Text Story Maker - ChatTales

Okay, I get that exporting a video and making it realistic is a lot of work for the software. I really do, but unless it’s my phone model being too old for the game (which if it was, there should have been an “this software requires IOS version X.Y.Z to download”, but I digress), there shouldn’t be a reason why my game keeps crashing the moment I try to export a video at the lowest possible resolution with the free trial enabled. The only other problem I have with the game is that you can’t adjust the story cover image at all and it just goes straight to the middle of the image you selected. I’m not really complaining, though. This was a good, good software to use and it was an absolute blast to use. But please add a progress bar to show that our projects are ACTUALLY being created by the software. That’s my only real issue with this game. Otherwise, it’s a fantastic experience for anyone who gets it. Thank you for reading this whenever you do and God bless. 🙏

This app is great for creating realistic looking messaging projects. I think it mimics the iPhone style of messaging best of any text story app and I’m glad it exists. However, I think the message duration feature could be improved. It’s difficult to adjust via slider and there aren’t many timing options (only 1s-5s). The slider feature often glitches and causes the app to crash. I also wish there was a way to adjust the duration of multiple messages at a time, instead of one by one. It can take some experimentation to find the best duration timing wise for the read of a message so any way that would make it easier to change and test out durations would make the app a lot easier to use. A second suggestion would be to add a way to reorder messages if you want to rearrange them. Currently you have to add them in order and there’s no way to go back in and add a message somewhere earlier in the story (you would have to delete everything). Overall, a great app stylistically!

I was disappointed when I found out that I had to pay a costly amount to be able to write stories freely, but I eventually decided to go ahead and pay for accessibility to all of the app's features. I haven’t had any problems so far, and the prompts are a fun addition. The only problem—which is more of an aesthetic issue than anything else—is that when I save my stories as a video, the texts don’t appear as an actual text conversation normally would. Like, the transition between text messages isn’t as smooth as I would like. It’s like the text messages abruptly pop up rather than the quick slide transition you would typically see in realistic text conversations. Considering that I’m now paying for the full version of this app, I would like to see this minor issue fixed. I want my videos to look like a realistic text conversation, and the transition between text messages isn’t the best I’ve seen compared to other text story apps. But besides that, this app is pretty good if you don’t mind paying.