Creativity  Tools

(F) - Free           (FPU) - Free & Paid Upgrades          (LFT) - Limited Free Trial           (P) - Paid
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Animation
  • ​Action Movie FX - (F) Add Hollywood style special effect scenes, such as a spinning tornado, to your movies.
  • Animation Studio - (P) Create your own animated movies complete with characters and soundtracks. 
  • Animatron - (LFT) Create mobile-friendly animations in a browser that can be saved to the cloud. Share your work with friends and colleagues or invite them to participate in your project.
  • ​FlipaClip - (F) Draw a cartoon using frame-by-frame animation. It works like a traditional flipbook. 
  • iMotion - (F) Create time-lapse and stop-motion animations. Take pictures, edit your movie and export it to your device or directly to YouTube.
  • Powtoon - (FPU) Drag and drop animated characters and other elements to a screen to create animated presentations. 
  • Puppet Pals - (F) An Apple iPad application with variety of characters and backgrounds to create, present, and tell stories.
  • simpleshow - (FPU) Simpleshow has created explainer videos for corporate customers for years. With simpleshow video maker, we have used all our experience and developed a simple online tool that empowers anyone to make professional videos.
  • Stickman: Draw animation maker - (F) An easy & fun animation app: draw your own cartoon, make a funny or epic story about a stickman as a real animator. 
  • Tellagami - (F) Create and share an animated video. You customize a character, choose a background and then record or type your message for your character to speak.
  • Voki - (FPU) A fun tool that students can use for homework, classwork or projects. Customize characters' appearance and what they say, and share with others!
  • Wideo - (FPU) Create an animated video from scratch or provided templates. You can insert objects, add text, backgrounds, sounds and animate them in a few mouse clicks.
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Audio
  • Audacity - (F) Record and edit digital audio in a variety of formats. Audacity provides sophisticated audio editing and is great for creating video soundtracks. Download required.
  • Audioboom - (P) An easy way to publish audio files directly to the web, files can be embedded on a blog, record files up to 3 minutes long. Easily link recording to a QR code. 
  • AudioMemos SE - (F) A simple app to record audio, can email files for listening, other uses, records in .wav format.
  • AudioRecorder - (F) A Chrome extension that allows you to record audio and save as a .wav file. Recorder can be used offline.
  • Audiotool - (F) This powerful sound studio works right in your browser.
  • Free YouTube to MP3 Converter - (F) For Mac & Windows PCs, helps you convert YouTube videos to MP3 audio files for free.
  • GarageBand - (F) Record audio, add voice effects, combine with music, record instruments, create songs from loops, or use "Smart Instruments" to make music, save or email files, or sync to your computer using iTunes.
  • Text To Speech Translator - (F) Enter up to 1000 characters, and text will be read; foreign language translator also available.
  • Vocaroo - (F) ​no sign-up required, record with the push of a button. Save and share with email, social media and an embed code. Good for quick student voice recordings.
  • Voki - (FPU) A fun tool that students can use for homework, classwork or projects. Customize characters' appearance and what they say, and share with others!
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Comic Creators
  • Adobe Comic Strip Creator - (F) Bring your comics to life with professionally designed templates, or create your original designs.
  • Canva - (FPU) Create comic strips individually or collaboratively for the Web or print using Canva's drag-and-drop tool. 
  • ​Comic Strip! - (F) Create comic strips using images from the gallery or import personal images. Apply image effects to each frame to create a comic-book feel.
  • Comic Strip Creator - (F) With this app you can: create expressive comic strips, control characters' gestures, save and share your comic creations.
  • Creately - (FPU) Capture imagination and awaken the storyteller in you with Creately’s easy-to-learn visual platform to make fantastic comic strips.
  • Make Beliefs Comix - (F) This easy-to-use comic strip generator is a place where your students can create their own world and stories with help from the easy-to-use comic strip generator. 
  • ReadWriteThink Comic Creator - (F) Use this free and easy-to-use interactive web-based platform to easily create your own comic strips.
