The Ever After Group

Don't just read the story.
Live in it.

The Ever After Group is a pioneering digital and physical ecosystem redefining how readers, writers and creators connect. We build immersive brands that take storytelling beyond the last page.

Our vision

The future of storytelling is together.

The modern storytelling industry is fractured. Readers buy in isolation, writers struggle alone, and digital platforms are filled with distracting noise. Our mission is to bring storytelling back to its social roots. The Ever After Group is a pioneering ecosystem redefining how creators and fans connect. From a real high-street bookshop with a thriving reading community to immersive streaming and author coaching, we build brands that take stories beyond the last page and turn audiences into thriving communities.

Read

Bookshops with belonging.

Reading becomes shared. Ranks, rewards and a members' guild turn buying a book into belonging to something bigger.

Listen

Immersive streaming.

Stories you can hear. Book-inspired soundtracks and original audio keep the world alive long after the last page.

Create

Author coaching.

No writer left alone. Tools, editing and publishing carry a creator from blank page to finished book, and an audience.

Choose your adventure

Our family of brands

Fifty-six products across seven divisions.

01

Retail & Commerce

Books, games, music, currency and the club
Ever After Books

Ever After Books Flagship

Find your next 5-star read and the tribe to share it with. An independent bookshop selling new, second hand and antiquarian books, on the high street and online.

Shop the store
Ever After Kids

Ever After Kids New

A bookshop that grows with them. Tots, Kids and YA modes, each with its own shelves, quests, games and a real LitCoin wallet the grown-ups control. No ads, no chat, no strangers.

Open the kids' shop
Ever After Games

Ever After Games

Your next obsession, on any screen. Warhammer miniatures, trading cards, RPGs and paints, an army builder and painting tutorials, and a shelf of browser games to play while you wait for the post.

Enter the store
Ever After Vibes

Ever After Vibes

Soundtracks for stories, including yours. Original book scores, audiobooks and podcasts, and a journal that turns your days into music.

Start listening
Buy LitCoins

Buy LitCoins

One currency for your whole reading life. Earn LitCoins everywhere, spend them anywhere, and gift them to the readers you love.

Top up your wallet
Join the Literati

Join the Literati

Books at midnight, coffee at dawn. A secret society of readers whose guild rank rises with every visit, building towards the UK's first 24-hour bookshop in Dalton-in-Furness.

Join the Literati
02

Publishing & Words

From first draft to every format: ebook, serial, audiobook and games
Writer's Studio

Writer's Studio

Turn your idea into a finished story. Smart writing tools, sprints and focus music, then submit to Ever After Press or self-publish with Autonomy without ever leaving your desk.

Open the studio
Fairy Godmother

Fairy Godmother

Turn your manuscript into a beautiful book, right in your browser. Import a draft, pick a style and export a polished EPUB and print-ready PDF, the magic of Atticus and Vellum without the fuss.

Open the studio
Ever After Press

Ever After Press

The traditional route. Submit your finished manuscript to an indie publisher that champions new voices, edits with care and pays its authors fairly.

Submit your story
Autonomy

Autonomy

The independent route. Publish like a powerhouse onto every major store, in every format, ISBN and all, from one simple dashboard.

Start publishing
LitFic

LitFic

Binge your fiction one chapter at a time. Serialised stories you can read ahead on with LitCoins, and a place to publish your own and earn.

Start reading
Writing Ever After

Writing Ever After

Your story deserves a happily ever after. Developmental editing and coaching to turn your messy draft into a masterpiece.

Finish your book
03

Apps & Platforms

Software for learning, creating and everyday life

Open now

Use these in a browser or download the current Android build.

GG Engine game worlds

GG Engine Live

Build isometric, top-down, side-on, visual novel, farm and town, or learning games in the browser. Shape the world, test it, then publish it to Ever After Games, with no code required.

  • Web studio
  • Desktop launcher
Open GG Engine
GCSE Maxxing study app

GCSE Maxxing Live web app

Five thousand checked AQA questions across Maths, English Language, Biology, Chemistry and Physics. Short adaptive rounds turn revision into streaks, mastery, XP and earned rewards.

