Good but bad
The app itself is really easy to use, it took me a minute do discover it had pages, a welcome addition. It seemed it would be great. But, as I wanted to read it, it crashed. Now, it does it every time. Sort that out, and its great!
Crashes, Freezes, and Not Consistent
Amazing/outstanding app - but not reliable. During workshop of teachers who were so excited to create own story, record voice, and have the words highlight when read … only to have it crash at the last step. Please fix …
Potential
Theoretically this is an amazing app...unfortunately it glitches.
Small app size is a bonus, super easy to insert photos from the camera (but requires cropping to square, can't even zoom out to have white borders around a landscape so prepare to lose some visual information). The recording and text highlighting option is, again, brilliant, but glitches. Easy to use interface; easy to type text, easy to record, easy to move pins for highlighting option (notes on use may be helpful, since once I figured out I just had to touch the pinhead to hear a sound bit I could work fast).
So much fun that invisible sound buttons can be placed on the photo, and those seem to work.
However...the recordings for the text don't always work (not sure if it happens when you get too many pages or go back to record out of order or edit) as the last recording gets assigned to the first page and the rest are silent (though highlighting still happens). Also, sometimes when you try to create a new book, the last one created is duplicated, and when I tried to remove the double all the info in my first book was erased too. :( very frustrating after putting in so much work. Also, save doesn't always work- went in to remove all punctuation so word library could be used and changes did not save.
It would be nice if slightly longer sentences could fit on a page. Nice if the templates matched what you get (both show the text under the photo, and both overlap the photo-should have one of each). Nice if the arrow after the last page in a book took you back to the bookshelf rather than crashing. Nice if the word library could recognize punctuation!
When I get a book that works my son smiles and laughs to hear the narration, loves to look at the pictures and to see himself in the stories. I can see how this app would be perfect if it wasn't for the above listed flaws. Just needs a little work.
Small app size is a bonus, super easy to insert photos from the camera (but requires cropping to square, can't even zoom out to have white borders around a landscape so prepare to lose some visual information). The recording and text highlighting option is, again, brilliant, but glitches. Easy to use interface; easy to type text, easy to record, easy to move pins for highlighting option (notes on use may be helpful, since once I figured out I just had to touch the pinhead to hear a sound bit I could work fast).
So much fun that invisible sound buttons can be placed on the photo, and those seem to work.
However...the recordings for the text don't always work (not sure if it happens when you get too many pages or go back to record out of order or edit) as the last recording gets assigned to the first page and the rest are silent (though highlighting still happens). Also, sometimes when you try to create a new book, the last one created is duplicated, and when I tried to remove the double all the info in my first book was erased too. :( very frustrating after putting in so much work. Also, save doesn't always work- went in to remove all punctuation so word library could be used and changes did not save.
It would be nice if slightly longer sentences could fit on a page. Nice if the templates matched what you get (both show the text under the photo, and both overlap the photo-should have one of each). Nice if the arrow after the last page in a book took you back to the bookshelf rather than crashing. Nice if the word library could recognize punctuation!
When I get a book that works my son smiles and laughs to hear the narration, loves to look at the pictures and to see himself in the stories. I can see how this app would be perfect if it wasn't for the above listed flaws. Just needs a little work.
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Easy to use
The app was easy to use to create a story. Wish there were options to share the story once completed.
the customized word highlighting is one of a kind!
I agree, this has crashed a bit but I absolutely love the customized word highlighting though- this is the only story making app I know of where I can set highlighting precisely for each recorded word- this feature makes this app a keeper. I also like how you can embed hot spots with recorded voice in each image. It would be nice to have some control over fonts, colors etc. but for quick functional stories, I like this.
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Doesn't work!
It turned out a really good idea, easy to use, but then when I tried to see what I had done, it deleted everything and crashed.
Please fix!!
Please fix!!
Better than Story Creator Pro
I have been comparing various story creation apps and have found this to be awesome. I was even able to create an interactive game board with this app using the picture highlight feature, which is missing in the Story Creator Pro. I would give it five stars if you could put more than one photo on a page, like you can with SCP. No problem with crashes. VERY easy to use. I only compare these two apps because they are from the same developer. A combination of the features in both would be the cat's meow!
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Brilliant.
I am in love with this app just minutes into using it.
A couple of books already made for my littlies to enjoy :)
(5 starts, except for the bug of the app closing at the end of reading a book)
Grab it now *****
A couple of books already made for my littlies to enjoy :)
(5 starts, except for the bug of the app closing at the end of reading a book)
Grab it now *****
Great app for reading fluency practice and writing
This app is great for elementary students to write stories. I also love that the texts highlights and students can record their writing which later can be used for practicing reading fluency. I do wish the text highlighted each word as it is read so that children could match highlighted text to words.
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Baaaaad
This app stinks it keeps crashing and I would not recommend it to anyone. This app needs to be fixed!!!
