Write some of your book, then press Get Ideas 💡. I'll suggest what could come next and how to make it better — but the words stay yours.
Phone mode makes everything bigger and easier to tap, and tucks your book list into a ☰ menu.
A quick walk round StoryNest that points at each button as you go.
Badges you have earned by writing.
How we treat each other on StoryNest.
Shared with everyone in the family for now.
When on, an Auto Write button appears in your book. It writes one paragraph at a time and asks you before continuing.
The AI buttons use Claude. In test mode they use your Claude login (no key needed). To use a key instead, paste an Anthropic API key from console.anthropic.com. Saved only on this computer.
Pick one. It changes the help you get — and comics, graphic novels and picture books get drawing panels instead of a writing box. You can change your mind later.
Add a cover photo for your book (optional). No photo? We'll make a colored cover with your title.
It's a school day, and it's school time. StoryNest will still be here when you get home.
Every visit is written down — when you arrived and how long you stayed. Dad can see all of it.
Dad — 2026
School hours means Monday to Friday, 8:00am to 3:00pm, worked out from
the time the visit reached the server — not from the clock on the computer it
came from, which anybody can change.
How long counts only the time the page was actually on screen. A tab left
open behind another window does not pile up hours.
Every time the page is opened is counted, signed in or not — a reload is a
new one. The rows marked Not signed in are real visits with nobody logged
in, so there is no way of saying who: only that somebody opened it, when, from
which address, and for how long.
What this cannot see is anything at all about what was written. It is times and
addresses, nothing else.
The “Dad — 2026” link sits at the foot of the school-hours notice and opens
the Asteroid game. It is the only thing on the site whose clicks are counted —
nothing else a child taps is recorded anywhere.
💳 Website runs on the paid Anthropic API. This column is real money,
and it's the one to watch against the monthly spending cap.
💻 Home PC runs through the Claude login on that computer, so it costs
nothing extra — it's already covered by the subscription. The figure shown
is only what those same requests would have cost on the API. It looks
much bigger per click because the Claude program sends a large hidden prompt
each time, and because it uses a far more expensive model than the website does.
Nobody is billed for it.
Something to aim at. You can change it or take it away whenever you like.
Ask somebody to help you write this book. It stays your book — you can change what they are allowed to do, or ask them to stop, whenever you like.
They need a StoryNest account already. Nothing is sent to them by email — the book simply appears in their My Books.
A proper book with a cover, a title page and your chapters — the same one either way, just in two different shapes.
These fill in by themselves as you write. Nothing is ever taken away.
StoryNest keeps a copy of your book as you write. If something goes wrong, you can put an older one back.
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Your workings. This stays with the book and never appears in it — nobody reading your book ever sees any of this.
Tell us what is wrong and a grown-up will look at it.
Got a code from a teacher? Type it here to join their class. The same box takes the special code that turns your account into a teacher's.
Everybody doing this work sees the same goal, with a bar that fills as they write.
Your books are saved to your account, so you can write on any computer — and friends can read the ones you post to Home.
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