Busy days don't have to mean missed moments.
Ten minutes. One story. Both of you off the couch.
Playori is a narrated audio adventure for young children. Your child picks a world, and the story sends them bear-crawling past the temple guards, spelling out the word that opens the door, and pulling the sock off the Pirate King's foot. Your living room, a hotel room, grandma's place, wherever you've got a bit of space. Play it together, or let them run it on their own.
Be one of the first 200 families
We're keeping the first group small so we can watch closely and fix what doesn't work. Thirty seconds, four questions.
You're on the list.
We'll email you when the beta opens, and nothing before that. If you want to tell us anything about your child in the meantime, just reply to that email.
Six worlds
One map. Your child picks where tonight goes.
Every world works for every age; the story adjusts, not the child. 120 stories are written so far, with more every week. Tap a destination to see what happens there.
Tap a destination to see what happens there.
Adventure
The gap
Most screen time asks for their attention. None of it asks for yours.
Right now
With Playori
How it works
Two modes. One promise.
Whether you want to be in the story tonight or you need fifteen minutes to get dinner on, Playori is built for both, without the guilt of either.
The villain in tonight's story is you.
You don't have to perform or plan anything. The story tells you both what to do. You just have to show up.
Downtime that actually does something.
No autoplay, no feed, no zoning out. Your child moves, thinks and explores through a story where they're the one making it happen.
Why now
We're not competing with the tablet. We're upgrading the ritual.
The story before bed is the one thing almost every parent already does, already buys books for, and increasingly feels they're doing badly. That's the fifteen minutes we're after, not another hour to feel guilty about.
The share of 5-to-8 year olds who read daily has fallen twelve points since 2017, while total screen time held steady.
Common Sense Census: Media Use by Kids Zero to Eight, 2025of parents are worried about what screen media is doing to their kids, and three quarters also believe screens can support learning and connection. Parents aren't anti-screen. They're anti-passive.
Common Sense Census: Media Use by Kids Zero to Eight, 2025Built for children
No live microphone. Nothing typed freely. Nothing improvised.
Those are three of the four things Playori will never do, decided before a line of code was written.
Why I'm building this
"My daughter pointed at the door and said, 'No, no Daddy outside.' She was asking me to leave. We'd lost the connection."
I was leaving before my kids woke up and getting home after they were asleep. So instead of reading her a story one night, I made one up: choose-your-own-adventure, the two of us crawling around the apartment hunting treasure. The next night she asked for it again.
Playori exists to hand that fifteen minutes to parents who want it but don't know how to start it. My background is exercise science and psychology, which maps almost exactly onto the two halves of this product: age-appropriate physical progression, and early-childhood development.
Reagan, founder, Playori. Sydney, Australia.
One day they'll stop asking you to play.
The beta opens soon, and we're starting with 200 families. Leave your email and you'll be in the first group.
Join the beta waitlist