Pictello Visual Stories3.14.1 - App Store

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.

Version History We have updated the app to fix bugs and improve overall performance. Thank you for using Pictello. 3.14.1 1d ago With this latest update, you can now access the 'Audio in Calls' feature available in iOS and iPadOS 18.2 and later to use your Pictello voice during calls. Thanks for updating and using Pictello. 3.14 07/14/2025 The voices in Pictello are now of a higher quality. They sound smoother and clearer, especially for longer messages. We have also updated the app to fix bugs and improve performance and stability. 3.13 11/25/2024 With this update, Pictello on iPad now supports Split View, making it easier to use alongside your favorite apps. We’ve also introduced four new Polish child voices and enhanced the eye-tracking experience for smoother interaction. 3.12 08/26/2024 You can now customize the pitch of your voice on Pictello. We've also improved the app's accessibility and performance. 3.11 07/01/2024 Find a voice that best reflects you! This update makes Pictello compatible with Apple’s iOS 17 feature, Personal Voice. 
Plus, we have added many new voices, including those from Apple. 3.10 01/22/2024 We update the app regularly so we can make it better for you. This version includes several bug fixes and performance improvements. Thanks for using our app! 3.9.2 07/03/2023 We update the app regularly so we can make it better for you. This version includes several bug fixes and performance improvements. Thanks for using our app! 3.9.1 06/13/2023 We've added two new Northern English child voices—Alfie and Amy. Try them out. 3.9 02/13/2023 Pictello is getting a big update!
We're adding Tamira and Darius - the first African American English digital voices designed for AAC. Along with them, we're adding 23 voices for various languages - you can access all of them by opening Options and tapping Voice Manager.
This version also includes several minor fixes and performance improvements. Thanks for using Pictello! 3.8 08/31/2022 Fixed an issue in the the previous release that removed all pronunciations when the app was restarted. This issue is now fixed, unfortunately you may need to recreate the pronunciations you’ve lost. 3.7.4 11/11/2021 This version offers iOS 15 compatibility, includes several bug fixes and performance improvements. Thanks for using our app! 3.7.3 10/14/2021 Bugs seriously creep us out. That is why we addressed several user-reported bugs in this version. 3.7.2 10/20/2020 Bugs seriously creep us out. That is why we addressed several user-reported bugs in this version. 3.7.1 03/30/2020 In this version the visibility of text in the search field has been improved.
We fixed a bug that occurred when recording sound.
Some other smaller bugs were also fixed.

Thanks for using our app! 3.7 01/07/2020 Version 3.6 introduces compatibility for iPad Pro 11”, iPad Pro 12.9”(3rd generation), iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max and iPhone XR. This version also includes bug fixes.

Thanks for using our app! 3.6 01/07/2019 This update introduces the first genuine Dutch Text to Speech voices for children, Merel and Thijs. We spent nearly a year creating these voices in collaboration with Acapela Group and NSGK, and we’re very happy to be able to offer young Dutch AAC users voices which they can identify with.

Version 3.5 includes some bug fixes. This update also includes display optimization for all models of iPad.

Thanks again for using our app! 3.5 04/24/2018 Ciao Italian speakers! With this new version, Pictello’s user interface is now available in Italian and includes two genuine Italian Text to Speech children’s voices: Alessio and Aurora.

Pictello 3.4 is now compatible with the new iOS 11 and fully optimized for the new 10.5” iPad. Additionally, we worked on several bug fixes to improve the performance of the app. 3.4 09/28/2017 This is an important update for all Pictello users. At the end of this month, on June 28th, the previous version of Pictello will no longer be compatible with Dropbox. To continue to make backups with Dropbox, users will need to update to version 3.3.

This update also includes new voices and several enhancements:
- Refined voice options
- Improved backups with iTunes File Sharing
- Backups can now be deleted
- A Cancel button has been added, so the creation of stories can be cancelled
- Two Norwegian children’s voices: Elias and Emilie 3.3 06/22/2017 Pictello 3.2 adds two new French children’s voices: Elise and Valentin. The voices are available in two variants; one that supports the Belgian French way of speaking numbers between 70 and 99 and one speaking those numbers the Parisian French way.

Both voices can be downloaded for free from within the app. With these new voices Pictello now offers free genuine children’s voices for 7 different languages/dialects. 3.2 06/08/2016 Pictello 3.1 adds two new female voices to use in your stories: American English Sharon and German Claudia. Both voices are based on additional recordings and optimized linguistic processes by Acapela Group, making them even more natural, fluid and intelligible.

Pictello 3.1 also includes two brand new natural-sounding Swedish children’s voices: Filip and Freja. With these new voices Pictello now offers free genuine children’s Text to Speech voices for 6 different languages/dialects.

Pictello now supports importing the free early literacy and adapted academic books from Tar Heel Reader. Learn more on the AssistiveWare web site.

Version 3.1 also fixes the Auto Clean option for removal of old backups, and some other small bugs. 3.1 02/02/2016 Welcome Rhona, the delightful new Scottish English voice from Acapela! Pictello 3.0.1 also adds compatibility with upcoming iOS releases, and includes the exciting literacy supports we introduced in Pictello 3.0. With 3.0.1, Pictello requires iOS 8.4 or later, and supports iPhone 4S, iPod 5G, iPad 2, and later. 3.0.1 09/09/2015 Pictello 3.0 is a major release with many new features:

- Word prediction - reduce typing and build early literacy skills with word prediction, available in 15 languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Italian, Turkish, Catalan, Czech, Finnish, Polish, Portuguese

- Speak as you type - hear what you are typing by letter, word, sentence or paragraph.

- Switch access - read stories with switches! Use one or two switches to play back your story and turn pages, or use the screen as a single switch with Auto Play.

- Repeated taps - help your happy tappers be more functional: ignore repeated taps during playback, or use them to pause and resume audio or video.

- New French voice, Manon.

- Full screen photo taking

- Improved photo picker

- Refined story creation wizard

- Designed for iOS 7 and later

- Announcements and news messages in your Options

- A few small enhancements 3.0 09/13/2014 Pictello 2.1 offers three brand-new bilingual American Spanish/English Text to Speech voices. They include one adult male voice (Rodrigo/Rod) and two children’s voices (Emilio and Valeria). These bilingual children’s voices are an industry-first co-developed by Acapela Group, AssistiveWare and Tobii Technology.

Version 2.1 also includes several other new voices: Robot (French specialty voice), Scott (genuine American English teenage boy voice), Nizar (British English male voice), Minji (Korean female voice) and Monika (Polish female voice). 2.1 01/28/2014 - Now include short videos in your stories! Use your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad camera to take video clips from within Pictello, or choose video clips from your photo albums!

- Photos and videos you take within Pictello are now saved to your camera roll for easy use in other apps.

- Now you can pause while recording audio in Expert Mode!

- Improved progress information when importing and exporting large stories 2.0 09/09/2013