It begins with Stella leaving the rest of the Angry Birds flock and setting off to Golden Island to visit four other friends for vacation.

Rovio announced an animated series based on the game, with the first episode released on November 1, 2014 on ToonsTV, simply named Angry Birds Stella.

Rovio has partnered with Worldreader and Room to Read, two literacy charities, to produce a series of books featuring its Angry Birds Stella characters.

[10] Belgian publisher Le Lombard later released a two-volume comic book series based on the spin-off in 2015 and 2017 exclusively in mainland Europe, first in France, before they were translated in Czech, Dutch, Spanish and German.

More than a month later, Gale appeared in one issue in the year-long The Angry Birds Movie comic strip run, published by GoComics.

[12] Stella and all of her friends, except Luca, appear in the animated Angry Birds film adaptations with fully visibly wings and talons, as well as Gale, the spin-off's main antagonist.

Willow, voiced by Charli XCX, sings the song "Explode", while performing with Stella and most of her friends as part of a welcome celebration for the pigs in The Angry Birds Movie.