What is a flipbook?
Flipbooks are online publications that bring the look and feel of print publications into the digital world. With interactive, tactile page flipping, and multimedia embeds, you can customize how readers experience your magazine, catalog, or book in a digital format.
You can find some examples of flipbooks here. You’ll see several types of flipbooks in these examples – a magazine, an ebook, a catalog, and a front-and-back brochure – but the possibilities of what you can create are truly endless.
Flipbooks are used to showcase content in a more hands-on way. We’ve seen them embedded in everything from a simple landing page, personal portfolios, or online shops. Flipping books are a surprisingly easy way of adding more depth to any page and inviting visitors to engage more with a site.
Do you show ads on the flipbooks?
No, we never show ads and we never will.
How long are my flipbooks available online?
It depends:
Depending on our platform load, we might decide to keep them online. If you want to remove the flipbook, you can do it from your dashboard anytime.
Do you place watermarks on my flipbook?
Unlike other services, we don't place watermarks over the flipbook, but we do show a heyzine logo on the viewer corner.
You can remove it and add your own by subscribing to one of our plans. With the Professional Plan you can also customize the flipbook link.
Can I know how many people have visited my flipbooks?
Yes. With the Professional Plan you can access the flipbook statistics page to find out the number of visits and visitors over time, duration of the visits, interactions clicked, the website and location the readers come from, and much more information.
Check out the flipbook statistics video for more details.
Can I sell my flipbooks?
Yes, you can design and sell your flipbook ebooks, magazines or publications on your website. If you don't have a payment gateway, you can use an external service like Gumroad.
Check out the sell flipbooks with gumroad guide for more details.
Who can see my published flipbooks?
We don't publish your flipbooks anywhere, only people with the flipbook link can view them.
Are you GDPR compliant?
Yes, we process and store data in accordance with GDPR. We conduct audits and training of our staff and systems. For more information, please see the privacy policy and terms of service. If needed, you can also find our data processing agreement here.
Can I password protect my flipbook?
Yes, edit your flipbook and set your password through the "password protect" menu.
Check out the flipbook password protection guide for more details.
Is there any limit on the number of pages or size?
No, there are no limits, but the total disk space of your flipbooks and assets can't exceed your user's disk space.
So, for example, on a 10Gb plan with the typical 2Mb PDF, you can have around 5,000 flipbooks online. You can remove old flipbooks to get the storage back and track your remaining space on the account page.
How much storage does each flipbook take?
It takes the size of the original pdf plus the size of all the pictures, videos or other media you upload through the heyzine editor.
So for a common 2Mb PDF on a 10Gb plan you can have up to 5,000 online flipbooks at the same time.
You can check the remaining and used space on the account page.
What happens when I reach the disk space limit?
If you are a subscription user, we will contact you to warn about the problem and then you can choose to upgrade your plan or activate an automatic removal process. If you don't respond to the warnings within a month exceeding disk space, we will activate the "old flipbooks auto removal" process until your account space returns to the plan's limit.
What automatic removal options are there?
Can I remove the heyzine's logo from the flipbook?
Yes, you can remove the logo and place your own by subscribing to one of our plans or by buying flipbook packs.
When your flipbook is password protected, the same logo will appear on the password screen.
Check out the flipbook white-brand guide for more details.
How can I use my own domain for the flipbook link?
With the Professional Plan, you can customize your flipbook's link and subdomain. The subdomains available are aflip.in and hflip.co.
The link will look like https://<text>.hflip.co/<text> or https://<text>.aflip.in/<text>.
You can also redirect the root subdomain to any address of your choice, so anyone visiting for example https://mycompany.aflip.in would be redirected to https://mycompany.com.
Check out the custom domain guide for more details.
What happens with the link to my flipbook if I edit the content?
The link to your flipbook will remain the same as before, as well as the QR code and the embed code. The flipbook will update with the new changes automatically so all of the readers with the link will see the new content immediately.
Can I add google analytics or google tag manager in my flipbooks?
Yes, with the professional plan you can add any third-party script. Add them on your account page under the external scripts section, we will review and insert them in less than 24 hours.
How do I remove a flipbook?
Log in, click the flipbook you want to remove, and click delete. This will move it to the trash, click on the trash bin icon, click on the flipbook and click delete again to remove it permanently. Flipbooks in the trash are automatically deleted after one week.
What are account users or team members?
Account users or team members are email addresses you can invite to join your dashboard. They have full access to remove, edit, and create flipbooks on your account.
Which kind of file format has the downloaded flipbook?
The download is a flip file for viewing the flipbook offline on your Windows or MacOS computer. This is mainly used for viewing on desktop computers without a network connection (meetings, presentations, etc.), for physical distribution with a DVD or USB drive, or for cases where distributing a file is more convenient than sending a link. You can find information about opening flip files on the flipbook app page.
Can I send the downloaded flipbook by email?
Yes, sure! You can attach the flipbook directly to an email. Just keep in mind the size limit on email attachments. If your flipbook has videos, audios, or large images, the file might be too big. In these cases, a better alternative is to email the thumbnail of your flipbook cover linking to the file download or to the online flipbook.
Check out the send a flipbook by email guide for more details.
Can I upload the flipbook to my own site?
Yes, the best option is to embed it using the iframe codes that you can find in the share menu. Just copy the code and paste it into your website editor. For users with technical knowledge, it is also possible to self-host the flipbook by downloading the source code and uploading the folder to a web hosting.
Can I change the pdf of the downloaded flipbook?
This is not possible, you have to make the changes in Heyzine and download it again. For unlimited downloads subscribe to one of our plans.
Can I password protect a downloaded flipbook?
Yes, you can use an external software like 7zip to password-protect the file. The reader will need to type the password to open it.
Contact us and we will do our best to help.
See the Guides for step-by-step tutorials.
