Storytelling and editing tools

StoryKit (free)

• Create storybooks that include photos, drawing, text, and audio

• View on the iPad using app, no option to export

• Easy to upload to free internet page as images with buttons to listen to audio

Book Creator for iPad (paid) Book Creator Free (create one book)

• Add text, record audio, add music, video, draw, take photos

• Simple export directly into iBooks or Dropbox (wonderful feature!)

• Note: this is one of my favorite apps!

• How to publish Book Creator to iTunes (tutorials from Book Creator): Step 1, Step 2, Step 3

SPOKEnPHOTO (free)

• Create photo book from photo library images

• Add audio to each picture

• Publishes to web as a beautiful book, must have app to view on iPad

• Must have free account to use

Book Writer One (free for one book/in app purchase to unlock more books)

• Add text, record audio, add music, video, draw, take photos

• Export books in ePub format

• Similar to Book Creator

Shutterfly Photo Story (free)

• Create books with photos from your camera roll or Facebook, Instagram

• Beautiful templates, customize, add text, record short audio

• Share books for free via email, can also order printed book

• Must have Shutterfly account to use

Collins Big Cat series (free) search the app store for additional titles

• eBooks with great illustrations, audio, and interactive features

• Story creator feature in app for children to design pages with backgrounds, characters, text, and audio

• No way to save/share projects outside of app

My Story - Book Maker for Kids (paid)

• Create books with photos or drawings , add audio and text

• Cannot customize text font or placement

• Export directly to iBooks or Dropbox

Story Creator (free/paid for full version)

• Add photos or video (one per page), text, audio, simple drawing tools

• Cannot adjust the placement elements on the page

• Save online, share via email, must have app to view

eBook Creator (paid)

• Books in portrait or landscape view

• Add images via camera or photo library (cannot rotate images)

• Add text to box (uses template that you cannot change), record audio

• Share via email. Must have app to view

Writer's Studio (paid)

• Add images via camera or photo library, some clip art and drawing tools

• Add and format text, record audio

• Export book to iBooks, email as PDF or movie, share to social networks

Story Buddy (paid)

• Create books with text, photos, drawing tools

• Record audio narration for pages, use Story Buddy2 for iPad 2

• Share via email or file sharing

Creative Book Builder (paid)

• Add text, images from camera or camera roll, movies, record audio

• Search for Creative Commons photos in app

• Add elements into a page that scrolls down, rather than traditional pages

• Generates ePub that can be sent to iBooks and other apps, emailed, uploaded to Dropbox

Little Story Creator (free)

• Add photos, video, text, record audio, draw

• Read book in app, can set text to highlight as you read

• Must have account to share via email, post on web (audio doesn't post, it seems?)

Balloon Stickies Plus (free)

• Add cartoon bubbles to an individual photo

• Variety of styles, colors, fonts

• Email or save to camera roll

• Ads in free version

PhotoComic (paid)

• Create comics with multiple panels

• Add speech bubbles or action words, recently updated to add more features

• Export via email or save to camera roll

Halftone (paid)

• Turn a photo into an old fashioned comic page (one image only)

• Neat effects and fonts, add captions and speech bubbles

Comic Book (paid)

• Use multiple images to a variety of frame styles

• Add speech bubbles, captions, and stickers (some in app purchases for stickers)

• Has cool filters that let you add comic effects onto your photos

Kabaam (paid)

• Add multiple images, comic grows larger as you add them

• Add speech bubbles or words

• Export via email, camera roll, and more

Comic Life (paid)

• Beautiful full featured comic book builder!

• Many styles of basic templates, bubbles, fonts, layouts

Strip Designer (paid)

• Create comics with multiple frames, nice variety of formats

• Add text, speech bubbles, and stickers

• Save to camera roll, email, and share to social networks

Comics Head (free/paid for full version)

• Create comics with multiple frames and pages, add photos

• Comes with dozens of cartoon characters, backgrounds, and prop images

• Save to camera roll, email, and share to social networks

Drawing Box Free (free)

• Draw with pencil, chalk, ink, paint brush, and roller, includes clipart stamps and backgrounds

• Kid friendly format

• Saved pictures can be exported to camera roll or emailed (can only save 6 picts in free version)

• Can import photo from camera roll to draw over, no text option

• The paid version of Drawing Box ($2.99) offers many more features!

Drawing Pad (paid)

• Draw with paint, pencil, crayon, or marker, includes backgrounds and clipart

• Similar to KidPix, icons easy for children to navigate

• Save picture to album, camera roll, or export via email

• Can import photo from camera roll to draw over to draw over, now includes option to add text!

