Book Creator vs Pressbooks
Book Creator
bookcreator.com
Pressbooks
pressbooks.orgSide by side
| Figure | Book Creator | Pressbooks |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $12.50/mo | $12/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 7 | 5 |
| Spec score · eBook Creation Software | 9.4 (#2) | 8.6 (#7) |
| Accessibility | The product advertises more than 130 built-in accessibility features. | The service advertises fully accessible digital books conforming to WCAG 2.2 and says its VPATs cover authoring and reading interfaces at A and AA levels. |
| Audience | The maker describes Book Creator as being for students, teachers, schools and districts, and says it supports learners of all ages and abilities. | Pressbooks identifies educational institutions, academic presses, small publishers, and individual authors as users. |
| Founded | 2011 | Pressbooks says Hugh McGuire founded it in 2011. |
| LMS integration | The product page identifies Canvas and Schoology integrations for assigning and grading projects. | Enterprise networks provide IMS Global-certified LTI integration and Pressbooks Results for connecting content with learning-management systems. |
| Rating on Trustpilot | Book Creator has a TrustScore of 3.2 out of 5 from 1 review. | 3.2 out of 5 from 1 review |
| 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. | Enterprise customers receive onboarding, email support, typically one-to-two-business-day responses, training and guidance on publishing and integrations. |
| What it does | Book Creator lets students and teachers make, read and publish multimedia books and portfolios with text, images, audio, video and drawings. | Pressbooks is a book content-management system for publishing webbooks and exporting EPUB, PDF and XML formats. |
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
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
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.
Pressbooks
Pressbooks has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.