Pictello Visual Stories Apple

Pictello Visual Stories

Develop language and literacy

Features & Capabilities

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.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App
By:
AssistiveWare
Rating:
4.10
(32)
0.90
Version:
3.14 Last updated: 2025-07-14
Version code:
876291888
Creation date:
2010-10-16
Compatible devices:
Size:
661.56MB
Price:
19.99
URLs:
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Full description:
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Source:
Apple Apps Store
Data ingested on:
2026-06-04
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Contact the developer

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Developed by:
AssistiveWare
Apple Apps Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pictello-visual-stories/id397858008
Website:
https://www.assistiveware.com/products/pictello

User Reviews

Users praise Pictello as an easy-to-use, versatile tool for creating talking picture books and social stories, with strong educational and therapeutic value. It shines in customization and collaboration, but faces reliability issues (crashes/data loss) and update-related usability problems, plus concerns about price versus features and limited sharing/export options.
Pros
  • Easy to use and intuitive, with a wizard mode that guides story creation.
  • Excellent for therapy and education (especially autism) and used by SLPs/teachers for social stories, step-by-step tasks, and vocabulary.
  • Highly customizable: add your own pictures and voice recordings; supports text-to-speech and personal narration.
  • Strong sharing/collaboration features: stories can be shared across multiple Pictello users and with educators/parents.
  • Versatile uses: talking picture books, social stories, schedules, reading practice, and photo albums.
Cons
  • Stability issues: frequent crashes and potential loss of work during story creation and saving.
  • Update-related instability and usability changes: post-update problems such as blank screens or UI changes that require reteaching.
  • Concerns about value for price and desired additional sharing/export options beyond in-app sharing.
Recent reviews
Develop language and literacy
by Da*****, 2025-05-13

this app is not the quality I thought I was paying for
by R.*****, 2024-02-08

So I found your app, and then on 2/5/2020, I came up with an idea! I decided to make Education For US Money! It took probably 30 minutes to make! My mom paid $18.99! While the app was downloading I was using the camera to take pictures for it it was amazing! I could probably educate kids about money now a days! Just great. I mean seriously!
by fr*****, 2020-02-05
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