Heyzine
PDF to flipbook free, no ads and highly customizable
About Heyzine
Heyzine is a web-based flipbook maker that converts PDFs into interactive page-flip publications such as magazines, catalogs, brochures, reports, and restaurant menus. You can add links, video, audio, forms, and web embeds, then share flipbooks by link or QR code, embed them on a website, or download them for offline viewing. The free plan carries no ads or watermarks, and paid plans add white branding, reader statistics, lead forms, and custom domains.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Free plan has no ads or watermarks on published flipbooks
- Paid plans are cheap compared with most flipbook tools, starting at $59/year
- Multiple users included even on Standard (3 seats)
- API access on every plan, including Free
- Offline HTML export lets you self-host flipbooks without Heyzine
- Capterra reviewers rate ease of use and support highly (4.9/5 from about 60 reviews)
Cons
- Free plan is capped at 5 flipbooks and 1 GB storage
- Standard plan has no monthly billing option
- Reader statistics and lead forms require the Professional plan
- Correcting pages means replacing the whole PDF, per user reviews
- No built-in way to sell subscriptions or paywall publications
Key Features
Page turn effects
Five display modes: flipbook magazine, book, slider presentation, cover flow, and one-page flip, with right-to-left support.
Responsive flipbooks
Converts PDFs of any page size and resizes the flipbook for phones, tablets, and desktop browsers.
Interactive media
Add video, audio, images, GIFs, internal and external links, and iframes for maps, calendars, forms, or payment pages.
Branding customization
Change the logo, background, text, and navigation control styles; paid plans remove Heyzine branding.
Sharing and embedding
Generates link styles with cover thumbnails, QR codes, and several embed styles for websites and social media.
Reader statistics
Track visits, traffic sources, clicked links and media, and most-viewed pages, with Google Analytics integration on Professional and up.
Lead generation forms
Capture reader contact details with forms placed inside the flipbook (Professional plan and up).
Privacy controls
Content is private by default, with password protection and restrictions on which domains can embed a flipbook.
Offline download
Download a flipbook for the reader app or as self-hostable HTML with no dependency on Heyzine.
Digital bookshelf
Group multiple flipbooks on a branded sharing page (Premium plan).
API access
Developer API for converting PDFs to flipbooks automatically, available on every plan including Free.
Pricing
- 5 flipbooks
- Unlimited pages
- No ads
- API access
- 1 GB storage
- 1 account user
- Password protection
- Unlimited flipbooks and updates
- No ads or watermarks
- 10 GB storage
- 3 account users
- White branding
- Download offline flipbooks
- Basic support
- Annual billing only (about $5/month)
- Everything in Standard
- 20 GB storage
- 10 account users
- Reader statistics
- Google Analytics integration
- Lead generation forms
- Custom flipbook URL and subdomain
- Domain restriction
- $108 billed yearly or $14 month-to-month
- Everything in Professional
- 40 GB storage
- 20 account users
- Digital bookshelf
- Custom DNS domain
- Advanced password protection
- Priority support
- $228 billed yearly or $29 month-to-month
Best For
Product catalogs
Turn print catalogs into shareable, embeddable flipbooks with links to product pages.
Digital magazines and reports
Publish magazines, annual reports, and newsletters with a page-flip reading experience and reader analytics.
Restaurant menus
Share menus by QR code that open as mobile-friendly flipbooks and can be updated without reprinting.
Marketing brochures and lead capture
Embed brochures on landing pages and collect leads with in-flipbook forms.
Automated publishing
Use the API to convert PDFs into flipbooks automatically from your own system.
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