Best Interactive Story Apps
Over the past few years, there’ve been a number of fantastic storytellers developing narratives for interactive story apps. The results are highly entertaining, exceptionally engaging, and in some cases, downright magical. The list also includes interactive story games to encourage hours of creativity and development.
Parents and Teachers use interactive reading to facilitate interaction and social skills in a meaningful way during play dates. This method of teaching can be very effective for children as it sparks their imagination and also engages them in a social activity.
With interactive story books on the devices, each page becomes a place to explore - some filled with sound, videos and even mini-games. But being interactive isn't enough anymore, apps have to be visually appealing.
Here is the list of the best interactive story apps that are fun to read, yet beautifully illustrated.
SmartDreams Bedtime Stories uses AI to create unique, personalised bedtime stories accompanied by vivid illustrations. Children’s love for reading will grow through this app which has endless story possibilities. The app is safe and uses only the child’s first name to start the personalised story.
They can then choose from a wide selection of fun characters, fantastical worlds and foods to generate an individualised tale to read. Each story delivers valuable morals and lessons that your child can learn from through customised, colourful artwork and animal noises.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
Storytime Sam is a generative artificial intelligence app for creating kids' stories. The app constructs brand-new child-friendly stories from characters and prompts entered by the user.
Users of Storytime Sam create a simple character by inputting a name, pronouns, and description in the app and then asking the app to tell them a story, including other details or themes.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
Fairy Tales is a storybook app with interactive games and fairy tales for children that makes reading more fun and entertaining. Ease into bedtime with the educational and fun stories contained within this app. Linking together various strands of their learning, this app will help children to make connections and reinforce their understanding.
Devices: iPhone, iPad, Android
Marvel Hero Tales, an interactive storytelling app designed to promote literacy for adults and children. Each story is themed around famous Marvel characters (much like a comic book), and it will be the user's job to flesh out the narrative by choosing from a selection of words. Essentially, players can create their own personal superhero story while also improving their vocabulary development. The stories and activities within Marvel Hero Tales entice users to engage with the app and in doing so use its learning content to build their reading, vocabulary, and storytelling skills.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
5. Smart Tales
Smart Tales is an educational app full of interactive and animated stories that teach STEM subjects through narratives. A collection of short stories is promoted by Unicef to raise awareness among children on important social issues, such as collaboration, respect for the environment, the prevention of bullying and the promotion of healthy lifestyles.
Every two / three pages of the story you will find an interactive game designed to develop specific skills: logic, memory, visual attention and calculation. The app has over 70+ stories and 600+ animated pages with 400+ challenging educational games.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
6. LETS GO SEE
Let's Go See is an unique interactive story app that helps children discover and learn interesting facts about the world. This app centres around the adventures of aeroplane pilots Polly and Ollie as they travel the world with the Junior Jets. With stunning 3D images of landmarks from around the world, the Let’s Go See App lets children create, colour, play puzzles, explore the world, and even fly a plane. It has a website dedicated to the Junior Jets provided insights into the application with downloadable resources as well as supporting storybooks.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
Little Kitten and Friends is an interactive story game that helps children prepare for their school start. The application provides 8 educational games that are rich with features and help remote coordination, confidence, social and motor skills in a safe and exciting environment. Little Kitten & Friends is available on iOS for mobile devices and tablets.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
My Story Nest is a simple interactive storytelling app that enables children to hear their name as part of the story and decide which way the story proceeds. The application is rich with features and includes original stories, stories based on Grimm’s Fairy Tales, stories based on Hans Christian Anderson Tales and much more.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
Aki the Monkey is an interactive story book has been created to help you teaching the important values of sharing and generosity to your young children. The app will help your child to consider their relationship to other people and how they feel about letting others use their things by following along with Aki the Monkey. The reader's own decisions in this interactive story influence how Aki and the other characters respond in the story.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
Join Stampy the Wizard as he searches through the village for his missing wand in this eBook-style app that merges a hand-made setting with modern technology to form a fun and entertaining experience for parents and children.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
This is an interactive story book from the developers that also produced the popular and successful Jonty – the dinosaur who would not go to sleep interactive storybook. Both the graphics and sounds within the app really help to set the scene and the story itself is just as good as any award winning picture book. The story follows Mother Gray, a whale, and her child whale as they travel through their migration north to the feeding grounds.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad