Graphic, photography and web design are all about telling stories. It`s essential to have access to as many tools as you can, to help tell the stories you need to tell. And thankfully, here are 10 Best Free Visual Storytelling Tools that are entirely useful to creative people.

Storyboarder

Storyboarder makes it easy to visualize a story as fast you can draw stick figures. Quickly draw to test if a story idea works. Create and show animatics to others. Express your story idea without making a movie.

Storyboarder

Timeline

TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines. Beginners can create a timeline using nothing more than a Google spreadsheet, like the one we used for the Timeline above. Experts can use their JSON skills to create custom installations, while keeping TimelineJS’s core functionality.

TimelineJS

Storyform

Create truly responsive stories, white-papers, blog posts, or reports with our unique format that automatically takes advantage of every device size. With full screen video and imagery, interativity, and lots of great layouts and designs to choose from, you can replace those static PDFs and boring blog posts.

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Adobe Spark

This web app was designed to let people tell stories online. The app is not a website builder. Instead, you can use their platform to create visual stories to share with your audience in the form of videos, single web pages, and graphics.

Adobe Spark

Exposure

Exposure is a modern publishing platform for photographers and visual storytellers. It`s the simple way to create and share your unique photo stories.

Exposure

Timeline Storyteller

Timeline Storyteller is an open-source expressive visual storytelling environment for presenting timelines in the browser or in Microsoft Power BI. Use it to present different aspects of timeline data using a palette of timeline representations, scales, and layouts, as well as controls for filtering, highlighting, and annotation.

Timeline Storyteller

Idyll

Idyll is a markup language and toolkit for writing interactive articles. Idyll’s reactive document model and standard component library decrease the amount of code needed to create high quality multimedia narratives. Idyll uses web standards to produce output that will load quickly in any web browser and is fully extensible.

Idyll

Twine

You don`t need to write any code to create a simple story with Twine, but you can extend your stories with variables, conditional logic, images, CSS, and JavaScript when you`re ready. Twine publishes directly to HTML, so you can post your work nearly anywhere. Anything you create with it is completely free to use any way you like, including for commercial purposes.

Twine

Story Map Tour

The Story Map Tour app is ideal when you want to present a linear, place-based narrative featuring images or videos. Each “story point” in the narrative is geo-located. Users have the option of clicking sequentially through the narrative, or they can browse by interacting with the map or using the thumbnail carousel.

Story Map Tour

Unfold

Unfold is a toolkit for storytellers. Users can create beautiful and engaging stories for social media with minimal, easy-to-use templates.

Unfold