Welcome to Novel Effect — an award-winning app that follows your voice as you read out loud from a children’s story book and responds at just the right moment with interactive music, sound effects, and character voices. Bring the story to life, promote literacy, imagination, and fun for kids 12 & under!
In the classroom or at home, see why parents and teachers alike say Novel Effect “…turns reading time into a magical experience." - App Store Review.
There are 3 versions of the Novel Effect service accessible through the app. New books are added weekly.
FREE
Free Novel Effect offers hundreds of soundscapes for a library of children’s books curated for teachers, librarians, kids and families. Enjoy limited access to soundscapes for free when you bring your own copy of the print book or ebook!
PREMIUM
For families and individual educators, Novel Effect Premium offers unlimited access to a library of kid friendly content. Enjoy soundscapes for popular children’s books when you bring your own copy of the book, or read aloud from hundreds of in-app eBooks, including non-fiction and early reader chapter books, as well as exclusive members-only content.
CLASSROOM
For educators, Novel Effect Premium Classroom offers unlimited access to Premium features and content for one teacher and up to 30 students in a safe and secure environment. Overwhelmingly, educators say reading with Novel Effect is more engaging, creating motivated, confident, and empowered readers.
HOW IT WORKS
Novel Effect’s service follows along as you read out loud, playing interactive music, sound effects, and character voices in response to your voice. Our library includes a wide variety of high-quality soundscapes for carefully selected family friendly books to engage and promote imagination and learning, updated weekly with new titles! Hundreds of titles are available as in-app eBooks, some titles may require you to read aloud from your own copy.
FIND - Use search or browse our collections to find the book you want to read out loud.
PLAY - Tap the cover and then choose how you’ll be reading — with print or an eBook.
READ - When you hear the chime, start reading aloud!
LISTEN - Hear the music and sounds respond to your voice and change with the story.
Add a little magic to story time with Novel Effect.
PRESS AND EXPERT REVIEWS
Novel Effect was featured on Shark Tank, The TODAY Show, and in Forbes, Variety, Lifehacker, and more.
“I felt like a real audiobook narrator. My five-year-old tried reading a book on her own… and amazingly, the system picked up her little voice and played the effects at all the right moments.” - Michelle Woo, Lifehacker
"Not only did this tool help make poetry come alive for [my student], he asked me if he could try reading... I about fell out of my chair because he never wants to read aloud... and he has asked to go to the library to check out books that he can read along with the app." - Julie Smith, The Techie Teacher®
"I think this is cool as cool can be… I love it, I love it!" - Lori Greiner, entrepreneur and investor on ABC’s Shark Tank
SAFETY, PRIVACY, AND SUPPORT
- Novel Effect requires access to the device's microphone to perform voice-recognition.
- The privacy of kids and their grown-ups is our top priority. Voice-recognition is performed on your device, no voice data is saved without express consent.
- Please go to http://www.noveleffect.com/privacy-policy or www.noveleffect.com/classroom-privacy-policy to learn more.
KEY FEATURES
• Hundreds of books with more added weekly
• Also includes Spanish books
• Online and offline reading
• A reading log tracks books you’ve read with the app
• Access Novel Effect’s digital library and soundscapes on almost any device
Terms of Service
https://www.noveleffect.com/terms-of-service
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In-Apps
Annual Premium Access
$79.99
Annual Student Access
$134.99
Monthly Premium Access
$7.49
Annual Premium Edu Access
$69.99
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User Rating
4.83 out of 5
259 ratings
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Good app but cost is too high.
I am completely understanding that this is a great service and it is a company and they want to get paid for it. But I find as a teacher the price is too much. Teachers often pay lots of their own hard earned money on their students and I definitely do that, but this cost is too much, and even with the cost in general, if I were to purchase it, it takes up too much of my classroom allowance. I really wanted to give it more of a try, but there is virtually no unlocked books to try on. I know there used to be more and they’ve blocked them all off again.
LOVE! Great for preschool teachers!
My kids loved being able to hear different sounds as I read along!
AMAZING WAY TO BRING STORYBOOK TO LIFE EVEN MORE
I attended a virtual workshop with my favourite childrens book author Peter Reynolds and they showcased the app and how cool and fun it is. And I have to say it is pretty magical. I’ve read only about 3 books to myself just to try it out and I’m tempted to read some more. I cannot wait to showcase this to other classes. Can’t wait to see how many more amazing authors use this and books are added to this. AMAZING CONCEPT Novel Effect. You have one very happy teacher! 🙌🏻🤩
Intéressée par une cersion francophone
J’aimerais beaucoup utilisé cette application mais en version française. Travaillez-vous sur une version francophone?
Merci
Wonderful app for Covid
This app lets grandparents record stories for their grandkids and brings families closer together in these crazy times! Teachers love it too for read aloud.
So much fun!
My kids are loving this app and so am I!! I wish we had more books that were on here but I’ve made a few suggestions for our faves.
Story time gets magical
This little app is magical. It is so neat to use as a special treat at story time. It is reliable and easy to use...and it just keeps getting better as more titles are added.
Absolutely amazing!
The best thing to happen to story time since the printing press!
Is there a french version available?
This app is amazing, loce the sound effects!
Unfortunatly, there is no french version... it would be great for my daycare if it were!
Always searching....
I wish there was a good to save or categorize the books we’ve read and enjoyed. As a teacher I’d like to be able to keep a library of the books that I’ve enjoyed with my kids :)
