What is Pixton?
We believe that storytelling is the world’s most powerful force for communication and change. Pixton is a comic creation platform that enables people of all ages and abilities to develop storytelling skills, enhance writing and visual communication, demonstrate learning, and celebrate identity and culture through personalized avatars.
Educational Impact
 Company | Business Name: Pixton Comics Inc. HQ Location: Canada Founded: 2008 |
| Age Range | 5-7, 8-10, 11-13, 14-16, 17-18, 19+ |
 Features | AssessmentComicsGraphic NovelsWritingLessons And ResourcesMathScienceSocial StudiesLanguagesDigital LiteracyHistoryInteractive RubricComic SchoolAuthors GalleryStoryboardsEnglish Language ArtsSocial Emotional Learning |
 Languages | English, French, Spanish |
 Accessibility | Robust features |
 Policies |  Terms of ServicePrivacy PolicyGDPR |
 Requirements | Internet - High BandwidthDesktop - MacDesktop - WindowsDesktop - ChromebookDesktop - LinuxMobile - iPhoneMobile - iPadMobile - WindowsMobile - Android Users require a desktop computer or tablet or mobile phone to access with internet access via web-browser. |
 Set Up | Minutes |
 Training | WebinarsDocumentationVideos Very little training, if any, is required. User onboarding is very simple and self explanatory. Help videos are available on our YouTube channel as well for anyone needing help. |
 Support | EmailKnowledge Base |
| Home Learning | Teacher must create the account. |
AIAI usage The Pixton team has not stated whether it uses AI. | |
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Pixton PricingPricing Plans Free TrialPaid Subscription Pixton pricing starts from $10 / month Teacher Only / No Students Monthly = $10/month  Optimised for a quick response | |
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Pixton Reviews
from 43 Verified Reviews
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CATERINA
CLIL TEACHER
Used Pixton occasionally for 3-4 years
May 2024
It's a fun and easy programme - the kids love it!
CATERINA found Pixton:
- Reduces teacher workload
- Improves teaching efficiency
- Improves teacher wellbeing
- Improves behaviour or wellbeing
- Improves attainment
Susanne
teacher
Used Pixton monthly for 4-6 months
Apr 2024
great resource and the students love it
Susanne found Pixton:
- Reduces teacher workload“easy lesson planning”
- Improves teaching efficiency“saves time looking for resources”
- Improves teacher wellbeing“lesson is planned”
- Improves behaviour or wellbeing
- Improves attainment
Juan Rafael Hernández
Docente
Used Pixton occasionally for 3-4 years
Apr 2024
Es muy intuitivo, fácil de usar por alumnos y aporta elementos para el seguimiento del trabajo de los alumnos, la formación activa durante el desarrollo de las actividades de aprendizaje y le avaluación sumativa
Juan Rafael Hernández found Pixton:
- Reduces teacher workload
- Improves teaching efficiency
- Improves teacher wellbeing
- Improves behaviour or wellbeing
- Improves attainment
Mar 2024
Tooooooo expensive
Rachel found Pixton:
- Reduces teacher workload“Rubrics are too long”
- Improves teaching efficiency“They explore creativity easily”
- Improves teacher wellbeing“They really like the motor of creating comics and are very happy and me too”
- Improves behaviour or wellbeing“They are relaxed when doing comics in pixton”
- Improves attainment“Digical competence and citizenship”
Kateryna Filatova
English teacher
Used Pixton occasionally for 1-2 years
Feb 2024
A useful tool in teaching story-telling, critical thinking, digital skills and creativity.
Kateryna Filatova found Pixton:
- Reduces teacher workload“Project where students used Pixton to create a comic as a final product.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Improved digital skills and creativity”
- Improves teacher wellbeing“More freedom to a teacher thus less stress”
- Improves behaviour or wellbeing“Comic creates positive attitude to learning”
- Improves attainment“No”
Dec 2023
I love working with this tool, as do my students. It's a fun way to creatively learn and process new material.
Ariel found Pixton:
- Reduces teacher workload“Yes, I use it for creating comics of a literary character from a short story 10 years after the story ends.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“The students learn how to describe their character's "story" through scenes, pictures, props, and words.”
- Improves teacher wellbeing“It is great to see the kids excited to use the tool, and create their comic strips on their own. The students take the initiative and run with it.”
- Improves behaviour or wellbeing“No”
- Improves attainment“No”
Toshina
Special Ed Para
Used Pixton daily for 7–12 months
Dec 2023
Toshina found Pixton:
- Reduces teacher workload
- Improves teaching efficiency“I use them to explain difficult and complex concepts to my students in a memorable way. For example, atomic bonding is simply marriages between the elements of the periodic table who have cute characters to fit their "personalities." My students' favorite comics though are the ones that feature them - such as the one explaining the scientific method by having one of them run experiments on another.”
