Stories Designer vs Custom Comic Books

Stories Designer is a complete studio for interactive fiction. Write the prose, branch the paths, wire up the game mechanics, and then play the whole thing in an immersive reader — all in one app, all on your device. WRITE Chapters, pages, and a rich text editor with formatting, images, and Writer's Notes for the plan behind the plot. Page revisions let one page have several versions, so a reader who loops back finds something new. BRANCH Give any page as many choices as it needs. Point a choice at another page, a whole chapter, or a Side Quest that returns where it left off. Add several destinations and the story picks one at random, so no two playthroughs match. BUILD A GAME, NOT JUST A BOOK • Inventory: items, stats, quests, and pins the reader carries in a Backpack • Conditions: show, hide, or unlock choices based on what the reader has done • An expression language for real arithmetic and logic on stats • Shortcodes that drop live values straight into your prose • Conditional prose blocks — If / Else If / Else — so a paragraph rewrites itself SEE THE WHOLE STORY The visual Designer lays your story out as a node graph you can drag, auto-arrange, and edit in place, with full undo. The Inspector traces every path, and Debug Mode finds the dead ends, orphan pages, and broken links before a reader does. READ IT LIKE A GAME An immersive reader with bookmarks, the Backpack, per-story fonts and colors, images, background music, and video. Have the story read aloud, then answer out loud — say "go left" or "continue" and the story listens. Perfect for the car, a walk, or reading to someone. AN AI THAT ACTUALLY KNOWS YOUR STORY Bring your own API key from Anthropic (Claude), Google (Gemini), OpenAI, or xAI (Grok), or use the built-in credits. The assistant reads your pages, drafts new ones, writes options and conditions, wires up inventory, and keeps continuity — it edits your story with you rather than handing back a wall of text. Set its persona and voice per story so a horror novella and a children's tale don't sound the same. Generate illustrations, music, and narration audio to match. Every request's token use and cost is tracked in plain view. OFFLINE FIRST, YOURS ALWAYS Everything is stored on your device and everything works with no signal at all. Optional cloud sync keeps your library matched across phone, tablet, and Mac. Back up, restore, and archive whenever you like. SHARE IT Export a complete story as a single file — mechanics, media, and all — or as plain text you can edit anywhere. Import what other authors send you and read it the way they built it. BUILT WITH CARE Material 3 design that picks up your system colors, light and dark themes, large touch targets, and a layout that opens up on tablets, foldables, and desktop. An optional subscription unlocks cloud sync, online storage, and a monthly allowance of AI credits. You can skip it entirely: bring your own AI key, or use no AI at all — every authoring and reading feature works offline and unpaid. Whether you're writing a gamebook, a training scenario, a bedtime adventure, or a sprawling RPG campaign, Stories Designer gives you the whole workshop.

STAR IN YOUR OWN COMIC BOOK Custom Comic Books turns you, your kids, your friends, even your pet into the heroes of a fully illustrated comic book. Answer a few simple questions, add a photo, and watch your story come to life. Then order it as a real printed comic book, delivered to your door. LOOKS LIKE YOU, PAGE AFTER PAGE - Your hero is drawn from your own photo to match your face, hair and skin tone - Built to keep your hero's face and outfit the same from the cover to the last panel, with every page checked - Works on pets too, so your dog or cat can be the hero or the sidekick - Bring family and friends: start from a group photo, or add a co-star and a sidekick or pet one by one - Pick your favorite drawing of your hero before any page is drawn, or ask for new drafts with your own notes A REAL STORY, MADE FOR YOU - Answer one simple question at a time; no writing or drawing skills needed - Every story is planned with a clear beginning, a big problem and a satisfying ending - Tell us your own story idea, or pick a ready-made plot: origin story, team-up, great heist, time paradox, zombie apocalypse and more - Pick a hero type: superhero, supervillain, anti-hero, sidekick, mentor, mage, cyborg, alien and more - Six art styles: pop art, Silver Age, Golden Age, manga, indie and noir - Every comic gets its own illustrated cover starring your heroes, with your title on it READ IT AND MAKE IT YOURS - The reader opens on your cover, with big, borderless pages - Narration boxes that tell the story, plus speech bubbles you can add, move and write yourself - Export your comic as a PDF to keep and share HOLD IT IN YOUR HANDS - Order a real printed comic book in true comic size, shipped to your door - Choose a classic stapled comic or a square-spine graphic novel, with a gloss or matte cover - Add a printed coloring book of your story, with every page redrawn as line art - Add a printed sticker sheet of your heroes - A one-of-a-kind gift for birthdays, holidays and grandparents MORE FROM EVERY COMIC - Collectible trading cards of your heroes - Turn your hero stickers into GIFs and memes to share in chats and stories HOW IT WORKS - The app is free, and so is a preview of your first comic: the cover and first 4 pages, with a watermark - Your free preview is drawn in pop art. Credit packs draw the rest of your first comic and every comic after it, unlock the other art styles and ready-made plots, and pay for stickers. Credits never expire. - The optional Custom Comic Books Pass is an auto-renewing subscription that removes watermarks from your comics and PDFs. Payment is charged to your Apple ID, and you can cancel any time in your App Store account settings. - Without the Pass, comics you start with credits show a watermark on screen and in PDFs. Terms of Use: https://customcomicbooks.com/legal/terms Privacy Policy: https://customcomicbooks.com/legal/privacy