Writing Tools
Storymeter an iPad app that helps your creative writing by providing you with the tools to brainstorm, mind map and organize your notes and ideas. It also provide great writing tips to help you write better.Storymeter has this section with interesting video tutorials to help you learn about how you can use its feature in your writing.
A Novel Idea (gr 4- 12) Plot your story and record bursts of inspiration. Create characters, locations, scenes and novels and link them together. Arrange scenes by dragging and dropping.
Hemingwayapp.com, provides students with lots of helpful information about their text. To use the service students just paste some text into the Hemingway editor and it will provide you with a bunch of information about that text. Hemingway highlights the parts of your writing that use passive voice, adverbs, and overly complex sentences. All of those factors are accounted for in generating a general readability score for your passage. Here's a little video overview of Hemingway App.
davinci note - Publish image-rich stories, notes, and blog posts with this free iPad app.
Word Mover from Read Write Think. The app is designed to help students develop poems and short stories. When students open the Word Mover app they are shown a selection of words that they can drag onto a canvas to construct a poem or story. Word Mover provides students with eight canvas backgrounds on which they can construct their poems. If the word bank provided by Word Mover doesn’t offer enough words they can add their own words to the word bank.
TextingStory Chat Story Maker ( IOS | Android ) write stories and save as videos. Write a text conversation in TextingStory Create a video from your story
Rough Draft (IOS app) Ever write your first draft on a notepad? Writing on paper, you let go and just get your idea out. You don't get caught up perfecting the words too early. Rough Draft is like writing with pen and paper, so you can't delete words, only cross them out. Each "edit" reminds you that you're writing a rough draft.’
Narratavius play interactive fiction stories, also known as text adventures. Where Narratavius differs, though, is that it was designed from the ground up to run on iOS. Instead of typing commands into an on-screen keyboard, you will simply tap to make decisions.
Little Story Maker offers a magical way to enjoy your personal pictures and stories with your child. The little ones will love to hear stories with pictures of people and places they are familiar with. Older kids, will love the stories and the ability to easily create stories all on their own.’
Class Stories is a literacy resource for primary school teachers. Just by entering your students' names, you can generate exciting narratives where your students are the stars! Whether battling vampire teachers or surviving disastrous school excursions, these stories may engage your students. Each class story comes with printable comprehension questions and writing tasks. Your whole literacy block is taken care of! A perfect tool to engage reluctant readers and writers.
Scribeasy an environment in which students can write short stories. Students create stories on Scribeasy by first selecting a background image then dragging and dropping additional pictures onto their chosen background images. When students select objects to add to their backgrounds, a narrator reads the name of the object aloud. Once the visuals are in place on Scribeasy students then write a story about the scenes they've created. The next step is where Scribeasy shines. Scribeasy gives students a list of suggested words to use in their stories. The writing process is a timed activity. Students can choose to write for a short, medium, or large amount of time (they can extend the time if needed). Completed stories are saved in the app. Students can also save their stories to the camera roll on their iPads
VideoNotebooks This app allows you to take notes while watching a video. Notes are organized in notebooks, and each notebook corresponds to one video.The app also allows tagging individual notes to be able to retrieve a specific subset of notes across all notebooks later. Notebooks can be also tagged for better organization.
Jumbled Sentences series of free iPad apps comes the I Can Write series. I Can Write is a series of free iPad apps in which students are shown a picture that they have to complete by dragging objects into place. After dragging an object into place students write a sentence about the object in the scene. If the sentence is written correctly, the student will hear it read aloud. If the sentence is written incorrectly then the student will not hear it read aloud and will have to try again.
AutoRap will take your words and turn them into a rap
Plum’s Creaturizer from PBS Kids lets students create their own creatures. They can snap pictures of the outdoors to show where their creature might live and complete missions. This app pushes students to think about what type of habitat their creature might live and details about their lives.
Tumblr Journaling with easy to embed images, video and audio. Nice feature is that you can work offline
Infinite Canvas Built around the concept of an expandable story map with an interactive part that allows you to create a project with multiple paths, and let the viewer/reader/player make decisions that brings you along various paths of a story. video Journaling with easy to embed images, video and audio. Nice feature is that you can work offline
Journal Jar – students simply shake this app to get a writing prompt. Give them about 5 to 10 minutes to come up with stories based on this prompt.
Prompts for Writers: full of original writing prompts to ensure you never have a dull moment of writing. Feeling stuck? Press the lightning bolt at any time and you'll be presented with a prompt to help inspire you. Even if you don't know where to start writing, just open the app and press the plus button .
Storylines Students generate their creativity as well as build up their Vocabulary and sentence building skills. The way this works is a similar to a game of "telephone" where a person types a sentence of a story and then is followed by another drawing a picture to that sentence. The next person then titles that image and the process continues till the storyline is complete.
Adobe Voice. This free iPad app is very user friendly and makes the storytelling process simple for children young and old. Kids can add pictures, text, and even choose from different icons to bring their stories to life. Adobe Voice has an easy recording feature for students to add their voice as narration. There is a music library and a selection of themes for users to pick out and include in their final product.
A Novel Idea (gr 4- 12) Plot your story and record bursts of inspiration. Create characters, locations, scenes and novels and link them together. Arrange scenes by dragging and dropping.
Hemingwayapp.com, provides students with lots of helpful information about their text. To use the service students just paste some text into the Hemingway editor and it will provide you with a bunch of information about that text. Hemingway highlights the parts of your writing that use passive voice, adverbs, and overly complex sentences. All of those factors are accounted for in generating a general readability score for your passage. Here's a little video overview of Hemingway App.
davinci note - Publish image-rich stories, notes, and blog posts with this free iPad app.
