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Choose from 60 settings, then choose length and Game or Story. Free: one Standard audio preview is ready for your first Sketch from a Free setting; Sketch is selected automatically.
Free-form. A character, a hook, a constraint, a mood. It steers the theme while all Gydel story rules still apply.
Leave the name blank and the story will pick one in the theme's style. Pronouns follow gender: she/her for female, he/him for male.
Story Bundles are pre-built, fully voiced stories that play offline. No setup required, no internet needed during play.
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A bundle is a single
.gydel file (a ZIP archive) containing the story script, built narration audio, music, ambient, and sound effects. Once loaded, play it like an audiobook.Volume mix — changes apply immediately as you drag. Music sits well below speech by default; reduce it further if narration becomes hard to follow.
Speech100%
Music60%
SFX10%
System100%
MIC GAIN100%
Higher gain makes softer speech easier to detect. Lower gain helps in noisy rooms. Gydel still stops recording automatically on silence, with a 15-second safety limit.
The language the whole story is written and voiced in. English options also set the narration accent (per-character accents declared by the story still override this). Any non-English choice writes the entire story, narration and dialogue, in that language; the app interface stays English.
When enabled, action choices are spoken with the best available built-in device voice. Non-Latin action text is transliterated for speech only.
Writer names are Gydel pen names. Ada Vale prepares herself on this device once, then writes without online story calls and uses device voice only. Other writers use Gydel's online story service according to your plan.
Sign in with email only. No password.
Current access
Free text-only
The link signs this device in. Card details are never entered into Gydel itself.
Free
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Unlimited text-only play in eight promotional story categories, including two children's categories. Plus one short Standard audio preview with voice, music and limited sound effects. No customisations, offline audiobook baking, or multiplayer.
One Adventure
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One complete Standard audio game with natural voice narration, music and sound effects. One payment, no subscription. The adventure credit is kept until you use it.
Basic
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Bring stories to life. Basic voice narration, atmospheric music, sound effects, more story worlds, and custom hero names. Basic uses your device's built-in voices: accents are not supported, and some languages may sound less natural. Multiplayer is available from Standard.
Standard
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For full audio stories. Neural voices, music that follows the story, richer atmosphere and effects, offline MP3 audiobooks, and more writer styles.
Multiplayer included · shared asynchronous games for up to 3 players
Plan downgrades and cancellations take effect after the current paid billing period. Card details and invoices are managed securely through Stripe.
Bluetooth earphones and media remotes are device-specific.
Choose the media signal for each Gydel action.
Best with physical-button earphones or a media remote. Recommended setup:
Single button press: next action. Double: execute. Triple: spoken action.
Single button press: next action. Double: execute. Triple: spoken action.
Input monitor - press a button on your device…
Next actioncustom: unbound
Execute selected actioncustom: unbound
Spoken actioncustom: unbound
Spoken action: Once started, recording stops on silence and adds the phrase to the menu, pre-selected for Execute. Speaking again replaces the spoken option. If nothing is captured within 15 seconds, the process is abandoned.
If a button is not detected: Some remotes have several modes. Volume keys are usually captured by the operating system and cannot be used. Choose media mode for earphones, or keyboard / page-turn / PPT mode for remotes.