We’re longtime fans of Me Books for iPhone and iPad. It’s a digital picture-books app that lets parents choose from a range of stories, then read them to or with their children, recording their own soundtracks as they go.

Now it’s available for Android too. Released this month on the Google Play store by publisher Made in Me, Me Books works in the same way as the well-established iOS version, with a colourful catalogue of stories to buy.

The standard price is £1.99 per digital book (although some are cheaper) with some famous names on board: Peppa Pig, Charlie and Lola, Peter Rabbit, Topsy and Tim, and Ladybird Classics among other familiar brands.

Each story is presented as a digital version of the printed book, as you turn pages, look at pictures and read the text. Or have it read to you: one of Me Books’ strong points is its collection of actors and celebrities providing voice narration: David Jason, Imelda Staunton, Richard E. Grant and Sherlock himself, Benedict Cumberbatch, among them.

Actually, the thing we like best about Me Books is the sound-recording feature, where you can tap a button on any page, draw round an area of the screen (including text or pics) and record your own words and sounds. That might mean narrating the text, or it may simply mean making your best Daddy Pig noise.

Me Books has a growing fanbase on iOS, but Android could open it out. For now, the app is optimised for Samsung’s Android devices: if you go to the Google Play store, you’ll be able to tell if yours is or isn’t likely to work.

Over time, as with many Android apps, it’s likely to work on more – we’d say Tesco’s Hudl tablet would be a good one to expand to sooner rather than later, given the number of parents we know who bought one last Christmas.

Me Books is a free download for (some) Android devices from the Google Play store, anyway. Give it a try and let us know what you think!