Word Mover from Read Write Think. The app is designed to help students develop poems and short stories. When students open the Word Mover app they are shown a selection of words that they can drag onto a canvas to construct a poem or story. Word Mover provides students with eight canvas backgrounds on which they can construct their poems. If the word bank provided by Word Mover doesn’t offer enough words they can add their own words to the word bank.
TextingStory Chat Story Maker ( IOS | Android ) write stories and save as videos. Write a text conversation in TextingStory Create a video from your story
Rough Draft (IOS app) Ever write your first draft on a notepad? Writing on paper, you let go and just get your idea out. You don't get caught up perfecting the words too early. Rough Draft is like writing with pen and paper, so you can't delete words, only cross them out. Each "edit" reminds you that you're writing a rough draft.’
Narratavius play interactive fiction stories, also known as text adventures. Where Narratavius differs, though, is that it was designed from the ground up to run on iOS. Instead of typing commands into an on-screen keyboard, you will simply tap to make decisions.
Little Story Maker offers a magical way to enjoy your personal pictures and stories with your child. The little ones will love to hear stories with pictures of people and places they are familiar with. Older kids, will love the stories and the ability to easily create stories all on their own.’
Class Stories is a literacy resource for primary school teachers. Just by entering your students' names, you can generate exciting narratives where your students are the stars! Whether battling vampire teachers or surviving disastrous school excursions, these stories may engage your students. Each class story comes with printable comprehension questions and writing tasks. Your whole literacy block is taken care of! A perfect tool to engage reluctant readers and writers.
Scribeasy an environment in which students can write short stories. Students create stories on Scribeasy by first selecting a background image then dragging and dropping additional pictures onto their chosen background images. When students select objects to add to their backgrounds, a narrator reads the name of the object aloud. Once the visuals are in place on Scribeasy students then write a story about the scenes they've created. The next step is where Scribeasy shines. Scribeasy gives students a list of suggested words to use in their stories. The writing process is a timed activity. Students can choose to write for a short, medium, or large amount of time (they can extend the time if needed). Completed stories are saved in the app. Students can also save their stories to the camera roll on their iPads
VideoNotebooks This app allows you to take notes while watching a video. Notes are organized in notebooks, and each notebook corresponds to one video.The app also allows tagging individual notes to be able to retrieve a specific subset of notes across all notebooks later. Notebooks can be also tagged for better organization.
Jumbled Sentences series of free iPad apps comes the I Can Write series. I Can Write is a series of free iPad apps in which students are shown a picture that they have to complete by dragging objects into place. After dragging an object into place students write a sentence about the object in the scene. If the sentence is written correctly, the student will hear it read aloud. If the sentence is written incorrectly then the student will not hear it read aloud and will have to try again.
AutoRap will take your words and turn them into a rap
Plum’s Creaturizer from PBS Kids lets students create their own creatures. They can snap pictures of the outdoors to show where their creature might live and complete missions. This app pushes students to think about what type of habitat their creature might live and details about their lives.
Tumblr Journaling with easy to embed images, video and audio. Nice feature is that you can work offline
Infinite Canvas Built around the concept of an expandable story map with an interactive part that allows you to create a project with multiple paths, and let the viewer/reader/player make decisions that brings you along various paths of a story. video Journaling with easy to embed images, video and audio. Nice feature is that you can work offline
Journal Jar – students simply shake this app to get a writing prompt. Give them about 5 to 10 minutes to come up with stories based on this prompt.
Prompts for Writers: full of original writing prompts to ensure you never have a dull moment of writing. Feeling stuck? Press the lightning bolt at any time and you'll be presented with a prompt to help inspire you. Even if you don't know where to start writing, just open the app and press the plus button .
Storylines Students generate their creativity as well as build up their Vocabulary and sentence building skills. The way this works is a similar to a game of "telephone" where a person types a sentence of a story and then is followed by another drawing a picture to that sentence. The next person then titles that image and the process continues till the storyline is complete.
Adobe Voice. This free iPad app is very user friendly and makes the storytelling process simple for children young and old. Kids can add pictures, text, and even choose from different icons to bring their stories to life. Adobe Voice has an easy recording feature for students to add their voice as narration. There is a music library and a selection of themes for users to pick out and include in their final product.
Story Writing
Five Story Starting Apps
StoryBuddy 2 Lite StoryBuddy provides a magical platform to create, read and share multi-page stories
TeleStory takes you behind the scenes to create and broadcast your own TV show! Record a music video, teleport to an alien planet, film a high-speed-chase, or perform on a reality TV show - TeleStory is a TV studio in your pocket.
Plotagon is an app making stories come to life, with you in the director’s seat. Write your story, choose the characters, and press play – it's that simple.
TextingStory
A Novel Idea ‘A Novel Idea is the premier tool for plotting your story and recording bursts of inspiration. Use its simple interface to create your characters, locations, scenes, and novels and then link them together to create your story's plot. Use the Idea feature to quickly jot down your creative sparks and link them to your story elements. Arrange your scenes by dragging and dropping them into place. Add scene goals and objectives for each character.’
Imagistory is a creative storytelling app which uses wordless picture books. The idea behind the wordless books is that kids get to be the storytellers, simply by using their imaginations to tell the story using the pictures, creating it as they go. It's a new way for kids and parents/teachers to share a story together, ones which can be told a different way every time. It's also a great tool for engaging the imagination and helping to foster creativity and language skills.
TapStory for young learners that is ideal for digital storytelling. The way this works is a student reads a storybook on the iPad while animating the characters/objects by moving them across the screen w/ their finger while it records. Then they can play back the story for others and even add text for a caption. Students can even create their very own stories from scratch using existing clipart.
