As a strong entrant into the audiobooks space, with a premium content library spanning 5 languages- across 16 categories, Storytel is upping its ante by now having a parental control on their application. The app hosts 70,000+ audiobooks and e-books across a varied category such as romance, thriller, spirituality, horror, drama, adventure, etc. The book titles on Storytel are meant for all age groups. However, with the child filter, children get access to only that content which is specifically meant for their age group.
Kids Mode, is a filter which allows parents to let their children go exploring in the app, and find their own favorites. The app hosts thousands of stories and bestsellers in the children categories. Children’s category is rich with fantasy, adventures, comics, classics, to some great books for learning across languages such as Hindi, English and Marathi. Be it J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter series, Roald Dahl’s books, Adventures of Stoob to Peppa Pig the collection has books for all age groups – starting from stories for infants. Moreover, besides the acquired collection, Storytel also has original series e.g Chhoti Durga, Phas Gayi Kinoo etc which are written specifically for children.
With this move, Storytel has opened up the word of stories for children. Parents now have an educative and a novel medium where children can listen to books from their prefered genre such as- comics, biographies, fiction, non-fiction, drama etc. “We are thrilled to have an exclusive child filter for our application, as it essentially allows us to do more for kids. Storytel has curated a fantastic list of books for children which are both fun and educative. With the kids mode now live, we aim at looking at larger subscription numbers to come in.” says Yogesh Dashrath, Country Manager at Storytel India.