Com-Phone Story Maker

3.3
194 reviews
50K+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Com-Phone Story Maker helps you create multimedia narratives, combining photos, audio and text in exciting ways to tell digital stories. The app's simple interface helps you create your own photo slideshows to document your life; send to other devices running the application or play back locally; create templates; export as a movie; upload to YouTube; or, save a web version to self-publish.


Each story can include any number of media frames. Each individual frame of the story can include an image or photo, up to three layered audio or music tracks, and text content. Anything in a frame can be edited at any time – for example, you can pause audio recording and then resume later, or load pictures from your media library. All elements of each frame are optional. For example, Com-Phone can also be used as an annotated photo diary, a simple audio recorder, a text and sound tool for discussion about current events, or even a multimedia survey app.


A simple printable user manual is available at: https://digitaleconomytoolkit.org/manuals/com-phone.pdf.



Com-Phone is completely free, with no adverts and no unnecessary permissions. The app is open source as part of the Com-Me toolkit – you can fork any of the Com-Me tools on GitHub: https://github.com/communitymedia.


For more information about the Com-Me project, see: https://digitaleconomytoolkit.org.

Updated on
Sep 5, 2023

Data safety

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Committed to follow the Play Families Policy

Ratings and reviews

3.4
158 reviews
Jonathan García
September 14, 2021
Its weird but functional.
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Simon Robinson
September 15, 2021
Thanks for using Com-Phone - your feedback is really appreciated. Kind regards, Simon
A Google user
December 8, 2018
Tell Com-phone at this app maybe?
4 people found this review helpful
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Simon Robinson
March 31, 2020
Thank you for using Com-Phone! Kind regards, Simon
A Google user
April 5, 2017
Doesn't work........
3 people found this review helpful
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Simon Robinson
April 21, 2017
Hi there - sorry to hear you've been having problems. Please could you give me a little more detail about what doesn't work, so I can try to fix the issue for you? Regards, Simon

What's new

Version 1.7.5 of Com-Phone Story Maker adds support for importing ZIP archives of narrative content originally created by the app. Other recent changes include:
- ZIP export of narrative content;
- Choose your own custom font for narrative text;
- A timing editor as part of the playback screen, which allows you to set the duration of each frame (enable in Settings);
- The option to export text as separate subtitle/SRT files (enable in Settings)