Bubble And Pebble Story- help these characters undergo adventures. Kids can then create their own Bubble and Pebble drawings of a new adventure then share these stories and drawings with their peers.
Toontastic – students can create stories based on cartoon characters.
Toontastic 3D from Google is an Android and iOS app that students can use to draw and animate their owns cartoons. "It’s as easy as play. Just move your characters around onscreen, tell your story, and Toontastic records your voice and animations and stores it on your device as a 3D video."
MovieToons ideal for digital storytelling. Encourage students to embrace their creativity by selecting characters, backgrounds, and animations, to create their very own unique 3D digital story. A finished story can then be shared online for others to view and rate. video tutorial
LaunchpadEDU is an educational portal for Launchpad iOS apps. This portal focuses on the use of the excellent digital storytelling app, Toontastic.
Shadow Puppet EDU the excellent free mobile iOS app for creating digital stories/videos has just released their biggest update. Version 2.0 allows users to upload video, search the web for animated gifs/images, add music from your iTunes library, and even draw on the screen for annotating. This is a very easy tool to use and allows educators/students to "flip" a lesson, cover a topic, or introduce digital storytelling. Also, Shadow Puppet has updated their site which has lots of different lesson plans, samples, and examples of how teachers are integrating SP into their classroom.
Tell About This for responding or creating a writing prompt. A teacher can use it as a writing prompt for students to tell a story. Best of all, a student can use the app to record their response right into the app. Also, a student/teacher can use it to create their own prompt or even use it for digital storytelling.
Videolicious- have students create video stories about themselves. They can try a 3,2,1 introduction where they list 3 places they would like to visit, 2 of their hobbies, and 1 embarrassing moment.
Pocket Mobile Resume app Have students use the app to demonstrate their knowledge of a historical figure’s personal information, experience and education, while choosing contemporaries to act as references and identify the skills and strengths of this person.
Studio Pango pre-K - 2)produces a bunch of iPad apps . Some of the apps are free and some of the apps require purchase. To get a sense of what the paid apps offer, try the free apps first. Free: Pango Book 1 and Pango Playground for Kids.
Storehouse is an iPad app for visual storytelling with your pictures and video clips. The basic idea behind Storehouse is to create stories by combining images, text, and video clips on a blank canvas. To create your stories you can import pictures and video from your iPad’s camera roll, from Instagram, from Dropbox, and from Flickr. You can arrange the sequence of the media by dragging and dropping it into place. You can add text above and below each picture or video clip in your story.
StoryBuddy 2 Lite StoryBuddy provides a magical platform to create, read and share multi-page stories
TeleStory takes you behind the scenes to create and broadcast your own TV show! Record a music video, teleport to an alien planet, film a high-speed-chase, or perform on a reality TV show - TeleStory is a TV studio in your pocket.
Plotagon is an app making stories come to life, with you in the director’s seat. Write your story, choose the characters, and press play – it's that simple.
TextingStory
A Novel Idea ‘A Novel Idea is the premier tool for plotting your story and recording bursts of inspiration. Use its simple interface to create your characters, locations, scenes, and novels and then link them together to create your story's plot. Use the Idea feature to quickly jot down your creative sparks and link them to your story elements. Arrange your scenes by dragging and dropping them into place. Add scene goals and objectives for each character.’
Imagistory is a creative storytelling app which uses wordless picture books. The idea behind the wordless books is that kids get to be the storytellers, simply by using their imaginations to tell the story using the pictures, creating it as they go. It's a new way for kids and parents/teachers to share a story together, ones which can be told a different way every time. It's also a great tool for engaging the imagination and helping to foster creativity and language skills.
TapStory for young learners that is ideal for digital storytelling. The way this works is a student reads a storybook on the iPad while animating the characters/objects by moving them across the screen w/ their finger while it records. Then they can play back the story for others and even add text for a caption. Students can even create their very own stories from scratch using existing clipart.
Bubble And Pebble Story- help these characters undergo adventures. Kids can then create their own Bubble and Pebble drawings of a new adventure then share these stories and drawings with their peers.
Toontastic – students can create stories based on cartoon characters.
Toontastic 3D from Google is an Android and iOS app that students can use to draw and animate their owns cartoons. "It’s as easy as play. Just move your characters around onscreen, tell your story, and Toontastic records your voice and animations and stores it on your device as a 3D video."
MovieToons ideal for digital storytelling. Encourage students to embrace their creativity by selecting characters, backgrounds, and animations, to create their very own unique 3D digital story. A finished story can then be shared online for others to view and rate. video tutorial
LaunchpadEDU is an educational portal for Launchpad iOS apps. This portal focuses on the use of the excellent digital storytelling app, Toontastic.
Shadow Puppet EDU the excellent free mobile iOS app for creating digital stories/videos has just released their biggest update. Version 2.0 allows users to upload video, search the web for animated gifs/images, add music from your iTunes library, and even draw on the screen for annotating. This is a very easy tool to use and allows educators/students to "flip" a lesson, cover a topic, or introduce digital storytelling. Also, Shadow Puppet has updated their site which has lots of different lesson plans, samples, and examples of how teachers are integrating SP into their classroom.
Tell About This for responding or creating a writing prompt. A teacher can use it as a writing prompt for students to tell a story. Best of all, a student can use the app to record their response right into the app. Also, a student/teacher can use it to create their own prompt or even use it for digital storytelling.
Videolicious- have students create video stories about themselves. They can try a 3,2,1 introduction where they list 3 places they would like to visit, 2 of their hobbies, and 1 embarrassing moment.
