🆚 Issuu vs. Shorthand
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About
Issuu is a digital publishing platform that converts static PDFs into interactive online flipbooks.
It provides multi-format content creation from a single upload, website embedding and social sharing, analytics on read time, impressions, and clicks, digital sales of subscriptions and single issues, and lead generation forms that collect reader emails.
Shorthand is a no-code publishing platform for building immersive multimedia stories that animate as readers scroll, such as feature articles, digital magazines, and annual reports.
It provides a drag-and-drop editor with story templates, flipbook-style image sequences and scroll-based image transitions with text overlays, an AI assistant for layout generation and draft restructuring, chart creation from uploaded CSV data, import of existing PDFs and web pages, and collaborative editing with commenting.
Headquarters
Pricing
(unlimited documents x 500 pages) $300/year
(all features) $2,712/year
(2 members, 2 workspaces) $6,000/year
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
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Awards
- 🔥 13rd most popular in the United Kingdom in the Tools category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in the United States in the Tools category.
Popularity by domain category
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Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
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🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
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