Apps for Creativity

Scratch is a free programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations.

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

Inkscape is professional quality vector graphics software which runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Whether you are an illustrator, designer, web designer or just someone who needs to create some vector imagery, Inkscape is for you!

Upload your image. Spot it with annotations. Share your story and make every detail be accessible from any screen. With Closr it's the fastest way to do it. You can publish/share your zoomable images on blogs, online magazines, native apps. Or, you can just use it privately!

Build your visual story within hours. Publish within seconds. No code, just story. Your story. Prepared to drop some files? Register now for free.

Build beautiful, simple, free moodboards for sharing designs, inspiration, and ideas quickly and easily!

Transforming media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting. Upload, share and discuss documents, presentations, images, audio files and videos. Over 50 different types of media can be used in a VoiceThread.

Legend for iPhone turns words into stunning text animations, in video or animated GIF. Perfect for Instagram, Vine, SMS, iMessage, WhatsApp or IM conversations.

Make an app with AppMachine. After creating an account at AppMachine you can get started right away ! Building an app with AppMachine is free, easy, fun and your app will look gorgeous.

The Matboard is a social bookmarking hub for creatives which enables users to explore, share, and inspire creative work.

Build and Share the Next Generation Story! StoryBuilder allows anyone with text, pictures and/or videos to combine this content into a creative story that can be published and shared with the world.

The world's most successful publishers & communications teams use the Shorthand visual storytelling platform to engage audiences and move them to action.

Vectr is a free graphics editor. Vectr is collaborative like Google Docs, and runs both in your web browser and on your desktop as a native app. Link your website's graphics to Vectr documents, then update them forever without touching code.

FlipSnack is everything you need to easily publish captivating online magazines, transforming your pdfs into online flipbooks. It works and looks great across all digital platforms, engaging your customers with interactive experiences and making it easy to sell directly from the pages of your digital publication.

Video and the web are coming together. Experience both like never before with TouchCast- a new medium that looks like video, but feels more like the web.

Create and self-publish books, magazines & ebooks.

Play from 2 to 8 YouTube videos at once, with global control. More images, more videos, more sounds, more fun! Make enjoyable mashups and share them.

Renderforest is free online slideshow maker and animated video maker. Create slideshows, promotional and explainer business videos, logo animations and more.

Publishing platform for digital magazines, interactive publications and online catalogs. Convert documents to beautiful publications and share them worldwide.

Madmagz enables you to create a digital or a print magazine. Try it, it's free! Including dozens of templates created by professional graphic designers.

This is a Google supported platform where you can get to create awesome apps using just drag and drop. It enables you to customize the look and feel of your apps, add buttons, attach objects and many more. It requires a Google account.

Kizoa is a free online Movie Maker, Video Editor, and Slideshow Creator to personalize photos, videos, and music with special effects, text, and more! Users can upload, store and edit photos, then turn their memories into custom designed slideshows with hundreds of creative options to choose from, including music, animations, text, transitions and other flash-based effects.

Make great videos, easily. Turn ordinary photos and video clips into stunning, HD videos with Animoto's online video maker.

Make ANY photo talk, just by speaking! Pets, friends, food, family, nature, artwork... anything!

ImmagiPic is the first mockUp Scene Creator online. Create your own scene online and choose between many objects. Save your png and use it in your projects.

Explore beautiful stories from around the world, or create your own!

Discover an endless library of free books, picture books, & poetry or use simple tools to create books in minutes. Storybird is a creative community where readers & writers celebrate storytelling.

A creative studio space to explore storytelling and the moving image. Download free video, images and sound and upload your own media. Create your own storyboards and share them online.

Make and share videos using WeVideo's online video editing software, available on Android, iPhone, iPad, Mac, PC and Chromebook.

Simple design, prototyping and collaboration tool that helps you turn sketches, mockups and designs into web, iPhone, iOS, Android and Apple Watch app prototypes.