated in comic book style. This is for older kids like 9 or 10 years old.

The Protectors of Stellar City! | PictureBooks.io

A personalized picture book story created with PictureBooks.io

picturebooks.io

 

[amadeus]

wow Carrot Top is a dick

just let us have our power

geez Louise

 

[Maiq]

Just what the world needs, more AI slop

 

[Kyriakos]

Hey everyone!

I want to share something I've been working on that's completely different from Civ or gaming.
It's called PictureBooks.io and is a tool for creating personalized children's storybooks.

What it does:

• Generate fully illustrated children's stories in minutes using AI
• Has a large collection of free books in the Community Library
• Can regenerate image for any page easily
• Can edit story title and text after story generation
• Premium AI voice narration to read stories aloud
• Story translation
• Export stories as short-form videos (ex. YouTube Shorts/TikTok-style reels)
• Download as PDF
• Print stories
• Prompt Review & Edit before actual image generation
• Prompt Inspector to review prompts used to generate every page

Why I built it:​

I have a 2 year old boy and have been using AI a lot to create new books to read together. This tool gives complete control on every part of the book creation process.

It's free to try:​

You can create stories for free.
If any of you have young kids or grandkids, give it a shot and let me know what you think!
(And if you find it useful, subscribe and be my first customers!)

PictureBooks.io - Create Personalized AI Children's Stories

The AI storyteller for parents. From first words to first chapters. Create personalized, magical stories for your child with AI.

picturebooks.io

PS: Also, since I know this community is great at finding exploits and bugs - if you break the UI or find something weird, please let me know! I'm still polishing the code.

This is interesting. I plan to try the free version and provide feedback, thanks and good luck

 

[Manfred Belheim]

This would be "advertising" no?

Advertising
Advertising is not allowed in any forum. Commercial advertising will be deleted on-sight, and the poster will receive a permanent ban.

Edit: Oh wow, there's even a banner posted at the top of the forum.

 

[Kyriakos]

I tried it and it generated two stories. I liked it, but I am unsure if the images can be made to be a little less joyful (granted, this was made specifically for children's books, but still ^^)
All in all, it looks nice and I am sure that parents can use it for that purpose.

 

[<Nexus>]

As a big fan of using AI for any practical and creative purpouse:
I don't think I'll ever use it but it's cool.

However I'd warn against teaching children to put out electrical fire with water

Spoiler :

This would be "advertising" no?

I hade the same first thought but I guess an Admin can bend the rules

 

[Manfred Belheim]

I like the superhero team's special ability of slightly changing their costumes and hairstyles from moment to moment, presumably to confuse the enemy.

 

[<Nexus>]

I like the superhero team's special ability of slightly changing their costumes and hairstyles from moment to moment, presumably to confuse the enemy.

...and the children reading it

 

[Kyriakos]

I once did try, decades ago, to put out a kitchen fire with water. Of course the result was horrifying

 

[Thunderfall]

I tried it and it generated two stories. I liked it, but I am unsure if the images can be made to be a little less joyful (granted, this was made specifically for children's books, but still ^^)
All in all, it looks nice and I am sure that parents can use it for that purpose.

Thanks! You are the first real user to create a new book other than me! in one of your book about the door, you could use the Regenerate Image feature to fix an image that has issue.

 

[Thunderfall]

Regarding the advertising comments. I can only do that because it’s my site.

It’s painful to get users to try though, especially at the beginning. Now I understand the pain of indie game developers.

Eventually I think I will need to do some paid ad campaigns on Facebook or X…

I greatly appreciate any support or feedback, even if the feedback is negative.