Fable Designer

Terms of Service

Last updated September 24, 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.

A reading you record in your own voice is yours on the same terms. It travels the same path the rest of your book does: stored on that book, lined up against the page text so the words can light up in time with you, and played back on the surfaces you share the book to. Reading a page again replaces that page’s take.

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

Explore your premise and characters for free, then choose Craft my book to use one story credit or buy that book at the price shown. You may preview a few pages for free before committing. Your purchase includes the complete illustrated digital story, narration and narrated sharing. You can keep editing the book; updating a shared or device reading edition is a separate choice. Printed copies are purchased separately. Invited accounts with a comped membership can craft included books without a card charge.

Ordinary refinement and retrying failed delivery are included with your book. After substantial generated revisions, a reminder asks you to confirm that you want to keep refining; this does not use another story credit. Service capacity or a payment problem can pause new generation while your saved work remains available according to your existing book rights.

A free first book with a card on file

An account that has not bought, subscribed to or been given a finished book may be offered one book free when it has a card saved. You save the card on Stripe’s page, and saving it charges nothing: the card is saved so the free book can be tied to a valid card. A later purchase, such as another book, a subscription or a printed copy, asks for payment on Stripe’s page, which shows the amount before you pay. The free book is one per account and is otherwise the same as a book you buy. To have a saved card removed, email support@fabledesigner.com.

The Shelf subscription

The Shelf is a subscription that costs $19.99 a month plus applicable tax and provides 8 story credits each month. It is an automatically renewing arrangement. Subscribing charges $19.99 to your card that day, and $19.99 is charged again on that date each month for as long as the subscription runs. Where a month is too short to have that date, it is charged on the last day. It continues until you end it or we end it.

How to cancel. Sign in and open your account page, then choose “Manage your subscription”. That opens the billing page our payment provider, Stripe, keeps for your subscription, where cancelling is one control. Cancelling stops the next monthly charge; the billing page states the date the subscription ends and what happens to the remainder of the month you have paid for. If that page will not open for you, email support@fabledesigner.com and we will cancel it for you.

Purchased story credits. Each paid monthly purchase provides 8 story credits. Each book uses 1 story credit, including long keepsake books. The confirmation shows the credit price before redemption. Purchased credits roll over between months, do not expire, and remain redeemable after subscription cancellation. Cancellation stops future recurring purchases. Credits are nontransferable and cannot be redeemed for cash except under our refund policy or where required by law. Books already redeemed remain in your library after cancellation. Printed copies are a separate purchase. Historical purchases retain the terms recorded when they were sold; earlier monthly allowances are not converted into purchased credits.

Refunds and our quality promise

Charges follow your approvals. The work you approved uses what it was quoted (the book you chose to craft), 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.
Illustration problems and reports. Page illustrations are delivered before a craft-quality review. Report a picture to request a review of that image. The review keeps your picture in the book and does not start another render. Your report panel shows any available free repaint for you to choose. Refunds and free remedies already recorded for earlier quality-reviewed attempts remain available. If a job fails outright, we make it right with a re-render or a refund. You choose which.
Because each book is made to order, we can’t refund a completed book just for a change of heart. The quoted portrait, cover, and cast checkpoints exist so you can settle the creative direction before the pages are illustrated, and ordinary refinement remains included with your book.

Refunds and story credits. A full refund removes the unused credits from that purchase. Completed books stay in your library while your account remains open. A partial refund specifies how many credits it returns; a goodwill refund may return no credits. Refunds normally go to the original payment method. A pending refund or dispute can temporarily hold affected unused credits. If a refund fails or a dispute closes without reversing the payment, eligible held credits become available again. Refund requests involving a completed book are reviewed individually; this policy does not limit remedies required by law.

What we can’t promise

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. Account deletion cancels your subscription immediately, ending any remaining subscription access, and closes open checkouts. The account is removed after our payment provider confirms cancellation. If confirmation fails, the account is kept so you can retry or contact us. Before you confirm deletion, we show your unused purchased credits and their proposed refund: the portion of the actual purchase price allocated to those credits, including the corresponding tax and accounting for earlier refunds. Deletion schedules that refund. A refund exception is reviewed separately using limited financial records; private story content follows the deletion schedule in our Privacy Policy. Download books you want to keep before deleting your account. You can also manage cancellation separately from your account page. 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

Updates to these terms are published here with the date above. Continuing to use the service after an update takes effect means you accept the updated 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.