  • Web
  • Android testing
  • Works offline
Start revising
Practice Art drawing lessons

Practice Art Free

A child-friendly drawing tutor with 50 guided lessons, six paint media, layers, animation and a private living journal. Artwork stays on the device, with no account, adverts or surprise locks.

  • Browser
  • Installable PWA
  • Touch and stylus
Start drawing
Pocket Astrologer chart and daily reading

Pocket Astrologer Live web app

Personalised birth charts, daily readings, compatibility and planning around the sky, on the web and in your pocket.

  • Web
  • Android
  • iPhone testing
Read your chart
Jack's Grid communication board

Jack's Grid Free forever

A free, open communication board for non-verbal children. It has no paywall, no adverts and no account requirement.

  • Web
  • Touchscreen
Open Jack's Grid
The Play Hub

The Play Hub Android beta

Thirty-one original kids and family games in one safe hub. Big buttons, bright colours, no social pressure and no way to lose.

  • Android
  • Works offline
Get the beta

Store and private testing

Finished apps moving through internal tests, review and first release.

Storyteller reading a book aloud

Storyteller Play testing

Private read-aloud for EPUB, PDF, text and printed pages. Ten on-device neural voices, highlighted reading, exact resume, speed control and a sleep timer, with no cloud narration or tracking.

  • Android testing
  • iPhone in build
  • Works offline
In Google Play testing
True Qibla compass and prayer times

True Qibla Store testing

A Qibla compass that shows its working, using true north, a live calibration grade and a sun check. Prayer times and reminders are included, and saved locations stay on the phone.

  • Android
  • iPhone
  • Fire
Get the Android beta
Saint and Season Catholic calendar

Saint & Season Store testing

A private Catholic calendar, saint finder, prayer companion, confession aid and family sacrament record. Calendars, Scripture, novenas and spiritual reading work offline.

  • Android testing
  • Works offline
Read about the app
Kept savings jars and goals

Kept Store testing

Savings goal jars, no-spend streaks, cash envelopes, challenges and subscription checks in one private tracker. It never connects to a bank.

  • Android testing
  • iPhone ready
  • Fire testing
In store testing
Life Manager

Life Manager Private beta

Run money, meals, plans and personal style from one place, with a suite of quiet assistants that work together around your life.

  • Private web app
Private beta
04

Studios & Community

Services and the places we belong
Design Ever After

Design Ever After

Run your business on autopilot. Intuitive design and smart automation pipelines that give you your time back.

Automate your business
Dalton-in-Furness

Dalton-in-Furness

Your town, all in one place. Local news, a business directory and a residents' hub, plus websites we build for local firms on autopilot.

Explore the town
05

Tools & Infrastructure

The tools that power the group, and that we share
The Town Gossip

The Town Gossip

Send gorgeous newsletters and actually own your list. A dead-simple email tool with no setup and no per-subscriber tax, keeping your audience truly yours.

Start for free
Tea, from The Town Gossip

Tea

Spill the tea across every channel. Schedule, post, reply and snoop across Bluesky, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn and more from one place, with the inbox and analytics to match. That friend who knows everybody, working for your brand.

Start free
Office Elves

Office Elves

Your whole front office, run by automation. Support chat, tickets, a CRM, a sales pipeline and campaigns in one place, so a team of one can run like a team of ten. Let the elves do the work, a friendly Salesforce alternative.

Start free
Bane

Bane

Keep your lists, prices and stock up to date all by themselves. Point Bane at a web page once and it reads, tidies and delivers the data on a schedule, no code required.

Start free
Firebase Email Wizard

Firebase Email Wizard New

Add email to any Firebase project in one click. A desktop app that deploys working send and receive functions into a developer's own project, on subscription or buy once and own it forever.

See the pricing
06

Games

Original worlds to play now, test early and follow into release

Play now

Eight complete games, free in the browser with no install required.