  • Storyboard That - (FPU) (LFT) Storyboard That is an easy drag-and-drop creation platform that offers a free version and a premium subscription version with extensive abilities. 
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Drawing
  • ​Draw Island - (F) Create a variety of drawings using this online tool. There are a variety of tools and settings you can use to create a digital drawing that can be saved to your computer.
  • Drawing Desk: Draw, Paint Art - (F) Drawing Desk is s drawing, doodling, sketching, painting or coloring app that you can use on your Android device.
  • Educreations Whiteboard - (FPU) Draw on top of a plain, whiteboard background or an imported image. Annotate, animate, and narrate nearly any type of content as you explain any concept.
  • Google Drawing - (F) Create charts, layout diagrams, and flow charts and add them to your documents or embed them in your website using Google Drawings.
  • Paper by WeTransfer - (F) Use one of five tools to sketch, write, draw, outline and color on digital paper.
  • Penultimate - (F) A handwriting, drawing and sketching tool that can be used like a pad and pencil. You can use colored ink to create natural free-form drawings.
  • ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard - (F) Create and save drawings on a digital whiteboard you can keep private or share with this iOS app.​
  • Sketchpad - (F) Draw, sketch and create images using a variety of tools. Import images and paint in new elements, add notes, overlay text or manipulate graphics.
  • Sketchbook - (F) A paint and drawing application designed for devices with screen sizes of 4 inches and above. Create drawings using a variety of brushes and pencils.
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Images: Filters & Frames
  • ​BeFunky - (FPU) Photo Editor lets you apply photo effects, edit photos and create photo collages with collage maker. Online Photo editing and creating collages.
  • Canva - (FPU) Use Canva's photo editor to add filters, frames, text, and effects.
  • ​Fotor - (F) Edit photos. Make collages. Create designs. Multiple free and pay templates available.
  • Instagram - (F) Take a picture, video, or reel, choose a filter to transform its look and feel, then post to Instagram.
  • Phonto - (F) Add text to pictures using one of 200 fonts or a font you install to the app. Customize text by size, color, shadows, rotation and other features.
  • Photoshop Express - (F) Photo editing made fun, fast, and easy.
  • Pic Stitch - (F) A collage editor and maker application available for Apple and Google.
  • PicCollage - (F) Use photos, stickers, frames, and text to create collages.
  • PicMonkey - (LFT) Create scroll-stopping images for Facebook, Instagram, Youtube and more. Ads, logos? Them too.
  • Pixlr - (FPU) Turn your photos into cool looking effects like vintage and retro snaps! With this fun and simple darkroom you can apply filters, lightning and borders.
  • Snapseed - (F) Anyone can enhance, transform, and share their photos with ease using incredibly advanced features from the leader in digital photography software.​
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Images: Sharing & Storage
  • Dropbox - (FPU) Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily.
  • Flickr - (FPU) On Flickr, everyone gets 1000GB of free storage, enough space for more than 500,000 photos.
  • Google Drive - (FPU) Create and share your work online. Access your documents from anywhere. Most organizations have unlimited storage for education accounts.
  • ​iCloud - (FPU) Store contacts, calendars, photos, music, books, apps and more in the cloud and access them on all your devices. Free plan includes 5GB of storage.
  • Tumblr - (F) ​Post anything (from anywhere!), customize everything, and find and follow what you love.
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Poster Creator
  • image chef - (F) Express yourself instantly by creating custom images to send to friends.
  • imgflip - (FPU) Imgflip is a simple and fast website for creating and sharing images that specializes in memes and GIFs.
  • Marq - (FPU) Empower your organization to automate customization and accelerate content delivery.
  • Mematic - (F) With a few taps add captions to popular images or your own photos creating your own memes. Save to your Mematic album, or share through social networking sites.
  • ​Meme Generator - (F) Create Memes using images from your gallery. Includes image cropping, borders around images, and the ability to add up to ten captions with varying text size and color.