Pocket Mobile Resume app Have students use the app to demonstrate their knowledge of a historical figure’s personal information, experience and education, while choosing contemporaries to act as references and identify the skills and strengths of this person.
Studio Pango pre-K - 2)produces a bunch of iPad apps . Some of the apps are free and some of the apps require purchase. To get a sense of what the paid apps offer, try the free apps first. Free: Pango Book 1 and Pango Playground for Kids.
Storehouse is an iPad app for visual storytelling with your pictures and video clips. The basic idea behind Storehouse is to create stories by combining images, text, and video clips on a blank canvas. To create your stories you can import pictures and video from your iPad’s camera roll, from Instagram, from Dropbox, and from Flickr. You can arrange the sequence of the media by dragging and dropping it into place. You can add text above and below each picture or video clip in your story.
Poetry
Posterous- have students create poems or audio stories.
Lark K- 8 After registering, click on Create. Search through artwork. Click on lightning icon on artwork selection. Chose Poem. To publish click on menu (lower left)
Word Mover ( IOS app) Word Mover allows children and teens to create "found poetry" by choosing from word banks and existing famous works; additionally, users can add new words to create a piece of poetry by moving/manipulating the text.’
10 apps for creating poetry on the iPad
Word Mover gr 3 - 12 allows children and teens to create “found poetry” by choosing from word banks and existing famous works; additionally, users can add new words to create a piece of poetry by moving/manipulating the text.
Poetic Places– an iOS/Android app helping you encounter poems and literature at locations.
Haiku Poem App gr 3 -12 Students can learn about and write haiku using this app that guides them through the writing process.
Theme Poems is another terrific app available for iPads and Android tablets from the International Reading Association. Elementary school students can choose from a variety of themes and create a poem that takes
Poetry CreatorAfter creating a poem out of your own personal mix of dictionaries, you can send your creation to friends via email. Arranging words into your own poetry is much easier and smoother (and thus more enjoyable) using Verses.
Tranquillity - And if you are writing a simple poem, this free web app suggests rhymes, counts syllables, and gives you a clutter-free place to work.
Visual Poetry create custom word clouds. The app’s name implies that it only works for poetry, but it will work with any text that you write. Visual Poetry allows you to choose from a menu of word cloud shapes. If the shapes in the menu aren’t quite what you’re after, you can draw your own shapes to use for your word clouds. By default Visual Poetry makes the most common words the largest, but you can make other words the featured words by simply typing them into your word clouds.
Visual Poet: Visual Poet is an application for creating visual poetry. With Visual Poet, the user can combine imagery and text to author compelling mixed media works of art and publish them to the internet. Create 3 panel visual poems using Google images or from your own photo library and then email your work.
Lark K- 8 After registering, click on Create. Search through artwork. Click on lightning icon on artwork selection. Chose Poem. To publish click on menu (lower left)
Word Mover ( IOS app) Word Mover allows children and teens to create "found poetry" by choosing from word banks and existing famous works; additionally, users can add new words to create a piece of poetry by moving/manipulating the text.’
10 apps for creating poetry on the iPad
Word Mover gr 3 - 12 allows children and teens to create “found poetry” by choosing from word banks and existing famous works; additionally, users can add new words to create a piece of poetry by moving/manipulating the text.
Poetic Places– an iOS/Android app helping you encounter poems and literature at locations.
Haiku Poem App gr 3 -12 Students can learn about and write haiku using this app that guides them through the writing process.
Theme Poems is another terrific app available for iPads and Android tablets from the International Reading Association. Elementary school students can choose from a variety of themes and create a poem that takes
Poetry CreatorAfter creating a poem out of your own personal mix of dictionaries, you can send your creation to friends via email. Arranging words into your own poetry is much easier and smoother (and thus more enjoyable) using Verses.
Tranquillity - And if you are writing a simple poem, this free web app suggests rhymes, counts syllables, and gives you a clutter-free place to work.
Visual Poetry create custom word clouds. The app’s name implies that it only works for poetry, but it will work with any text that you write. Visual Poetry allows you to choose from a menu of word cloud shapes. If the shapes in the menu aren’t quite what you’re after, you can draw your own shapes to use for your word clouds. By default Visual Poetry makes the most common words the largest, but you can make other words the featured words by simply typing them into your word clouds.
Visual Poet: Visual Poet is an application for creating visual poetry. With Visual Poet, the user can combine imagery and text to author compelling mixed media works of art and publish them to the internet. Create 3 panel visual poems using Google images or from your own photo library and then email your work.
Comics
Comic Puppets Create comic strips with the option to switch people faces for the cartoon characters.
Comic Head The app makes it easy to create comics even if you don’t have any drawing skills. To create comics on Comics Head you simply choose a template then add a background, characters, and speech bubbles from the art galleries. You can mix and match the backgrounds and characters as much as you like until you arrive at the perfect combination for your story.
For iPad :
Lite version: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/comics-head-lite/id525363849?mt=8
Full version: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/comics-head/id480969185?mt=8
Make Belief Comix allows you to do pretty much the same thing you would do on its web-based platform. You can use it with your students to create and narrate stories using a wide variety of comic characters and many other tools.
Tellagami Also available for Android
Cookie Next Door is a sandbox to experience the creative play of story telling by being a co-creator and voice actor in an adventurous tale. The kit includes a creative comic book, voice over studio and animated stage projector.
Perfect Captions add captions to photos with a variety of fonts and shapes
Friendstrip add captions to photos for comic effect or cartoon editorials allows kids to get creative by using their own photos to make a comic strip with over 80 scenarios that can be fully customized. FriendStrip Kids makes it easy on the user to build a comic by showing what stance a kid needs to make in order to complete the comic. After that, kids can throw in a few items on the screen and have their own special comic strip that features them!