- Improves teacher wellbeing“Honestly, it makes me happy. Just as it is more fun for my students to learn this way, it is far more fun for me to make a comic than to try to explain these concepts in a more traditional way.”
- Improves behaviour or wellbeing
- Improves attainment
Sean
Library Media Specialist
Used Pixton weekly for 0–3 months
Dec 2023
It's been a great addition to my lessons and teaching
Sean found Pixton:
- Reduces teacher workload“Allows students to work on something while I take care of other things”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Allowing students to be creative when making their stories”
- Improves teacher wellbeing“None”
- Improves behaviour or wellbeing“Kids are on task more when working”
- Improves attainment“None”
Melissa
ELA Classroom Teacher
Used Pixton monthly for 4-6 months
Dec 2023
It can be really helpful for specific applications, but the software and tools are challenging to many students. Many students complain that the program is very slow to run, others complain that there are not enough options for certain items (hockey gear) (how characters can interact with props) (characters not being able to have more than 1 talk bubble in a panel, ie. someone muttering to themselves multiple statements that should be separated for clarity and to convey tone)
Melissa found Pixton:
- Reduces teacher workload“We are currently using the program as creation tool for students to create their own graphic novels for our new graphic novels class.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Visual and creative students find Pixton assessments more engaging.”
- Improves teacher wellbeing
- Improves behaviour or wellbeing“Students wrote stories based on events in their lives. Some chose to unpack the stress they were under during Covid, others a painful breakup, I even had a student share about her experience moving to the United States from Russia. Pixton gave them a platform to process their feelings about significant life events.”
- Improves attainment“Students are becoming better story tellers and learning all the details and thought required to tell a story using this medium.”
Dec 2023
It's a wonderful piece of software that pupils engage with and are able to produce wonderful work on almost any subject matter.
Matt found Pixton:
- Reduces teacher workload“The ability to mark online, give digital feedback.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“It allows pupils to create something visually impressive without the time needed to draw out comic book strips/cutting/colouring etc.”
- Improves teacher wellbeing“.”
- Improves behaviour or wellbeing“Pupils love using the software so are always engaged and have fewer opportunities to lose focus and misbehave.”
- Improves attainment“FOr some pupils the interface allows them to achieve more quickly and extend what they would be able to achieve with pencil and paper.”
Angie
Classroom Teacher,
Used Pixton occasionally for 1-2 years
Mar 2022
very engaging for students;
Angie found Pixton:
- Reduces teacher workload
- Improves teaching efficiency
- Improves teacher wellbeing
- Improves behaviour or wellbeing
- Improves attainment“An additional format for students to demonstrate their knowledge”
Feb 2022
I love all the options and the ease of use.
martina found Pixton:
- Reduces teacher workload“cant think of any”
- Improves teaching efficiency
- Improves teacher wellbeing“it makes me happy to see how the students respond to discovering pixton”
- Improves behaviour or wellbeing“develop creativity and give alternatives to traditional expression.”
- Improves attainment
Feb 2022
Excellent for all levels of learners, which makes it easy for teachers to use with all ages. From GATE students to special needs students, all students can feel like they are sharing their learning in a fun new way.
S found Pixton:
- Reduces teacher workload“Culminating activity or homework project”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Can be used as a small group or independent activity”
- Improves teacher wellbeing“Helps students feel more engaged and also entertains/helps everyone have more fun with learning”
- Improves behaviour or wellbeing“Engagement of students”
- Improves attainment“Helps students feel successful when using technology”
Walaa Salim
English language teacher
Used Pixton occasionally for 3-4 years
Feb 2022
I love picton and I hope to have a free access to all the options specifically the Pharoah's costumes
Walaa Salim found Pixton:
- Reduces teacher workload“Students could Express themselves freely and produce creative comics”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Students could create comics about national and international ceremonies then they presented what they have created”
- Improves teacher wellbeing“We thought of our problems and challenges and tried to find solutions by creating comics”
- Improves behaviour or wellbeing“Using masks, cleanliness”
- Improves attainment“Reducing ttt and increasing students collaboration”
Caroline Roseman
Assistant Principal
Used Pixton monthly for 1-2 years
Feb 2022
The overall engagement is fantastic - and the ability for the under-achievers to participate on an almost level playing field is brilliant!
Caroline Roseman found Pixton:
- Reduces teacher workload“I no longer photocopy comic strip blanks for students to use when writing”
- Improves teaching efficiency“I don't need to provide much motivation to write.... the children can't wait to get started...”
