We’ve updated My Story with a few bugs squashed, but more importantly we’ve added some great enhancements:
We’ve updated My Story and it’s up on the App Store. We’ve made a few updates that everybody will love:
We hope you enjoy it, and don’t forget to rate the app!
My Story is going free on December 14-15 to celebrate the holiday season! We want any child with access to an iPad to be able to tell their holiday story for family and friends. Get it on December 14-15 and send us your favorite holiday stories by December 21st to be featured on our site and Facebook on Christmas!
Teachers around the world are using My Story in the classroom in amazing ways. To celebrate the start of a new school year, we are giving My Story away FREE for three days starting Wednesday August 15th through Friday August 17th, just in time for the new year!
Already have My Story? Great! Please take a moment to share the FREE promotion, and visit our Facebook page to share how you’re using My Story this year.
Teachers love using My Story in the classroom because students become authors and gain a whole new sense of empowerment by exercising their creativity. Teachers also enjoy how easy it is to incorporate My Story into lesson plans and classroom activities.
My Story is perfect for young students because it offers a simple set of features: drawing, voice recording, photos, and text for each page of an unlimited number of books. Kids can rearrange their pages, use 20 different colors with three different brushes, and start/stop recording with the tap of a button.
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We’re excited to announce the release of My Story 1.3.1. This release contains several improvements that make it simpler to create and share your books with friends and family. Launch the App Store app on your iPad and update today. If you’re new to My Story, download 1.3.1 here.
We believe that sharing books with My Story should be simple. Today we’ve taken a few more steps in that direction by improving our share with email feature. Now there is no limit to your book size, which makes email sharing more reliable than before. Books are uploaded privately and securely to the My Story website, after which they can be downloaded by the people you share with.
Teachers, we’ve heard your request to share stories as PDF documents. We could not fit that into this release but look for that feature later this year.
We fixed an issue with how a book containing special characters in any of its pages or its title wouldn’t open properly in iBooks. To open your stories in iBooks simply select a book, tap “Share”, then tap “Open In…” and select iBooks. If you don’t have iBooks, it can be downloaded for free from the App Store.
We increased the font size for page text to make it easier for kids to read. We also improved the deletion and rearrangement of pages so that you would have better control on creating great stories.
What’s Next
We are currently working on giving you the ability to incorporate text within a page. With that, you’ll be able to select from a dozen colors for your text plus have control over size and placement. This feature will give young story creators more control to create amazing stories.
If you have ideas for features, or would like to share your books with our team, send us an email at support@mystoryapp.org. We’d love to hear from you.
We hope you had a wonderful Easter filled with great times and unforgettable memories. Remember your experience by creating a Easter 2012 book with My Story. Use photos, drawings and audio to capture all the details.
As of today, My Story - Book Maker for Kids has been downloaded over 25,000 times by parents and teachers across the globe on the iTunes App Store. It’s hard to believe a year ago our creative director Brian Vanaski had an epiphany that would end up becoming My Story.
Brian’s younger sister was getting frustrated trying to tell a story because she couldn’t yet write very well but had plenty of ideas. Fumbling with paper and different writing tools, she had trouble organizing everything and keeping the story together from event to event. In that moment Brian realized creating an app for the iPad would help her—and other children—immensely.
Six months later, in August 2011, the app was in the App Store and we’ve been pouring our hearts into it every since.
On behalf of the My Story team we want to sincerely thank you for your support, ideas, and amazing stories. We have a lot planned in the coming months, so stay tuned and keep on creating and sharing your stories.
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We’re excited for the iPad 3 and its beautiful retina display. In the next few weeks we will release an update for iPad 3 users so that you can create and share stunning stories with friends and family.
March is exciting. Whether you love college basketball, or can’t wait to see what’s coming up for the next version of the iPad, we’re excited with you.
We’re also excited about giving My Story away for FREE for the entire weekend to celebrate our recent release of version 1.3. The free weekend starts Friday March 2nd and continues through Sunday March 4th.
With My Story, kids become authors and gain a whole new sense of empowerment by exercising their creativity.
My Story is the simplest story maker/book creator for iPad. It offers a great core set of features for kiddos: drawing, voice recording, photos, and text for each page of an unlimited number of books. Kids can rearrange their pages, use 20 different colors with three different brushes, and start/stop recording with the tap of a button.
Feature List:
In addition to drawing, voice recording, and typing, and sharing, My Story now lets young authors include pictures in their books. Here’s how it works:
This update, available now in the App Store, makes it easy for children to share stories of their daily life and bolster speaking and writing skills by starting with the environment around them.
Here are story ideas to make full use of the feature right now:
We hope you enjoy the new feature. It’s one that we’ll continue to improve as time goes on, so please send in your ideas about how we can improve it!
