Zmooz FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
Getting Started
Everyone. Simply create your free Zmooz account by clicking here to install the app on your mobile device.
The Zmooz mobile app is available for IOS and Android. Download free :
Once you have installed the app on your mobile device you will be invited to create an account. Anyone may create an account for free.
A user account is your personal login to Zmooz.
In your user account, you will be able to see stories that you’ve created and items that are a part of your channel. If you are part of a team, you will also be able to see items that were created by other team members and/or items that are assigned to different channels.
Need help? See the tutorial, “Create a zmooz account“
Yes! The zmooz app is completely free and you may create stories with images, polls, quizzes etc.
Professionals seeking professional accounts, commercial or promotional purposes, contact us.
Stories make it possible to create visually enticing, interactive web articles specifically designed for mobile devices.
Click the plus icon and you will be prompted to enter a title and select which channel to publish to. You can then take photos or videos or add existing photos from your mobile device. You can then add links, hashtags and play with the different filters, fonts and color choices.
Professional accounts can use the desktop studio and create robots with the Zmooz team to automatically convert existing website content into stories. Contact us for details.
Read the tutorial, Create a Story for more details on creating stories.
Upload photos from birthday parties, travel pics, your baking success… whatever moves you to share. Simply upload your images and add text, links and more.
Professionals seeking to create their story site can have a robot automatically convert existing articles to the story format. Contact us for details.
Yes, Zmooz offers professional publishers technology to automatically turn websites into stories. Click here to see an example.
Working with Stories
Visuals are a very important aspect of a Zmooz story. We offer several ways for you to add media to your stories.
Mobile Apps
Capture photos or videos directly in the Zmooz mobile app or easily upload your own photos.
Zmooz Premium for Professionals
With the Desktop Studio, large teams can share media easily between accounts. Create a bridge between editorial staff, designers, photographers, etc. to share assets between accounts.
In the main menu click on “My stories”.
Click on the first tab “Arrange” when you are in the edit mode of a story.
Press and hold the image and the “delete” trash bin will appear. Simply drag the image to the trash bin.
Stories can have multiple slides containing videos, photos, polls, quizzes, feedback, messaging, ratings and so much more.
Stories can be created in the language of your choice. Just be sure the language you have chosen in “Profile Settings” is set to the same language of your stories.
Watching Stories
Mobile app
Tap on the “me” icon in the bottom right screen of the Zmooz App. You will see a list of all the stories you have created. Click on the play button to view the story or click on the pencil icon to edit or delete the story.
Zmooz Premium for Professionals
The desktop studio lists all the stories you have created and depending on the rights your account has been accorded you will see stories created in your team or department. There is a detailed filter and search to simplify navigating the stories in your account.
SHARING Stories
Mobile Apps
You will find an arrow icon on the bottom left of every story. Use this icon to share a story.
You will be proposed to share the story by :
- SMS, Messenger and other messaging apps,
- Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, etc.)
- Select “Copy” and you copy the link to share anywhere you want!
You will find an arrow icon on the bottom left of every story. Click on this icon . Select “Copy” and you copy the link to share anywhere you want! Paste the link into your social media or use an iframe to insert into a web page.
Add a swipe up link
Mobile App:
When creating a story in the app, there are three buttons on the op of the screen. Click the middle icon (arrow) to add a swipe up link to the slide you are working on. Then simply add the URL of the article and a title such as “read more” that will serve as the link text on the story.
Desktop Studio (Premium for professionals)
When logged into the studio, creating a story, use the menu “interactions” to add a swipe-up link.
My Account
You can change your profile settings at any time in the app using the main menu (burger menu) and selecting “Profile.”
You will be able to change :
- Your profile picture
- User name
- Name
- Phone
- Language
- Age
Sales Questions
Yes! This offer is available in our premium service for professionals. Publishers, large organizations & brands contact us for details.
Zmooz brings a complete Digital Stories Platform to Professionals to create, diffuse & monetize stories with both a desktop studio and IOS and Android mobile apps.
Featuring the fastest easiest solution for converting large amounts of content instantly into interactive vertical stories for mobile devices.
Zmooz was developed for complex Multi-level editorial teams and posting privileges.
WORKFLOW
Multi-level editorial and posting privileges managed through the desktop suite
CMS BRIDGE
APIs and Interfaces to bridge directly to your existing CMS and publication tools. Our AMP API converts stories to AMP Stories format
ANALYTICS
We provide all the analytics publishers could want by channel, story, category, time period, etc.