Flipbook
Show catalogs, brochures, magazines, and any multi-page document as an interactive 3D flipbook with realistic page-turning animations.
Create a FlipbookWhat is a Flipbook?
A flipbook turns a PDF or a set of page images into a 3D book that visitors page through in the browser, the way they would flip through a printed magazine.
- Real 3D pages that curl as they turn
- A soft cover or a hard cover with a coloured spine
- Hotspots on any page: links, jumps to another page, tooltips and pop-ups
- A dock with page arrows, zoom, fullscreen, bookmarks, print and download
- Works with a mouse, a keyboard or a touch screen
Best for
Product Catalogs
Showcase products with clickable links to buy pages
Digital Magazines
Publish engaging magazines with interactive content
Brochures
Marketing materials that stand out from the competition
Annual Reports
Make company reports more engaging
Portfolios
Present creative work in a memorable way
Presentations
Slide decks with a unique 3D twist
Ebooks
Digital books with realistic reading experience
Menus
Restaurant or service menus with visual appeal
Files and limits
- Images or PDFs. Each image becomes one page, and each page of a PDF becomes one page.
- A PDF can have up to 200 pages and weigh up to 50 MB.
- Links inside a PDF become hotspots on the pages they were on.
- Upload several files at once, or use Import from URL to bring in an image from a web address.
- The first page is the cover. Fit to content can match the book's shape to it.
- Uploads count toward your workspace storage: 50 MB on Free, 10 GB on Pro, 25 GB on Business.
Create a flipbook
1. Upload your pages
Open the Content tab and drop in a PDF or your page images.
2. Put the pages in order
Drag a page to move it, delete the ones you don't need, and add more at any time.
3. Add hotspots
In the Hotspots tab, place clickable spots on any page to open a link, jump to another page, show a tooltip or open a pop-up.
4. Set the look
In the Settings tab, choose a soft or hard cover, the page width, the background and where the camera starts.
5. Share it
Save, then copy the link or the embed code from the Share tab.
Export your PDF at print quality. Visitors can zoom in, and small text stays readable only if it was sharp to begin with.
Settings
Everything below is in the editor's Settings tab, listed under the sub-tab where you find it: General, Scene or Camera.
General
Basic info (the project title and description) sits at the top for every type. Below it come the settings for the object itself.
Appearance
Hard cover gives the book a rigid, laminated cover with a spine, like a photo book. It is off for a new flipbook, so the cover starts soft. With it on, Spine and cover edge sets the colour of the spine and of the cover's rim.
Flipbook size
Page width in millimetres, from 100 to 400 (210, the width of A4, by default). Fit to content sets it from your first page's proportions, so the book takes the shape of your document.
Scene
What surrounds the object, and the Realism finish over the whole frame.
Background
A solid colour, a gradient or an image of your own (with an optional blur), plus an optional pattern on top.
Realism
Film grain over the frame (0 to 100, 15 by default), how much of it lands on the pages, still or animated grain, a vignette, and the shadow the book leaves on its surface, with how dark it is.
Camera
Where the view starts and how much visitors can move it.
Playback
Auto-rotate pages turns the pages on its own and goes back to the start after the last one. Interval sets the seconds between turns, from 1 to 30 (3 by default).
Camera
Page flip speed is how long a page takes to turn, from 0.15 to 5 seconds (0.8 by default). Initial zoom (50 to 200%), Min zoom (50 to 100%) and Max zoom (100 to 200%) set where the view starts and how far it goes. Horizontal rotation (up to 30 degrees each way) and Vertical tilt (up to 45) aim the camera. Drag to rotate, on by default, lets visitors turn the book by dragging the background; it springs back when they let go, and it replaces swiping to turn pages. Reset to default puts the page flip speed, the zoom and the angles back, and leaves Drag to rotate as it is.
On a phone, the editor's Camera section has no Horizontal rotation or Vertical tilt sliders. Set the camera angle from a computer.
Hotspots, menu and sounds
Next to Files, the Content tab has three more sub-tabs: Hotspots, Menu and Sounds.
Hotspots
Hotspots can go on any page of the flipbook.
A hotspot can go to another page, open a link, show a tooltip or open a pop-up. How hotspots work
Sounds
Every project type can have background music. Add tracks as MP3, M4A, WAV, OGG or FLAC, up to 20 minutes each. They are compressed to about 1 MB per minute and count toward your workspace storage. You can loop the playlist, set the volume and show a small player next to the dock. Autoplay starts with the visitor's first tap or key press, because browsers block sound until then.
Film it in Studio
Every project type can be filmed in Studio. Open the project's Studio tab, pick camera moves made for this type, and turn the project into a video, a GIF, a still image or a page of its own to share. Studio reads this project's files and settings, so what you set here carries over. Read the Studio docs · See the camera moves for each type
Current limits
- There is no links dock on a flipbook. To link out, put a hotspot on the page.
- Each PDF page is turned into an image, so its text can't be selected in the viewer.
- Auto-rotate pages does not run on phones, or for visitors who ask their system for reduced motion.
Tips
- Keep every page the same size, then use Fit to content so the book takes your document's shape.
- Put a hotspot wherever a page mentions a product, a price or a contact, so readers can act without leaving the book.
- A hard cover suits a catalogue or a yearbook. A soft cover suits a magazine or a brochure.
- Turn on Allow download only if you want readers to keep a copy.
- Check the flipbook on a phone before you share it.