Camera Art FX - real time effects for pencil sketch, comic, watercolor, poster, cartoon ...
Creaza 1.99 extensive multimedia and editing tools
Halftone 2 1.99 create simple comic strips based on your pictures. To get started with Halftone 2 you choose a layout for your comic then import pictures from your iPad’s camera roll. You can add borders and visual effects to each of your imported pictures. After arranging your pictures you can add text in a variety of comic styles. Completed projects can be shared in a variety of ways including email, Dropbox, Twitter, and saving to camera roll. Watch the short video below to learn more about Halftone 2.
StoryMe lets you design personalized comic strips from your own photos. Create beautiful framed collages with speech bubbles and captions – then apply a unique cartoon filter! Turn individual images into a story in seconds.
Zoodle Create and publish your own comic strips on the iPad with Zoodle Comics! When you are done creating your comic strip, preview it using multiple layouts, then save it or share it with your friends and family. Save the resulting comic strip to your photo album or share it on Facebook.
StoryMe lets you design personalized comic strips from your own photos. Create beautiful framed collages with speech bubbles and captions – then apply a unique cartoon filter! Turn individual images into a story in seconds.
Strip Designer 2.99 create comic strips with photos on your iPad
Comic Book 1.99 create comic books with nice options like panels, special effects, sticker artwork. support page
Comic Life - 4.99 Probably the most popular digital comic iOS app for creating comics. This is an easy to use app for telling the story by creating a customized comic.
Comic Head The app makes it easy to create comics even if you don’t have any drawing skills. To create comics on Comics Head you simply choose a template then add a background, characters, and speech bubbles from the art galleries. You can mix and match the backgrounds and characters as much as you like until you arrive at the perfect combination for your story.
For iPad :
Lite version: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/comics-head-lite/id525363849?mt=8
Full version: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/comics-head/id480969185?mt=8
Make Belief Comix allows you to do pretty much the same thing you would do on its web-based platform. You can use it with your students to create and narrate stories using a wide variety of comic characters and many other tools.
Tellagami Also available for Android
Cookie Next Door is a sandbox to experience the creative play of story telling by being a co-creator and voice actor in an adventurous tale. The kit includes a creative comic book, voice over studio and animated stage projector.
- Creative Comic Book: Storyboards are perfect training wheels for imaginative minds to learn the story telling experience. Unlock pages, sound effects and other surprises as you create dialog, sound effects and narrate each frame.
- Voice Over Studio: Tell the tale. Become the narrator and voice actor of the unfolding drama. Record your voice and hear your speech magically transformed into a cast members of the tale.
- Animated Stage Projector: Once you complete your story, experience it as a play projected on moving screens with dancing props to highlight the action.
Perfect Captions add captions to photos with a variety of fonts and shapes
Friendstrip add captions to photos for comic effect or cartoon editorials allows kids to get creative by using their own photos to make a comic strip with over 80 scenarios that can be fully customized. FriendStrip Kids makes it easy on the user to build a comic by showing what stance a kid needs to make in order to complete the comic. After that, kids can throw in a few items on the screen and have their own special comic strip that features them!
Camera Art FX - real time effects for pencil sketch, comic, watercolor, poster, cartoon ...
Creaza 1.99 extensive multimedia and editing tools
Halftone 2 1.99 create simple comic strips based on your pictures. To get started with Halftone 2 you choose a layout for your comic then import pictures from your iPad’s camera roll. You can add borders and visual effects to each of your imported pictures. After arranging your pictures you can add text in a variety of comic styles. Completed projects can be shared in a variety of ways including email, Dropbox, Twitter, and saving to camera roll. Watch the short video below to learn more about Halftone 2.
StoryMe lets you design personalized comic strips from your own photos. Create beautiful framed collages with speech bubbles and captions – then apply a unique cartoon filter! Turn individual images into a story in seconds.
Zoodle Create and publish your own comic strips on the iPad with Zoodle Comics! When you are done creating your comic strip, preview it using multiple layouts, then save it or share it with your friends and family. Save the resulting comic strip to your photo album or share it on Facebook.
StoryMe lets you design personalized comic strips from your own photos. Create beautiful framed collages with speech bubbles and captions – then apply a unique cartoon filter! Turn individual images into a story in seconds.
Strip Designer 2.99 create comic strips with photos on your iPad
Comic Book 1.99 create comic books with nice options like panels, special effects, sticker artwork. support page
Comic Life - 4.99 Probably the most popular digital comic iOS app for creating comics. This is an easy to use app for telling the story by creating a customized comic.
Drawing and Writing
Doodle Buddy for students who like to express themselves through drawing. Pictures from Doodle Buddy can also be saved on your camera roll and be imported into Story Patch.
Draw and Tell a drawing app for kids of all ages. Draw or color, add stickers, then talk about your drawing. Move the stickers to create an animation! Your memories and voice recording will be saved with your drawing.
Doodlecast for Kids (2.99) allows students to create short whiteboard videos. Students can create short videos by drawing on a blank whiteboard. Students can record their voices as they draw on the whiteboard. Students who are struggling to start their stories can use one of the twenty-three story prompts
Flip Book for iPad, for Android, and for use in your web browser (Chrome or Firefox is recommended).
RWT Flip Book lets students create books by typing or by drawing on the pages in their books. There is a variety of page templates that students can choose to use within their books. Some templates are text-only, some are drawing-only, and some are a mix of drawing and text templates. To use RWT Flip Book students simply open the app, enter their first names, then start creating their first pages.
