About Fabli, the screenless interactive audio player
The Fabli is a screen-free, interactive audio player designed in Quebec to support children aged 0 to 10 in their imagination, learning, and well-being. Conceived as a healthy alternative to screens, the Fabli combines immersive stories , educational games , music , soothing sounds , and guided meditations in a simple, robust, and intuitive format, perfectly suited for small hands.
Thanks to its 16-key illuminated pad , playful mechanics , and motion detection , children explore a rich world where every gesture triggers an action, a choice, or an adventure. This interactivity encourages motor skills , memory , concentration , creativity , and above all, independence.
Designed with experts in education, psychology and health, Fabli offers content that supports children's cognitive, emotional and sensory development — away from the fast pace and visual distractions of screens.
Emitting no waves during use, durable, repairable, and made in Canada, the Fabli is much more than a story box: it is an evolving companion that grows with the child and integrates into family life with gentleness, imagination and intention.
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Our ambition
Our mission is to ensure that today's children grow up to be fulfilled, happy, calm, and caring adults.
We firmly believe that the early years of life offer a unique window of opportunity: a child's brain shapes its structure, connections, and curiosity—it is estimated that up to 90% of its fundamental connections are formed before the age of 5.
We believe that these years should not be dominated by screens, but nourished by stories, games, voices, shared emotions, and sensory experiences that build language, logic, heart, and imagination.
Fabli contributes to a world where children grow up grounded, autonomous, and connected to themselves, rather than to technologies that simply capture their attention.
We place caring education, cognitive development, emotional intelligence, and free play at the heart of our approach. For us, play is a wonderful tool: it helps children understand their emotions, explore their creativity, refine their motor skills, and cope with the world. We want to provide parents with concrete guidelines: peaceful routines, a stronger parent-child relationship, and positive alternatives to screens.
And because our vision is deeply social, we are committed to inclusion, diversity, equal opportunities, and access to quality educational content. Fabli is designed to be sustainable, local, and environmentally friendly.
In short, our mission goes beyond simple toys: it touches on how our children learn, feel, imagine... and become.
Who are we?
We are Mélanie and Pierre-Edouard.
Parents first, entrepreneurs second. Two people who, like everyone else, are trying to raise Victoire and Léandre as best we can, surrounded by our two dogs, Charlotte and Pixel.
Like many parents, we wanted to understand how to support our children through their emotions, discoveries, tantrums, impulses, fears, and more.
As we progressed in our reading, studies, and our own questions as parents, we came across a fact that had a profound impact on us: the vast majority of a child's brain development occurs in the first five years of life.
This figure struck us, but above all, it reminded us of something obvious: it is the stories we tell, our everyday actions, the moments when we truly listen, and the games that spark curiosity that shape the first connections, the ones that last. It is these moments, much more than screens, that help a child understand their emotions, build their confidence, and find their own place in the world.
It was from this realization (and our very real experience as parents) that Fabli was born: the desire to create a gentle, simple, screen-free tool that nourishes the imagination, soothes, stimulates, and supports other families in the way we would have liked to have been supported.
We support 3 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
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Good health and well-being
We aim to promote physical and creative activities related to our content, as well as yoga, guided meditations and synchronized breathing, exercises that promote better mental and physical health (proven by science).
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Quality education
We offer educational content that helps develop several forms of intelligence (musical, logical-mathematical, verbal-linguistic, bodily-kinesthetic, visual-spatial, naturalist-ecologist) for different age groups.
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Gender equality
We work with specialist psychologists to provide child-friendly content and parent guides to introduce inclusion, diversity, embrace differences, and develop tolerance.
Our Story
2022
Genesis
At the end of 2022, we came up with the idea of combining the power of stories, family interactions, and play in a unique and innovative device. The Fabli project was born, with the goal of designing the first truly interactive reader designed to accompany all children.
early 2023
Prototyping
Pierre-Edouard begins to make the first version in our basement, we join two incubators in Montreal (Le Centech and Zù) and we begin to surround ourselves with experts for the content and development of the player.
2023
Product design and development
We initially considered having a separate interactive pad! And yes!
Fortunately, hours of testing and trials and the expertise of our industrial designers have resulted in today's Fabli!
2023-2024
Validations
We surveyed hundreds of parents and children, and at every stage, we involved Super Testers to create a unique and incredible experience. We developed a first prototype and launched a crowdfunding campaign that led to the sale of 450 units!
early 2025
Production
We're launching production near Montreal, Canada, in early 2025, with many challenges and a bit of a delay in delivering our crowdfunding campaign. Luckily, our Super Parents community is supporting us all the way! 😍
April 2025
Launch and content focus
We started shipping in April and since then we have been focusing on producing new and wonderful games, stories, and musical content for children aged 0-10 with our production team while continuing to improve Fabli with our product team!