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Retold
Your stories, your voice, drawn.
Free tier — 5 storiesAvailable on iPhoneFamily shelf sharing£39.99/year after free tierMade in Britain
Opportunity score
58/100
A strong emotional product idea with a clear niche, but consumer distribution risk and unproven willingness to pay keep the overall opportunity moderate.
Founder verdict
MAYBE
Strong emotional product and pricing, but unproven traction and hard consumer distribution make it a watch rather than immediate copy.
What is Retold?
Retold is an iPhone app that records a family member telling a story and uses AI to automatically sketch a wobbly animated film timed to their voice. It positions itself around preserving not just words but the voice, pauses, and laughter of storytellers. It combines a simple one-button recorder with a shared family shelf for playback. The business model is freemium: first five stories are free, then £5.99/month or £39.99/year. The landing page is unusually good at selling an emotional outcome rather than features. However, no public evidence of MRR, growth, or user count exists, so commercial traction cannot be verified. It is currently available on iPhone, with Android in closed testing because Google Play requires manual tester addition.
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