World Tales for Kids

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About this app

Hekayat is a read-along audio storybook for children, featuring twelve timeless world classics from Aesop, Andersen, Grimm, Perrault, One Thousand and One Nights, and Oscar Wilde, retold gently in clear, fully vowelized Arabic. Each story is split into five pages with warm, colorful scenes.

The word-by-word read-along highlight lights up each word exactly as it is spoken, so little ones follow the text while they listen. This links sound to letter and helps build early reading skills.

Highlights:
- Twelve illustrated tales: The Tortoise and the Hare, The Lion and the Mouse, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, The Ant and the Grasshopper, The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Princess and the Pea, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, Aladdin and the Magic Lamp, and The Happy Prince.
- Word-synced narration that highlights each word as it is read aloud.
- Listen and read: tap a story and it reads itself, turning pages automatically.
- One-tap favorites, with autoplay and highlight toggles.
- Elegant classic Arabic fonts and a fully Arabic, right-to-left interface.
- Works fully offline, with a cozy dark mode.

Safe for kids: no ads, no purchases, and no data collection.