--- title: "Chat Story Maker: text story videos on iPhone, in design" description: "Chat Story Maker is an app in design for writing stories told in chat messages between characters you invent, then exporting them as short vertical videos." canonical: https://klmlabs.app/chat-story-maker/ updated: 2026-11-07 --- # Chat Story Maker: write chat stories and turn them into videos Chat Story Maker (working name) is an app in design for iPhone and iPad. Write a story told as chat messages between characters you invent, then play it back as a short vertical video to post. It's made for fiction: the chats look like a story, not like any real messaging app. **Status:** In design. Nothing is built yet; the pictures below are design previews. The name, like everything else on this page, may change before launch. [Email me when it launches](mailto:support@klmlabs.app?subject=Notify%20me%3A%20Chat%20Story%20Maker). No form and no mailing list: your email stays in our inbox, and we reply once, when the app is on the App Store. ## Pictures of the app - Design preview of the first welcome screen, introducing chat stories (Design preview — may change before launch) - Design preview of the story library, with saved stories (Design preview — may change before launch) - Design preview of the chat editor, with messages between two invented characters (Design preview — may change before launch) - Design preview of the characters screen, with invented characters to pick from (Design preview — may change before launch) ## The problem it solves - You want to tell a story as a chat between your characters, without drawing every bubble by hand. - You want a video of the story with typing dots and sounds, without recording your screen and editing it. - You want your stories to look like your own, with your own characters and themes. - You want your drafts kept in one place, without an account or an upload. ## Why we're making it Stories told in text messages are a format of their own: the pauses, the typing dots, the reply that lands a beat too late. Chat Story Maker is planned as a writing tool for that format, and for fiction only: every character is invented, the themes are its own, and nothing can be sent to anyone. ## Planned features What the first version is planned to do. Nothing is built yet, and the plan may change. - A chat editor with 2 to 8 characters, group chats, and photo and voice-note bubbles. - Play the story back with typing dots and sounds, and export it as a vertical video up to 3 minutes long. - Six templates to start from in each language. - Export the whole story as one tall image. - Six fixed themes: light, dark and four color sets. - A library of your saved stories, and on iPad the editor and the preview side by side. - Made for stories only: invented characters, its own themes, no status bar, no sending and no calls. ## Who it’s for People who write fan fiction and made-up chat stories, and post them as short text-story videos. - A fan fiction writer turns a chapter into a group chat between four characters and exports a two-minute video to post. - A student writes a short mystery told in messages, with a photo bubble as the clue, and shares it as one tall image. - A creator starts from a Spanish template, renames the characters and plays the story back to check its timing before exporting. ## Languages and devices Planned in English, Spanish and Portuguese (Brazil). For iPhone and iPad. ## Price The price isn't set yet. It will show on the App Store page, and in the app before you pay. ## Who makes it, and your data KLM Labs, a small app studio run by its founder, Mayank Kumar Grover, makes this app. [About KLM Labs and how we check our pages](https://klmlabs.app/about/) ### Your data - No account to make. - Your stories stay on your device; nothing is uploaded. ### Hear when it launches [Email support@klmlabs.app to be told at launch](mailto:support@klmlabs.app?subject=Notify%20me%3A%20Chat%20Story%20Maker). No form and no mailing list: your email stays in our inbox, and we reply once, when the app is on the App Store. ### Our apps on the App Store now - [Construction Calculator by KLM Labs](https://klmlabs.app/construction-calculator/) - [Flip Clock by KLM Labs](https://klmlabs.app/flip-clock/) - [Invoice Maker by KLM Labs](https://klmlabs.app/invoice-maker/) ## More on this site - [Flip Clock by KLM Labs, a flip clock app for iPhone and iPad](https://klmlabs.app/flip-clock/): Flip Clock by KLM Labs is a flip clock app for iPhone and iPad: a big nightstand and desk clock with alarms. What it does and doesn't, and its prices. - [About KLM Labs](https://klmlabs.app/about/): KLM Labs is a small app studio run by its founder, Mayank Kumar Grover: what we make, how our templates and charts are made and checked, and corrections. ## Other apps in the works - [Mimic Game: copy the sound, and the phone scores your copy](https://klmlabs.app/mimic-party-game/): Mimic Game is a party game in design for iPhone and iPad: copy a sound into the mic, get a score that says why, then pass the phone to the next friend. - [Who Am I? The forehead guessing game, in early design](https://klmlabs.app/who-am-i-game/): Who Am I? is a forehead party game in early design: hold the phone up, friends give clues, you tilt to guess or pass. Planned in five languages. [See all the apps KLM Labs has in the works](https://klmlabs.app/coming-soon/) ## Sources 1. [KLM Labs' apps on the App Store (the developer page)](https://apps.apple.com/us/developer/mayank-kumar-grover/id6815655787) The facts on this page come from the app's design plan and drawn screens, read on the day this page was last updated. Nothing is built, so all of it may change, the name too. Page last updated November 7, 2026.