Storytime is an Android app developed by Media Applications Technologies for the BBC. Others apps created by Media Applications Technologies for the BBC are: BBC Media Player, BBC Learning English, BBC Mundo.

Storytime first became available on 31 Jul 2014. It is estimated that Storytime has been downloaded between 1000000 and 5000000 times from the Play Store.

Storytime 2.7.10 requires the following permissions:

Allows applications to access information about networks.

Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.

Allows applications to open network sockets.

Allows an application to read from external storage.

Allows an application to record audio.

Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.

Allows an application to write to external storage.