Doodle Buddy (free)

• Draw with brush, chalk, glitter, smudge, includes emoticon icons

• Can import photo from camera roll, can save to camera roll or export via email

• Ability to add text to drawings

• Includes ads

WowPaint (free)

• Very simple drawing app, great for younger students

• Draw with pencil, chalk, marker, smudge tool

• Includes ads

• Can export to camera roll

Hello Crayons and Hello Oil Painter (free)

• Simple drawing apps - draw with crayons, marker, paint, pencils

• Includes a paintbucket fill option

• Hello Oil Paint has a realistic textured paint blending option

• Can open and save images from and to camera roll

• Shop includes additonal in app features and coloring pages for purchase

Whiteoard Lite (free)

• Draw collaboratively with another iPad via wifi! Very basic tools

• Draw over photos

• Export to camera roll (no email option)

SketchbookX (free)

• Excellent free app with multiple drawing tools, layers

• Layers, insert photos, add text

• Additional tools available in Pro Version

Adobe Ideas (free)

• Create vector images using pencil, pen, and brush tools

• Can use pressure sensitive stylus

• Add text, use layers

ArtRage (paid)

• Basic drawing tools, plus oil paint, palette knife, watercolor, and airbrush

• Supports layers, import images to use as tracing reference for your drawings

• Record your paintings for playback

Brushes (free)

• Used by professionals for drawing on the iPad

• Multiple brush textures and blend modes

• Record your paintings for playback

ProCreate (paid)

• Creative app with a variety of drawing and painting tools

• Good for combining with photos and layers

Drawing Brush Free (free)

• Draw brush styles and effects (can add a variety of brushes to tool panel)

• Easy interface

• Also a My Brushes Pro version with more features, record drawing process

Art Studio (paid, lite version no longer available)

• Pencil, paint, and spray tools

• Layers and text tools

Flipink (paid)

• Create sketch notebooks using a variety of drawing tools

• Add photos and text

• Intuitive tools, can adjust size, color, and transparency

• Visual Notetaking using the Flipink app - I share why I especially like this app!

Paper53 (free for ink pen tool/in app purchase for additional features)

• Notebook app favored by artists for being sensitive to stylus touch

• Limited usefulness without purchasing additional tools

Auryn Ink (paid)

• Amazingly realistic watercolor painting on the iPad!

• Choice of canvas or papers to paint on, texture is reflected in the painting

• Paint with a wet or dry brush

Zen Brush (paid)

• Simulates the look of ink drawing

Colored Pencils (paid)

• Simulates the look of drawing with colored pencils

Chalkboard (free)

• Very basic program to draw with 5 colors of chalk

• Use in place of a dry erase board for students to do math problems or show answers

• Can save picture to camera roll

Glow Paint (free)

• Paint in neon bright colors on a black backgound! Cool!

• Can also paint over a photo from Photo Library or Camera

• Save to photo roll or email

iTag Grafitti (free)

• Draw with spray paint

• You can control the spray size and drips

• Includes ads

• Save to camera roll or email

Doodle Dandy (free)

• Fun tool that allows you to paint with multiple lines of symmetry in kaleidoscope effect

• Save to camera roll (no email)

KaleidoPaint (free)

• Create patterned designs and tessellations

• A variety of symmetry patterns to use in designs

• Use a variety of colors, thicknesses, backgrounds

TypeDrawing (paid, there is a free iPhone version if you wish to test it first)

• Amazing tool that lets you draw using words!

• Choice of fonts and colors, customize the words you use

• Save to camera roll, or png or pdf to iTunes (need to sync)

Faces I Make HD (paid)

• Create faces and other collages out of food, toys, and other objects

• Creative and fun

• Share projects via email or to camera roll

Pottery Lite (free)

• Use a virtual pottery wheel to create a vase

• Fire and glaze your vase

• Try to duplicate vases, earn extra features - gamelike format

• Includes ads

123D Creature (free)

• Use your fingers to shape a 3D figure

• View from all angles, paint and decorate with symmetry

• Save as flat image to camera roll

BlockArt HD (free)

• Create a 3D shape out of blocks

• Free version only lets you use a limited number of blocks

Wooden Doll 3D (free)

• Use a virtual wooden mannequin to pose a body

• Ads in free version

Popsicolor (paid)

PaintMee Lite and SketchMee Lite (free)

Percolator (paid)

PhotoTropedelic (paid)

Vegetable Me (free)

Jigzo (free)

Art Puzzles HD (free)

iMovie (free on new iOS devices)

• Full featured, easy movie editing on the iPad!

• Add text, transitions, and effects to your projects

• Save projects to camera roll or upload directly to Youtube or Vimeo

Splice (free/paid for full version)

• Easy and fast app to edit multiple video clips and images together

• Add simple titles, transitions, record audio, and add music

• Contains ads

• Export projects to camera roll

Animoto (free)

• Use this app to combine images and video clips into a movie with music and cool effects

• Direct upload online to Animoto site or download to camera roll

• Free full featured account for educators!

VidRhythm (free)

• Take short video clips to create wacky music videos

• Variety of templates to use

• Limited educational value, but oh so fun!

Pinnacle Studio (paid)

• Many features in this video editing app including adding music background

• Nice options for text, cool montage effects to combine multiple clips together

Vintagio (paid)

• Record videos with old-fashioned silent film effects!

