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Gemini is a free AI storybook. We are a book you can keep.
Google Gemini Storybook will write and illustrate a short book for free, with narration. It is the right pick if you want a one-off bedtime experiment and you do not need a print-ready keepsake or a locked likeness.
Storybook Studio (.io) is for when you want the hero to look like the person in the photo, you want to approve that likeness, and you may want a printed copy.
How they differ
Price
Gemini is free. We are free to start, then $15 to complete the digital book. Print is $35 softcover + digital or $45 hardcover + digital. No subscription.
Likeness
Gemini is a generic AI storybook. We start from one real photo, and you approve the character before illustration.
Print
Gemini is a screen book. We let you read tonight and order a printed copy when you want one, with a proof before it prints.
Privacy
We do not sell photos or use them to train our own AI models, and a landing-page photo expires after 24 hours if you do not save it.
Story
Yours, not a one-tap template. You can edit the words and redraw a page.
Full detail on the pricing page and how one photo becomes a book.
Who Gemini is for
A free try, no print, no photo-true character.
Who we are for
A photo-true book you might actually keep.
Making this for someone else's child?
If you are gifting this: ask the parents before you upload a child's photo. Gemini or a name-only book is the fallback if they say no. Our consent checklist walks through how to ask.
Questions, answered
Why pay $15 if Gemini is free?
You are paying for a finished book you own: every page illustrated, an interactive book saved to your account, a downloadable PDF, optional print, and a likeness you approved before it was drawn.
Is Storybook Studio an AI storybook?
Yes. The difference is the photo, the approval step, and print — the character is built from your photo, you approve it before illustration, and you can order a printed keepsake.
Is this storybookstudio.org?
No. We are Storybook Studio at storybookstudio.io. storybookstudio.org is an unrelated company. If you reached us from a link, check that the address ends in .io.