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Best Story Creation Apps for iPhone (2026)
TextingStory Chat Story Maker is the top-ranked of 14 story creation apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.7/5 from 65,288 ratings.
- 1
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 65,288 ratings · score 93 - 2
Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 26,789 ratings · score 90 - 3
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 3,816 ratings · score 90 - 4
Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 14,917 ratings · score 80 - 5
Free download · ★ 4.3 · 6,752 ratings · score 79
What belongs in this list
Write a story from an idea or prompt, or build a story for sharing, without writing every line by hand.
Not here: A story reading library alone; A character creator alone; A comic maker with panels alone; A general chatbot that could be prompted to write a story alone; Instagram story templates or photo layouts alone
How we pick
For this list we ask the App Store the same searches a person would, in several countries, and keep every app it returns. A model reads each app's listing and rejects the ones that only mention the use case. Every app that stays is scored out of 100 from four parts, each 0 to 100 and averaged with no weights: its App Store rating, how many people rated it, where the App Store itself ranks it for this list's searches, and how recently its current version shipped. An app showing Apple's Editors' Choice badge gets a fifth part of 100, which can only lift its score. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier. Read the full method →
Compare every app
- 1Free download · ★ 4.7 · 65,288 ratings · score 93 · best in class
- 2Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 26,789 ratings · score 90 · best in class
- 3Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 3,816 ratings · score 90 · best in class
- 4Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 14,917 ratings · score 80 · good
- 5Free download · ★ 4.3 · 6,752 ratings · score 79 · good
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Free download · ★ 4.5 · 26,934 ratings · score 79 · good - 7
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 30,135 ratings · score 78 · good - 8
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 20,853 ratings · score 76 · good - 9
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 3,004 ratings · score 71 · good - 10
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 5,204 ratings · score 69 · situational · provisional - 11
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 3,714 ratings · score 66 · situational · provisional - 12
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 471 ratings · score 66 · situational · provisional - 13
Free download · ★ 3.6 · 3,889 ratings · score 47 · avoid - 14
Free · ★ 3.3 · 320 ratings · score 46 · avoid
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Questions people ask
- What is the best story creation app for iPhone?
- TextingStory Chat Story Maker, S tier, ranked #1 of 14, rated 4.7 by 65,288 people.
- Which story creation apps are free?
- 14 of 14 are free to download: TextingStory Chat Story Maker (S), AI Dungeon: RPG & Story Maker (S), Book Creator: Author AI (S), Text Yourself-Chat Story Maker (B) and more. 5 of them sell in-app purchases. 1 reports no in-app purchases.
- Which story creation app has the best App Store rating?
- simmy: create & play any world at 4.8 from 5,204 ratings.
- How many story creation apps reach S or A tier?
- 3 of 14. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier.