Creative Book Builder app for iPhone and iPad

4.8 ( 2128 ratings )

Utilities Education Book
Developer: Tiger Ng

4.99 USD

Current version: 5.9.1, last update: 4 months ago
First release : 04 Aug 2011
App size: 33.37 Mb

Creative Book Builder is a powerful, flexible, and professional ebook generation tool. No matter you create book from scratch or existing content, no matter your content is simple or complex, CBB enables you to build your own content in an efficient way.

Comprehensive EPUB Generation
* Create different kinds of layout for EPUB: Classic (re-flowable), Fixed Layout (WYSIWYG), Landscape, Portrait, and Square books.
* All generated books should pass EPUB validation with EpubCheck and should be read in any EPUB readers.
* Edit cover image and configure book information including book title, author, publisher, etc.
* Change book style including font, indentation, direction (left-to-right, right-to-left or vertical text).
* Add soundtrack, your own font, and custom stylesheet to the book.
* Customize page size of fixed layout books.

Powerful & Flexible Widgets
* Besides title, paragraph, photos, videos, audio recording, markdown, and other basic elements, CBB offers a lot of powerful widgets: Read Aloud, Quiz, Slideshow, Table, Chart, Question, Equation (LaTeX), Drawing, Shapes, Checklist, Expandable Content, Screen Recording, Panorama, 360 Degree Image, QR Code, Online Image, Online Video, YouTube Video.
* Popup footnotes and glossary can be defined and linked from content.
* All widgets can be customizable.

Multiple Output Format
* Besides EPUB, CBB offers other types of output to maximize your content usage: HTML5, PDF, Audio, Photo & Video.
* HTML5 books can be read in any browser on any platform without EPUB limitation, e.g. embed html code and iframe. HTML5 books can be hosted on Google Drive and exported as zip file for offline reading.

Reuse Your Existing Content
* Import your great content from Blogger, WordPress or RSS/Atom feed directly.
* Convert your web apps generated by TouchAppCreator into books.
* Specifically, Google Documents, Slides, Sheets, and Drawings can be imported into CBB as easy as possible.
* Import any files from iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive & FTP Server.
* Smart Merge: define place holder and merge with different values.

Editing Tools
* Edit image directly (filters, add text, etc).
* Cut, copy, and paste elements from page to page.
* Lock element to avoid movement.
* Find and replace string for elements.
* Mark pages as draft version.
* All paragraph, title, markdown & HTML elements are saved automatically.
* Backup book to Dropbox automatically after generating book.
* Synchronize books with iCloud.
* Deleted books can be restored until the books are deleted permanently.
* Navigate whole book while recording audio.
* Edit two books at the same time by using multiple windows (iOS 13).

Sharing Tools
* Share page or whole book via iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, FTP Server & WebDAV Server.
* Share book between devices via browser by using QR code.
* Transfer book to desktop via iTunes File Sharing (USB without WiFi).
* Batch upload your books to cloud services.

Pros and cons of Creative Book Builder app for iPhone and iPad

Creative Book Builder app good for

Really!!!! Believe me; i searched over 2 Years, tested this n that... and the Frustration-Factor was high. Since i found CBB! Those Dollars or Euros are Peanuts, compared with what you GET! Sure...as with all good Tools, you need some time...to get used to. But THEN: CBB delivers really every Tool you like to have! And...the Results are simply ellegant, precise & WORKING on every Reader-App! Therefore... 5 well deserved Stars!

So far, it is the best app for creating ebook for iPad. It is way better compared to more expensive alternatives.

Ive tried a few ebook creators but CBB outshines them all! Weve been using this app for at least 3 years and have built numerous reference books for my own use and for others with both business and personal applications. Every update just makes it that much better.

This is a nice creator for ebook. I can make my own ebooks, even picture books. I have so much fun with this app.

As always, this app is the gold standard for creating eBooks. It just keep getting better. The iCloud sync is awesome!

Some bad moments

i dont really liked it because of limited options of languages (only english) and i didnt know that bevor buying it. I would like to write my book in german and i cant do it. There is no languages options.

This app is very easy to use and creates a great looking ebook.

I added a title (no font selection available) and a picture (no adjustment of the picture available). I wanted the text over the picture in a certain spot, but that was also not available. Not much creativity there yet. I wanted to add video, but it did not show up to select from. Then to test the system, I selected publish and it hung up at processing. I tried again, nothing. I sent an email to the developer... waiting for a response.

I couldnt believe that the app doesnt allow you to take your own snapshots from within the app. Thats just basic functionality in every app Ive used except this one. It pretty much makes the app useless for the purpose I bought it.

This is a great App for education. We want our students to be able to make writing an authentic experience, e.g. by writing for an audience, going through the publishing process of writing drafts, editing, proofreading, and finally sharing the published book with others. This app meets all these needs. However, I do agree with another reviewers comments that the app should allow writers to incorporate images from Photos and the Camera App.

I really like this app. It is very professional looking. I do have some suggestions. I would like to be able to put a book cover in front of the chapters. Also, an undo button would be nice.

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