SpinThought, which develops mobile applications, web-based applications and UI designs, announced today the launch of StoryPages 2 for the iPhone.
The app is designed to help iPhone users create illustrated stories on the go. It uses the storyboarding format used in film and animation production, allowing users to rapidly lay out drawings and associated text, and deliver their custom StoryPages via MMS, via email as a PDF, or export to the iPhone Gallery as PNG file.
The app provides full-screen landscape or portrait drawing modes and one-tap access to coloured pencils, an eraser and the camera gallery to set backgrounds. The drawing mode has full undo and redo support. It also features intuitive compass-direction navigation between modes and pages with a simple swipe of a finger. 
Users can take a picture from inside the StoryPages application or select any image from the Photo Gallery to use as a background for drawings, with full transparency control. A story list view offers title editing, deletion and access to stories. The app also has natural-looking storyboard-style pages, with the drawing area at the top and the text description area at the bottom.  A page grid view allows for drag-and-drop page rearrangement using thumbnails that show the entire story.  StoryPages 2 also comes with full help documentation to help users get started quickly.
“StoryPages was designed with the growing mobile community in mind, allowing for the rapid creation and delivery of illustrated stories, guides, booklets and animation ideas, right from the iPhone,” says SpinThought CEO, Ben Kopf.  “StoryPages is easy, even for the novice and we're excited to bring these new features in StoryPages 2 to the market, making it even easier to create and share illustrations from the iPhone.”
Spinthought has used Zco Corporation, which specializes in custom software development for all mobile platforms, as a development resource for StoryPages 2. The app is available to download for $2.99 (1.99)and supports iPhone 2G, 3G and 3GS and iPod Touch 2G and 3G running iPhone OS version 3.0 and above. You can see a video demonstration of StoryPages here.