Pricing
Tale Island uses coins for billable creation actions, and the whole point of the coin system is to keep spending visible and predictable. The app shows the cost of an action before you confirm it, and records a refund when a billable generation step fails. Instead of an open-ended subscription that bills whether or not you create anything, coins let you pay for the specific actions you take and see each cost in advance, so you always know what a story will involve before you commit.
Coin packs add balance to your account wallet, and billable creator actions spend from that balance as you build stories. Because coins live in your account, you can top up when you want to create and let the balance sit when you do not, without an ongoing charge in the background. This keeps the model simple: your wallet holds coins, creation actions draw from it, and you stay in charge of when and how much you spend on personalized stories.
Story generation, plan refinement, reusable companion creation, and clean PDF export all disclose their coin cost before you confirm the step. Nothing billable happens silently in the background: you see the number first and choose to proceed. This up-front pricing is a deliberate part of the experience, so you can weigh a refinement or a new companion against your balance and decide with full information, rather than discovering the cost only after the fact.
Different creation steps carry different coin costs that reflect how much work each one involves, and the live cost is always the one shown inside the creator before you confirm. Creating a reusable companion is a smaller, one-time spend that pays off every later story the character appears in, while generating a full illustrated tale is the larger step that produces the finished story. Refinement sits in between, letting you invest a little to shape the plan before the bigger generation step, and PDF export shows its own cost when you prepare a clean file to keep.
If a billable generation step fails, Tale Island records a matching coin refund for that step instead of quietly keeping the charge. Generation depends on several moving parts, so this refund behavior exists to make sure a technical failure does not cost you coins for something you never received. It is a core part of keeping the pricing fair: you pay for the stories and companions you actually get, and a failed step is made right rather than absorbed.
Because companions and story settings are reusable, the coins you spend creating them keep paying off across future tales, which makes reuse one of the most practical ways to get more out of your balance. A companion you create once can star in many stories without being rebuilt each time, and saved settings let you start new tales from familiar ground. Over time, a family that reuses its characters and settings can create a growing library of personalized stories while spending coins mainly on the new tales themselves.
Print ordering depends on the current checkout feature state and provider readiness, so availability can vary by region and over time rather than being guaranteed everywhere. PDF export is available as a way to keep a clean copy of a finished story, while the print flow becomes an option only where the checkout path is currently supported. We mention this honestly so expectations stay clear: reading, sharing, and PDF export are dependable parts of the experience, and print is offered where it is ready.
Creation actions
Coin packs
Pocket Spark
250 coins
€4.99
Treasure Box
700 coins
€11.99
Dragon Hoard
1500 coins
€19.99
If a billable generation step fails, the app records a refund for that step.
Pricing
Open the app to see the current wallet state and action costs before creating a tale.
