FlowPaper vs Pressbooks
FlowPaper
flowpaper.com
Pressbooks
pressbooks.orgSide by side
| Figure | FlowPaper | Pressbooks |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $82.92/mo | $12/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 8 | 5 |
| Spec score · eBook Creation Software | 9.2 (#3) | 8.6 (#7) |
| Company | FlowPaper is a product of Devaldi Limited, which the company describes as being in New Zealand. | Pressbooks says it began in Montreal and its team is now fully remote across Canada, the United States, and beyond. |
| Founded | 2010 | Pressbooks says Hugh McGuire founded it in 2011. |
| Interactive content | Publications can include links, images, videos, hotspots, expanded content, social stories and text animations. | H5P can be used to create, copy or embed quizzes and other interactive activities. |
| Limits | FlowPaper Cloud publication quotas are 50 for Zine, 75 for Creative, and 500 for Team and Enterprise accounts in the services-account FAQ. | Pressbooks says larger media such as videos should be hosted on a dedicated streaming service and embedded, and media storage is limited by plan. |
| Product | FlowPaper turns PDFs into mobile-friendly interactive flipbooks and web publications. | Pressbooks is a book content management system for publishing books to the public web and exporting formats including EPUB, PDF, and XML. |
| Rating on Trustpilot | 4.4 out of 5 from 15 reviews. | 3.2 out of 5 from 1 review |
| Self-hosting | Users can host generated publications on their own domain or use FlowPaper Cloud, with no requirement to use the cloud service. | Organizations can run their own Pressbooks network, but must install dependencies and handle ongoing software and security updates. |
| Support | 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. | Enterprise customers receive onboarding, email support, typically one-to-two-business-day responses, training and guidance on publishing and integrations. |
| What it does | FlowPaper converts PDFs into responsive HTML5 flipbooks and interactive web publications for catalogs, brochures, magazines and reports. | Pressbooks is a book content-management system for publishing webbooks and exporting EPUB, PDF and XML formats. |
Plans
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
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
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.
Pressbooks
Pressbooks has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.