Hausmärchen is the Brothers Grimm, carefully kept. Two hundred and forty-five tales. The canonical 1857 corpus, the ten Children's Legends, and thirty-five Paralipomena the Grimms collected then withdrew. Four reading variants per tale: the original Deutsch, Margaret Hunt's 1884 Victorian English, a modernized translation, and a Junior re-telling for ages four to twelve. Six hundred and sixty illustrations from seventeen masters. Arthur Rackham, Kay Nielsen, Walter Crane, Otto Ubbelöhde, Anne Anderson, Elenore Plaisted Abbott, Gustave Doré, Robert Anning Bell, Hermann Vogel, Alexander Zick, Henry Justice Ford, Maxfield Parrish, Adrienne Ségur, Carl Offterdinger, Ludwig Emil Grimm — and contemporary work by Jasmine Becket-Griffith (CC0) and Jessica von Braun. Switch illustrator on any tale. Or hit Surprise Me. — A curated library — Ten thematic sections: Magic & Wonder, Beasts & Birds, Love & Courtship, Family & Hearth, Wits & Tricksters, Faith & Miracles, Saints & Sacred Figures, Fate & Fortune, Junior Editions, and the Lost Tales (Paralipomena). No algorithm. No infinite scroll. A daily tale chosen by the calendar — the same date returns the same tale, every time. — Children's Mode — A parent-locked mode narrows the library to sixty hand-rewritten Junior tales, with on-page violence removed. The German, Victorian, and Modern variants disappear. The Gallery hides. Exit requires the parent PIN. The PIN is hashed locally, never transmitted (the app has no network), and three wrong attempts triggers an escalating cooldown. — Free — All 210 canonical tales, half free to read in your choice of Deutsch or Modern English. One hero illustration per tale, distributed across the seventeen illustrators. Children's Mode works fully — the safety feature is never gated. — Studio Support Edition: $9.99, once — Unlocks all four reading variants on every tale, all 35 Lost Tales (Paralipomena), all 660 illustrations, every illustrator on every tale, the full sixty-tale Children's Mode library, and the daily-tale notification. One-time purchase. No subscription. Yours forever. — Privacy — Zero data collection. No tracking. No analytics. No third-party SDKs. No accounts. No ads. The app makes no runtime network calls — every tale, every illustration, every font ships in the bundle. Read on the subway, on the plane, in the woods. No connection required, ever. — A studio note — Hausmärchen comes from Solocosmo Studios. The historical texts are public domain; the illustrations are public domain or used with the artist's permission. The Junior re-tellings and the Modern English variants were prepared by the studio for this app. A finite, curated book. Built to be read — not optimized to keep you scrolling. Privacy Policy: https://solocosmo.github.io/hausmaerchen-site/privacy.html Terms of Service: https://solocosmo.github.io/hausmaerchen-site/terms.html
