Hele: Lullaby Music Box (called Hele: Carousel Music Box until September 2026)
A wind-up carousel music box for iPhone and iPad. Your child winds it.

One sentence: Hele is a wind-up carousel music box for iPhone and iPad: a child turns a brass key, lets go, and a lullaby plays on an 18-note comb, slowing as the spring runs down.

Facts
- Platform: iPhone and iPad, iOS 18 and later. Current version 2.0 (29 September 2026). https://hele.toys/whats-new/
- Category: Kids, ages 5 and under. Rated 4+.
- Price: free to try, since version 2.0 (29 September 2026): five riders, six tunes, Sleep mode, the bedside clock and the lamp, with no time limit. The Carousel Collection (US$9.99) is every rider and tune pack, and every new carousel pack when it arrives; single packs are US$1.99. One-time purchases, no subscription, no ads. Seasonal packs are free. Until 2.0 it was US$4.99, paid once, and everyone who bought it then owns the Carousel Collection.
- Charts: No. 1 Top Paid app in Kids and in Music, Philippine App Store, on 24, 25 and 26 September 2026. Also No. 1 in Kids and No. 2 in Music on 19 September 2026 (Apple's Top Downloaded chart; screenshots in this folder).
- The Workshop Book (1.1): a drawer in the base holds a read-aloud page for every animal: a short story, a question for the child, true facts. https://hele.toys/workshop-book/
- Privacy: nothing collected. No account, no ads, no analytics, no tracking.
- Sound: modeled on an 18-note music-box comb.
- Accessibility: VoiceOver, Switch Control, Dynamic Type, Reduce Motion, Big key option.
- Made by: one designer, Hans Allí, in Manila, for his own child's bedtime.
- Web: https://hele.toys · Press: https://hele.toys/press/ · Browser demo: https://hele.toys/try/
- Contact: hello@hele.toys

Please don't: show the app with sparkles, stars or characters added, describe it as a game, or suggest it collects data. It is a music box.

Images in this folder: icon (1024 px), the version 2.0 App Store screenshots in app-store-2.0/ (nine iPhone 6.9-inch, five iPad 13-inch), share image (1200×630), three App Store chart screenshots (Music, 24 September 2026; Kids and Music, 19 September 2026).

Hero images (hele-hero-3x4.png, hele-hero-16x9.png): the music box as it appears in the app, on the app's dark ground. Hele is an app; the toy does not exist as a product.
