Fable Designer

Terms of Service

Last updated August 11, 2026

These are the terms of the deal between you and Fable Designer LLC, the Massachusetts company that runs Fable Designer. They are short on purpose. Using the service means you agree to them.

Who can use Fable Designer

You must be 18 or older to hold an account. Fable Designer is built for parents and guardians commissioning books on behalf of a child in their care — the account, the decisions, and the purchases are yours, as the adult. Children may enjoy the books; they don’t use the service.

Your account

You sign in with your email and a one-time code. Keep access to that inbox secure — it is the key to your account. You’re responsible for what happens under your account, and you agree to give us accurate information (chiefly: a real email address you control).

Acceptable use

Fable Designer makes children’s picture books. That is the whole product, and use of it is limited to that purpose:

Commissions must be appropriate material for a children’s book. Requests for sexual, violent, or hateful content, or stories that target real people other than your own family, will be declined before any book is made.
Every commission passes a safety check before we spend anything making it, and text you write or edit yourself is checked the same way before it is rendered or shared. That check is mandatory and it does block — nothing gets made or published past it.
Separately, every manuscript is read by an independent editorial model, and we disclose this openly: a machine wrote your book, and a second, unrelated machine gave notes on it. Those notes are a second opinion on craft, offered to you as suggestions you may apply or ignore. Your book does not wait on them, and a critique on its own re-runs nothing and settles nothing — you hold the pen.
We may decline any commission, and we may suspend accounts that repeatedly push against these limits. A decline comes back to you as a decline, said plainly rather than buried in a delay. A deterministic decline costs nothing; when a hosted safety editor has to read the brief, its clearly quoted review settles even if the answer is no.
No scraping, reselling access, probing the review systems, or using the service to generate content for anything other than your own children’s books.

Your book is yours

When you commission a book, the finished book — its text and its illustrations — belongs to you for personal use: read it, print it, gift it, share it with family and friends. We don’t watermark your purchased pages or claim your child’s story as our content.

We keep only what we need to run the service: the right to store and process your book to display, render, narrate, print, and deliver it back to you, and the right to use fully anonymized, aggregate signals (like “how many pages get re-rolled”) to improve the product. Personal use doesn’t include commercial republication — if you want to sell a book we made together, write us first and we’ll figure it out.

Pricing and early access

Where a book is metered in Ink Drops, each hosted action shows an Ink Drop quote before it begins. Your approval reserves only that quote; successful work settles it, and failed provider work releases it. Ink Drops are craft units, not cents, and the amount used by an action is separate from the price of the pack that funds it. During early access, checkout records the pack and listed price you select and credits the pack without charging a card; no payment receipt email is sent. Pack prices may change before live payments begin. Drops are spent, and money is charged, against a quote you approved.

Where stories are sold individually or by subscription, each story includes a generous drafting allowance — enough to write, sketch, and revise it several times over. Heavy regeneration on one story can use up its included drafting; when that happens the screen says so first, and continuing uses another story from your plan only after you approve it.

Refunds and our quality promise

Charges follow your approvals. The work you approved uses what it was quoted — Ink Drops, or the drafting included with a story — and a failed provider call releases its reservation rather than keeping it. An editorial critique settles nothing on its own and starts no re-run; if you decide you want another editor’s pass, you ask for it and it is quoted first.
Render failures are our problem, not yours. If an illustration comes out wrong, our quality check re-renders it automatically, at our expense. Those attempts are bounded, so once in a while the best of them still isn’t what we wanted: we ship that page rather than leaving a hole, tell you plainly that it fell short, and refund what that page cost — keeping it as it is costs you nothing, and sketching it again is priced like any other new illustration, shown to you before it runs. If a job fails outright, we make it right — a re-render or a refund, your call.
Because each book is made to order, we can’t refund a completed book just for a change of heart — but the quoted portrait, cover, and cast checkpoints exist so you can settle the creative direction before the pages are illustrated, and every later change is small and quoted before it runs.

What we can’t promise

Plainly: the service is provided as-is. We work hard to make every book wonderful, but creative generation is not an exact science and we can’t guarantee any particular book will match the picture in your head, or that the service will be available every minute of every day. To the extent the law allows, our total liability to you is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim. Nothing in these terms limits liability where the law says it can’t be limited.

Ending things

You can delete your account at any time, which removes your data from Fable Designer’s active systems as described in the Privacy Policy. We can suspend or close accounts that violate these terms; if we ever discontinue the service, we’ll give you notice and time to download your books.

Changes to these terms

If we change these terms in a way that matters, we’ll update the date above and email accountholders before the change takes effect. Continuing to use the service after that means you accept the new terms.

Governing law

Fable Designer is operated by Fable Designer LLC, a limited liability company organized in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, USA. These terms are governed by Massachusetts law, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and any dispute that ends up in court belongs in the state or federal courts sitting in Massachusetts. If a court finds part of these terms unenforceable, the rest of them still stands.

Contact

Questions about these terms: support@fabledesigner.com.