• Edit your together multiple clips, add titles, and add music appropriate to a silent movie

Movie FX Cam (free)

• Live video recording (also still photos) using effects

• Old fashioned filters to create black and white, sepia, 60s style film

• Additional filters available for purchase in app

DoodleCam (free)

• Record video clips with effects

• Save clips to your camera roll for editing in iMovie or Splice

VideoFX Live (free)

• Nice variety of color and special effects to record live

• Works great with front or rear facing camera

Super8 (paid)

• Record videos with old-fashioned film effects

• Cool looking interface, but a bit confusing to navigate

Photo Booth (included on iPad)

• The original tool with 9 fun effects!

Orange Cam (free)

• 45 free effects!

• No watermark

CamWow (free)

• Comes with 24 photo effects

• Images are saved to camera roll with a watermark

• Contains ads

WeCam (paid)

• Multiple unique photo effects

• Contains ads

• No watermark on images saved to camera roll

ClassicBooth (paid)

• Take multiple photos to create strips of photobooth pictures

• A variety of color effects for your photos

• Save to camera roll

iStrips (free)

• Create photobooth strips (3 or 4 images) in color, black and white, or vintage

• Option to save to camera roll (convenient)

• Contains ads (some may not be appropriate for kids)

SoSo Camera Lite (free)

• Create sheets of multiple images with effects

FaceGoo HD Lite (free)

• Take your photo, then have fun stretching and distorting it!

• Fun for creative writing projects

AR Magic Mirror (free)

• Use Augmented Reality to add hats and wigs to your face

• Amazing cool 3D effect!

Dr. Seuss Camera (paid)

• Insert your face into a Dr. Seuss character or book cover!

Masterpiece Me! (free/in app purchases)

• Insert your face into a famous painting

• Male and female paintings (note: some semi nudity)

• Sixteen free paintings,more available for purchase

Snapseed (free)

• Easily adjust and enhance your photos like a professional

• Straighten, rotate, and crop

• Drama, vintage, grunge, and tilt-shift add dramatic effects

• My favorite photo editing app!

Fotolr PS HD (free)

• Rotate, crop, resize, adjust brightness and color

• Add text, frames, draw on pictures, add crazy hair, lip, and eye stickers

• Many beautiful photo filters!

Camera + (paid)

• Touch exposure, focus, flash, and zoom tools to use as you take your photos

• Use 2 fingers to focus and adjust exposure

• Dozens of effects and borders

PS Express (free)

• Crop, rotate, straighten, adjust exposure, saturation, and contrast

• Effects include sketch, soft focus, and a few color effects

• Add borders

Aviary (free)

• Crop, rotate, adjust brightness and saturation, enhance

• Nice set of filter effects

• Add frames and stickers, draw, and add text

BeFunky (free)

• Basic tools to crop, sharpen, rotate, and adjust photos

• Add cool grungy effects and frames to your photos

• Additional effects for purchase

Pixlr-o-matic (free/paid)

Repix (free/in app purchases)

My Sketch (paid)

PaintMee Lite and SketchMee Lite (free)

Waterlogue (paid)

Glaze (free/paid)

Photofunia (free)

Color Effects (free)

Tiny Planets (paid)

Fotobabble (free)

• Snap a photo and record a one minute audio description

• Instantly upload online to free Fotobabble account, easy publication!

• Easy for kids to use

Adobe Voice (free)

• Easy and intuitive app to create a narrated slideshow via

• Upload images, record your voice, add musics, customize style

• Search in app for images and icons, creates a credit page for media used!

Shadow Puppet Edu (free)

• Build narrated presentations with photos from your camera roll

• Large collection of copyright friendly images, online search tools

• Add drawings and music

• Note: has nothing to do with puppets!!!!

Explain Everything (paid)

• Upload multiple images at one time into your slideshow

• Record and edit audio - allow you to do multiple takes

• Can also add text and drawing, can record drawing over slides

• Save to camera roll, email, DropBox, Youtube, or Evernote

30 Hands (free)

• Upload multiple images, record audio

• Can redo audio recording! Helpful feature when working with kids!

• Save to camera roll or upload to free account

Sonic Pics (paid)

• Create a slideshow using your images

• Record an audio narration

• Email finished project, transfer via wifi, or upload to Youtube

StoryRobe (paid)

• Add photos or video, record narration

• Save finished product to camera roll or export to Youtube

Pixntell (free/paid for full version)

• Record audio to go with images to create slideshow (free version limited to 5 images)

• Upload to Youtube, Facebook, save to camera roll

• EDU version has full features

FaceJack (paid) - also try Face Talk or iFunFace

ChatterPix Kids (free)

Morpho (free)

PhotoSpeak (free)

Tellagami (free/paid for full edu version)

Funny Movie Maker (free)

Elf Lips (free)

Puppet Pals (free/paid for full version)

Puppet Pals 2 (free/paid for full version)

Sock Puppets (free/paid for full version)

Toontastic (now totally free!!)

Bible Buddies (free/paid for full version)

Art Maker (paid)