BookCloud
Chichewa · Chichewa
Chichewa children's books, read aloud — the same story in Chichewa and the language your child is growing up in.
Real books and library shelves come first — but the shelves near you don't always hold Chichewa, and the Chichewa titles you grew up with don't always travel with you. BookCloud fills those gaps: a calm, ad-free children's library of openly-licensed and public-domain stories, read aloud, in language after language.
It makes any story bilingual or dual-language — the same illustrated tale in Chichewa and your family's other language, with warm, expressive narration so your child can listen as they read. Read tonight in Chichewa; tomorrow in the other. Gonani bwino.
Why we built it
Chichewa bedtime stories, wherever you live.
Your child speaks Chichewa with you, the local language at school. The same beloved book on their shelf in both — same illustrations, same characters, same pacing — keeps each language close. Read tonight in Chichewa; tomorrow in the other.
Add the languages your family lives in and switch a book between them, page for page — a library that's growing language by language. Openly-licensed and public-domain stories, read aloud, that you can read together or your child can listen to alone.
Who it's for
For families who carry Chichewa with them.
Chichewa families abroad. In London, Johannesburg, Manchester or Washington, your child lives the day in another language and comes home to yours. The same beloved story, in Chichewa and in theirs, keeps both close.
Mixed-language homes. One parent speaks Chichewa, the other a different language. One book, both languages, no need to choose — each of you reads in your own.
Families learning together. Maybe Chichewa is a language you're reaching toward, not one you grew up with. Each story is read aloud by a native voice, so your child can listen — and you can learn alongside them.
Safe by design
A reading product, not an attention product.
Reading time should be calm time. Nothing here is engineered to keep your child in the app.
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No ads. Not in the books, not between them, not anywhere your child can see.
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No games. No points, no streaks, no rewards engineered to keep your child opening the app.
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No price. Free on iOS and Android — no subscription, no upsell.
Get the app
Bring Chichewa stories home. You're welcome to it.
BookCloud is a free app for iOS and Android — open the library, read together, switch between Chichewa and your family's other language book by book. We're still adding more books, language by language. If you're a native Chichewa speaker who could help review a translation, or you just want to tell us what your family is missing, say hello.
