Your story. Your art.
Stories waiting
to be written.
Create characters, build worlds, and bring your story to life — in any art style you love.
An AI novel writer, picture book maker and comic creator, online.
Writing and AI text help are free. Pictures use your own image key.
What do you want to make?
LittleNod is an online story studio. Tell it what you are making and it opens the right editor, with writing help that fits the job.
Picture books
Plan every page in the Storyboard, choose a page shape such as square or landscape, and draw pictures that match your characters. Write the words, place them on the page and read the finished book the way a child would.
Comics and graphic novels
Lay out panels, give each character a dialogue box with a live word counter, and draw every panel from your character sheets so your cast stays recognisable from page to page.
Novels and other writing
A calm Write Editor for novels, poetry and non-fiction, with AI writing help that adapts to what you are writing. Bring in a Word manuscript (.docx) to start from what you already have.
However you picture it, LittleNod can draw it.
A glimpse at the characters, worlds, and art styles your stories can take shape in.
How it works
From a first idea to a finished, illustrated story in four steps.
- Choose what you are makingPick a picture book, illustrated chapter book, comic, novel, poetry, non-fiction or other writing. The page shape is set from the start, and every story has its own language.
- Build your cast and your worldEvery character gets a design sheet with front and side views and head studies, and every location a multi-angle sheet. Add key items too, and the pictures reuse them so your story looks consistent.
- Write with AI helpBrainstorm, draft a page, or select a passage and ask the AI to rewrite it. Text that does not fit a page moves on to the next one.
- Illustrate and shareDraw pages and panels in 17 art styles or define your own. Keep your story private, publish it anonymously, or share it publicly, and readers can give it a Nod.
Why writers and families choose LittleNod
Characters that stay the same
Design sheets give the image model a reference for every character and place, so your hero looks like your hero on page one and page thirty.
Your language
The site works in 30 languages, and each story can be written in its own language.
Safe for children
A parent or guardian can create family accounts with moderation switched on and stories private by default, and can see what their children publish.
Pictures on your terms
Make images with your own key from Google Gemini, OpenAI or Together AI. You choose the provider, and the key stays yours.
Questions
Is LittleNod free?
Writing and the AI text help are free, within fair-use limits. Pictures are made with your own image key from Google Gemini, OpenAI or Together AI, which you paste in once.
Do I need my own key to use it?
Only to make pictures. You can write, plan and build your characters and story without one.
Can my children use it?
Yes. A guardian creates and supervises family accounts. Children’s stories are private by default and moderation is on.
Which languages are supported?
The site is available in 30 languages, and you choose the language of each story when you create it.
Can I bring in a story I have already written?
Yes. You can import a Word document (.docx) into a novel, poetry, non-fiction or other writing story.