Bringing You Into The Story
Create interactive videos for the web, apps, learning and VR
Dream - Create - Play
Dream up an interactive experience and play it instantly
Stornaway lets you map out your interactive story with videos, stills and 360Âș video with no coding – and then just click Play to preview what you’ve made – and click Publish to share it. Try a day-in-the-job experience from Deutsche Telekom, or see more examples here.
âStornaway is great, super easy to use and it really makes the whole process simpler. We got it approved by the business as it really met all our needs.â
Leo Bentley – Deutsche Telekom
Simple drag and drop design
Make video interactive without coding
Designed for non-technical creatives, our visual Story Map editor lets you plan out a branching video story, upload videos and share with your team, all in your web browser.
Watch our 3 minute Getting Started video – founder Ru Howe quickly shows you where everything is and how it works.
âMiraculously simple and super intuitive.â
Martin Percy - BAFTA, Clio and Webby-winning interactive filmmaker
Learning & Development
Scenario-based interactive video learning
Stornaway is ideal for making choose-your-own-adventure-style video scenarios, interactive conversations, tours and simulations, onboarding videos, tests and quizzes.
"Stornaway.io has revolutionised our interactive film making process."
Paul Raschid - the world's leading interactive film director (The Gallery, The Complex, Five Dates)
Immersive Video Experiences
Immerse your audience with journeys that get them talking
Stornaway is the perfect tool to create interactive and immersive events, virtual experiences, digital learning portals, virtual adventures, interactive cinema, interactive television shows, interactive exhibitions, conferences and more
âStornaway is an essential tool for us to experiment, refine, test and build interactive projects quickly.â
Paul Mallaghan - Creative Director, We Are Tilt for Diageo global campaign
Choose Your Own Platform
Turn your projects into mobile and VR apps
Publish to the Web, embed on LMS learning platforms, make YouTube interactive, and create Apps for iOS, Android, Steam, PC & Mac, VR, Smart TVs and even game consoles. There’s nothing else like Stornaway for flexibility and simplicity on every platform.
âKudos to the Stornaway team for this inspiring software! Itâs awesome, to-the-point, never bothering you with technicalities.â
Olivier Piasentin - Director, Ikimasho Games
Learn how to create an interactive video with Stornaway.io
What kind of immersive experiences can I make with Stornaway?
Immersive media is about much more than just headsets. People no longer just need traditional linear videos and episodes – they expect continuous, immersive, personalized, interactive experiences that keep them watching to surprise and delight them.
On everything we watch, there’s a prompt to Watch Next –Â Swipe Up – You Might Also Like… taking us away to find something better.
Until now, making interactive experiences to keep people engaged, connected and immersed has been hard and expensive – it’s needed teams of developers and expertise way outside the skillset of most professional creatives.
But now, tens of thousands of ordinary people all over the world are using Stornaway.io to make immersive interactive experiences for social media, marketing, training, ecommerce, education and learning, as well as for film, tv and game projects. See our Customers and Examples pages to find out more.
Stornaway.io is so easy and powerful that it’s used by people who have never even made a video before, and also by the world’s most experienced interactive filmmakers making huge projects for game consoles and cinemas.
The one thing they have in common is that they all tell us how much they love using Stornaway!
Where can I publish what I create in Stornaway.io?
Stornaway.io has unrivalled flexibility and openness, so you can publish to Stornaway’s amazing player, to Websites and Social Media, to LMS learning platforms, to YouTube Interactive and to mobile apps, desktop apps, TV platforms, consoles and VR via our no-code Unity plugin.
The Web and Social Media
For a fully-featured and custom-designed experience, just click Publish to embed your Stornaway projects on your own site and share on social media using our powerful Stornaway player and streaming platform.
LMS (Learning Management Systems)Â
Stornaway.io projects can be embedded on LMS pages, and thus included in the SCORM packages that LMS systems and eLearning authoring tools use to exchange data and track learners’ outcomes. Our API can be used with xAPI (TinCan) to track what learners are doing and talk to your LRS (Learning Record Store). More details are in our Help section, and please get in touch if you’d like to know more.
YouTube
We have created the first game engine for YouTube. Craft and test your interactive video stories in Stornaway.io and publish them direct to YouTube with interactive links, to reach their huge global audience of 2 billion monthly users.
Unity and Unreal – for Mobile, TV, Steam, Consoles, VR
Our incredible Unity plugin is now available for Premium subscribers (and above) – instantly take your projects into Unity for no-code publishing to any of the platforms they support – sign up and get in touch to request access.
Unreal support is on its way – let us know if you want to be on the waiting list.
Compatible VOD platforms
Stornaway.io was designed as a universal authoring tool, and we’re working towards integrations with major VOD platforms. If you’re a producer looking to publish to a 3rd party platform, we can solve your storytelling and delivery problems – contact us for more details.
What's the difference between Stornaway and other tools?
Most tools let you put buttons on a video to embed on a website. But interactive immersive media is much more than just putting a button on a video. Itâs a whole new way of thinking about modern content and audiences, by joining up media clips into viewer journeys and experiences – in video, 360 video, stills, audio, VR – for every platform.
From feature films and immersive theatre to demos and tours, from recruitment and training to challenges and behaviour change campaigns â the uses of interactive media stories are exploding every day!
Stornaway.io is a creative-focused production tool for all kinds of interactive video stories and journeys in every sector. Weâre proud to be a part of a rich ecosystem of tools.
There are lots of platforms to choose from â and each has a slightly different offering. So for 2023, weâve took a dive into 23 top options â along with information on their key features, who theyâre best for and (where possible) pricing â and Interactive Video for beginners – a helpful unranked guide to 23 platforms and software tools for 2023.
We hope that whatever youâre trying to do, you use Stornaway.io â do let us know how you get on. Have a look at some of our examples and case studies via the links below to see whatâs possible.
How much does it cost?
Stornaway.io’s Personal plan is free for you to use, to write and play interactive video experiences.
Our plans for publishing and sharing start at $10 per month for the Plus plan.
You can find full details of our plans and how to sign up on our Plans page.
Our plans >âYou have made an AMAZING product. It will change so many peopleâs lives for the better. It has so many uses, too! Headspinningly awesome!â
Virpi Kettu - AR Director-Animator, Kettu Studios
Need help understanding which is the best interactive video platform for you?
Found us after trying Eko, Wirewax, Spott, Adventr, Hapyak, Hihaho or Mindstamp?
Stornaway is delightfully easy to use, powerful and flexible, but all the systems have their own selling points.
See our review of the best interactive video software to help you make sense of and compare all our features and costs.
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Stornaway’s interface translates easily into other languages,
and we have interactive tutorial videos with subtitles in French, Spanish, Italian and German.