A pocket storyteller
Panchatantra, told on this device.
Ten preloaded fables, spoken with the voices already on your phone or computer — Android, iPhone, or desktop. Nothing is streamed. Tap a tale, then Listen.
Stratagem
The Lion and the Hare
A tyrant lion agrees to eat one animal a day — until a hare leads him to his own reflection.
5 min · Lion, Hare
Winning Friends
The Four Friends
A crow, a mouse, a deer, and a tortoise prove that rescue is a kind of friendship.
6 min · Crow, Mouse, Deer, Tortoise
Loss of Friends
The Blue Jackal
Dyed in indigo, a jackal is crowned king of the forest — until he hears his own kind howl.
5 min · Jackal
Caution
The Talkative Tortoise
Two geese offer a tortoise a sky-road — if he can keep quiet on the stick between them.
4 min · Tortoise, Geese
Caution
The Jackal and the Drum
A starving jackal flees a battlefield thunder — then finds only an empty drum in the wind.
4 min · Jackal
Stratagem
The Crows and the Serpent
A cobra who eats crow-chicks is undone by a necklace and a palace panic.
5 min · Crow, Serpent
Rash Deeds
The Brahmin and the Mongoose
A loyal mongoose kills a cobra to save a child — and is killed in turn by a father who will not wait.
5 min · Mongoose
Winning Friends
The Mice and the Elephants
Elephants crush a city of mice, then need those same teeth when hunters bind them.
5 min · Mouse, Elephant
Rash Deeds
The Bird with Two Heads
Two heads share one bird. One eats nectar; the other, in spite, eats a poisoned fruit.
4 min · Bird