123D Creature Using 123D Creature students can draw three dimensional model creatures on their iPads. The creatures start with a basic skeleton and the app users take it from there. Models can have many limbs, colors, positions, and special effects added to them. When the model is complete it can be saved and or printed. If your students are writing short, science fiction stories they could use 123D Creature to create some models to use in their stories.
Word Mover from Read Write Think. The app is designed to help students develop poems and short stories. When students open the Word Mover app they are shown a selection of words that they can drag onto a canvas to construct a poem or story. Word Mover provides students with eight canvas backgrounds on which they can construct their poems. If the word bank provided by Word Mover doesn’t offer enough words they can add their own words to the word bank.
Paper and Pencil by 53. writing and art app in which sketches, paintings, notes and image editing can be completed.
Bubble And Pebble Story- help these characters undergo adventures. Kids can then create their own Bubble and Pebble drawings of a new adventure then share these stories and drawings with their peers.
Draw and Tell a drawing app for kids of all ages. Draw or color, add stickers, then talk about your drawing. Move the stickers to create an animation! Your memories and voice recording will be saved with your drawing.
Doodlecast for Kids (2.99) allows students to create short whiteboard videos. Students can create short videos by drawing on a blank whiteboard. Students can record their voices as they draw on the whiteboard. Students who are struggling to start their stories can use one of the twenty-three story prompts
Flip Book for iPad, for Android, and for use in your web browser (Chrome or Firefox is recommended).
RWT Flip Book lets students create books by typing or by drawing on the pages in their books. There is a variety of page templates that students can choose to use within their books. Some templates are text-only, some are drawing-only, and some are a mix of drawing and text templates. To use RWT Flip Book students simply open the app, enter their first names, then start creating their first pages.
123D Creature Using 123D Creature students can draw three dimensional model creatures on their iPads. The creatures start with a basic skeleton and the app users take it from there. Models can have many limbs, colors, positions, and special effects added to them. When the model is complete it can be saved and or printed. If your students are writing short, science fiction stories they could use 123D Creature to create some models to use in their stories.
Word Mover from Read Write Think. The app is designed to help students develop poems and short stories. When students open the Word Mover app they are shown a selection of words that they can drag onto a canvas to construct a poem or story. Word Mover provides students with eight canvas backgrounds on which they can construct their poems. If the word bank provided by Word Mover doesn’t offer enough words they can add their own words to the word bank.
Paper and Pencil by 53. writing and art app in which sketches, paintings, notes and image editing can be completed.
Bubble And Pebble Story- help these characters undergo adventures. Kids can then create their own Bubble and Pebble drawings of a new adventure then share these stories and drawings with their peers.
Word Clouds
Cloudart (.99) app for creating word clouds. This is a very easy to use app where a user can either add the text they want in their clouds or transform text from a webpage into a cloud. Also, a user can edit their cloud once it is created to emphasize on certain words.
Word Clouds by ABCya just type or paste text into the text field. After entering your text Word Clouds by ABCya will generate a visual representation of the most common words in your passage of text. You can customize the generated word cloud by choosing different fonts, different color schemes, and by excluding words from the word cloud. Your word clouds can be saved directly to your iPad’s camera roll.
Wowed “Create beautiful word clouds on your iPhone from tweets, webpages, and more. Choose from a range of different fonts, colors, and layouts to customise the appearance of the clouds that you create.”
Wordsalad Make great wordsalads out of documents that matter (or not) to you! With WordSalad you can make beautiful word clouds, super customized with different fonts, colors and words layouts.
Visual Poetry create custom word clouds. The app’s name implies that it only works for poetry, but it will work with any text that you write. Visual Poetry allows you to choose from a menu of word cloud shapes. If the shapes in the menu aren’t quite what you’re after, you can draw your own shapes to use for your word clouds. By default Visual Poetry makes the most common words the largest, but you can make other words the featured words by simply typing them into your word clouds.
Word Clouds by ABCya just type or paste text into the text field. After entering your text Word Clouds by ABCya will generate a visual representation of the most common words in your passage of text. You can customize the generated word cloud by choosing different fonts, different color schemes, and by excluding words from the word cloud. Your word clouds can be saved directly to your iPad’s camera roll.
Wowed “Create beautiful word clouds on your iPhone from tweets, webpages, and more. Choose from a range of different fonts, colors, and layouts to customise the appearance of the clouds that you create.”
Wordsalad Make great wordsalads out of documents that matter (or not) to you! With WordSalad you can make beautiful word clouds, super customized with different fonts, colors and words layouts.
Visual Poetry create custom word clouds. The app’s name implies that it only works for poetry, but it will work with any text that you write. Visual Poetry allows you to choose from a menu of word cloud shapes. If the shapes in the menu aren’t quite what you’re after, you can draw your own shapes to use for your word clouds. By default Visual Poetry makes the most common words the largest, but you can make other words the featured words by simply typing them into your word clouds.
Photo Stories
_Perfect Captions in your classroom. For example, use this app with primary source documents, but it’s also perfect for reinforcing literacy skills. Have students create captions to record their predictions, to jot questions that they have, or write dialogue for the main character.
i Tell a Story Choose a picture from your photo album, tell a short story about it, add music from your library and sound effects from the small library in the app. Save the story to be played on your iPad, or email it as an .m4a audio file that can be opened with apps like iTunes or Windows Media Player.
StoryMe lets you design personalized comic strips from your own photos. Create beautiful framed collages with speech bubbles and captions – then apply a unique cartoon filter! Turn individual images into a story in seconds.
