TextingStory Chat Story Maker

In-app purchases
4.3
109K reviews
10M+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Join 20 million happy users and unleash your creativity!

1. Write a text conversation in TextingStory
2. Create a video with your story
3. Watch it and share it

TextingStory allows you to write conversations just like any messaging app, except you can switch side by swiping left or right over the message area. You can also press the characters' names.

Take all the time you need to write your texting stories. The videos are automatically accelerated for a consistently fast-paced result!

Every key stroke is recorded so feel free to play with corrections, hesitations or misspells!

This is a simple app with endless possibilities.

TextingStory pioneered a new video format in 2016 and has become wildly successful on various social media, with some users getting tens of millions of views of their videos. It got its own Know Your Meme entry and T-Mobile even reproduced it in a 2019 Superbowl ad.

TextingStory is also a popular app in education for spicing up course material or hands on activities with students.

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Updated on
Jan 26, 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
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App info and performance
Data is encrypted in transit
Committed to follow the Play Families Policy

Ratings and reviews

4.2
93.7K reviews
Gino Chamagua (Suffer G)
December 29, 2025
The base app makes a good free trial and the one-time payment for the storyteller package is acceptable. Devs need money and the app has no ads as far as I can tell. It works pretty well, though I would like to see an in-app organizing system with folders and such. The ability to rename stories would also be nice. Though these aren't too big a concern since you can import and export. My one actual complaint is the inability to insert images anywhere like how you can with Messages and Comments.
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British Intelligence
July 6, 2020
I love this app! My only problems are that I can't make more than one story at a time, the videos take awhile to load, and I wish the extra little things were free on samsung(my phone) because I've heard they are free on apple. The second one might just be me, cause I'm always on the go so I rarely have good internet connection. I could be wrong about the last one. I just heard that was true, not sure if it actually was. Overall a great app though!
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Maggie Somers
April 27, 2023
It's a great app! Does what it's supposed to! One problem is that if you want to customize anything about your character (other than name of course) you have to pay for a subscription, which I understand, it's a free app but if you make more characters their color defaults to purple and that can just confuse people I'd you post it. So if they didn't all immediately default to purple I'd give this app 5 stars
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What’s new

🎁 You can now export .story files for free
🧑🏼‍🦱👵🏻👩🏾‍🦰 Get your imagination fired up with the new avatar builder!
🎨 We've worked with an amazing artist to bring you this slick feature
🛒 The avatar builder is unlocked with any purchase