Once Upon a Coin fairy tale villages

Once Upon a Coin New

Spin a wishing wheel, build ten fairy-tale villages, attack and raid device-made rivals, collect story cards and care for three companions. There is no account, social pressure or real multiplayer.

  • Browser
  • Android ready
  • 13+
Play Once Upon a Coin
Block Party puzzle modes

Block Party New

Three block puzzles in one: place pieces to clear an eight by eight grid, play classic falling blocks, or pop colour groups before the board reaches the top.

  • Browser
  • Android ready
  • Offline play
Play Block Party
Delivered cosy courier adventure

Delivered Play now

Three parcels, one afternoon, back by four. Keep Ben and his earth elemental on the route through Hearthveil City and your choices change the ending.

  • Browser
  • Story adventure
Play Delivered
Gearloom contraption puzzle

Gearloom Play now

Bolt gears to the workshop wall, belt pulleys together, wire the engine into the motor, then throw the crank and watch the machine run. Every puzzle is built fresh.

  • Browser
  • Android ready
  • Puzzle
Play Gearloom
The ABC Kingdom learn to read game

The ABC Kingdom Play now

Learn to read by rescuing the alphabet. Find letters, hear their sounds, read words and sentences, then catch Zebra to break his naughty spell. Designed by a child, for children.

  • Browser
  • App in review
  • Ages 3+
Play The ABC Kingdom
Cici's Farm cooking and farming game

Cici's Farm Play now

Feed the animals, grow fruit and vegetables, then carry the harvest into the kitchen and cook with it. Kawaii farming for pre-schoolers, with no reading needed.

  • Browser
  • App store review
  • Ages 2+
Play Cici's Farm
Pet game for Kids

Pet game for Kids Play now

Adopt a pet, give it a name, then carry it through eight rooms to feed, bathe, dress and settle it. Made for the smallest hands, with nothing to lose and no way to fail.

  • Browser
  • Android ready
  • Ages 2+
Play Pet game for Kids
Pet game for Toddlers

Pet game for Toddlers Play now

The same gentle house and rules as Pet game for Kids, with 27 puppies, kittens, chicks, bunnies, birds, fish, turtles, gerbils and hamsters in a rounder chibi style.

  • Browser
  • Ages 2+
Play Pet game for Toddlers

Public beta shelf

Six playable games in active testing, available from their current builds.

Dock Nine robot courier

Dock Nine Public beta

Run planetary routes, fly debris fields and rebuild courier robot Abe-1 while Dock Nine Radio broadcasts more than a hundred original songs between deliveries.

  • Browser beta
  • Action platformer
Play the beta
Epilogue magical village rebuilding

Epilogue Public beta

The heroes won, the Emperor is dead and ordinary people must rebuild. Gather, rescue survivors, automate workshops and restore a magical valley after the final battle.

  • Browser beta
  • Cosy builder
Play the beta
Warqueen defending an Iceni fort

Warqueen Public beta

Recruit an Iceni warband, build and defend a fort, gather on the march and command the field against Rome in a repeating strategy campaign inspired by Boudica.

  • Browser beta
  • Strategy
Play the beta
Drakudoku baby dragon logic puzzle

Drakudoku Public beta

Place one baby dragon in every row, column and eggshell region, with no two touching. Three hundred and twenty offline logic puzzles, each with one solution and no guessing.

  • Browser beta
  • Logic puzzle
Play the beta
Candy Crunch match three game

Candy Crunch Public beta

Crack sugar crust, fill the crunch meter and combine striped sweets, wrapped sweets and sprinkle bombs in a match-three game with no lives, timers or waiting.

  • Browser beta
  • Match three
Play the beta
Vibe Rush rhythm game

Vibe Rush Public beta

Tap, swipe and hold four lanes of notes in time with the Ever After Vibes catalogue. Album art, lyrics and music-reactive effects fill the stage behind every song.

  • Browser beta
  • Rhythm
Play the beta

In development

Follow the next two larger Ever After Games releases.

