Create, tell, share and enjoy multimedia digital stories
About this app
Com-Phone Story Maker helps you create multimedia narratives, combining photos, audio and text in exciting ways to tell digital stories. The app's simple interface helps you create your own photo slideshows to document your life; send to other devices running the application or play back locally; create templates; export as a movie; upload to YouTube; or, save a web version to self-publish.
Each story can include any number of media frames. Each individual frame of the story can include an image or photo, up to three layered audio or music tracks, and text content. Anything in a frame can be edited at any time – for example, you can pause audio recording and then resume later, or load pictures from your media library. All elements of each frame are optional. For example, Com-Phone can also be used as an annotated photo diary, a simple audio recorder, a text and sound tool for discussion about current events, or even a multimedia survey app.
A simple printable user manual is available at: https://digitaleconomytoolkit.org/manuals/com-phone.pdf.
Com-Phone is completely free, with no adverts and no unnecessary permissions. The app is open source as part of the Com-Me toolkit – you can fork any of the Com-Me tools on GitHub: https://github.com/communitymedia.
For more information about the Com-Me project, see: https://digitaleconomytoolkit.org.
Licensed under LGPL-3.0-only, by The Community Media Toolkit.
What's New in v1.8.2
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- - Improve audio export reliability, particularly on older devices
Version history
Feb 19, 2026 · 2.1 MB · Android API 14–36 · code 65
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- - Improve audio export reliability, particularly on older devices
SHA-256 497e019dc8a1c8596dd0e2554a4f75d372531011b233dea4a2d192e694ed7552
Sep 1, 2025 · 2.7 MB · Android API 14–36 · code 64
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- - Add a new option to change whether long press edits or plays a narrative
- - Modernisations for compatibility with newer Android versions
SHA-256 c5530be40727dfd61c7a9348968652b177432f68ad2cc6737b16f8f83af2419f
Jun 19, 2025 · 2.7 MB · Android API 14–35 · code 63
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- Improve M4A audio export quality.
SHA-256 87c832da7ec22274bafd2d96a1efe6d11d40bbcadc20c8dea58e6b802af5f925
Will it run on your device?
78%
- Runs on a broad range of modern Android versions.
- ABI coverage is focused on newer 64-bit devices.
- Aligned with the latest Android target SDK expectations.
Installation Guide
Open Settings on your Android device
Go to Security → Unknown sources (or Install unknown apps)
Enable "Allow from this source" for your browser or file manager
Open the downloaded APK file from your Downloads folder
Tap "Install" and wait for installation to complete
Launch the app from your home screen
Make sure to re-enable Unknown Sources restrictions after installation for security.
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How to roll back to an earlier version
If the current release misbehaves, 1.8.1 is the last build before it. Android will not install an older version code over a newer one, so you must uninstall Com-Phone Story Maker first — which clears its local data unless you have a backup. Reinstall the older APK only if its signing fingerprint matches the build you already trust, and check the API range: an older release may target an Android version your device has moved past.
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497e019dc8a1c8596dd0e2554a4f75d372531011b233dea4a2d192e694ed7552
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