What we don’t do
A bedtime app should not behave like an attention-economy product. So this one doesn’t.
These are commitments, not preferences. We have written them down so you can hold us to them, and so the people building The Loreling can hold themselves to them as the product grows.
The pledge
No advertising. Ever.
Not at any tier. Not as a free-with-ads layer. Not for a press tour. Not a “small house ad” for our own features. The product is paid for by parents, not advertisers.
No algorithmic feed.
Stories don’t auto-play. The catalog doesn’t change based on what your child watches. Recommendations, when they exist, come from editorial choices and the structure of the catalog — not from behavioural prediction.
No data sale.
We don’t share or sell your child’s listening history. We don’t share or sell anything derived from your child’s use of the app. Aggregate, internal product knowledge stays internal.
No engagement metrics inside the app.
There is no streak. There is no badge. There is no “you’ve listened to 17 stories!” celebration. Nothing in the product is designed to make your child want to come back tomorrow more than today.
How the catalog gets made
We use AI extensively — for narration voices, illustration, and translation. We are not pretending otherwise.
What we promise is the gate:
Every story read by a human.
Every adaptation passes a human read before it enters the catalog. Tone, age fit, scariness pacing, language register — judged by a person, not an automated quality score.
Every image approved by one.
Every illustration goes through a per-image human approval gate. Off-style, garbled, uncanny — rejected. The audit trail records every approval and every regeneration.
The gate doesn’t go away as we scale.
When the catalog outgrows what one person can review, we add reviewers. We don’t remove the gate.
This is the difference between AI-made and AI-assisted, human-curated. We are the second one.
On voices
A small one, but worth saying plainly.
We keep your recordings forever. We don’t clone voices.
If a grandparent records bedtime stories in their voice, those recordings stay in your family’s library as long as you want them. The Loreling does not, will not, ever turn human-recorded narration into a synthetic voice — not for nostalgia, not for “premium personalization,” not posthumously, not at all.
The technology exists. We know. We won’t ship it.
The Loreling — bedtime stories that don’t fight for attention. Open the app →