Features

Start with a quick overview of the features in this video

Create. Read. Publish.

50 hand-picked fonts to choose from

Add images or take your own photos

Drop in video or music, or even record your voice

Use the pen tool to draw or annotate

Use shapes, icons, arrows and emojis to express your ideas

Portrait, square, or landscape book layouts

Real-time collaboration

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Students and teachers can work together seamlessly, across multiple devices, with real-time feedback.

Turn on collaboration and let your students work on a book at the same time! This only works in Book Creator online.

Discover Graphic Organizers

We have developed over 100 student activities and graphic organizers that allow you to maximise your lesson time and create engaging activities for your students.

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Create with themes & templates

Choose from one of our beautifully designed templates to help spark creativity, save time, and focus on the writing. These templates are linked to academic themes spanning the breadth of the curriculum. Fun, engaging, and easy to use.

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The magic of AutoDraw

We’ve worked with the Google AI team to fully integrate the amazing AutoDraw directly into Book Creator.

Not the best artist? No worries! Simply start drawing the object you want and artificial intelligence will take over to suggest a variety of illustrations for you, from a library of thousands of professionally drawn shapes. Simple. Fun.

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The Ultimate Guide to Embedding Content in Book Creator

AppSmash your way to creativity

We love student voice and choice. You can embed all kinds of content into Book Creator - Google Maps, YouTube videos, PDFs, spreadsheets, code creations... you name it!

As well as embedding content, you can also access a host of 3rd party app integrations via the Book Creator App Store! Canva, Bitmoji, Giphy, 3D models and more...

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Add superpowers with comic templates and stickers

Comics can be an excellent writing stimulus for reluctant authors. Bring stories to life, or use the comic panels to plan or document a process. Or, just have fun with stickers!

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Create your class library

Each teacher gets 1 library with 40 books for free when you sign in at app.bookcreator.com.

Login as a teacher, then create your first library – you’ll get an invite code so your students can join. It’s as simple as that – a great way to organise and share your books.

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Read to me

Switch between edit and read mode with one tap of the Play button.

Book Creator has a fully interactive reader - turn the pages, change the layout, and here's the main thing - have your books read to you in any language! What's more, you can even choose to have the words highlighted as they are read.

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The world is your audience

Students are more motivated when creating work for an audience beyond just their teacher.

With Book Creator you can export and share your book in any way that suits your classroom workflow.

Publish online

Get a unique, secure URL for your book so it can be viewed on any device. Play multimedia and turn the pages in your browser!

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Share the ebook

Export as an ePub file and you can share it with your favourite cloud app, classroom management tool, or by email. You could even publish it to the iBooks Store.

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Print your book

Choose PDF export and you have the means to print your book if you wish.

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Full feature list

What's the difference between Book Creator for iPad and Book Creator online?

Feature	Book Creator online	Book Creator for iPad
50+ customizable fonts
Upload photos and videos from your device or cloud drive
Built-in Image Search
Insert photos with the device camera
Use the pen tool to draw or annotate
Use AutoDraw for assistance with drawing
Add your Bitmoji to your books
Add designs from Canva
Connect your Google Drive account to add media and files
Add GIFs and stickers from GIPHY	Available with a paid plan
Add Animated Emojis	Available with a paid plan
Add Feedback Stickers	Available with a paid plan
Insert Google Maps	Available with a paid plan
Access 3D models from Sketchfab	Available with a paid plan
Access 2 million Noun Project icons	Available with a paid plan
Add shapes and emojis
Fill tool
50+ custom-made backgrounds
Record your voice
Insert audio from your device or from a cloud drive
Add a soundtrack to the whole book
Add hyperlinks to text and images
Crop images and photos
Comic templates, stickers and features
Embed media from other apps
Portrait, landscape or square layout
Snap guides for positioning content
Lock items onto the page
Layer items above/below
Copy, delete, or rearrage pages
18 preset templates and themes		Available separately

Feature	Book Creator online	Book Creator for iPad
Publish books online	Unlimited	Up to 10
Students can publish books
Publish whole libraries
Make your books available for remix
Add remixable books to your library
Download book as ePub file
Share book via cloud app, AirDrop or email
Upload books to Google Classroom or similar
Print book as a PDF
Export book as a video

Feature	Book Creator online	Book Creator for iPad
Create libraries	1 library and 40 books for free	Unlimited
Teacher dashboard
Invite students to join library with a code
SSO with Google, Microsoft, Clever or ClassLink account		No sign in required
Sign in with QR code		n/a
Archive libraries	Unlimited	n/a
Combine books in a library
Copy pages across books
Basic analytics for published books
Detailed geographical analytics for published books	Available with a paid plan
Real-time collaboration on books	Available with a paid plan
Multimedia commenting on pages
Invite co-teacher to share library	Available with a paid plan	n/a
Administrator dashboard	Available with a paid plan	n/a
LMS integration (create assignments and grading)	Available with a paid plan	n/a

Feature	Book Creator online	Book Creator for iPad
Use Book Creator in multiple languages
Right to left text
Use speech to text to type
Voice search for images, maps and icons
Add captions to videos
Generate transcripts for audio
'Open Dyslexic' font
Read to me' with word highlighting
Read text in multiple languages
Add alt text descriptions to images
WCAG 2.0 compliance		n/a
Keyboard navigation
Switch access	n/a
Screen Reader support

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Book Creator is compatible with:

Google Chrome

Safari

Microsoft Edge

iOS 15+

Make sure you keep your versions of Google Chrome, Safari and Edge up to date to ensure Book Creator works. Please note that Book Creator for iPad is an independent, offline app, and requires iOS 15 or higher for the latest updates. The iPad app does not sync in conjunction with the web app. The web app will work on iPads in Safari or Chrome but will need iOS 14 or higher.

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