What is Pixton?
Pixton is a web-app that gives teachers and students a unique way to create stories, demonstrate learning, and enhance writing assignments — in any subject — through digital comics.
Users can explore topics in Math, Science, Social Studies, History, English, Art or any other subject. Choose images from popular content, books and movies like The Hunger Games or The Outsiders, plus other topics like the solar system, black history or the environment — all Common Core aligned. No drawing skills are required.
Pixton levels the playing field with hundreds of preset characters, backgrounds, outfits, poses, and even emotions, all just a click or tap away. Comics can be made and shared in no time, making the classroom experience fun and memorable. It’s also a great tool for distance/remote learning.
Recommended Usage
Currently unknown
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 | Parent Access Parents can create the account. https://www.pixton.com/comic-maker-for-home-learning |
Pixton PricingPricing Plans Free TrialPaid Subscription Pixton pricing starts from $10 / month Teacher Only–No Students Monthly = $9.99/month | |
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Pixton Reviews
from 33 Verified Reviews
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Angie
Classroom Teacher,
Used Pixton occasionally for 1-2 years
Mar 2022
very engaging for students;
Angie found Pixton:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency
- Slightly improves teacher wellbeing
- Slightly improves behaviour or wellbeing
- Moderately improves attainment“An additional format for students to demonstrate their knowledge”
martina
teacher
Used Pixton monthly for 1-2 years
Feb 2022
I love all the options and the ease of use.
martina found Pixton:
- Does not significantly reduce teacher workload“cant think of any”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency
- Slightly improves teacher wellbeing“it makes me happy to see how the students respond to discovering pixton”
- Slightly improves behaviour or wellbeing“develop creativity and give alternatives to traditional expression.”
- Slightly improves attainment
S
Teacher\
Used Pixton monthly for 1-2 years
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:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Culminating activity or homework project”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Can be used as a small group or independent activity”
- Moderately improves teacher wellbeing“Helps students feel more engaged and also entertains/helps everyone have more fun with learning”
- Moderately improves behaviour or wellbeing“Engagement of students”
- Slightly 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:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Students could Express themselves freely and produce creative comics”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Students could create comics about national and international ceremonies then they presented what they have created”
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing“We thought of our problems and challenges and tried to find solutions by creating comics”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“Using masks, cleanliness”
- Significantly 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:
- Does not significantly reduce teacher workload“I no longer photocopy comic strip blanks for students to use when writing”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“I don't need to provide much motivation to write.... the children can't wait to get started...”
- Does not significantly improve teacher wellbeing“It's great seeing reluctant writers having a go!”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“Students too engaged to be off task!”
- Moderately improves attainment“Students appear to be more willing to take risks and have a go, building success as they do!”
Elisabetta
Teacher
Used Pixton weekly for 0–3 months
Feb 2022
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Elisabetta found Pixton:
- Does not reduce teacher workload“Get together comics”
- Does not significantly improve teaching efficiency“.”
- Slightly improves teacher wellbeing“.”
- Slightly improves behaviour or wellbeing“.”
- Slightly improves attainment“.”
Kathleen Reed
teacher
Used Pixton monthly for 3-4 years
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:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“I love presenting new ideas using the comics that teachers have made! Great time-savers”
- Moderately 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!”
- Moderately improves teacher wellbeing“The kids love it and that helps my wellbeing~!”
- Slightly improves school processes
- Slightly improves attainment
Lisa Miller
5th Grade teacher
Used Pixton weekly for 0–3 months
Feb 2022
The kids love it and I have enjoyed including in my science classes.
Lisa Miller found Pixton:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency
- Slightly improves teacher wellbeing
- Moderately improves behaviour or wellbeing“The kids love creating comics”
- Slightly improves attainment
Jen Bergey
EL Coordinator
Used Pixton occasionally for 7–12 months
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:
- Does not significantly reduce 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.”
