5_Apps

=Top recommended apps for epublishing are:=



**Demibooks Composer - Free**
It is incredibly robust and detailed for a free app. You have TONS of control and options. You can even create animations, effects, and links very similarly to PowerPoint. It really is an awesome app. But it is definitely not for younger kids. I would hesitate to even use it with my students as it is just too complex. But you could really create some awesome eBooks this way right on the iPad.



Creative Book Builder - $3.99
There is a lot of control with this one too. And I was able to import my text instead of copying/pasting or typing everything. Easier than Demibooks, but maybe not as cool with effects.



BookPress - Free
The app version of Bookemon. Can add text and pictures and share the book in several ways. There are more features here than I know yet, but it seems like a very strong candidate for an app, especially since it ties in to the website.



Strip Designer - $2.99
Easier to use and enough control over things to make it workable. Can make it like cartoons strips with premade layouts or more like a traditional book. I'm a fontaholic, so that fact that I could import fonts from online was really cool.

Storyrobe - $.99
Not really a book, but really simple for the younger kids. Pick one photo and then have the student record their voice telling the story. Can move on to another photo and basically created a narrated slideshow.

Here are some others I tried. I found that many of the eBook apps don't give you much control over the text and pictures. Most of them I couldn't even move the pictures on the page once I placed them and I couldn't delete just one item. I'd have to hit "undo" until I removed what I wanted or delete the whole thing and start again. It was frustrating. One of them wouldn't even work at all on my iOS6 iPad. So this is a list of "caution" probably don't purchase/download apps.

Scribble Press (Which has come highly, highly recommended in the education apps world) I couldn't move or delete things at all. StoryKit - Very limited in scope and isn't made for iPads Story Maker HD - Very, very heavy on ads and very limited in abilities Bookabi - Fairly easy to use, but some bizarre things. Like all the pictures have to be square and I could't move anything. My Story - Was really confusing to use. No ability to delete. Not much control over things. eBook Creator - Wouldn't work at all. Just crashed when I tried to open it.