With his new app "Tell What!", Wolfgang Oswald (38) from Echingen has hundreds of children's stories available on every mobile phone.
Children can choose their story with three clicks of a picture - and parents can start reading straight away.
Eching - In times of Corona with recurring lockdowns, home working and homeschooling phases and closed care facilities, families spend a lot of time in a small space. It is therefore all the more important to offer meaningful entertainment to the (still young) offspring. Wolfgang Oswald knows from personal experience how much fun it is for children when they are told or read exciting stories.
For years he has been telling his son (six years old) a bedtime story when he goes to bed.
“Reading aloud and storytelling also has other advantages for children,” Oswald is convinced.
"Stories stimulate the children's imagination, increase the little ones' ability to concentrate and give them the opportunity to cuddle and relax." In the middle of last year he came up with the idea of the "Tell What!" App.
He thought that it would be great if stories were always available via an app and it could also take over the creation of stories.
Oswald: "That's why I sat down and programmed an app based on my experience and filled it with stories."
The stories each last around five minutes
Now, in “Tell What!” There are always hundreds of exciting stories available for children between the ages of three and seven years.
With three clicks the children can choose their heroes, their adventure and the location using pictures.
In this way, the parents can tell them exactly the story that they have just put together and wished for.
The stories each last around five minutes.
"Unfortunately, according to a study by the foundation, 32 percent of parents rarely or never read stories to their children," the 38-year-old noted.
Often there is just a lack of reading material.
With his app, Wolfgang Oswald hopes to have created a simple solution here.
Numerous children's ears have already tested the app
"In the past few months, the app has been downloaded several hundred times - and has been extensively tested on many children's ears," says Echinger, proud of the current status of his project.
In the meantime, he has also published the app in English under the name “Tale Today” in order to get closer to his goal of “100,000 children with a million stories read aloud”.
“Tell What!” Is available for free download for both Apple and Android.
Further information is available on the homepage www.erzaehlwas.com.
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