MediaPhone

MediaPhone is an Android storytelling and multimedia narrative application. You can find it on Google Play as Com-Phone Story Maker. It is also available on F-Droid, Amazon and App Bazaar, or you can try a preview in your browser.

What does it do?

Com-Phone 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 tool.

Com-Phone is completely free, with no adverts and no unnecessary permissions. For more information, and a simple manual (PDF), see: digitaleconomytoolkit.org, where you can also find out more about the broader Com-Me toolkit.

License

MediaPhone is made available under the terms of the LGPL v3.