Com-Phone Story Maker helps you create multimedia narratives, combining photos, audio and text in exciting ways to tell digital stories. The app's simple interface helps you create your own photo slideshows to document your life; send to other devices running the application or play back locally; create templates; export as a movie; upload to YouTube; or, save a web version to self-publish.
Each story can include any number of media frames. Each individual frame of the story can include an image or photo, up to three layered audio or music tracks, and text content. Anything in a frame can be edited at any time – for example, you can pause audio recording and then resume later, or load pictures from your media library. All elements of each frame are optional. For example, Com-Phone can also be used as an annotated photo diary, a simple audio recorder, a text and sound tool for discussion about current events, or even a multimedia survey app.
A simple printable user manual is available at: https://digitaleconomytoolkit.org/manuals/com-phone.pdf.
Com-Phone is completely free, with no adverts and no unnecessary permissions. The app is open source as part of the Com-Me toolkit – you can fork any of the Com-Me tools on GitHub: https://github.com/communitymedia.
For more information about the Com-Me project, see: https://digitaleconomytoolkit.org.
Version 1.6.9 of Com-Phone Story Maker fixes bugs and improves resuming audio recordings on newer devices. Other recent changes include:
- Copy/paste of media between frames and narratives;
- A timing editor as part of the playback screen, which allows you to set the duration of each frame (enable in Settings);
- The option to export text as separate subtitle/SRT files (enable in Settings);
- Accessibility improvements, and dark / night mode
Version 1.6.5 of Com-Phone Story Maker fixes an issue with exporting narrative videos on newer Android devices. Other recent changes include:
- Copy/paste of media between frames and narratives;
- A timing editor as part of the playback screen, which allows you to set the duration of each frame (enable in Settings);
- The option to export text as separate subtitle/SRT files (enable in Settings);
- Accessibility improvements, and dark / night mode
Version 1.6.4 of Com-Phone Story Maker adds the ability to copy/paste media and improves exported HTML narratives. Other recent changes include:
- A timing editor as part of the playback screen, which allows you to set the duration of each frame (enable in Settings);
- The option to export text as separate subtitle/SRT files (enable in Settings);
- Accessibility improvements, and dark / night mode
- Improved import and export of HTML / SMIL narratives
- Better compatibility with Android Q
Version 1.6.3 of Com-Phone Story Maker fixes a playback bug when using Android KitKat and earlier. Other recent changes include:
- A timing editor as part of the playback screen, which allows you to set the duration of each frame (enable in Settings);
- The option to export text as separate subtitle/SRT files (enable in Settings);
- Accessibility improvements, and dark / night mode
- Improved import and export of HTML / SMIL narratives
- Better compatibility with Android Q
Version 1.6.2 of Com-Phone Story Maker adds several new features:
- A timing editor as part of the playback screen, which allows you to set the duration of each frame (enable in Settings);
- The option to export text as separate subtitle/SRT files (enable in Settings);
- Dark / night mode
This update also includes various general refinements and bug fixes, particularly for importing/exporting HTML and SMIL narratives, accessibility, and for devices with Android Q.
Version 1.6: Com-Phone now exports MP4 videos!
This release also contains improvements in external media import (both images and audio), background narrative export, and the camera/playback fullscreen interfaces (now including notched screen devices).
Remember: to try a beta version of multi-frame images, audio and text, please enable spanning media in settings. Feedback welcome!
For older changes, see: https://github.com/communitymedia/mediaphone/commits
Note: due to a Google Play policy change, this will be the last new version of Com-Phone that supports devices with Android versions older than 4.0. You will always be able to download older versions, however, as well as the app's source code.
Version 1.5.3: Added Dutch translation.
Remember: to try a beta version of multi-frame images, audio and text, please enable spanning media in settings. Feedback welcome!
For older changes, see: http://github.com/communitymedia/mediaphone/commits
Version 1.5.2: Fixed a file export issue (thanks Icramss for reporting); Added Russian translation
Version 1.5.1: Improved video export - Com-Phone's videos are now much more compatible with external players and services (e.g., YouTube, VLC).
Remember: to try a beta version of multi-frame images, audio and text, please enable spanning media in settings. Feedback welcome!
For older changes, see: http://github.com/communitymedia/mediaphone/commits
Version 1.5.1: Improved video export - Com-Phone's videos are now much more compatible with external players and services (e.g., YouTube, VLC).
Remember: to try a beta version of multi-frame images, audio and text, please enable spanning media in settings. Feedback welcome!
Previous:
1.4: Multi-image import; French, Spanish, Portuguese and Polish translations; touch two frames at once to insert between them.
For older changes, see: http://github.com/communitymedia/mediaphone/commits
Version 1.4.4: Fixed MP3 export – thank you for reporting this issue.Remember: to try a beta version of multi-frame images, audio and text, please enable spanning media in settings. Feedback welcome!Previous:1.4: Multi-image import; French, Portuguese and Polish translations; support for multiple audio formats; touch two frames at once to insert between them.For older changes, see: http://github.com/communitymedia/mediaphone/commits
Version 1.4.1: Added multi-photo import and Portuguese translation.Remember: to try a beta version of multi-image audio and text, please enable spanning media in settings. Feedback welcome!Previous:1.4: Added French translation; support for multiple audio formats; touch two frames at once to insert between them; import from SD card - "Scan and import" in main screen menuFor older changes, see: http://github.com/communitymedia/mediaphone/commits
Version 1.4.1: Added multi-photo import and Portuguese translation.Remember: to try a beta version of multi-image audio and text, please enable spanning media in settings. Feedback welcome!Previous:1.4: Added French translation; support for multiple audio formats; touch two frames at once to insert between them; import from SD card - "Scan and import" in main screen menuFor older changes, see: http://github.com/communitymedia/mediaphone/commits
