Book Creator for iPad app for iPhone and iPad

4.4 ( 5424 ratings )

Education Book
Developer: Tools for Schools Limited

3.99 USD

Current version: 5.5.6, last update: 9 months ago
First release : 15 Sep 2011
App size: 179.42 Mb

* THE No.1 Book app for the iPad in 90+ countries.

* Common Sense Education Top Pick for Learning 2018
* AASL Best website for Teaching & Learning 2018

Book Creator is the simple way to make your own beautiful ebooks, right on your iPad.

With over 100 million ebooks created so far, Book Creator is ideal for making all kinds of books, including childrens picture books, comic books, photo books, journals, textbooks and more.

And when youre done, easily share your book, or even publish to the Apple Books Store!

- Book Creator makes e-book publishing easy - Wired
- One of the Top 50 Apps for the iPad - The Guardian
- Winner of a Parents Choice Gold Award

FEATURES

* Add text, choosing from over 50 fonts
* Add photos and images from your iPads photo library, from the web, or use the iPads camera
* Resize, rotate and position content as you like with guidelines and snap positioning
* Add video and music, and even record your voice
* Use the pen tool to draw and annotate your book
* Choose from portrait, landscape or square book sizes
* Add super powers to your books with comic templates, stickers and styles
* A quick tap and youre reading your book in iBooks!

MANY WAYS TO SHARE YOUR BOOK

* Publish your book online (teachers only)
* Send your book by email
* AirDrop to iPhone, iPad or MacBook
* Use a cloud service such as Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud Drive (and more)
* Save your book as a movie file and upload to the web
* Print using AirPrint or other printer apps, or export as a PDF
* Ability to send via WebDav server, or simply connect your iPad and transfer to iTunes

BECOME A PUBLISHED AUTHOR!

Book Creator ebooks are created using the international ePub standard, so you know they will be readable now and in the future. Book Creator books are optimized for easy publishing to the iBooks Store.

See examples of published books at pinterest.com/bookcreator

NOTE - FIXED LAYOUT EBOOKS:

Book Creator supports iBooks fixed layout format, including double page images and soundtracks. Fixed layout books are not suitable if you want to create novels, where text flows from page to page. You will not be able to copy in large amounts of text from other documents.

FIRST CLASS SUPPORT

The app includes a Getting Started manual, plus we have an online support forum at bookcreator.com/support with how-to articles and email support.

We love to talk via Twitter - say hello @BookCreatorApp

PERFECT FOR THE CLASSROOM:

Book Creator is open-ended, creative and cross curriculum, and is one of the most popular iPad apps for teachers across the world.

“Book Creator sits atop my list of the best educational apps. I’ve used Book Creator with learners of all ages, from kindergarten to adults. Its simplicity is refreshing, allowing authors to focus on their content.”
- Tony Vincent, Learning and Technology Consultant, learninginhand.com

“In my opinion the essential education app for the iPad!”
- Andrew Rhodes, Apple Distinguished Educator and Director of Technology, International School of Stavanger

“I love this app. It’s an incredibly powerful app with a deceptively easy to use interface. One of the three iPad apps every elementary school should buy.”
- Dan Callahan, Instructional Technology Specialist K-5 with 1:1 iPads

Read case studies and lesson plans from teachers using Book Creator at bookcreator.com/blog

TESTIMONIALS:

"What a great tool! It’s sleek, intuitive, and easy. Being able to design a fixed layout picture book right on the iPad makes total sense. Highly recommended."
- Liz Castro, Author of ‘EPUB Straight to the Point: Creating ebooks for the Apple iPad and other ereaders’

"The app is super intuitive! I was working on a book for my 7 year old niece (who lives in Brazil) in no time. It took me about 30 minutes to put together a book for her, publish in iBooks and email the ePub file to my brother…to open it up on his iPad…. for my niece to read it."
- Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano, langwitches.org

Pros and cons of Book Creator for iPad app for iPhone and iPad

Book Creator for iPad app good for

Great app so far and should be better in the future when more features will be implemented. Ebook creation is very easy even if the interface can be improved. But fast and professional customer service from the developer. Serge

This is for me the best, simplest but most powerful app to make students create their own pub to improve their skills and be more engaged in their learning. Very thanx to Red Jumper for bringing us such a good app and maintaining it at a high level regarding our observations.

Finally - an app that makes creating and publishing ebooks on the iPad a snap! I love the simple, clean interface of Book Creator. The ability to grab any image from your iPad to incorporate into your stories makes for endless possibilities when it comes to content creation. Not only is it simple to create your own electronic books, but the sharing features within this app provide ample opportunity to share your ebooks. Whether you wish to simply export your published work to iBooks or youd rather send the ePub file via e-mail or Dropbox, sharing your published work with family, friends and the world couldnt get much easier...

Book Creator is designed to do one thing, create ePub books in Apples Fixed Layout Format, it does this task well and makes the process very simple. The eBooks it creates are compatible with iBooks and publishing them to iBooks is just a finger click away. The Fixed Layout Format is great for the production of graphics rich (picture book) such as childrens books. Even though the Fixed Layout Format ePub was developed by Apple, it is not yet supported by them in their applications such as Pages. At this time Book Creator appears to be the only application which allows one to create these types of books easily, without having to write ePub code. I will give it 5 stars when the Book Creator team give it better text formatting and page layout features. But for now it is an excellent start and a fun way to make your own ebooks.

I love this app its easy to use and intuitive, the output results look great, looking forward to future updates. Hope to see the ability to add audio from within the app, as well as inline styling.

This is a very simple app, but extremely intuitive and useful. Place images, insert text boxes and export to iBooks. Thats it! Its not appropriate for text-intensive manuscripts that require pagination. For simple works with illustrations, though, it fits the bill perfectly. Delightful for children who can use a drawing app to create their own images and then see their creations published. No way to print out your book, if that is a concern.

Some bad moments

It is a nice application but it is missing the most fundamental function when creating any multipage document: template(s)… There is now way to maintain the same layout on multiple pages. This makes it very difficult to get a professional look on any books created...

This is one of the most expensive apps I bought. Adding a picture and text on a blank page. Thats all. No rotating no editing no tco, nothing. Really disappointing. I want my money back. No recommendation!

Dont be fooled by this app.You cannot use it to easily publish on the apple iBookstore. You still need to get an ISBN, which costs as much as $125.

Very easy to use. My 4-year old loves making and reading these books with me. Simple to publish to iBooks. I love this app. Well done!

Basically for creating simple books in landscape mode with preset font sizes, preset page size/layout. Would be great for kids books, cook books, books of photos, handouts, etc. Textbooks, as is mentioned in the write-up for the app, would be difficult and time consuming to create, as text does not flow from one page to the next. Each page will take only so many characters at the then determined font size SO if you change the font size the page formatting / layout gets all screwed up and you must either delete some or add more to put the page in order. Best to use MS Word and then Atlantis to create a "real" ebook in the ePub format; one that allows the reader to set options like font size, justification to their liking / needs.

I cant adjust the size, font, or colour of the text. No templates, just terrible. Wish I hadnt bought this.

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