AnyFlip vs Pressbooks
AnyFlip
anyflip.com
Pressbooks
pressbooks.orgSide by side
| Figure | AnyFlip | Pressbooks |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $13.08/mo | $12/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 11 | 5 |
| Spec score · eBook Creation Software | 9.5 (#1) | 8.6 (#7) |
| Company headquarters | The company gives an address at Flat/Rm D3, 11/F, Luk Hop Industrial Building, No. 8 Luk Hop Street, San Po Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong. | LinkedIn lists Montreal, Quebec as Pressbooks’ headquarters. |
| Interactive content | Its desktop Page Editor can add videos, YouTube and Vimeo content, audio, images, slideshows, links and other interactive elements. | H5P can be used to create, copy or embed quizzes and other interactive activities. |
| Self-hosting | Paid users can publish publications to their own server or FTP site; the FAQ says this is available from Pro upward. | Organizations can run their own Pressbooks network, but must install dependencies and handle ongoing software and security updates. |
| Support | The contact page says support replies within 12 hours on weekdays and 48 hours on weekends. | Enterprise customers receive onboarding, email support, typically one-to-two-business-day responses, training and guidance on publishing and integrations. |
| What it does | AnyFlip converts PDFs into interactive HTML5 flipbooks for magazines, catalogs, brochures, reports and newsletters. | Pressbooks is a book content-management system for publishing webbooks and exporting EPUB, PDF and XML formats. |
Plans
AnyFlip
- FreeFree
- FREEFree
- Pro$13.08 a month
- Pro$13.08 a month
- Platinum$26.17 a month
- Platinum$26.17 a month
- Enterprise$87.42 a month
- ENTERPRISE$87.42 a month
- Pro$157 a year
- Platinum$314 a year
Pressbooks
- Free TrialFree
- Single Author$12 a month
- Collaboration$40 a month
- Institutional Network$5,999 a year
- Shared Network$15,999 a year
In their own words
AnyFlip
AnyFlip turns PDF files into digital publications with page-flipping layouts that can be shared online. Its desktop Page Editor adds videos, YouTube and Vimeo content, audio, images, slideshows, links and other interactive elements. Flipbooks can be published online or locally in formats such as HTML, ZIP, DVD/CD, EXE and Mac APP; the desktop software also supports WordPress, Joomla and Drupal publishing. Google Analytics tracking covers visits and reader activity. AnyFlip runs on the web, macOS, Windows, iOS and Android. The free plan is listed at free and includes 30,000 daily opens, five uploads per day, 100G storage and a watermark. Pro costs $13.08 a month, Platinum $26.17 a month and Enterprise $87.42 a month. A seven-day trial is available. The privacy policy says collected data is transferred to the United States for processing and names AWS, Linode and Cloudflare among service providers.
Pressbooks
Pressbooks has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.