- Does not significantly improve teaching efficiency“Pixton is a tool. Not a replacement for the lesson.”
- Slightly improves teacher wellbeing“I like that it allows my students to be creative. It doesn't effect me one way or the other.”
- Slightly improves behaviour or wellbeing“Students are engaged.”
- Slightly improves attainment“Pixton does allow students to present what they have learned in a new fashion.”
Milana
Grade 5/6 Teacher
Used Pixton weekly for 1-2 years
Feb 2022
Milana found Pixton:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload
- Does not significantly improve teaching efficiency
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing
- Slightly improves school processes
- Slightly improves attainment
Helen Keefe
ELA Teacher
Used Pixton weekly for 4-6 months
Feb 2022
Very engaging for students of all ages
Helen Keefe found Pixton:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Easier for me to evaluate a student's understanding of a topic or of content in general”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“The premade Pixton videos”
- Slightly improves teacher wellbeing
- Slightly improves school processes
- Moderately 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:
- Moderately 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.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“The themes connect to DEI and SEL initiatives that are extremely important in classrooms today.”
- Significantly 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.”
- Moderately improves school processes“I wish Pixton was school wide. I think I am the only teacher in my school using Pixton.”
- Moderately improves attainment“Pixton provides a creative platform for Formative Assessments to measure learning. It is paperless, infinitely creative and works like storyboard.”
Magali
4th grade teacher
Used Pixton occasionally for 7–12 months
Feb 2022
You cannot create assignments and that is critical to teaching, especially using an LMS such as Google Classroom
Magali found Pixton:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“I haven't used it as much because I can't create assignments.”
- Does not significantly improve teaching efficiency“Not at this time”
- Slightly improves teacher wellbeing“Not at this time”
- Slightly improves school processes“Not at this time”
- Moderately improves attainment“Not at this time”
Isabel Adame
3rd grade teacher
Used Pixton monthly for 3-4 years
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:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Teaching dialogue between characters”
- Significantly 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.”
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing“I like how you can choose a variety of backgrounds as well as stances and expressions to express teacher wellbeing.”
- Significantly improves school processes“yes”
- Significantly improves attainment“yes”
Capri
Teacher
Used Pixton monthly for 1-2 years
Feb 2022
Capri found Pixton:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“It provides ways for student provide answer in a different manner.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Students enjoy the making comics to answer questions.”
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing“Keeps me from being bored by reading and grade so much writing.”
- Slightly improves school processes“Its a good program.”
- Does not significantly improve attainment
Eileen Mackey
Teacher
Used Pixton monthly for 1-2 years
Feb 2022
Students love it, and it is a fun and effective way to demonstrate understanding and/or comprehension.
Eileen Mackey found Pixton:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“It allows teachers to simply monitor rather than construct tools for measuring progress.”
- Moderately improves teacher wellbeing“Last year, both myself and my students participated in your activity describing how COVID had affected school life.”
- Slightly improves school processes
- Slightly improves attainment
Hector Hernandez
Teacher
Used Pixton daily for 0–3 months
Feb 2022
Great tool, kids really enjoy it. Not difficult to master the skills necessary to become a great story teller.
Hector Hernandez found Pixton:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“One teacher can oversee an entire classroom”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Lesson plans along with great examples”
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing“Knowing the kids are learning something and enjoying it.”
- Significantly improves school processes“It can be used in various subjects.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Students can see and share their comics.”
Lisa Richard
Computer Teacher
Used Pixton monthly for 4-6 months
Feb 2022
The students are engaged with Pixton. It is a "fun" way for them to show their knowledge on a particular subject.
Lisa Richard found Pixton:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“I don't need to print up worksheets for the comic strips--students can get on and begin working. It also allows my students to easily make avatars--something we've done in the past, but with a bit more difficulty.”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency
- Moderately improves teacher wellbeing“Just one less thing I need to prepare.”
- Slightly improves school processes
- Moderately improves attainment“Students love using Pixton! They are incredibly focused on their comics and have done a great job with them.”
