Pictello Visual Stories

Name: Pictello Visual Stories
Price: 19.99 USD
Rating: 4.1 (32 reviews)
Author: AssistiveWare

By: AssistiveWare

Develop language and literacy

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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

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:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-04

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 242,928 ▲ 208,855

For Developers

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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!