Gemini can now turn sketches and photos into custom Storybooks

Google has activated Storybook within the Gemini app, providing every user with a prompt-to-storybook generator. Users can type or speak a concept, and the tool creates a 10-page bedtime tale, complete with original illustrations, ambient audio, and optional narration, in any of the 45-plus languages already supported by Gemini.

Behind the scenes, Gemini drafts the prose and then formulates image cues that are sent to Google’s Imagen diffusion model for artwork. A single project can transition between claymation, pixel art, comic panels, or coloring-book outlines. Additionally, uploaded photos or children’s sketches can be integrated into the narrative, transforming holiday pictures or classroom drawings into key characters. Finished books can be exported as shareable files or printable PDFs.

Parents and teachers are the primary audience for this tool. Google’s examples include explaining the solar system to a five-year-old or framing a lesson about kindness around an elephant hero. Early testers report that the system delivers a complete book in under a minute, although it occasionally struggles with visual continuity, such as grafting a human limb onto a fish or forgetting a protagonist’s hairstyle.

This release is part of Google’s ongoing effort to add consumer-facing creation tools around its large language model. By making Storybook available to the entire free tier, Google indicates its intention for everyday storytelling to become a default use case for its flagship model.

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