A simple, powerful digital storytelling tool for quickly creating scroll-driven stories on the web
Bring your creative ideas to life
Harness the power of scrolling to create engaging art — text, visuals, interaction, animation, and sound, all at your fingertips.
Animated Poetry
Adapt your already-existing poetry with playful animations, emphasizing the meaning of texts in new ways
Multimedia Webcomics
Limited only by your imagination, use photos, artwork, and parallaxing to create rich environments
Digital Zines
Make independent publications of all kinds, allowing you to make content about literally anything
What makes Scroll Cinema worth it?
Take your content anywhere
Scroll Cinema exports to HTML. Your work is yours, and you can publish in places such as personal sites, Itch, Newgrounds, or anywhere else.
Works well on mobile devices
Builds are optimized to run as smoothly on mobile and desktop devices as possible, so you can take your work to where your people are.
No wasting time with code
Focus on creating your experience rather than programming it. Use a visual editor and timeline to preview and iterate on your content in real time.
Focus on one, fixed-width layout
Don’t worry about responsiveness — Scroll Cinema is fixed-width by default, so you only need to focus on making it your piece look beautiful once — and it won’t break across devices.
Example Showcase
A Modern Ghost
**SHORTLISTED for the New Media Writing Prize 2017** **SHORTLISTED for the Opening Up Digital Fiction People’s Choice Award 2017** **FEATURED in the Electronic Literature Collection Volume 4 by ELO** **FEATURED in the Babycastles Art Gallery Wordhack Anthology** ◇ ◇ ◇ “Above the mirror, small and low, hung a fluorescent bulb whose light shone through my…
OnChain Mecha
This webcomic is a manga-inspired scrollimation about a team of mecha fighters confronting the intergalactic dark force known as Aku. The story is originally from a collectible Web3 project in which collectors aim to gather trading cards to complete a winning deck and decide the fate of the universe. OnChain Mecha is a project by…
Daniel Sheldon
Product Roadmap
The vision for the future of Scroll Cinema
Q1 2026
Current
Simple Gameplay Logic
Multiple Animation Sequences
Branching Paths
Remixing
Timeline Utilities
Premium Content
Q2 2026
Advanced Gameplay Logic
Game State Persistence
Scene Management
Documentation
Q3 2026 and beyond
Advanced Typography
Advanced Animation
Image Manipulation Tools
Mobile App
Native iOS and Android Export
Testimonials
“I introduced Scroll Cinema in a course titled Immersive Media Production. The software provides a dynamic option for incorporating digital storytelling and mobile cinema. Students were eager to interact and experiment with the program. Scroll Cinema gives students an exciting alternative for creating mobile specific narratives.”
Paul Echeverria
Assistant Professor of Digital and Emerging Media Production
Wayne State University