Santa's North Pole Stories
A Christmas app for families, on Google Play: send one photo and your child becomes an illustrated storybook character, narrated through their own North Pole adventure by Santa — who says their name out loud. Plus an advent calendar through December and a live sleigh tracker on Christmas Eve.
Your child is the star of the story, not the audience.
Every Christmas app puts a child in front of the magic. This one puts them inside it — drawn into the art, named out loud in the narration, and greeted by name the moment the app opens.
It is the Christmas equivalent of hearing your name read out on the radio. A parent sets up a profile and sends one photo; it comes back as a hand-illustrated character who then appears in every scene of their own adventure, narrated start to finish in Santa’s voice. The moment that gets the reaction is the one you can’t screenshot — Santa saying the name, pronounced the way the family says it.
Around the stories sits the rest of December: doors to open, a sleigh to follow, and a recorded message from Santa about how the year has gone. It is free to start, the paid passes are one-time purchases, and there are no ads anywhere in it.
How a story gets made
One photo in. A narrated adventure out.
Four steps for the parent. Rather more of them behind the curtain — the art is painted scene by scene, so a custom story takes a few minutes rather than a spinner.
1.Set up your child
A grown-up creates the profile: name, age, what they're into, and — if the name is a tricky one — how your family actually says it.
2.Send one photo
It comes back as a hand-illustrated storybook character for you to approve. The original photo is deleted the moment you do; only the drawing is kept.
3.They're in every scene
That same character is painted into each scene of the story, and every illustration is checked before it ships so the right child shows up every time.
4.Santa reads it aloud
The story is narrated start to finish in Santa's voice — and he says your child's name out loud, pronounced the way you told him.
A story every night, and a countdown around it.
Stories are the heart of it, but December has a shape of its own — so the app follows the calendar: doors from the first, the sleigh on the twenty-fourth.
Narrated story library
Illustrated, narrated adventures about the length of a bedtime story — free ones to start with, and a growing library behind the passes.
An advent calendar
Twenty-four doors that open one a day from December 1st: art, letters from North Pole characters, and a story for tonight.
A live sleigh tracker
On Christmas Eve, follow Santa across the world city by city, with a countdown to your own town and a running present count.
Santa's List
Parents mark how the year has gone — Nice List, Naughty List, or the Danger Zone in between — and Santa records that child a personal message about it, in his own voice.
The whole house
Every child gets their own profile and their own character, so brothers, sisters and visiting cousins each star in their own stories.
Downloads for the car
Stories can be saved to the device and played with no signal at all — long drives, planes, and grandma's spotty wifi.
Custom stories
Pick a story, pick tonight’s hero.
The top pass includes custom stories: choose the adventure and which of your children star in it, and the whole thing is illustrated and narrated around them. What a family makes is theirs to keep and replay, season after season.
An app parents can hand to a child without reading the fine print.
Most of the work in a family app isn't the magic — it's everything around it: the store review, what happens to a photo, and what a parent finds when they go looking for the cancel button.
On Google Play
Published by Bee Line Microsystems LLC, built and signed through EAS with Play App Signing, and rated for everyone.
Parent-directed on purpose
A grown-up sets up the profiles, picks the stories and makes any purchase. It isn't a kids-category app a child roams around in alone.
No ads, no tracking
No advertising, no third-party analytics SDK, and nothing about a family sold or shared for marketing.
Delete it all, from inside
One flow in the app removes the account and the data underneath it — profiles, characters, purchases history — not just the listing.
One-time Season Passes
Free to start. The Silver Bell Club and Santa's Golden Sleigh Society are one-time purchases through Google Play — nothing renews, nothing to cancel.
Fixes mid-season
Over-the-air updates ship straight to installed apps, which matters when the busiest four weeks of the year can't wait on a store review.
Free to start
Free stories, the advent calendar, and the Christmas Eve tracker — a family can try the whole thing without paying anything.
Under the hood
Four AI models, one bedtime story.
Each model does one job it is actually good at: one draws, one checks the drawing, one reads the name, one speaks. The stories themselves are produced in StoryMaker, our own storybook pipeline, and published into the app’s catalog.
App
Expo · React Native · TypeScript
Illustration
Replicate · ByteDance Seedream
Scene checks
Anthropic Claude (vision)
Narration
ElevenLabs — Santa's voice
Pronunciation
Google Gemini → phonetics
Compute
AWS Lambda · API Gateway
Auth
Cognito · Google + Apple sign-in
Data
DynamoDB
Delivery
S3 + CloudFront
Purchases
RevenueCat · Play Billing
Builds
EAS · Play App Signing
Publishing
StoryMaker pipeline
Three free games from the same North Pole.
Built as cross-promotion and left free forever: browser games that share the app's characters and art, playable on a phone with nothing to install.
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A Defender-style arcade run: fly the sleigh, drop presents down chimneys, and see off three storm-cloud bosses.
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Play it →Benny's Wrap Rush
A North Pole conveyor belt: wrap the nice gifts, coal the naughty ones, and don't let the belt beat you.
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