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Looking for a Puppet Pals alternative?
The direct-your-own-show magic — with characters your kid draws themselves, page-build animation, narration, and music, in an app that’s actively updated.
Free for iPhone & iPad · no accounts, no adsThe direct-your-own-show magic — with characters your kid draws themselves, page-build animation, narration, and music, in an app that’s actively updated.
Free for iPhone & iPad · no accounts, no adsPuppet Pals taught a generation of kids the thrill of directing their own show. It's a classic from the early iPad days — and families who outgrow it usually want the same magic with more room to create. Unicorn Book Stories keeps the director's chair but hands your kid the whole studio: they draw the cast instead of dragging cut-outs, animate each scene, narrate over the action, and end up with a real book that plays like a show.
The Puppet Pals joy — kids stage scenes and perform them — but every actor is hand-drawn by your kid.
Characters aren't clipped from photos or picked from packs; they come out of your kid's imagination.
Page-by-page voice recording captures the performance, and any page can be re-taken.
The built-in music composer replaces canned soundtracks with your kid's own tune.
Shows live on a bookshelf as real books — replayable, editable, and exportable as video or PDF.
Free on the App Store for iPhone and iPad, with new creative tools shipping regularly.
It scratches the same itch — kids direct and perform their own story — but goes further: the characters are hand-drawn by your kid, pages animate as they build, and the finished story is a narrated, scored book they can export as a video.
Puppet Pals is a beloved classic from the early iPad era. Families usually look for an alternative when they want an app that's actively developed, exports modern video, and lets kids create their own characters rather than move pre-made puppets.
Yes — the built-in Audio Studio records narration page by page while the scenes play, and kids can re-record any page on its own.
Free on the App Store for both iPhone and iPad, with no accounts and no ads.