Willow in the Library of Cir

Willow Closed beta

A candlelit isometric dungeon crawler adapted day for day from the LitFic serial. File cursed artefacts, carry a lamp into the vaults and write home to Poppy each night.

  • Windows beta
  • Android beta
  • Story adventure
See Willow
Demon Hunter Academy students in combat

Demon Hunter Academy Now enrolling

A 3D academy life simulation and K-pop rhythm combat RPG. Choose a hunter, train, form a squad and answer demon outbreaks after class.

  • Godot 3D
  • Early access
Join early access
07

Utility tools

Ten practical apps, each focused on one job
Interval

Interval Store release

HIIT without the maths. Warm up, work, rest, rounds and cool down, or build your own sequence of blocks, with Tabata and EMOM ready to go and spoken cues that keep your eyes off the screen.

Store release in progress
Round Timer

Round Timer Store release

Three minutes on, one minute off. Boxing and MMA rounds with a real bell, clap sticks for the last ten seconds, and five announcer voices to call your work and your rest.

Store release in progress
Hold It

Hold It Store release

Planks, stretches and physio holds, timed properly. Build a routine of holds and rests, then pick your mood: bold and loud with a draining fill, or calm and silent with a breathing pacer.

Store release in progress
Spark

Spark In review

Work in focused sprints, rest on purpose. A warm, quiet pomodoro timer that keeps a real log and streak of every finished sprint, survives being closed mid-run, and never puts an advert on the timer.

In store review
Contraction Timer

Contraction Timer Store release

One tap when it starts, one when it ends. It watches for the 5-1-1 pattern, keeps the log the midwife will ask for, and hands the timing to a partner when you have had enough of holding the phone.

Store release in progress
Bump Kit

Bump Kit Store release

The contraction timer plus the hospital bag. Time what is happening, tick off what you have packed for you and for the baby, and read the labour guide between the waves.

Store release in progress
Clearday

Clearday Store release

A gentle day counter for whatever you have quit. Track more than one thing at once, watch the money add up and the milestones arrive, check in on mood and cravings, and find a quiet breathing screen for the hard moments. No advert ever appears on that screen.

Store release in progress
Plumbline

Plumbline Store release

A spirit level that reads true. Six modes in one: surface bubble, edge, plumb, angle, roof pitch and a live camera horizon, with a zero tare and a guided flip calibration so the numbers are the wall's fault, not the phone's.

Store release in progress
Kerf

Kerf Store release

Jobsite maths without the head scratching. Convert between fractions, decimal inches, feet and inches, millimetres and centimetres down to the sixteenth, work out area and roof pitch, and run board feet and a tally. Big keys for gloved hands, high contrast for full sun.

Store release in progress
Pitch chromatic instrument tuner

Pitch Store release

A real chromatic tuner for guitar, ukulele, violin and bass. Auto string detection, alternate tunings, a custom tuning builder and two complete visual modes, with microphone audio analysed live and never saved.

Store release in progress

Our impact

By the numbers

Built lean, founder-led, and genuinely connected. The hard facts behind the group.

56
Products across the group
7
Divisions
1
Real high-street store
1
Shared account & wallet
★★★★★

"A beautiful bookshop, it has a perfectly curated selection of books, all displayed really well. I hadn't planned on buying anything, but left with my hands full."

Rose, Ever After Books
★★★★★

"Simply fantastic little bookshop! Lovely owners, and the miniature painting competition last month was great fun!"

Thomas, Ever After Games
★★★★★

"Reading your critique felt like a miracle. I didn't believe I'd find someone genuinely interested in historical fiction set in medieval Hungary. You've made my day."

Adriana, Writing Ever After

Stay in the story

Two ways to go deeper

For investors

Investor relations

The thesis, the flywheel and the portfolio, with the full deck, financials and roadmap shared privately with prospective investors on request.

Explore investor relations
For readers

Curing the Book Hangover

Our free guide to finding your next obsession (and the tribe to read it with). Pop your email in and it's yours.

Get the free guide

Building the next chapter.

Whether you want to read, play, publish or partner, there is a door into the Ever After world for you.