Who does not want to read and listen to stories/fables and relieve childhood memories and create larger than life characters? Not only kids, even elders look forward to the story-telling sessions in the family and ways never to miss them. However, with the hectic lifestyle parents are living these days, kids have to let go of these simple joys. If you too have been reeling under pressure and looking for ways to continue with the story telling sessions but weren’t able to, there is some good news for you. There are various story telling apps that are now available on both iOS and Android platforms of smartphones. These mobile storytelling apps not only tell stories, but also enable sharing those stories directly from the app. You can always be a good storyteller parent for your kids and search for stories of different themes and moods. Read on to know more about the apps that you can explore in this genre.
Blurb Mobile  Â
Blurb Mobile app is available for Android-based Smartphones. This has been one of the best storytelling apps available in the market, irrespective of the platform of the Smartphone. The app lets readers use images, sounds and videos to the stories. The app also lets you create a story by adding tags, location, add up to 8 images, and also add a video clip of 10 seconds. What makes the app stand out amongst the rest of the storytelling Smartphone apps is the facility of the app that allows adding various forms of multimedia files – from images to audio to video files – to complement various sequences of the story.
iStoryTime Kids Book- Eartha the Sea Turtle
iStoryTime Kids Book app is available for iPhone, iPod and iPad users. The storybook is based on the story of a turtle named Eartha. Through this app you can get a sneak peek into the life of this dimwit young sea turtle who seeks help in various situations. The story will teach your children lessons on how inhumane activities and negligence can injure animals. The story also imparts kids on how to help other children. Apart from the theme of the app, some of the features that increased the popularity of the app are automatic navigation, ‘Narration’ options to boost further user experience, swap between narrated and silent option for self reading, manual or automatic page turning option, and onscreen texts to hear and see.
Apart from these storytelling Smartphone apps, you can also download other apps like Green Eggs and Ham – Dr. Seuss, Treasure Island, The Experience, Read Me Stories – Children’s books, etc. With these apps available for you, your little one will no longer have to let go of these wonderful kid-parenting bonding sessions and you can even treat the elders in your family to some quality family time.
I downloaded iStory Time Kids Book app for my kid immediately after reading this article. The storybook in this is entertaining and I am sure my daughter is going to love it. I am going to download some more Story telling Mobile Apps if she likes this one. Your articles always help me in providing the right information to my kids and I look forward to read articles at Mizwhiz. Please keep providing such articles.