A pocket storyteller
Panchatantra, told on this device.
Twenty preloaded fables with studio narration: a recorded voice for the storyteller and each character. Prefer the voice already on your phone or computer? Switch to it any time in voice settings. Save a tale offline and it needs no connection. 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.
Studio narration5 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.
Studio narration6 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.
Studio narration5 min · Jackal
Caution
The Talkative Tortoise
Two geese offer a tortoise a sky-road — if he can keep quiet on the stick between them.
Studio narration4 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.
Studio narration4 min · Jackal
Stratagem
The Crows and the Serpent
A cobra who eats crow-chicks is undone by a necklace and a palace panic.
Studio narration5 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.
Studio narration5 min · Mongoose
Winning Friends
The Mice and the Elephants
Elephants crush a city of mice, then need those same teeth when hunters bind them.
Studio narration5 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.
Studio narration4 min · Bird
Loss of Friends
The Lion and the Bull
Two fallen jackal ministers poison a king's trust in the one friend who ever matched him, for the sake of their old seats at his table.
Studio narration6 min · Lion, Bull, Jackal
Loss of Friends
The Heron and the Crab
A heron offers to carry a dying pond's fish to safety one by one — and finds a use for every single one of them.
Studio narration5 min · Heron, Fish, Crab
Stratagem
The Tiger, the Brahmin, and the Jackal
Freed from an iron cage by a passing traveler, a tiger repays the mercy with an appetite — until a jackal asks to see exactly how it happened.
Studio narration5 min · Tiger, Jackal
Stratagem
The Otters and the Jackal
Two otters land a fish too large to divide fairly between them — and hand the argument to a jackal, who takes the matter personally.
Studio narration4 min · Otter, Jackal
Caution
The Donkey Who Would Sing
A jackal and a donkey raid a gardener's melon patch by night — until the donkey decides the evening deserves a song.
Studio narration4 min · Donkey, Jackal
Caution
The Traveler and the Tiger's Bracelet
A tiger claiming to have renounced meat offers a poor traveler gold for the taking — and nearly proves an old saying true.
Studio narration5 min · Tiger
Rash Deeds
The Monkey and the Wedge
Warned twice and listening to neither, a monkey climbs into a half-sawn log to see what a carpenter's wedge is for.
Studio narration4 min · Monkey
Rash Deeds
The Bear and the Gardener
A bear stands loyal guard over a sleeping friend, and swats a fly with the only weapon devotion thought to reach for.
Studio narration4 min · Bear
Winning Friends
The Sparrow and the Elephant
A rampaging elephant destroys a sparrow's nest without slowing down — and finds every one of her small friends waiting at the reckoning.
Studio narration6 min · Sparrow, Woodpecker, Bee, Frog, Elephant
Winning Friends
The Crows and the Owls
Beaten in open war, a crow-king's oldest minister lets himself be exiled to the enemy camp, to learn, slowly, exactly where they sleep.
Studio narration6 min · Crow, Owl