IMAGE NARRATION
| 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
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| Sonic Pics (paid)
- Create a slideshow using your images
- Record an audio narration
- Email finished project, transfer via wifi, or upload to Youtube
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| StoryRobe (paid)
- Add photos or video, record narration
- Save finished product to camera roll or export to Youtube
| | 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
| | 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
| | 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
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TALKING CHARACTERS
| FaceJack (paid) - also try Face Talk or iFunFace
- Upload a picture and record audio to create a talking face! Great for biography reports!
- Download finished video to Photo Library or upload to Youtube
|  | ChatterPix Kids (free)
- Upload or take a photo
- Draw a line to create a mouth (simple for young students), record 30 seconds
- Can add text to video - great for adding names to projects
- Share or save to camera roll
|  | Morpho (free)
- Make talking 3D faces from still images
- Eyes and head moves as the image talks - amazing and cool!
|  | Tellagami (free)
- Design a 3D talking full body avatar
- Add background from their collection or your camera roll
- Record 30 seconds of audio
- Can save project to camera roll or upload via an account (account not required!)
| | Funny Movie Maker (free)- Superimposes your moving lips onto a still image to make the character talk
- Note: contains ads
|  | Elf Lips (free)
- Superimposes your moving lips onto a still image to make the character talk
- Contains holiday images, but can add your own photos from camera or photo library
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TALKING ANIMATED STORIES:
| Puppet Pals (free/paid for full version)
- Easy way to create animated talking video stories
- Comes with wild west theme (very limited), purchase Director's Pass to add more characters and to add photos as characters and backgrounds.
- Export finished videos to camera roll or Youtube
|  | Puppet Pals 2 (free/paid for full version)
- Create stories with animated moving puppets
- Put your face on a puppet!
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| Sock Puppets (free/paid for full version)
- Create a animated talking puppet show! (30 seconds of recording time in free version)
- Sock Puppets Complete adds more features, including save to camera roll
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| Toontastic (free/paid for School Edition)
- Animated stories broken down into easy to follow directions with audio
- All Access Pass comes with many more settings and characters, including option to paint your own
- Share finished videos to your free Toontastic account or to camera roll
|  | Bible Buddies (free/paid for full version)
- Create animated Bible stories, add your own audio narration
- Characters and backgrounds for a variety of stories (one story in free version)
- From the makers of Puppet Pals
| | | Art Maker (paid)
- Create simple animated talking stories
- Very cute backgrounds and characters
- Now allows you to save projects to camera roll!
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OTHER IMAGE/TEXT TOOLS | Postcards! (free)
- Upload an image and add text to a postcard
- Send via email
- Easy creative way to do simple geography reports
| | Card Shop (paid)
- Designed for making custom postcards
- Use their images or your own
- Save to camera roll or email finished projects
| | PhotoCard (free)
- From photographer Bill Atkinson
- Add images and text
- Save to camera roll
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| Trading Cards (free)
- Design trading cards using classroom research
- Add photos and text
- Templates cannot be altered
| | Write About This (free/paid for full version)
- Photo story prompts for student writing
- Options to search for ideas and create your own prompt
- Write story in app, email final project, save to camera roll
- Now lets you record audio!
- Also Tell About This app for younger students!
| | Pages (free on new devices/$9.99)
- Create beautiful documents with text and images
- Flexible and intuitive features
| | Keynote (free on new devices/$9.99)- Although designed to create/view presentations, a creative use of Keynote is to make "books" that can be viewed on the iPad.
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