# Pictello Visual Stories

> Develop language and literacy

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id397858008](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id397858008)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id397858008`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** AssistiveWare
- **Category:** Education
- **Rating:** 4.10 / 5 (33 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.14
- **Last updated:** 2025-07-14
- **First published:** 2010-10-16
- **Size:** 662 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-20
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pictello-visual-stories/id397858008)
- **Website:** [https://www.assistiveware.com/products/pictello](https://www.assistiveware.com/products/pictello)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.assistiveware.com/privacy](https://www.assistiveware.com/privacy)

## Description

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.

## Rankings

- #213,968 — Overall

## Review summary

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.

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