Private by design
Free never contacts an AI service. You don't need an account, and your projects stay on your phone until you choose to share them.
How it worksFree
Your pictures. Your voice. Your phone.
Make a keepsake book from your photos, video clips, and your child's drawings, then read it aloud yourself. Everything in Free runs on your device, works offline, and needs no account. Export a PDF or a video and keep it.
Free for good: no account, trial, watermark, or page limit
Free store release target: October 20, 2026. Subject to Apple and Google approval. Studio Plus and Studio Motion public releases will follow.
Made with Free
All examplesOpen one to watch it, read along, and see exactly how it was made.
A family trip
A seaside travel diary
AI-simulated demoA five-page travel diary made in Free from photos, a short clip of the waves, captions, and a parent's narration on every page.
Time with grandparents
Sundays at Grandma's
AI-simulated demoA five-page family keepsake made in Free from photos, two short home-video clips, captions, and a parent's narration on every page.
A first milestone
Learning to ride a bike
AI-simulated demoA five-page milestone book made in Free from photos, two short clips of a first bike ride, captions, and a parent's narration on every page.
What Free is best at
Your own narration, unlimited
Record yourself reading every page, or import someone else's recording. Story music lowers automatically under the voice.
How it worksPhotos and video clips
Bring in photos and short clips from your phone, frame them on the page, and adjust light, colour, and warmth on the device.
How it worksKeepsake templates
Family Keepsake, Travel Diary, Milestone Book, Little Biography, Picture Story, and more, with a layout you can change on any page.
How it worksTwo languages, in your own words
Add a second language, type the translation yourself, and record narration for it. Each language keeps its own words and voice.
How it worksPDF and video export
Export a page-by-page PDF, or a video with your narration, clip sound, and music mixed in. Save a .ddstory file to keep or move the whole project.
How it worksFree tutorials
Watch the full walkthroughTwelve short narrated videos: start a keepsake, add photos and words, record narration, add a second language, and export a PDF or a video.
- Chapter 1: Create a new project Choose a theme, starting layout, and story settings for a new local project. Video length 0:34
- Chapter 2: Add and adjust media Add local media, crop and position it, then replace it. Video length 0:33
- Chapter 3: Edit the cover Change the cover text, local artwork placement, and layout. Video length 0:23
- Chapter 4: Add and edit page text Write, revise, and save text on a story page. Video length 0:21
- Chapter 5: Add sound Import and preview local narration, then add music for a story page. Video length 0:27
- Chapter 6: Change a page layout Apply a different layout to one story page. Video length 0:11
- Chapter 7: Add another language Add a language and enter its cover and page text with the device keyboard. Video length 0:27
- Chapter 8: Add language narration Attach separate local narration to a translated page. Video length 0:16
- Chapter 9: Add a page Append a new editable page to the project. Video length 0:11
- Chapter 10: Reorder pages Move an existing page to a different position. Video length 0:18
- Chapter 11: Preview a story Review the cover and pages before export. Video length 0:08
- Chapter 12: Export and share Choose a language and create PDF, video, and editable project files. Video length 0:48
Why your own voice is free
A recording of you reading your child’s story, made from their drawing, can’t be generated, bought, or replaced later. In twenty years it is the part of the book that matters. So recording your own narration is free, unlimited, on-device, and needs no account. We don’t plan to change that.
Everything included in Free
If a feature runs on your phone, it is free and it works offline. If it needs a hosted AI service, it needs Studio Plus or Studio Motion.
Drawing. A full canvas with brush colour, brush size, eraser, undo, redo, and clear. Photograph a paper drawing to bring it in as a sketch.
Photos and video. Import photos and video clips from your phone or take a new photo. Crop and position each picture, adjust light, contrast, colour, and warmth, or apply a look: Original, Warm, Storybook, or Clean B&W. Attach a clip to a page and choose whether its sound plays.
Books. Unlimited projects with unlimited pages, every template and layout, your own words on every page, page reordering, autosave, and a recoverable Trash.
Sound. Record narration with your microphone, preview it, and re-record it. Import audio files (MP3, M4A, WAV, AAC, plus OGG on Android). Add story music from six included tracks or your own file, set each volume, lower the music under narration, and hold a photo on screen until the narration finishes.
Languages. Add another language to a book, type its words yourself, and record separate narration for it.
Getting it out. Export a PDF or a video with narration, clip sound, and music
mixed in, plus optional subtitle files. Export and import .ddstory project
archives, and share through your phone’s share sheet.
Everything in Free
Features
Questions about Free
Do I need an account?
No. You can draw, edit, record, and export without signing in, and without an internet connection. Signing in is only needed for Studio Plus and Studio Motion, because that is where a subscription and a credit balance live.
Is Free a trial?
No. There is no countdown, no watermark on exports, and no page limit. A family that draws its own pictures, writes its own words, records a parent reading them, and exports the result pays nothing.
Does anything I make in Free get sent to an AI service?
No. Free features run on your device and do not contact Google, OpenAI, or any other AI provider. See how your data is used with AI.
Help shape Doodle Dragon Studio
Join the free beta on Android through Google Play or on iOS through TestFlight. Make your first story and tell us what worked. Interested in AI creation? Sign in to the app to be considered for complimentary Plus or Motion beta credits.