- Improves teacher wellbeing“It's great seeing reluctant writers having a go!”
- Improves behaviour or wellbeing“Students too engaged to be off task!”
- Improves attainment“Students appear to be more willing to take risks and have a go, building success as they do!”
Feb 2022
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Elisabetta found Pixton:
- Reduces teacher workload“Get together comics”
- Improves teaching efficiency“.”
- Improves teacher wellbeing“.”
- Improves behaviour or wellbeing“.”
- Improves attainment“.”
Feb 2022
The kids just simply LOVE using this! It has endless possibilities for teachers as well. Love love love it!
Kathleen Reed found Pixton:
- Reduces teacher workload“I love presenting new ideas using the comics that teachers have made! Great time-savers”
- Improves teaching efficiency“It's much quicker to grab a comic as the anticipatory set than it is to create something on one's own!”
- Improves teacher wellbeing“The kids love it and that helps my wellbeing~!”
- Improves school processes
- Improves attainment
Feb 2022
The kids love it and I have enjoyed including in my science classes.
Lisa Miller found Pixton:
- Reduces teacher workload
- Improves teaching efficiency
- Improves teacher wellbeing
- Improves behaviour or wellbeing“The kids love creating comics”
- Improves attainment
Feb 2022
Now that the free version has been eliminated, schools/districts on a tight budget may not fund a subscription.
Jen Bergey found Pixton:
- Reduces teacher workload“You still have to pre-teach students how to use the program, plan for its use, create rubrics, etc. I use Pixton as a tool, not as the "be all/end all" for the lesson.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Pixton is a tool. Not a replacement for the lesson.”
- Improves teacher wellbeing“I like that it allows my students to be creative. It doesn't effect me one way or the other.”
- Improves behaviour or wellbeing“Students are engaged.”
- Improves attainment“Pixton does allow students to present what they have learned in a new fashion.”
Feb 2022
Milana found Pixton:
- Reduces teacher workload
- Improves teaching efficiency
- Improves teacher wellbeing
- Improves school processes
- Improves attainment
Feb 2022
Very engaging for students of all ages
Helen Keefe found Pixton:
- Reduces teacher workload“Easier for me to evaluate a student's understanding of a topic or of content in general”
- Improves teaching efficiency“The premade Pixton videos”
- Improves teacher wellbeing
- Improves school processes
- Improves attainment“When students create their own assignment they seem to be more vested in the accuracy of their product.”
Suzanne Giacotto
French Teacher
Used Pixton weekly for 3-4 years
Feb 2022
I purchased Pixton out of my own funds because I have witnessed the level of engagement and student creation to demonstrate learning and am amazed!!!
Suzanne Giacotto found Pixton:
- Reduces teacher workload“Using Pixton to share dialogues for World Language instruction allows me to use them for multiplie levels, copy and elevate the narratives. I also share student created work for advocacy and parent connections. Pixton offers a true assessment of student learning.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“The themes connect to DEI and SEL initiatives that are extremely important in classrooms today.”
- Improves teacher wellbeing“I believe student creativity is elevated by Pixton and the reward to educators is in knowing they are effective in transferring knowledge and providing a platform.for student voice, choice & creativity.”
- Improves school processes“I wish Pixton was school wide. I think I am the only teacher in my school using Pixton.”
- Improves attainment“Pixton provides a creative platform for Formative Assessments to measure learning. It is paperless, infinitely creative and works like storyboard.”
Feb 2022
You cannot create assignments and that is critical to teaching, especially using an LMS such as Google Classroom
Magali found Pixton:
- Reduces teacher workload“I haven't used it as much because I can't create assignments.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Not at this time”
- Improves teacher wellbeing“Not at this time”
- Improves school processes“Not at this time”
- Improves attainment“Not at this time”
Feb 2022
Pixton is amazing! Students love comics so this is a great opportunity for them to create their own comics.
Isabel Adame found Pixton:
- Reduces teacher workload“Teaching dialogue between characters”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Characters are there to choose from, as well as setting. Elements of a story are there for students. All students need to do is come up with a plot.”
- Improves teacher wellbeing“I like how you can choose a variety of backgrounds as well as stances and expressions to express teacher wellbeing.”
- Improves school processes“yes”
- Improves attainment“yes”
Feb 2022
Capri found Pixton:
- Reduces teacher workload“It provides ways for student provide answer in a different manner.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Students enjoy the making comics to answer questions.”
- Improves teacher wellbeing“Keeps me from being bored by reading and grade so much writing.”
- Improves school processes“Its a good program.”
- Improves attainment
