Digital Storytelling
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- Adobe Voice: Adobe Voice (Adobe Spark) is a storytelling tool for creating animated videos. It provides a library of images, icons, music, and design themes, making producing professional-looking videos easy.
- Animatron: Animatron is a versatile online tool that allows users to create and edit animations and interactive content. It provides an intuitive and user-friendly interface that doesn’t require coding or design skills.
- Animoto: Animoto is a cloud-based video creation service that produces video slideshows from photos, video clips, and music. It’s designed to make it easy for users to create professional-quality videos, with applications in personal projects, marketing, and education.
- Closr: Closr is an interactive image-sharing platform. It allows users to upload high-resolution images and create interactive, zoom-able presentations. This platform is handy for showcasing detailed product images or large diagrams.
- eStory: eStory is a simple tool for creating and presenting linear, web-based stories. It allows users to combine text, images, and video into a coherent narrative. This open-source project can be a good choice for basic storytelling needs.
- Exposure: A platform for creating photo essays and narratives focusing on storytelling and visual impact.
- Flourish
- Infogram
- Klynt: A multimedia storytelling platform that allows users to create interactive documentaries, immersive experiences, and web series.
- MakeBeliefsComix: A digital storytelling tool that allows users to create comic strips and cartoons.
- Microsoft Timeline Storyteller: Timeline Storyteller is an expressive visual storytelling environment for presenting timelines in the browser or in Microsoft Power BI
- Neatline: An open-source tool for creating interactive maps and timelines.
- Odyssey: A platform for creating interactive stories that feature maps, photos, and other multimedia elements.
- Pageflow: A multimedia storytelling platform that allows users to create immersive experiences that combine text, images, video, and audio.
- Photodex: A tool for creating multimedia slideshows and presentations.
- Piclits: A digital storytelling tool that allows users to create visual stories by selecting words and phrases from a bank of options.
- Racontr: A platform for creating interactive stories and experiences focusing on mobile devices.
- RaptMedia: A platform for creating interactive videos with branching paths and personalized experiences.
- RawShorts: A tool for creating animated explainer videos and presentations.
- Shorthand Social: A platform for creating visually rich stories that work across all devices.
- Slate: A multimedia storytelling tool that allows users to combine text, images, video, and audio into a single interactive experience.
- Steller: A mobile app that allows users to create and share visual stories focusing on travel and lifestyle.
- StoryMap: A tool for creating interactive maps that tell stories and visualize data.
- StoryMaps: A platform for creating interactive maps and stories that can be embedded in websites.
- Sway: A digital storytelling tool that allows users to create interactive reports, presentations, and newsletters.
- Thinglink: A platform for creating interactive images and videos with clickable hotspots.
- TimelineJS
- Tripline: A tool for creating interactive maps that tell stories and feature photos and videos.
- Wevideo: An online video editing tool allowing users to collaborate on projects and access stock footage and music library.
- VideoScribe: A tool for creating animated whiteboard videos.
- Zaption: A platform for creating interactive video lessons with quizzes and discussion questions.
- Zooburst: A digital storytelling tool that allows users to create interactive books with 3D pop-up animations.