Comparison

Pictello Visual Stories vs Choiceworks Calendar

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Pictello Visual Stories

Create engaging visual stories and social schedules with photos, videos, and text. Supports literacy development through features like word-by-word highlighting and text-to-speech. Easily share your creations with others or export them for wider distribution.

Highlights
  • Create visual stories with photos and videos
  • Text-to-speech and voice recording
  • Word-by-word text highlighting
  • Built-in word prediction
  • Import books from Tar Heel Reader
  • Share stories via server or Dropbox
  • Export to PDF or print
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Everyone loves to tell fun, engaging, and imaginative stories. Go ahead and make a social story or visual schedule for a child with autism or a slide show of holiday pictures for your friends - Pictello makes it a breeze to create and share! Whether you use the included natural-sounding Text to Speech voices, or record your own voice, Pictello is the perfect tool for visual storytelling. Each page in a Pictello story consists of a photo or video and some text, which can be read aloud by a Text to Speech voice or your own recorded audio. Develop literacy skills - Support reading with word-by-word text highlighting - Develop writing and spelling with built-in word prediction and Speak as You Type - Create stories to teach academic and social skills - Import free early literacy and adapted academic books from Tar Heel Reader Create and playback with ease - Let students use the wizard to create stories - Play stories page by page or as a slideshow - Use Text to Speech voices to read the story - Turn on switch access for story playback Integrate multimedia - Add your own photos - Include short video clips - Record your own voice or sound Share your stories - Share with other Pictello users through our free sharing server - Use Dropbox to exchange stories - Export to PDF or print to share with non-Pictello users Speak your language - Pick English, Spanish, German, French, Italian or Dutch for the user interface - Select from over 110 free Text to Speech voices in 29 languages - Use genuine American, British, Australian, American-Spanish, Swedish, French, Italian, German, Norwegian and Swedish children's voices - Create interest with fun character and specialty voices Customize to fit your needs - Pick between Wizard or Expert creation modes - Swipe or automatically turn pages - Adjust speech rate and pronunciations Read more at www.assistiveware.com/products/pictello Additional Note: Educational institutions can get a 50% discount if they purchase 20 or more licenses through Apple’s Volume Licensing Program for Education.

About

Choiceworks Calendar

This app helps children understand the concept of time and sequence through a visual calendar. It allows caregivers to easily create personalized schedules with images, audio, and video, reducing anxiety and promoting independence for children.

Highlights
  • Create visual calendars with images and audio
  • Attach video to calendar events
  • Use preloaded or custom images and audio
  • Create multiple personalized calendars
  • Count down to upcoming events
  • Built-in visual timer
  • Automatically adds holidays
Features
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Choiceworks Calendar makes time visible. For children who find days, weeks, and months abstract, Choiceworks Calendar turns time into pictures: what is happening today, what is coming tomorrow, and how many days until the moments that matter. Each day can show a simple visual schedule: what happens first, what comes next, and what is done. Children can see the day, hear it spoken, and check off events as they finish them. Made personal in minutes - Use your own photos and videos, or start with the built-in library of 275+ images with audio - Record labels and events in your own voice - Customize day labels with your own words, like To Do and Finished - Adjust day number size for growing readers and low-vision users - Create separate calendars for different children, classrooms, or routines Time your child can feel - Count Days Until shows a visual countdown to birthdays, trips, visits, and special events - Day, Week, and Month views support different levels of time understanding - Built-in visual timers include selectable timer and alarm sounds - Optional notifications can remind children what is coming next - Holidays and repeating events help build predictable routines Backup, sync, and sharing - iCloud Sync & Backup can keep calendars backed up and matched across your own devices signed in to the same Apple ID, when you turn it on - Sync events to your device's Apple Calendar - Send a Copy by AirDrop, Mail, or Files so another device or caregiver can import a calendar copy - Print any month, week, or day, or save it as a PDF - Passcode-protected editing helps keep the plan from being changed accidentally Our promise One-time purchase. No subscriptions. No ads. No trackers. No account required. Your family's data stays under your control. Choiceworks Calendar is used by parents, teachers, SLPs, OTs, and BCBAs to support children with autism, ADHD, anxiety, language differences, and other needs for visual structure. Questions? We answer personally: info@beevisual.com

Screenshots

Pictello Visual Stories4 screens
Choiceworks Calendar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Pictello Visual Stories at $9.99 against Choiceworks Calendar's $16.99. Pictello Visual Stories also leads on review sentiment (71% vs 59%). Choiceworks Calendar's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 7 months). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Pictello Visual Stories costs $9.99 and Choiceworks Calendar $16.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.1 for Pictello Visual Stories against 4.0 for Choiceworks Calendar. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 33 and 29 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 71% of Pictello Visual Stories's written reviews are positive against 59% of Choiceworks Calendar's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pictello Visual Stories ships an update every 7 months, Choiceworks Calendar every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 19, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Pictello Visual Stories versus Choiceworks Calendar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPictello Visual StoriesChoiceworks Calendar
Price$9.99 — better$16.99
Rating4.1 (33 ratings) — better4.0 (29 ratings)
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews — better59.4% of reviews
Number of ratings33 — better29
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size660 MB243 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAssistiveWareBee Visual, LLC

Customer experience

Pictello Visual Stories

All ratings33 ratings
Positive78.8%
Neutral3.0%
Negative18.2%
Written reviews63 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral6.3%
Negative22.2%

Choiceworks Calendar

All ratings29 ratings
Positive69.0%
Neutral10.3%
Negative20.7%
Written reviews32 reviews
Positive59.4%
Neutral18.8%
Negative21.9%

In-app purchases

None

Pictello Visual Stories

No in-app purchases

None

Choiceworks Calendar

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pictello Visual Stories free?
Pictello Visual Stories costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Choiceworks Calendar free?
Choiceworks Calendar costs $16.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pictello Visual Stories or Choiceworks Calendar?
Pictello Visual Stories is rated higher. Pictello Visual Stories averages 4.1 out of 5 from 33 ratings, while Choiceworks Calendar averages 4.0 from 29 ratings.
Do Pictello Visual Stories or Choiceworks Calendar have ads?
Neither Pictello Visual Stories nor Choiceworks Calendar shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pictello Visual Stories or Choiceworks Calendar?
Pictello Visual Stories ships an update every 7 months, and Choiceworks Calendar every 3 days. Most recently, Pictello Visual Stories was updated on October 19, 2026 and Choiceworks Calendar on October 19, 2026.

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