Imagine a story.
Any story.
For children whose imagination outran their reading. And the parents who noticed.
Somewhere between imagination and the written word lives Imaginory. A place where children write the stories they have always wanted to read, with a little help from a cat called Quill. The reading practice? That sneaks in by itself.
Free tier: 5 stories a month · No credit card needed · Built by a parent, for parents
UK GDPR compliant · No ads · Parent-controlled
“A nine-year-old reading at Phase 3 deserves stories that know they’re nine.”
Every child has a story in them.
The trouble is the blank page. And the books that talk down to them. And the reading schemes that hand a nine-year-old with the emotional range of a novelist something about a dog called Pip.
Your child already knows the words they want. They say “catastrophic” and “disgusting” and “enormous” out loud every single day. They just have not met those words on a page yet, in a story they actually care about.
Imaginory starts with what they want to write. Dragons, volcanoes, cake-eating unicorns, robots with feelings. Quill asks the right questions, the story takes shape around them, and somewhere in the middle of all that joy, reading happens. Not as a lesson. As an adventure they designed themselves.
Write Your First StoryHow Imaginory Works
They bring the idea
A dragon. A mystery. A teacher who turns into a slug. Whatever lives in their imagination, that is where the story starts. No adult agenda. No curriculum objectives. Just whatever they want.
Quill does the rest
Our story-cat asks questions, sparks ideas, and coaxes something brilliant out of whatever your child brings to the conversation. The blank page never stands a chance.
A story worth keeping
Out comes something genuinely theirs. Their characters, their voice, their world, shaped gently around their reading level. Download it, print it, read it at bedtime. Put it on the shelf next to the Ladybird books.
A place built for readers who have been underestimated.
Their words, their rules
Stories are guided by phonics phases and year-group vocabulary. But if your child says 'cake' in their story interview, cake goes in the story. Their voice is sacred.
Dyslexia Effects (dfX)
One toggle. OpenDyslexic font, generous spacing, a reading experience built around how dyslexic readers actually see text. Not a special mode. Just Imaginory, adjusted.
Safe, parent-controlled sharing
A library of stories written by children, for children. Browsable like a feed of things kids actually care about. Nothing goes public without you saying so.
Listen when it helps
Quill can read any story aloud. Tap to listen, follow along, go at your own pace. There when you need it. Quietly out of the way when you do not.
Print it. Keep it.
Download a beautifully formatted story to print at home. Screen time that ends up on the bookshelf. Which is exactly where it belongs.
Who finds their way here.
The reader who has been given the wrong books
A nine-year-old reading at Phase 3 still gets the joke. Still feels the fear. Still wants the dragon to win. Imaginory writes the story they deserve, not the one their reading age says they should have.
The child who finds reading hard work
The two hardest things for a dyslexic child are the blank page and the sheer effort of reading. Quill solves the blank page. The Dyslexia Effects toggle and on-demand listening solve the reading. Both, in one sitting, without either feeling like work.
Any child with something to say
From early readers to confident spellers. Every child has a story pressing against the inside of them somewhere. Imaginory gives it somewhere to go, an audience to go to, and a cat who thinks every single idea is brilliant.
Simple Pricing
Start free. No pressure. Upgrade if your child runs out of stories, which might take a while.
A love letter to the written word.
Imaginory began in a thatched cottage in Wiltshire, on a bookshelf somewhere between a Ladybird annual and a well-worn copy of Winnie the Pooh. It was built by a parent watching her daughter fall in love with stories she could not yet read herself.
The books at her reading level talked down to her. The books she wanted were out of reach. Every reading app on the market either handed her something a five-year-old would find dull, or made her feel like she had a problem to be fixed. She did not have a problem. She had stories in her. She just needed somewhere to put them.
So we built her somewhere.
Quill is her cat. So is Ink. Professor Jeff is her dog. The world of Imaginory is shaped by what she loves, what she imagines, and what she is not quite ready to read yet but absolutely should be.
This is not an educational tool dressed up as something fun. It is a place of joy and wonder and creative mess, where the reading practice sneaks in through the back door while nobody is paying attention. Where children are in charge of their own stories. Where the blank page has never won a single argument with Quill.
Come in. The books are waiting.
Built in Wiltshire, UK 
with and a little help from AI
What story have they been keeping to themselves?
Imaginory is free to try. No credit card. No commitment. Just a cat, a blank page, and whatever your child has been imagining.
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