Audrey Arnold
Teacher
Used Pixton monthly for 3-4 years
Feb 2022
Great program that is easy to implement and high student interest
Audrey Arnold found Pixton:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Easier to grade writing projects”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Every thing is right there, no hunting for resources”
- Moderately improves teacher wellbeing“Knowledge that the right thing is being done for students”
- Moderately improves school processes“Students complete projects”
- Moderately improves attainment“Literary analysis”
David
Computer Teacher
Used Pixton occasionally for 3-4 years
Feb 2022
I love teaching Pixton. The children love using Pixton.
David found Pixton:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“The children teach themselves how to use Picton.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“They become better at editing.”
- Moderately improves teacher wellbeing“Easy for children to use. This means easy to teach.”
- Moderately improves school processes“When teaching sequences in story writing.”
- Moderately improves attainment“They become better at punctuation.”
JB
Teacher
Used Pixton monthly for 1-2 years
Feb 2022
Plus: more students are writing than before. Minus: Pixton needs to develop. More possibilities for characters and animals to have conversation and actions.
JB found Pixton:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Make pupils that struggle to write longer assignments, write.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“More pupils are writing stories than before.”
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing“Students are motivated”
- Significantly improves school processes“Every class at school are now using Pixton”
- Significantly improves attainment“Not sure”
Zoe
Elementary School Technology Teacher
Used Pixton weekly for 4-6 months
Feb 2022
Zoe found Pixton:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Ease access, plethora of options for students that allows them to use their imagination, creativity and literacy skills”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Examples provided in Pixton”
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing“plethora of options available, time saving”
- Moderately improves school processes“great tool which helps me cover curriculum and specific units (such as creativity, literacy)”
- Significantly improves attainment“exciting tools, characters, backgrounds, and many options for the students led to an increased number of motivation, engagement and participation.”
Fredrick
Teacher
Used Pixton daily for 7–12 months
Feb 2022
Best app I came across for helping students. Keeping them interested and engaged and the best thing is now students ask me to add comic making to their homework assignments.
Fredrick found Pixton:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Students use Pixton to make comics so it takes away boring writing and students are left with something they are proud of, they can print it out and show yo parents. This takes away the process of marking a paper and now you can see the students imagination and creativity grow.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Students are eager to learn and create a new comic of what we learned and discussed in class. So by seeing them practice what they've learned it is showing students are paying attention and putting in the practice to build a strong foundation.”
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing“I can see how my students grow and develop in their comics.”
- Significantly improves school processes“Reduces marking and now we have added their comics created to their personal portfolios”
- Significantly improves attainment“Students are more engaged and eager to create new comics.”
Rachel
Teacher Librarian
Used Pixton weekly for 1-2 years
Feb 2022
It is easy to use. Customer service is efficient. Pricing is very reasonable. New things are consistently being added to the platform to make it relevant to student learning.
Rachel found Pixton:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“No worksheets to copy”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency
- Moderately improves teacher wellbeing“Students are excited about lessons and easy to engage.”
- Moderately improves school processes“Vocabulary lessons are easy to enhance with Pixton. Teachers can create their own comics to introduce concepts or even classroom procedures.”
- Slightly improves attainment
Erin Doherty
Science Teacher
Used Pixton occasionally for 1-2 years
Feb 2022
Pixton is a great way for students to showcase their creativity as it applies to the content. Pixton is very easy for teachers and students to use!😊
Erin Doherty found Pixton:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“All the tools are in Pixton for students to be as creative as possible.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“All I have to create is a class and share the code and students are ready to use Pixton. I found this resource to be very helpful in teaching students who are English Learners.”
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing“Pixton is super easy to use, and students are engaged while using it.”
- Moderately improves school processes“Pixton was especially awesome during distance learning, to help build a sense of community.”
- Slightly improves attainment“I don’t have enough data for this”
