Start with your own characters

It starts with who is in the book

Tap Create a Story and Storywish asks who is in it. Tap everyone who should be: My child, My children, Myself, My partner, My pet, or Someone else for a gift. Then tap Continue and type their names, one box each. Once Storywish knows your family, your kids are right there to tap, with their faces.

Everyone you name gets a character

For each person, Storywish asks one question about their real life, like something funny they did this week or a place they love, then offers to draw them. Grandparents, brothers, sisters and the family dog can join the story the same way.

Someone you made before

Characters you keep are saved with your account. Name them in your next story and Storywish brings them back, no need to make them again.

From a photo, or from a few words

Tap Upload or take a picture and Storywish draws that person as a storybook character. A photo with several people in it opens Who's who?: name each face, the family dog's too, and Storywish draws them all at once. To pick out just one person, Choose a face lets you tap them. We never store your uploaded photos: each one is used once to draw the characters, then deleted.

No photo? Describe them

Tap Draw from description and say what they look like. If Storywish needs a little more to go on, it asks, for example "What does Sofia look like?"

Keep the one you love

A new character arrives on a card, with Keep and Start over above it. Keep saves them for this book and the ones after it.

Change anything first

Tap Reimagine for a fresh drawing, and use the arrows to go back to an earlier one. Set Boy, Girl or N/A (Man or Woman for a grown-up), their age and what they're like, or type what should change.

Draw on the portrait

Use the brush to draw on the character, like a crown or a red scarf, say what it is, and Storywish draws it in.

Change them any time

Every character you keep lives in your library. Open one to swap the photo, describe a change, or draw on the portrait, and Storywish draws them again.

Help with the words

The sparkle beside the name and the description writes them for you. Highlight a sentence first and it rewrites only that sentence.

Tell Storywish who is who

Tap Add relationships on any character and link them to other characters in your library. Pick from Father, Mother, Parent, Son, Daughter, Child, Brother, Sister, Sibling, Husband, Wife, Stepfather, Stepmother, Stepson, Stepdaughter, Father-in-law, Mother-in-law, Son-in-law, Daughter-in-law, Cousin, Uncle, Aunt, Nephew, Niece, Grandpa, Grandma, Grandparent, Grandson, Granddaughter, Grandchild, Guardian, BFF, Friend, Rival, Peer, Owner, or Pet.

Storywish reads those links when it writes. Dad acts like Dad, the rival shows up as the rival, and the family dog wanders through the scenes. Set up the family once and every story after knows who everyone is.