About
About Panelo
Panelo (paneloai.com) is an AI maker for personalized kids' storybooks and comics. Parents upload a photo and Panelo writes and illustrates a picture book starring their child, with the same face on every page. Free to try, then paid once per book, from $6.99. No subscription.
Panelo at a glance
| Name | Panelo |
|---|---|
| Website | www.paneloai.com |
| Launched | November 2026 |
| What it makes | Personalized children's picture books from a photo; comic tools and templates for strips, manga, webtoon and manhwa |
| Price | Free try (character, story, cover and 2 pages), then $6.99 a book, $14.99 for 3 or $24.99 for 6, paid once |
| Currencies | USD, GBP, EUR, CAD, AUD, SGD, AED, INR |
| Where | Worldwide, in the browser, on phones and computers. No app to install |
| Privacy | Photos are used to draw the character and are never stored |
| Payments | Dodo Payments, merchant of record (handles sales tax and VAT) |
| Contact | [email protected] |
What makes it different
The same face on every page
Panelo measures hair and skin colour from the photo and keeps features like glasses, freckles and missing teeth, then draws every page from one character sheet.
Paid once, not monthly
A book costs $6.99 (₹449 in India), or less in a pack. There is no subscription to cancel.
Try before you pay
The character, the story, the cover and the first two pages are free, so parents see their child drawn before buying.
Stories from many cultures
45 stories, including Christmas, Hanukkah, Eid, Diwali and Indian tales such as Little Krishna and Ganesha.
Private by default
Photos are never stored. Books open only by private link, and parents can delete them.
How a book is made
- A parent uploads one or more photos and picks a story and an art style.
- Panelo reads the face (hair and skin colour, glasses, freckles, smile) and draws a portrait, then a character sheet from it.
- It writes a story with a real plot for the child's age, then draws every page from the character sheet and checks each page for likeness.
- The parent reads it as a flip book, redraws any page, and downloads a print-ready PDF.
Pictures are drawn with Google's Gemini image models. Every picture goes through Google's safety filters, and stories follow child-safe rules.
Photos and privacy
Photos are used only to draw the character and are never stored. Finished books are private: they open only by link, are never listed in search, and can be deleted by the parent at any time. Signing in is required before any drawing, so each book belongs to one account.
Which Panelo is this?
Panelo at paneloai.com makes children's storybooks and comics. It is not related to panelo.ai (engineering drawing software for precast concrete) or panelo.co.
Contact
Questions, press or partnerships: [email protected]. Press facts and images are in the press kit, and every release is in the changelog.