Book Creator vs FlowPaper
Book Creator
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| Figure | Book Creator | FlowPaper |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $12.50/mo | $82.92/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 7 | 8 |
| Spec score · eBook Creation Software | 9.4 (#2) | 9.2 (#3) |
| Founded | 2011 | 2010 |
| Headquarters | Bristol, England, United Kingdom | New Zealand |
| Integrations | The pricing page lists LMS, Clever and ClassLink integrations for Schools & Districts, and SSO with Google, Microsoft, Clever or ClassLink accounts in its plan comparison. | Capterra lists native integrations with Canva and Adobe Connect. |
| Rating on Trustpilot | Book Creator has a TrustScore of 3.2 out of 5 from 1 review. | 4.4 out of 5 from 15 reviews. |
| Support | The support page provides a knowledge base and chat with the Book Creator team; Premium also lists in-app chat support on the pricing page. | The plan comparison lists community support for Free, included support for Zine and Creative, and priority support for Team and Enterprise, with onboarding for Enterprise. |
| What it does | Book Creator lets students and teachers make, read and publish multimedia books and portfolios with text, images, audio, video and drawings. | FlowPaper converts PDFs into responsive HTML5 flipbooks and interactive web publications for catalogs, brochures, magazines and reports. |
Plans
Book Creator
- StarterFree
- Book Creator for iPad$3.99, paid once
- Premium monthly$14 a month
- Premium annual$150 a year
- PremiumPrice not published
- PremiumPrice not published
- Schools & DistrictsPriced on request
FlowPaper
- FreeFree
- FreeFree
- Zine$75, paid once
- Zine$75, paid once
- Creative$85 a month
- Creative$85 a month
- Enterprise$995 a year
- Enterprise$995 a year
In their own words
Book Creator
Book Creator is a classroom tool for students and teachers to create books and show learning through text, images, audio and video. Users can record voice, images or video in the app, work together on books in real time, and leave feedback as audio, video or text comments. The product describes more than 130 built-in accessibility features, including speech-to-text, text-to-speech, screen reader support and video captions. Translation can cover text, audio, comments, captions and entire books. Books and libraries can be published, shared by QR code, downloaded as ePub or printed as PDFs. It supports fixed-layout books and imports PDFs and EPUB files created with Book Creator. The free Starter plan costs nothing and includes one library with up to 40 books and unlimited students; a private My Books library can hold 40 more. There is no per-student cost or limit, and no limit on page count or audio and video duration. It runs on Android, iOS, macOS, web and Windows.
FlowPaper
FlowPaper converts PDFs into mobile-friendly interactive flipbooks and web publications. Its browser viewer compresses graphics and loads only the pages currently visible. The desktop publisher adds links, images, galleries and video from YouTube, Vimeo, Wistia or self-hosted locations. Publications can be hosted on FlowPaper Cloud or self-hosted; the company says self-hosting has no publication-count limit. A JavaScript API exposes methods and events for integrating the viewer into an application or webpage. FlowPaper supports page-by-page Google Analytics tracking, while higher plans list heatmap and engagement analytics. The Free plan costs nothing and includes cloud hosting, FlowPaper branding and publishing for 90 days. Zine costs $75, paid once, Creative costs $85 a month, and Enterprise costs $995 a year. Cloud publication quotas vary by plan: Zine has 50 and Creative has 75, while the services-account FAQ lists 500 for Team and Enterprise accounts. The listed platforms include web, desktop, mobile and self-hosted options.