Thank you for all of your wonderful words about my apps and sorry for the late answer, I was away for a couple of days.
Actually for Animalibrium I partnered with Giordano Scalzo, an experienced programmer and friend of mine; he used Unity and C#.
While I still would warmly suggest Scratch-like blocks programming to learn the logic behind apps and video games, I’m not sure anymore that Stencyl is worth for commercial products, expecially if you are working for clients respecting their deadlines and expectations.

Its main pro is that in relatively short time you can learn how to make your own game and publish it without hiring any programmer (it took to me around two months to learn the program itself, and more or less 8 months to develop Lola Slug), but there are some big downsides too:

1) Stencyl is not very updated, it can heppen you have to wait months or even years for some bugs fixing or for new screen resolutions/iOS features, and waiting for that can make you missing your deadlines;

2) It is not very loved/used by professional developers, so that, if at a certain point you need some help, paying for a professional is not an option;

3) It is not very simple software so you have to learn a lot anyway, it is probably better to learn something more usable…

By me, I do not think to use Stencyl for commercial products anymore, actually I am going into the opposite direction… I’m following two courses of Unity and C#, and Video Game Design at the Politecnico di Milano.
It is very difficult for me, sometimes frustrating, because I’m 42 and definitely the worst student in the class , but I know that all what I am learning will help me to be more creative and free to develop whatever I want.
I try to find some comfort in the idea, kids learn to read and write in only one year … And writing is wide more difficult than programming!!!
Also either the teacher, colleagues and friends are supporting me a lot.

I’m playing with the idea to post here what I am learning and how I’m learning it,

Thank you again for writing me.
Best whishes for your work!!!

Thanks for putting together this post on software to use when developing children ebooks and apps.It is a great read. I particularly find your thoughts about pubcoder really interesting.
Keep up these insightful posts.

Cheers!

just wanted to say a big Thank You for your explanations !

I found on this page the exact informations i was looking for

I am a graphic designer, and about to create my first interactive book app, and i will definitely choose Stencyl, as i think it fits well my needs.

All the bests,

Karim

I am so sorry… I hadn’t noticed your comment until now.

If you are on a PC you could try Pubcoder, it is simple to use and it works either on PC and on Mac, on Mac it works just fine, I haven’t tested it on Pc yet.

My app Lola Slug at the Exhibition was eventually published for iOS and Android.

I made it with Stencyl which is a great software if you want gradually learn how to code, if you are not interested in coding, Pubcoder is far more easy and doesn’t need to code at all. If you know Flash you shouldn’t have any problems with Pubcoder.

Thank you for your kind message and please let me know your impressions about the software you will use.
Thank you again!

Giulia