Social Story Creator & Library is an educational tool for parents and therapists to build, share, and print visual social stories on iOS.
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire the app to create personalized visual supports for children with social delays, serving the need for structured behavioral instruction in clinical and home settings.
For Parents, teachers, speech-language pathologists, and occupational therapists working with children who have autism, ADHD, or other social delays.
What does it look like?
Key features
Tool for building social stories using personal photos, voice recordings, and text input.
Access to a collection of over 20 pre-written social stories for purchase.
Functionality to print created stories as physical paper documents.
Administrative control to restrict student access to specific categories or the app itself.
Ability to create and view stories without an active internet connection.
How much does it cost?
Freemium model allows free access to creation tools while gating pre-made content behind a single discounted purchase.
Velocity
Dormant developmentaccessibilityShow more...
The app has not received a public update in over five years, indicating a complete cessation of development activity. The last recorded release was a minor patch addressing accessibility font sizes. Given the lack of any releases since mid-2020, the project is classified as a zombie app.
Who built it?
Touch Autism
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Social Story Creator Educators
Wait Timer Visual Timer ToolUser Sentiment
What do users think recently?
Review voice lately leans mixed. Users appreciate customizable social story creation allows parents and educators to personalize visual learning for children and printable pdf functionality provides a tangible way for students to review stories in classrooms, but report aggressive monetization strategy restricts essential features like printing and sharing behind high-cost paywalls.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Customizable social story creation allows parents and educators to personalize visual learning for children
- Printable PDF functionality provides a tangible way for students to review stories in classrooms
- Aggressive monetization strategy restricts essential features like printing and sharing behind high-cost paywalls
76 of 96 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Mixed overall
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Competitive landscape for Social Story Creator & Library
How's the Education market?
The app maintains a 4.28 rating across 116 reviews, but the lack of updates since 2020 signals a maintenance-mode posture that leaves it vulnerable to active competitors.
Read the market outlookThe rivals identified
By Bee Visual, LLC
Choiceworks is the direct market leader in visual scheduling and social support tools, maintaining a highly specialized focus on the exact same user base as this app.
- Integrates a comprehensive visual scheduling engine that goes beyond static social stories to active daily routines.
- Provides a dedicated 'waiting' and 'timer' board feature that helps children manage transitions between activities.
- Offers a more robust library of pre-made templates specifically designed for special education and therapy settings.
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Key takeaways for Social Story Creator & Library
Where is it heading?
The special education app market is consolidating around tools that offer both stability and active behavioral management features. Without a return to active development, the app will continue to lose ground to competitors like Choiceworks that provide a more reliable and feature-rich experience for professional users.
- Persistent email sharing errors and lack of developer support erode user trust, which compounds the churn pressure from more active competitors.
- The aggressive paywall strategy creates significant friction for new users, leading to negative sentiment trends that undermine the app's initial discovery advantage.
The SWOT
- Customization engine enables high-value personalization
- PDF export facilitates B2B classroom integration
- Category locking provides institutional safety controls
- Expand stock image library to reduce creation friction
- Develop B2B partnerships with therapy centers
Next best moves
Rebuild email sharing and PDF generation modules because technical failures are a top complaint → improve sentiment
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The app's lack of updates is not just a maintenance failure…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Built-in timer and waiting tools (available in Choiceworks but missing here) +1
Since the last report: The app's market position has declined as technical instability and aggressive monetization have replaced previous user satisfaction with active complaints.
Bottom line
The app holds a unique creative niche through its customization tools, but the lack of technical maintenance and developer responsiveness threatens its long-term viability, so the PM must prioritize fixing core sharing bugs to stabilize the user base.
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