PlayTales: Audiobooks for Kids
Peter Kurzok Entertainment iPhoneiPadiPod touch
PlayTales: Audiobooks for Kids is a free Entertainment app for iPhone and iPad by Peter Kurzok. Requires iOS 17.0. Updated October 20, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 10 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 20
- 2026 · v1.8.0
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About PlayTales: Audiobooks for Kids
PlayTales plays the audio plays and audiobooks on Apple Music in a way kids can manage on their own – while you still decide how long they listen. The stories themselves need an Apple Music subscription. WHAT PLAYTALES DOES FOR YOUR FAMILY • Peace and quiet on the back seat: with no signal, PlayTales shows and plays whatever Apple Music has downloaded, and with CarPlay, favourites and recently played sit right on the car's screen. (Offline view and CarPlay with Pro) • Bedtime without anyone getting up: the sleep timer stops the story after 5 to 60 minutes – or right at the end of the episode. • You decide how long: daily and weekly limits, guarded by your PIN. For long car journeys there's “ten more minutes” or “no limit today”. • Kids listen on their own: big, colourful covers instead of menus, and PlayTales can read the titles aloud – even for kids who can't read yet. • Pick up where they left off: to the second, and through iCloud from iPhone to iPad. • And when the story ends? Stop, repeat or play the next album – your choice. • Nothing to get lost in: search can be switched off, and the settings sit behind your PIN or a math task. • “Play … in PlayTales”: with Siri, Shortcuts or straight from Spotlight search. PLAYTALES PRO A one-time purchase, not a subscription: unlimited favourites (three without Pro), CarPlay, the offline view and no adverts. Parental controls are included for everyone at no extra cost. PRIVACY No account, no sign-in. How long your child listens is counted on the device only and never sent anywhere. I built PlayTales for my own children. Happy listening!
What’s new
Version 1.8.0 · Updated October 20, 2026
PlayTales: Audiobooks for Kids – version 1.8 • Feature requests (iOS 18 and later): suggest new features in Settings and vote on other parents' ideas. • Easier to tap: small buttons are easier to hit, VoiceOver names the story on every button, and the player fits on screen even at the largest text size. • Snappier: with lots of downloaded albums, PlayTales now responds more smoothly.
App privacy
The developer, Peter Kurzok, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality
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| App | Rating | Price | Last updated | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PlayTales: Audiobooks for Kids | – | Free | October 20, 2026 | |
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