Interactive Video
Our unique design lets you easily create
interactive scenarios and user journeys
for the web, LMS, mobile and VR
Stornaway lets you bring interactivity into your videos, and turn them into conversations, scenarios and guided interactive journeys– interactive storytelling with a human touch.
It’s taking off with people around the world in communications, storytelling and education, so that instead of just presenting one way, you can engage directly with your customers and make much deeper connections.
Sign up free, and watch our short demo video, presented by our co-founder and Chief Design Officer Ru Howe, the online video pioneer.
Stornaway’s easy and powerful interactive video software lets you plan, produce and publish interactive stories of all kinds – including user journeys and conversations like video scenario training, product demos, interactive soft skills conversations with customers or staff, and then embed them immediately on any website, app, LMS or social platform, complete with scoring and engagement tracking – or make apps for VR, desktop or mobile.
Watch this short demo presented by co-founder and video technology pioneer Ru Howe, to find out everything you need to know to get started.
âStornaway is an essential tool for us to refine, test and build interactive projects quickly.â
Paul Mallaghan - Creative Director, Tilt (for Diageo/UN global education campaign)
Learning & Development
The most powerful and easy to use software for scenario videos and soft-skills training
Break out of linear learning and connect directly with your learners. Play choose-your-own-adventure-style videos or create interactive conversations with experts or customers. Use alongside your existing learning software like Articulate and Captivate. Track scores and interactions, and embed our player in your LMS via SCORM.Â
Enterprise Solutions
Trusted by major brands
Try this employee onboarding experience from Telekom (T-Mobile), read a case study about how they made it, and see more examples.
âStornaway.io is great, super easy to use and it really makes the whole process simpler. It really met all our needs.â
Leo Bentley, Deutsche Telekom
âStornaway.io has completed revolutionized our interactive filmmaking process.â
Paul Raschid, leading interactive film director (The Gallery, 10 Dates, The Complex)
What is Interactive Video and other Frequently Asked Questions
What is Interactive Video and how can I make it?
Interactive videos are about much more than just buttons on videos to show popups and link to products. They are about journeys, experiences, scenarios – and above all, conversations with your audience.
Traditional videos let viewers press play, pause and stop â thatâs it. Interactive video takes it further by creating different paths for viewers to take or adding clickable links to other pages and resources. Once you starting looking into it, there are so many ways for people to engage with a video.
Recent studies have shown that the more interactive you make your video, the more engaging it will be. So whether you are making video for marketing, sales or learning, there are plenty of advantages to going interactive.
Stornaway’s design is unique in that it lets you easily see and craft your whole user journey, with our visual Story Map interface.
Learn more about interactive video in our article “What is interactive video?” – and watch Our Demo video above to see How to Make An Interactive Video with 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 Quest VR, Apple Vision Pro, mobile apps, desktop apps, TV platforms, and even game consoles via our no-code App Builder 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 we provide a SCORM packages that LMS systems and eLearning authoring tools use to exchange data and track learners’ outcomes. Our player has an API and 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.
App Builder – for Mobile, TV, Steam, Consoles, VR
Our incredible App Builder is now available for Premium subscribers (and above) – instantly publish to Quest VR, Apple Vision Pro, mobile apps, desktop apps, TV platforms, and even game consoles – sign up and get in touch to request access.
Compatible VOD platforms
Stornaway.io was designed as a universal authoring tool, and our Spacetimecode data model allows us to integrate with major VOD platforms. Whether you’re a producer or a platform, we can solve your storytelling and delivery problems – contact us for more details.
What's the difference between Stornaway and other tools?
Stornaway is incredibly easy to use, and is loved by our huge community of users. We are a creative-focused production tool with huge power and flexibility – letting you design and publish interactive experiences, user journeys, conversations and scenarios. Weâre proud to be a part of a rich ecosystem of tools, and pride ourselves on supporting our users and continuously developing our system in response to your feedback. Thank you for finding us.
Other tools let you put buttons on a video to link out to products or show overlays. But interactive video 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.
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 Free plan allows you to write and publish interactive video experiences.
Our plans for more advanced features, such as collaborating with others and more streaming bandwidth start at monthly or annual prices – and we provide custom and enterprise solutions to meet your needs.
You can find full details of our plans and how to sign up on our pricing page.
Our plans >Which interactive video software is best for your project?
Found us in a search alongside Vimeo, Hihaho or Mindstamp?
Stornaway is delightfully easy to use, powerful and flexible, and our visual Story Map design will let you easily create interactive journeys, scenarios and conversations with your audiences far beyond just putting buttons and overlays on a video.
Try us now for free, and watch the video above for more information about how to make interactive videos with Stornaway.
The world’s most popular Interactive Video platform
Stornaway is used in the United States and Canada by tens of thousands of delighted companies and creators; loved in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania and throughout Scandinavia; a hit Down Under in Australia and New Zealand; and a go-to for users across Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and the Middle Eastâfrom Japan to Indonesia, to India, and all the way to the United Arab Emirates. In Africa, Stornaway lights up screens from Egypt to South Africa, and itâs making connections throughout Latin and South America, from Mexico to Brazil and Chile. These of course are just a friendly selection of the 130+ countries with Stornaway users that we know about so far. Where are you?
Our clean interface speaks the international language of creativity. Our text-based menus are easily translated using browser plugins, and our interactive tutorial videos offer subtitles in English, French, Spanish, Italian, and German – and you can add subtitles in up to 160 languages in our videos, making sure your audiences can more easily dive in and bring your videos to life.