  • Poster+ - (F) Design a digital poster by starting with a pre-set design template. Customize the poster by adding multiple photos and text to the template. Enhance the design with photo effects and image filters. Save your projects to a photo album or share through social networking sites.
  • Posterini - (F) Design posters quickly with nothing to install. This includes unlimited editing.
  • PosterMyWall - (FPU) Thousands of templates for posters, banners, flyers, videos, and social media graphics. Some items have additional cost to remove watermark or logo.
  • Smore - (LFT) 4-week free trial allows you to quickly create beautiful, engaging school newsletters, updates and announcements.
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Screen Recording
  • ​​Apowersoft - (FPU) Apowersoft offers screen recording and real-time editing. While this screencast software is free to download, but the free version comes with limited features.
  • Bandicam - (FPU) Bandicam is a lightweight screen recorder software for Windows that can capture anything on your PC screen as a high-quality video. 
  • Camtasia - (LFT) Camtasia makes it simple to record and create professional-looking videos on Windows and Mac. Limited free trial lasts 30 days.
  • Free Screen Video Recorder - (F) ​It allows the recording of screen videos and individual screenshots. When recording, the screen section can be freely selected and sound and mouse pointer activities can be recorded.
  • Free Screencast - (F) Capture any part of your PC screen and save them to MP4, WebM, AVI and more for easy sharing and screen casting.
  • iSpring Cam Pro - (LFT) Create professional-looking video courses, how-to videos, and software tutorials.
  • Loom - (FPU) Use this screen recording software via Chrome extension or a desktop app. Record your camera and screen with audio directly from your Chrome browser. You can download the video, embed it on your blog/website, or share it via a URL.
  • Open Broadcaster Software - (F) Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Download and start streaming quickly and easily on Windows, Mac or Linux.
  • Screencast-O-Matic - (FPU) Educators and students turn to Screencast-O-Matic for easy video communication. Videos are used in the classroom for flipped/blended learning, Video Messaging, student assignments, feedback and more!​
  • ​Screencastify - (FPU) Use this simple Chrome extension to record all screen activity and audio within a tab, across your entire web browser, on your computer's desktop, OR record video with your webcam. Record up to 10 minutes in free version. Upload directly to Google Drive or YouTube.​
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Video
  • ​Adobe Express - ​(F) ​Create slideshows, presentations, ads, and stories with this free online video making software. Include photos, videos, text overlays, soundtracks, or your own voiceover.
  • Animoto for Educators - (FPU) Create movies quickly with your images and short video clips.
  • Clipchamp - ​(F) Automatically compress, convert and create  video clips to save and share in a matter of minutes.
  • Flip - (F) Video recording tool that engages students in presenting ideas, and supports formative assessment. Videos can range from 15 seconds to 5 minutes giving every student a voice. 
  • Free YouTube Download - (F) Get all the videos you like for offline watching! Download all the videos you want with the simple and smart downloader! Get it for your PC or Mac or Android.​
  • ​iMovie - (F) Create a movie that includes video clips, photos, music and voice overs. Includes a variety of editing options and special effects to produce high-quality movies on any iOS device.​
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  • Magisto - (LFT) Make social videos in minutes with the power of Magisto’s smart video editor. 
  • Narakeet - (FPU) Stop wasting time on recording voice, synchronizing picture with sound and adding subtitles. Edit videos as easily as editing text.
  • Splice - (F) Simple yet powerful, Splice makes it easy to create fully customized, professional-looking videos on your iPhone or iPad.
  • Stupeflix Studio - (F) Make amazing videos in seconds! Tell your story using photos, videos, texts and maps.
  • WeVideo - (LFT) Create video projects through a drag and drop interface. Can also be used as a screen recorder. 5 minutes free video creation per month. (30-day free trial, then $9.99/month for individual creator or $89/year for a single educator)
  • YouTube - (F) Share videos you create with the world. Uploaded videos can be made public, unlisted or private.

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