This is the BEST app I have ever used! It is so simple to use that my five year olds in kindergarten can make professional looking books without my help. I love the fact that the kids can insert video and pictures immediately after taking them without having to go to the photo library. Students can each make their own page either on the free app on Windows 10 or the iPad app. Then they can combine all the pages into one book. We even created an internation book the same way! These books can be published in iBooks and are easily shared with other people. This app can also easily be "smashed" with other apps making the possibilities endless. I have used this app to make sight word and many other ebooks for the kids to use to study with and have also created formal assessments on this app by creating a page and having the students use the voice recorder portion to record their answers. Students have used the comic book pages to create books or as a formal assessment too. As a teacher, I use this app every day! Best app ever!

I had been looking for a simple way to make my fixed-layout iBook about sea turtles, and this app made it possible. Fixed layout means the artwork can extend to the edge of the page rather than have a white border around it, plus fixed layout lets you put words on top of the art. Regular EPUBs/iBooks don't allow text to go on top of images.The app could use additional fonts and some other enhancements, but it's so easy to use already and I hear that more features are on the way. Re the horizontal page layout the app does not offer now, one advantage to the current set-up is that the reader can see both pages at once (with the iPad in landscape mode) with no "letterbox" black bars and without having to swipe to see the other page. In other words, I'm not sure it's so advantageous to use alternate page sizes.In any case, the developer has been great about offering support. If anyone is interested in looking at a sample of my iBook, it's called Tracks in the Sand.

I am a special educator who creates emergent books for my kids to read. I have several book making apps and this is by far the best. I love that it is easy enough for my kids to use but has enough features that it works for me too. I particularly love the fact that you can quickly change the size, color and style of the font. Adding sound is a snap and you can record as many things as you want and place the listen icon wherever you want. It worked perfectly to save to dropbox, open on my other devices and save to iBooks. To the people complaining that you can't edit images in the app: this is a book making app, folks, it's not Photo Shop. It's simple to create the art work on a computer and then save the image to dropbox and upload to your camera roll. One feature I wish it did have was the ability to copy and paste text or pages.

If you're a children's book author, a grandparent or someone with little time on your hands and a little creative inspiration, this is a fun app to use. Once you get the hang of the limited tools, it's pretty easy to use and easy to share with friends & family. I used it to create a book for my son, recapping a family trip, complete with music.If you have any tech-savvy or wish to produce a great document with multiple formatting options, this is not the app for you. I'm also trying to use it to write an e-book for my profession, and it's pretty frustrating for this purpose.Pros: Easy photo placement from your libraryEasy text additionsEasy music/narration additionsBasic formatting for color, style, background, paragraph, etc.Upload to iBookstore, iCloud, multiple-app supportCons:Text is typed in a pop-up window, so there's no option for individual word formatting (i.e. bolding for emphasis or underlining a title)Text boxes can't be linked - when you're authoring an e-book, this is a major time waster - lots of back & forth to see what text will fit on a page and what will have to be copied/pasted into another text box on another page. When I'm inspired to write, I want to keep writing, rather than having to stop mid-flow and check to see if it will all fit on that one page.Image additions are very basic - no masking option at this pointOverall, it has potential to be a really great app with a few improvements. Thanks!