Trading Cards s app allows kids and teens a unique way to share their understanding of various topics, to build study aids for school, or to create their own fictional world of characters. Create trading cards for any number of categories, including:
• Fictional person, Real person, Fictional place, Real place, Object, Event, Vocabulary word
Red Stamp Cards Email, text, tweet, post to Facebook and Instagram, and mail personalized, paper cards, notes, invitations + announcements right from your iPhone or iPad Android version
Bill Atkinson PhotoCard Postcard create custom-designed postcards including text
PhotoCard Create unique custom-designed postcards
30hands - A fantastic user-friendly app for creating a story by adding a narrations to photos. Also has an excellent video tutorial to help users create a story.
Pocket Mobile Resume app Have students use the app to demonstrate their knowledge of a historical figure’s personal information, experience and education, while choosing contemporaries to act as references and identify the skills and strengths of this person.
Adobe Voice. This free iPad app is very user friendly and makes the storytelling process simple for children young and old. Kids can add pictures, text, and even choose from different icons to bring their stories to life. Adobe Voice has an easy recording feature for students to add their voice as narration. There is a music library and a selection of themes for users to pick out and include in their final product.
Fotobabble App- students take a picture and tell the story of that picture. Have students take a picture of their favorite place and talk about it or if you are reading a story, have your students take a picture that reminds them of a scene from the story and explain why they chose that picture.
VoiceThread- students can post videos, drawings, images and more then have their classmates comment on what they upload.
Storehouse is an iPad app for visual storytelling with your pictures and video clips. The basic idea behind Storehouse is to create stories by combining images, text, and video clips on a blank canvas. To create your stories you can import pictures and video from your iPad’s camera roll, from Instagram, from Dropbox, and from Flickr. You can arrange the sequence of the media by dragging and dropping it into place. You can add text above and below each picture or video clip in your story.
PicView is a free iPad app that makes it easy to create simple photo stories. PicView allows you to create an audio recording about a picture. Your images can be enhanced with some simple color filters, border designs, a title, and markers. Your completed PicView story can be shared via email, posted on the PicView site, shared on Facebook, or shared on Twitter.
Little Story Maker Add pictures, text and audio to create a story. Three playback modes - read to me, read by myself, and auto-play which automatically turns from page to page.
i Tell a Story Choose a picture from your photo album, tell a short story about it, add music from your library and sound effects from the small library in the app. Save the story to be played on your iPad, or email it as an .m4a audio file that can be opened with apps like iTunes or Windows Media Player.
StoryMe lets you design personalized comic strips from your own photos. Create beautiful framed collages with speech bubbles and captions – then apply a unique cartoon filter! Turn individual images into a story in seconds.
Trading Cards s app allows kids and teens a unique way to share their understanding of various topics, to build study aids for school, or to create their own fictional world of characters. Create trading cards for any number of categories, including:
• Fictional person, Real person, Fictional place, Real place, Object, Event, Vocabulary word
Red Stamp Cards Email, text, tweet, post to Facebook and Instagram, and mail personalized, paper cards, notes, invitations + announcements right from your iPhone or iPad Android version
Bill Atkinson PhotoCard Postcard create custom-designed postcards including text
PhotoCard Create unique custom-designed postcards
30hands - A fantastic user-friendly app for creating a story by adding a narrations to photos. Also has an excellent video tutorial to help users create a story.
Pocket Mobile Resume app Have students use the app to demonstrate their knowledge of a historical figure’s personal information, experience and education, while choosing contemporaries to act as references and identify the skills and strengths of this person.
Adobe Voice. This free iPad app is very user friendly and makes the storytelling process simple for children young and old. Kids can add pictures, text, and even choose from different icons to bring their stories to life. Adobe Voice has an easy recording feature for students to add their voice as narration. There is a music library and a selection of themes for users to pick out and include in their final product.
Fotobabble App- students take a picture and tell the story of that picture. Have students take a picture of their favorite place and talk about it or if you are reading a story, have your students take a picture that reminds them of a scene from the story and explain why they chose that picture.
VoiceThread- students can post videos, drawings, images and more then have their classmates comment on what they upload.
Storehouse is an iPad app for visual storytelling with your pictures and video clips. The basic idea behind Storehouse is to create stories by combining images, text, and video clips on a blank canvas. To create your stories you can import pictures and video from your iPad’s camera roll, from Instagram, from Dropbox, and from Flickr. You can arrange the sequence of the media by dragging and dropping it into place. You can add text above and below each picture or video clip in your story.
PicView is a free iPad app that makes it easy to create simple photo stories. PicView allows you to create an audio recording about a picture. Your images can be enhanced with some simple color filters, border designs, a title, and markers. Your completed PicView story can be shared via email, posted on the PicView site, shared on Facebook, or shared on Twitter.
Little Story Maker Add pictures, text and audio to create a story. Three playback modes - read to me, read by myself, and auto-play which automatically turns from page to page.
Book Writing
StoryBots- create books on the iPad starring the student! The app is free for the iPad. Includes animations and art. Various options to purchase the book.
StoryKit App- students can create detailed books about their lives, what they imagine, or change the ending of a classic story. This app allows students to take old classic books like the 3 Little Pigs and edit the pages. Students can even tell the story from a different point-of-view.
Android Book Creating Apps for Students
Demibooks interactive books. If you’re an author, illustrator, designer or publisher, and you’ve got a story to tell – then this app is for you! Versatile and incredibly easy-to-use. Create your own book apps with realistic physics, animation, sounds and visual effects. Share your stories with your friends via Composer or use our PrintShop web service to publish your book app back to the App Store!
Book Creator 4.99 includes record narration and video options How-to share your book with Dropbox click here
Scribble Press 3.99 draw and import graphics, no audio recording
Bookabi free add text, characters, audio record, import graphics, no drawing capabilities. Simple tutorial
StoryKit App- students can create detailed books about their lives, what they imagine, or change the ending of a classic story. This app allows students to take old classic books like the 3 Little Pigs and edit the pages. Students can even tell the story from a different point-of-view.
