Interactive storytelling for everyone
Create playable connected experiences to personalize, engage and delight
"Stornaway.io has revolutionised our interactive filmmaking process."
Paul Raschid, Interactive Film Director (The Gallery, The Complex, Five Dates)
Interactive Story and Script Editor
Immersive interactive videos made simple
In our no-code story map editor, plan out your branching video story by creating and linking ‘story islands’ – write interactive scripts, and share with your team.
Watch our 3 minute Getting Started video – Ru quickly shows you where everything is and how it works.
Interactive video game engine
Play your experience instantly
Just click Play to immediately playtest what you’ve made, from the earliest stages of your idea, even before you have any media to upload. Try this day-in-the-job experience from Deutsche Telekom, or see more examples.
Interactive Video Hotspots & Buttons
Easy video tutorials to help you unlock advanced features
In this video, Abbie shows you how to make anything in your video clickable using invisible hotspots and split screen styles. Other videos show you our game logic, YouTube integration, Unity plugin and more. Find more tutorial videos here
Interactive 360VR video
Make 360 videos interactive in Stornaway
You can add 360º videos to your stories and link them up using on screen links to create interactive experiences that are even more immersive.
As an example, have a play of this 360 video story we made as an interactive Christmas card last December.
Universal and Interoperable Platform
Choose Your Own Platform!
Share at a click to the Web and Social Media, on YouTube.com, in LMS – and via our no-code Unity plugin to mobile apps, TV, consoles, VR and even live screenings, to monetize content and serve audiences on their platform of choice. More on the way, including AR. Unique, mindblowing flexibility and simplicity for everyone.
Create your first interactive experience 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 – 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)
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 in Beta now for subscribers – 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. It’s 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 – 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. We’re proud to be a part of a rich ecosystem of tools.
There are lots of platforms to choose from – and each has a slightly different offering. So for 2022, we’ve took a dive into 22 top options – along with information on their key features, who they’re best for and (where possible) pricing – and compiled our findings in an article: 22 interactive video tools for 2022.
We hope that whatever you’re trying to do, you use Stornaway.io – 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 what’s 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.
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