What is the best bedtime story app for iPhone?

Calm, S tier, ranked #1 of 18, rated 4.8 by 1,988,352 people.

Which bedtime story apps are free?

18 of 18 are free to download: Calm (S), Little Stories: Bedtime Books (S), Slumber-Calm Stories for Sleep (S), Moshi Kids: Sleep, Relax, Play (S) and more. 12 of them sell in-app purchases. 1 reports no in-app purchases.

Which bedtime story app has the best App Store rating?

Zoog: Magical Storytime at 4.9 from 20,425 ratings.

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Best Bedtime Story Apps for iPhone (2026)

18 apps ranked S through F · Updated 2026-10-19 · Ranked by AppTierList, computed, never sold · JSON

Part of Children's Books.

Calm is the top-ranked of 18 bedtime story apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.8/5 from 1,988,352 ratings.

1
CalmS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 1,988,352 ratings · score 98
2
Little Stories: Bedtime BooksS
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 46,465 ratings · score 95
3
Slumber-Calm Stories for SleepS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 27,339 ratings · score 95
4
Moshi Kids: Sleep, Relax, PlayS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 70,362 ratings · score 95
5
Sleepiest Meditation for SleepS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 31,411 ratings · score 94

What belongs in this list

Find and read or listen to calming stories to help a child or an adult fall asleep at night.

Not here: a general children's book library alone; a general audio story player alone; a white noise or sleep sounds app alone; a chat story app alone; a general chatbot that could be prompted to tell a story alone

How we pick

For this list we ask the App Store the same searches a person would, in several countries, and keep every app it returns. A model reads each app's listing and rejects the ones that only mention the use case. Every app that stays is scored out of 100 from four parts, each 0 to 100 and averaged with no weights: its App Store rating, how many people rated it, where the App Store itself ranks it for this list's searches, and how recently its current version shipped. An app showing Apple's Editors' Choice badge gets a fifth part of 100, which can only lift its score. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier. Read the full method →

Compare every app

1
CalmS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 1,988,352 ratings · score 98 · best in class
2
Little Stories: Bedtime BooksS
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 46,465 ratings · score 95 · best in class
3
Slumber-Calm Stories for SleepS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 27,339 ratings · score 95 · best in class
4
Moshi Kids: Sleep, Relax, PlayS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 70,362 ratings · score 95 · best in class
5
Sleepiest Meditation for SleepS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 31,411 ratings · score 94 · best in class
6
Bedtime Stories: Learn To ReadA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 16,894 ratings · score 91 · excellent
7
Fairy Tales ~ Bedtime StoriesA
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 9,317 ratings · score 88 · excellent
8
Yoto: Music, Stories, SleepA
Free · ★ 4.8 · 30,003 ratings · score 88 · excellent
9
Storybook: Sleep & MeditationA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 3,482 ratings · score 84 · excellent
10
Zoog: Magical StorytimeA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 20,425 ratings · score 82 · excellent
11
SleepB
Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 9,788 ratings · score 71 · good
12
Still: Bible sleep storiesC
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 43 ratings · score 66 · situational · provisional
13
Calm Sleep - Rest & RelaxC
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 3,637 ratings · score 61 · situational · provisional
14
BeBlessedMeD
Free + IAP · ★ 3.8 · 2,902 ratings · score 55 · weak · provisional
15
Bedtime - Stories & MeditationD
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 387 ratings · score 54 · weak
16
New Horizon: Sleep MeditationsD
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 1,821 ratings · score 53 · weak
17
Guru: Stories & MeditationF
Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 17,926 ratings · score 41 · avoid · provisional
18
HearFaith-Bible AudioF
Free download · ★ 4.9 · 11 ratings · score 37 · avoid · provisional

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Questions people ask

What is the best bedtime story app for iPhone?: Calm, S tier, ranked #1 of 18, rated 4.8 by 1,988,352 people.
Which bedtime story apps are free?: 18 of 18 are free to download: Calm (S), Little Stories: Bedtime Books (S), Slumber-Calm Stories for Sleep (S), Moshi Kids: Sleep, Relax, Play (S) and more. 12 of them sell in-app purchases. 1 reports no in-app purchases.
Which bedtime story app has the best App Store rating?: Zoog: Magical Storytime at 4.9 from 20,425 ratings.
How many bedtime story apps reach S or A tier?: 10 of 18. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier.