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Children's sleep device · Newborn to 7+ and beyond

Sounds & Stories®

$118.00
$118.00
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Bedtime in 15 minutes, not 90. Sounds, original stories, an ok-to-wake light, digital clock, bluetooth speaker. One device that grows with your child.

  • Australia's only sleep device with original built-in stories. 40 sounds, 10 stories
  • Grows with your child. White noise from day one, bedtime stories when they're old enough to follow one, and an ok-to-wake light for when they can climb out of bed at 5am
  • No Wi-Fi. No subscription. App optional, works fully from buttons on the device
• Full refund if it's not for your family
• Order by 11am AEST weekdays for same day dispatch from Sydney

BATTERY

12 hours · USB-C, plays while charging

Connectivity

Bluetooth only · No Wi-Fi, ever

The device combines sound, light and original stories to build a consistent pre-sleep cue. Used nightly in the same routine, your child's brain learns to associate the sound and glow with sleep. The more consistent the ritual, the faster the cue takes hold.

It's also a night light, an ok-to-wake light, a sleep trainer, a digital clock you can turn on or off, and a Bluetooth speaker, so the device keeps a place in their room long after the settling years.

40 curated sleep sounds across white noise, nature and ambient, including Womb Sounds, Heartbeat, Gentle Shhh and Car Ride Hum.

10 original bedtime stories with a calm Australian voice, each opening with a guided wind-down. Five are set in Australia landmarks, five more are global landmarks

Free iOS and Android app, which is optional to use. The device works fully from the physical buttons, too.

The app adds control over sounds, stories, light colours, alarms, the ok-to-wake light, timers, routines, the clock display and child lock.

Bluetooth only, the device never connects to Wi-Fi. No subscription, ever.

Standard post is $8, or free on orders over $75. Express post is $15.

Ships from Sydney, standard delivery 2 to 5 business days Australia-wide.

100-night trial on devices, if it's not working for your family, contact us for a full refund, you post the device back at your own cost.

1-year warranty.

Hear it before you buy

The only device in Australia
with original stories. Listen.

40 sounds and 10 stories, all built in, no downloads, no subscription. Hear a sample below, or explore the full list by category.

Stories (30 second sample)

Opera House Symphony

0:30

The Twinkling Eiffel Tower

0:30

sounds (15 second sample)

Gentle Shhh

0:15

Tumble Dryer

0:15

White Noise

0:15

Drizzling Rain

0:15

Browse all sounds

by category

White Noise Pink Noise Brown Noise Womb Sounds Gentle 'Shhh' Soft Hum Vinyl Crackle Air Conditioner Fan Heartbeat Ticking Clock Train Tumble Dryer Car Journey Hum Hair Dryer Zen Sounds
One device, every stage

It grows with them.

Most sleep devices get outgrown in a year. This one changes jobs as your child grows.

White Noise & Soft Light

0 To 1 year

White Noise & Soft Light

Sounds and a low glow for night nappy changes, feeds and settling.

Stories

1 To 4 years

Stories

Original Australian narrated wind-down stories that help little minds settle down before sleep

Ok-to-wake light & sleep trainer

4 To 7 years

Ok-to-wake light & sleep trainer

A colour light at wake time tells them when they can get up, when they can play and when they can leave their room.

Clock

7+

Clock

A 12/24 hour clock display they can lean to read, and you can decide to either show it, or not, via the Rested app

Lamp & speaker

And beyond

Lamp & speaker

When they outgrow bedtime help, it becomes their lamp and Bluetooth speaker.

From the first night feed to their first playlist. No other device on the market makes it past age seven.

On board

Every feature. One device.

Night light

8 presets on the device, hundreds of colours in the app

Digital Clock

A digital display they can read. Easily toggled on or off

Ok-to-wake light

light-only alarms

Sleep trainer

Light cues that teach when it's morning, and when it isn't

Bluetooth speaker

Pair any phone and play their music through it

Child lock

Little fingers can't change the settings

12-hour battery

USB-C. Plays while charging, or cord-free all night

Buttons on top

Fully usable without the app, no phone required

Rainbow light

The mode the kids pick themselves

The Rested app

Our device. Our app.
 Made for each other.

We built the Rested app ourselves, for this device alone, so every control is exactly where a tired parent at 2am needs it to be. Adjust everything from outside the room, without going back in.

  • Change anything from outside the room, no opening noisy doors
  • Build routines, light, sounds, stories and timers in one tap
  • Fine-tune hundreds of colours beyond the 8 presets
  • Run multiple devices from one app for siblings' rooms
Which device?

Big one, small one, or both.

Sounds & Stories®

Sounds & Stories®

$118.00
Sounds & Stories Mini

S&S Mini

$62.00
Best for The bedroom, every night Pram, car, travel, grandparents
Sounds 40 30
Original stories 10 5
Light 8 presets + hundreds of colours via app 3 Soft warm light settings
Ok-to-wake light & sleep trainer Yes No
Clock display Yes, on or off No screen
App control Yes, optional No app needed
Battery 12 hours 12 to 18 hours

Get both. The Duo

The same sleep cue at home and everywhere else. The most popular way to buy.

$180.00 $162.00
add the duo
Questions parents ask

Before you decide.

This is the right question to ask, research has shown some sound machines can exceed safe levels at full volume. Sounds & Stories has 16 preset volume levels, and the lowest sits at around 30dB, quieter than a library, and well under the 50dB ceiling audiologists recommend for infant rooms. We'd suggest placing the device across the room rather than in the cot, starting low, and only going as loud as needed to mask household noise.

