MerlinRead

Hey Product Hunt! 👋

Maker here — excited to share MerlinRead: an interactive reading app that helps kids actually want to finish books.

THE PROBLEM
Many kids either find reading boring, or they lose interest after a few pages.

THE SOLUTION
MerlinRead is an AI reading companion where kids can chat with story characters, ask questions about what’s happening, and explore 10,000+ classic children’s books — but in a way that feels like an adventure.

WHAT MAKES IT SPECIAL
• Real conversations with story characters
• Spoiler-safe answers (it only uses what the child has read so far)
• Voice + text chat
• Curated library by age (4–12)
• Progress sync across devices

We built MerlinRead because reading shouldn’t feel like homework — it should feel alive.

WE’D LOVE YOUR FEEDBACK 🙏
What would you change to make this more useful for kids (or easier for parents)? Any feature you’d absolutely expect?

Also — if you’re in education (teachers, schools, after-school programs, tutors) or you know someone who is, intros would mean a lot.

And if you work with content (publishers, storytellers, edtech platforms), we can showcase MerlinRead as a general concept: a spoiler-safe “chat layer” for any content — books today, but it can work for lessons, comics, or even video scenes as long as we control “what the user has already seen.”

Ask anything — happy to share details and learn from you.