Android Book Creating Apps for Students
Demibooks interactive books. If you’re an author, illustrator, designer or publisher, and you’ve got a story to tell – then this app is for you! Versatile and incredibly easy-to-use. Create your own book apps with realistic physics, animation, sounds and visual effects. Share your stories with your friends via Composer or use our PrintShop web service to publish your book app back to the App Store!
Book Creator 4.99 includes record narration and video options How-to share your book with Dropbox click here
Scribble Press 3.99 draw and import graphics, no audio recording
Bookabi free add text, characters, audio record, import graphics, no drawing capabilities. Simple tutorial
Journaling
Speech Journal ideal for either digital storytelling or Special Ed. Allows users to add photos into a nice looking slideshow as well as record their voice to add to each image. It's a very a simple tool and can be used by any age group.
Tumblr Journaling with easy to embed images, video and audio. Nice feature is that you can work offline
Journal Jar – students simply shake this app to get a writing prompt. Give them about 5 to 10 minutes to come up with stories based on this prompt.
Kid's Journal (1.99) Children can record their feelings, location (i.e. home, school, on vacation), or the weather. Kid’s Journal entries have the option to post a photo and include room for text to add more details about the day.
Seesaw empowers students to document and share what they are learning in class.Students (as young as 5!) can independently create, capture, and store artifacts of learning in their private learning journal.Parents (after teacher approval) get notified of new items, giving them a glimpse of their child’s day and an opportunity to support learning at home.”
Tumblr Journaling with easy to embed images, video and audio. Nice feature is that you can work offline
Journal Jar – students simply shake this app to get a writing prompt. Give them about 5 to 10 minutes to come up with stories based on this prompt.
Kid's Journal (1.99) Children can record their feelings, location (i.e. home, school, on vacation), or the weather. Kid’s Journal entries have the option to post a photo and include room for text to add more details about the day.
Seesaw empowers students to document and share what they are learning in class.Students (as young as 5!) can independently create, capture, and store artifacts of learning in their private learning journal.Parents (after teacher approval) get notified of new items, giving them a glimpse of their child’s day and an opportunity to support learning at home.”
Blogging
Kidblog Good blog for K - 8
Easy Blog Jr designed so early childhood to elementary school students have an easy way to publish a online journal Blogger for iPad
Blogger for iPad Guide you will find more than just directions for using Blogger. You’ll find ideas for blogging activities to do with your students as well as lots of tips that I’ve picked up through seven years of using
Tumblr Journaling with easy to embed images, video and audio. Nice feature is that you can work offline
Posterous
WordPress
Easy Blog Jr designed so early childhood to elementary school students have an easy way to publish a online journal Blogger for iPad
Blogger for iPad Guide you will find more than just directions for using Blogger. You’ll find ideas for blogging activities to do with your students as well as lots of tips that I’ve picked up through seven years of using
Tumblr Journaling with easy to embed images, video and audio. Nice feature is that you can work offline
Posterous
WordPress
Research Tools
Penultimate The most natural digital handwriting experience on iPad, Penultimate gives you the convenience and feel of writing on paper with the added power and availability of Evernote. Take notes in class or a meeting, journal your thoughts, or outline your next big idea.
LiquidText for researching, annotating, and highlighting your documents, websites, and PDF's. Liquid Text offers a fast, tactile way to review, gather, and organize information across all your documents and webpages – then apply the results to writing reports, meeting prep, or simply studying. Pull out key facts and connect them together, squeeze a document to compare sections, comment on multiple pages at once, build upon your thoughts, and much more.
Mendely is your personal research library. Carry thousands of PDFs in your pocket. Read and annotate them on the go, search your entire library, and easily sync everything between your iPhone, iPad, and Mendeley Desktop
EBSCO host host databases and discovery technologies are the most-used, premium online information resources for tens of thousands of institutions worldwide.
Endnote Find, store, create and share from anywhere with EndNote® - the most powerful research productivity tool on the market. With flexible tools for searching, organizing and creating research, the EndNote® for iPad app extends your ability to stay on top of cutting edge research
Articles Just enter a search term and let Articles find the Wiki entry you are looking for. Use the integrated maps feature to learn about interesting places and historic events around your current location, or anywhere else in the world. Or simply shake your device and let Articles find an entry for you. Mark interesting entries you want to read in the future and search text in the currently open document.
LiquidText for researching, annotating, and highlighting your documents, websites, and PDF's. Liquid Text offers a fast, tactile way to review, gather, and organize information across all your documents and webpages – then apply the results to writing reports, meeting prep, or simply studying. Pull out key facts and connect them together, squeeze a document to compare sections, comment on multiple pages at once, build upon your thoughts, and much more.
Mendely is your personal research library. Carry thousands of PDFs in your pocket. Read and annotate them on the go, search your entire library, and easily sync everything between your iPhone, iPad, and Mendeley Desktop
EBSCO host host databases and discovery technologies are the most-used, premium online information resources for tens of thousands of institutions worldwide.
Endnote Find, store, create and share from anywhere with EndNote® - the most powerful research productivity tool on the market. With flexible tools for searching, organizing and creating research, the EndNote® for iPad app extends your ability to stay on top of cutting edge research
Articles Just enter a search term and let Articles find the Wiki entry you are looking for. Use the integrated maps feature to learn about interesting places and historic events around your current location, or anywhere else in the world. Or simply shake your device and let Articles find an entry for you. Mark interesting entries you want to read in the future and search text in the currently open document.