Children become attached to sleep cues, that's not a flaw, it's how sleep works. A consistent cue is exactly what makes bedtime predictable. The honest answer: yes, your child will associate the device with sleep, the same way they associate a favourite teddy or a drawn curtain with sleep. The difference is this cue travels (the Mini), adapts as they grow, and can be wound back gradually whenever you choose, turn the volume down over a few weeks rather than going cold turkey.

A basic machine does one job for one stage: noise for a baby. This does five jobs across a decade, white noise and night light for a newborn, original stories for a toddler, an ok-to-wake light and sleep trainer for a preschooler, a clock for a school kid, and a lamp and Bluetooth speaker after that.

It's also the only device in Australia with original stories built in. If you only ever need white noise, a cheaper machine is genuinely fine. If you'd rather buy once, this is the device that doesn't get boxed up after a year.

No. Never. Every sound, every story and every app feature is included in the price of the device, permanently. Nothing is locked behind a membership and nothing expires. Some well-known devices in this category charge a monthly fee to access their full content library, we think that's the wrong way to treat parents.

No Wi-Fi, the device connects to your phone by Bluetooth only, and works fully from the buttons on top without any phone at all. It never connects to the internet, so there's nothing in your child's room that's online.

Every device comes with a 100-night trial, long enough to get past the novelty period and through a few real routines. If it isn't working for your family, contact us and we'll refund you in full; you just cover the return postage. As a small Australian business we can't absorb shipping in both directions, so that's the honest deal.

Yes, the battery runs around 12 hours, and the device plays while plugged in via USB-C, so it can run continuously overnight either way.

There are no exposed cables required in reach of the cot if you run it on battery, and timers (set from the app) can switch it off automatically if you prefer.

No. Older kids skip the white-noise years and come in at the stage that fits, most 5 to 8 year olds land on the stories and the ok-to-wake light, then keep the device as a clock, lamp and speaker well into their teens. The earlier stages are simply already behind them.
No risk, all reward

Try It For 100 Nights.

Long enough to get past the novelty and into a real routine. If it isn't working for your family, we refund you in full.

"Built for my own kids. If it doesn't work for yours, you get every dollar back."
Steve, Founder
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Customer Reviews

Overall rating: 4.7 / 5 from 14 reviews.

Customer photo review of Sounds & Stories®

Our kids love their machines. App is easy to use and the stories are a great bonus. Much better than the Nodiee we had

Briony S. 5/5

Sounds & Stories®

Customer photo review of Sounds & Stories®

My kids love their sounds & stories machines. Work great, easy to use with the app and the buttons on top. Battery life is better than expected

Sarah M. 5/5

Sounds & Stories®

Customer photo review of Sounds & Stories®

Great product, has not skipped a beat and my daughter loves it. So useful to get her to go to sleep at night Works a charm

Luke S. 5/5

Sounds & Stories®

Our kids can never agree on a sound, so having a proper range has saved a lot of arguments. Funny thing is they both love the Bali story, which nobody predicted. It's clearly made for kids but doesn't feel like a toy when you're the one using it.

Elizabeth C. 4/5 Verified

Sounds & Stories®

We drift back to flowing creek every time.

Chelsea S. 5/5 Verified

Sounds & Stories®

Didn't realise you could hide the clock until week two, and that's been great for our toddler who goes down before her brother. Brown noise ended up being the one everyone could live with. Sits on the nightstand without being in the way.

Tamara H. 4/5 Verified

Sounds & Stories®

No Wifi and no subscription, that's what sold me. Half asleep at 2am you just press a button and it works. Wish more things were like this.

Tessa B. 5/5 Verified

Sounds & Stories®

We've heard the Taj Mahal story enough times to know it's the favourite here.

Ava G. 5/5 Verified

Sounds & Stories®

Store owner replied: Thanks so much for the review Ava! Taj Mahal is a favourite in our house too.

Bought it for the sounds, honestly, and then both kids got obsessed with the Eiffel Tower story instead. Go figure. Had one setting I couldn't work out and support actually explained it properly. The timer is a lifesaver when bedtime blows out, and it doesn't need Wifi, so it just works even when the house is chaos.

Christopher J. 5/5 Verified

Sounds & Stories®

The child lock is the hero feature in this house, two kids and only one of them can be trusted with buttons. We use the buttons half the time and the app the other half, depending on who's doing bedtime.

Finn B. 5/5 Verified

Sounds & Stories®

The good part is the night light and sounds genuinely work well together. The frustrating part is the volume jumps at the quiet end, there's nothing between too soft and too loud for our room.

Bridget E. 3/5 Verified

Sounds & Stories®

Store owner replied: Thanks for the review Bridget. Fair call on the volume steps at the quiet end, you're not the first to mention it and it's on our list for the next update!

You can hide the clock, which our dark room needed. The morning light has actually made wake ups predictable. It's on pretty much every night.

Chloe G. 5/5 Verified

Sounds & Stories®

A colleague raved about it so we gave it a go. Being able to change settings without walking back into the room is the thing I'd miss most now. Our son picks the Taj Mahal story whenever someone else does bedtime, and brown noise covers the TV in the next room.

Joshua C. 5/5 Verified

Sounds & Stories®

Twelve Apostles has become part of books and quiet time. With one kid down before the other we run soft fan sound in between, and the buttons mean I'm not creeping back in to adjust anything. They get a bit of choice without getting all of it.

Sean F. 5/5 Verified

Sounds & Stories®