Bring Armenian storytime home.

Step into a world of clever characters, colorful villages and stories passed from one generation to the next. Three Apples brings Armenian fairy tales, legends, myths and fables (hekiatner, հեքիաթներ) to Android phones and tablets as animated, read-aloud children's books, with narration and music made for each tale.

Read together, listen along like an audio book, or hide the words and enjoy the pictures. There is something to discover on every page.

50+ tales to explore
Discover tales inspired by Hovhannes Tumanyan, Ghazaros Aghayan, Khnko Aper and other Armenian writers, alongside ancient legends and stories from the Armenian folk tradition: Kikos, Brave Nazar, Hayk and Bel, Zoulvisia, Unlucky Panos, Manuk Khan and many more. Find your next story by author, length or Armenian language, and return to the stories your family loves at bedtime or any time.

Follow the story, word by word
Listen to the narration while the words light up on the page. Adjust the text size and highlighting to suit your reader, pause and read together at your own pace, or turn off the text to enjoy the animated artwork. Tap the pictures to discover their little movements and surprises. A longer tale picks up where you left off.

Eastern and Western Armenian, English and Russian
Celebrate the voices and traditions of both Eastern and Western Armenian. Each tale is clearly labeled by its Armenian variety, making it easy to find familiar favorites and discover something new. Every story pairs Armenian text with Armenian narration, and every tale can also be read and heard in English and Russian, each with its own narration: a gentle way for children to hear and learn the Armenian language (hayeren). Choose the reading language in the Parents screen. Menus are available in English, Armenian and Russian.

Read to them in your own voice
Subscribers can record themselves reading any tale, page by page, so a child hears it in a parent's or grandparent's familiar voice, even when you're away. The words light up as your voice reads. Recordings are made and kept only on your device: they are never sent to us or anyone else, and they aren't included in backups. You can delete them at any time in the Parents screen.

Start with two free stories
The Liar and Kikos are free, with no subscription needed. Both are built into the app and work offline.

A subscription opens every other tale in the library, and recording the tales in your own voice, while it is active. Choose a monthly or yearly plan that renews automatically, or a month or a year paid once, which suits a child's Google Account supervised by a parent. Every plan includes the same stories. More tales are planned for future updates and will join the subscription library.

Subscription tales download from Google Play and can then be read offline. The subscription is confirmed with Google Play at least once every 14 days, so connect to the internet now and then to keep them open.

A quieter space for families
No ads, accounts, analytics or tracking. Reading history, preferences and your voice recordings stay on your device and are not sent to Markael Studio. Purchases, parent settings and outside links sit behind a parental gate.

About subscriptions
Your local price is shown before you buy. Monthly and yearly plans renew automatically until canceled in Google Play: open the Play Store, then Payments & subscriptions. Uninstalling the app doesn't cancel a subscription. Restore a purchase from the Parents screen. The two free stories remain available after a subscription ends.

Requires Android 13 or later.