Web-based interactive and story-telling applications 

FrameTail FrameTrail is an open source software that let’s you experience, manage and edit interactive video directly in your web browser

Klynt Powerful interactive storytelling authoring environment.

WandaVR A professional authoring solution for your 360° VR Experiences.

Prezi A Visual storytelling presentation application that zooms and pans to show context.

Ushahidi A crowdsourcing mapped based tool

StoryMap StoryMapJS is a free tool to help you tell stories on the web that highlight the locations of a series of events.

Korsakow Korsakow is an open-source application for creating web docs and other kinds of nonlinear, interactive narratives.

Zeega Authoring environment to author cloud based interactive videos (such as links from youtube/vimeo). Note: not active anymore.

WireWax An easy tool for creating interactive videos with hotspots

Atavist A simple web tool for powerful storytelling.

ThingLink ThingLink is an interactive media platform that empowers publishers, educators, brands, and bloggers to create more engaging content by adding rich media links to photos and videos.

Storygami push button layered editor interactive video for everyone.

Aesop Story Engine is a collection of thirteen unique components wrapped in a plugin that can be used to present rich, interactive stories or articles in any WordPress theme.

Racontr Create, publish and share interactive and engaging experiences without any technical skills and with a total freedom of creation.

Odyssey.js A simple way for journalists, designers, and creators to weave interactive stories.

SnapMap Make a map of your instagram snaps.

GigaPixel You can use StoryMap to tell stories about photography or art, or to show a journey on a historic map.

Timeline Easy-to-make, beautiful timelines.

Interlude Self authoring HTML5 web app available on any desktop

Map Your World an open source data/mapping/storytelling platform that empowers youth around the world to make positive changes in their own communities.

Twine  Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.

Timescape.IO Timescape is a map based storytelling platform.

RoundMe create, upload, license and embed 360° degree VR and gigapixel panoramic pictures and virtual tours online. Google VR InstaVR

STOREHOUSE  A free visual storytelling app for the iPad that combines photos, videos, and text. Publish your stories for friends and followers, or share them by email, Facebook, or Twitter. Explore stories created by your friends and the Storehouse community of storytellers from all around the world.

TIMELINEJS Developed by Northwestern University Knight Lab, TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually,rich, interactive timelines. Beginners can create a timeline using nothing more than a Google spreadsheet. Experts can use their JSON skills to create custom installations, while keeping TimelineJS’s core look and functionality.

SIMIILIE WIDGETS: TIMELINE Part of the the SIMILIE widgets collection; an open-source “spin-off” from the SIMILE project at MIT. They offer free, open-source web widgets, mostly for data visualizations. They are maintained and improved over time by a community of open-source developers. With Timeline you can create an interactive web-based widget for visualising temporal data.

PAGEFLOW Open source multimedia authoring tool (German)

RACONTR French HTML5 authoring software, used for the Tribeca Hacks event at Cross Video Days 2014.

INTERLUDE TREEHOUSE An online, interactive video authoring site with little software for the user to download an free for non-commercial use! Commercial uses are expected, and pricing for them is determined on a case-by-case basis. Simple to use for basic projects, recommend for interactive music videos.

EXPOSURE Primarily aimed at photographers, Exposure allows you to create a blend of text narratives and photographs within a drag and drop framework. Works as a desktop app with a freemium publishing model.

EXPLORY A free mobile-storytelling app that allows you to create engaging interactive stories in minutes. Easily combine photos, video, text, music and narration without the time and effort of video editing. A Kickstarter-funded project.

ANGULARJS A Javascript MVC framework created by Google to build properly architectured and maintenable web applications – need to be able to code to use.

CREATAVIST Online interactive publishing tool. Free & premium plans available.