Steller: visual storytelling iPhone application with a social media component. Create digital “flip books” with photos, videos, and text to share through the application’s web platform, SMS, email, or embedding it on your website. FREE.
Category: Storytelling
This category displays all storytelling tools for creating interactive visual narratives. Looking for something specific? Skip to multimedia blogging platforms and other social media platforms, screenwriting, or storyboards & comic strips.
Venngage
Venngage: This is a great tool for creating several different types of visual materials, such as infographics, presentations, reports, diagrams, and lesson plans. The tool has a variety of templates for you to choose from, and you’ll find the templates’ ease-of-use convenient when you want to build visuals in a short amount of time. Venngage …
Celtx
Celtx: scriptwriting software that allows to you seamlessly work within a script format. With a paid subscription, you can collaborate with peers, integrate storyboards, coordinate production details and schedules. Available for desktop and mobile devices. Paid/Premium. (Note: Celtx’s classic free desktop software with multiple integration capabilities has been discontinued in favor of the current cross-platform, “online studio” model).
Screencast-O-Matic
Screencast-O-Matic: A video creation tool that allows a user to record their screen and create simple recordings via a downloaded tool. Users can take high-resolution videos of screen recordings up to 15 minutes in length and add caption files. Videos are stored in an online hub and links can be shared with students and colleagues.
Vimeo Record
Vimeo Record: A Google Chrome extension that allows users to easily record their screen. The video is automatically uploaded to Vimeo where users can change the title, privacy, and other features before sharing it with students. Free accounts can upload up to 5GB of content a week. FREE/PAID
Animaker
Animaker: Online introductory level platform that allows people to create animation and live-action content. Allows for beginner-friendly storytelling and narration through video. FREE/PREMIUM.
WriterDuet
WriterDuet: screenwriting software with cloud-based collaborative features, outline/corkboard viewing mode, and support for several file types. Free trial for your first three screenplays; subscription plans and one-time-purchase available. Free/Paid.
Sutori
Sutori (former HSTRY): storytelling platform designed as a vertical timeline. Sutori is great for visualizing steps in a process, and for when you want to incorporate rich multimedia: you can embed images, PDF files, audio, videos, quizzes, Google Docs, tweets, forums, Padlets, and more into your timelines and share them via URL or embed code. …
Google Apps for Education
NYU has licensed a set of Google products to handle communication, calendars, file storage, and other teaching and learning apps, according to these Terms of Use. The full suite of Google Apps for Education include: Mail Calendar Drive (file storage and sharing) Classroom (course sites; NYU LMS (Brightspace) is the university’s official LMS) Docs (word processor) Sheets (spreadsheet) …
CartoDB’s Odyssey
CartoDB’s Odyssey: create interactive, map-driven stories in a simple sandbox, and embed the final product anywhere. Combine your text with Odyssey’s library , and explore templates, actions and behaviors directly on the sandbox prior to publishing. See an example.
ExplainEverything
ExplainEverything: a tablet-based application that enables you to create videos using original material such as a slideshow presentation, voice-over, images and others and its visual library. Free/Paid.
EkoStudio by Interlude
EkoStudio by Interlude: (Formally Treehouse by Interlude.) A free platform for creating interactive videos. Users can upload video clips and arrange them with a visual editor. Create menus for viewers to choose their path through the videos. Unlimited storage and projects. FREE/Premium.
Scalar
Scalar: open-source, media-rich scholarly publishing platform ideal for creating non-linear narratives. Requiring minimal technical expertise, this platform offers its authors a robust database system for to catalogue their work, which can be experienced by the public through different pathways, and from different access points. It supports collaborative authoring, reader comments, and offers a wide range of annotating tools. FREE.
Scenes
Scenes: Quickly create stories and storyboards without drawing using the elements included in this toolkit. Either print and cut out the story elements for in-person, hands-on collaboration, or use the digital images to create a story in presentation software such as PowerPoint. FREE.
Storybird Studio
Storybird Studio: a visual storytelling platform that curates original artwork to illustrate (and inspire) user-authored stories. Offers free trial educational accounts with simple classroom management tools. Free/Paid
Inform7
Inform7 is the latest version of Inform, a digital storytelling platform for creating interactive fiction in an easy to understand way. No coding experience is necessary. FREE.
TextAdventures.co.uk
TextAdventures.co.uk: a repository for interactive literature and text games created using Quest or Squiffy, open source tools for creating interactive fiction. FREE.
Scrivener
Scrivener: content and generation platform that offers several organization tools for your library. Contextualize your documents, add annotations, and seamlessly navigate through research documents without leaving the application. 30-day free trial period available. PAID.
Medium
Medium: a sleek blog-publishing platform designed for optimizing interactions between author and readers with marginalia comments, which can be made private or public (the latter, with the approval of the author). Comments can be enabled in fully published mode or in draft mode (whose visibility is limited to individuals with the unlisted link). Great platform …
StoryboardThat
StoryboardThat: quickly turn a narrative into a storyboard with this simple online platform featuring thousands of character and background images. 14-Day free trial. FREE/Premium.