The narrated sleep stories app
designed for people by people,
written for effective sleep.

For a limited time, join the waitlist to gain early access and a free Premium membership.

Welcoming Alpha testers to try this innovative app and provide feedback to improve it before being released to the general market.

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Sleep stories
for curious minds.

Thoughtfully crafted stories from
history, travel, & nature

Sometimes a tired mind still needs somewhere to go.

Cliffhangers. Urgency. Things to remember.

Interesting enough to listen.

Mundane enough to sleep.

Every story is
designed for sleep from its
first sentence to its last.

Free Travel Story

Experienced firsthand, beautifully retold.

Remembered places, carefully retold:
Enjoy stories from places we personally experienced and are delighted to share with you.

Free Nature Story

Quiet down with the natural world.

Somewhere beautiful to be for a while:
Explore fascinating stories grounded in science, appreciating the beauty of the planet.

Free History Story

Fall asleep somewhere in the past.

The quieter corners of history:
Enjoy the ordinary days of extraordinary eras, carefully researched and retold with accuracy.

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Under the Vermilion Gates

INARI-YAMA, KYOTO, JAPAN

Walk beneath ten thousand gates up a rain-soaked sacred mountain, noticing the small things along the way, until the climb softens into stillness and sleep.

A growing library, carefully curated.

Choose your narrator.

Every story is available in four carefully directed voices:

NARRATOR I

Friendly & Vibrant

Change voices whenever you like.
You never have to search for another story from the narrator you prefer.

Create your sound environment...

Make the story sound like bedtime to you:

Rain
Birdsong
Fire
Ocean
Music
White Noise

The story stays the same.
The room around it becomes yours.

Crafted, not generated.

Michael and Megan standing together in a vineyard.

Made with care
in every detail.

“Here’s to curious minds
and restful nights.”

Michael & Megan

Together, we travel, learn, research, write, design, revise, fact-check, listen, and decide when a story is ready for you.

For a limited time,
join the waitlist to gain early and free access to

Shai Premium

Welcoming Alpha testers to try this innovative app and provide feedback to improve it before being released to the general market.

Backstories

A little bit about our experience in a place, fascinations with particular points in history, and the inspirations for our mundane mysteries:

  • Line drawing of a mountain range

    Freycinet, Between Two Bays

    Our honeymoon, and our magical encounters in Australia.

  • Line drawing of the Hampton Court Palace gatehouse

    A Tudor Feast, on Fasting Day

    Discovering a celebration for Pescatarians in old England.

  • Line drawing of a torii gate

    The Inari Gates

    Tranquil wanderings in Kyoto, and appreciation for ancient practices and the Shinto religion.

Coming soon! – Access to all stories