Membership

What you pay, and what you get

Last updated 30 September 2026

What is free

The first book, set in London, and its activity book are free for everyone. Your child can read and play without an account, and we never ask for a card.

What a membership includes

Every book and every activity on the shelf, and each new one as it arrives, for $15 a month (US dollars).

One payment is all there is. There are no extra purchases inside Clever Bear: nothing to unlock, no coins, no loot boxes and no add-ons. A grown-up check stands in front of everything to do with paying.

Paying

• Payments are made through Stripe. Your card details go to Stripe and never reach us.
• You are charged once a month, on the day of the month you joined.
• Your card statement shows HYPERION S* CLEVERBEAR. Hyperion Service Inc. is the company that makes Clever Bear.
• The price is in US dollars. If your card is in another currency, your bank converts it and may add its own fee.

If you join in the app from the App Store or Google Play

In the Clever Bear app on an iPad or an Android device, membership is the same: one monthly payment for every book and every activity, $15 a month in the US. The payment is taken by Apple, through your Apple Account, or by Google Play, not by Stripe. Outside the US, the store shows the price in your own currency.

New members in the iPad app start with a 7-day free trial. Apple takes the first $15 when the trial ends unless you cancel at least 24 hours before.

• Apple or Google renews your membership each month until you cancel, and sends you their own receipt.
• To cancel, or to see when it renews, use the store's own subscription settings, not Manage membership in Grown-ups. On an iPad: Settings, then your name, then Subscriptions. On Android: open Google Play, tap your profile picture, then Payments & subscriptions, then Subscriptions.
• When you cancel, you keep every book and activity until the end of the period you have already paid for, and you are not charged again.
• Apple and Google decide refunds for their payments, under their own rules. Ask Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com, or Google in your Google Play order history.
• A membership belongs to the grown-up's email, not to the place it was bought. Join on the website, then sign in to the app with the same email, and the books are open there too. A membership bought in the app while signed in works on the website the same way.

Cancelling

You can cancel at any time: open Grown-ups in the app, then Manage membership. You can change your card there too. If you joined in the app from the App Store or Google Play, cancel in the store instead: see joining in the app.

When you cancel, you keep every book and activity until the end of the month you have already paid for. After that you are not charged again, and the free book stays yours. We do not refund part of a month.

Your child's colouring and sticker places stay in your account after you cancel, so they are still there if you come back.

If a payment does not go through

Stripe tries the card again over the following days, and your child keeps access for 14 days while that happens. If it has still not gone through after 14 days, the member books close until the card is updated in Manage membership, or you join again. The free book stays open.

Your devices

A grown-up signs in with their email; we send a 6-digit code, so there is no password. Sign in with the same email on another iPad or computer and your membership is there too. Without a connection, a member's books keep working for 7 days.

If something changes

If the price ever changes, we will email members before it applies, so you can decide whether to stay. If anything else on this page changes, we update it and the date at the top.

Questions

Write to hello@cleverbearkids.com. How we look after your family's information is on our privacy page.

Clever Bear is made by Hyperion Service Inc., 84 N 9th Street, Suite 405, Brooklyn, NY 11249, USA.