UP-TO-DATE Catalog vs FlippingBook
FlippingBook is the premium option for sending sales documents. We cover the same ground for a fraction of it, and build the catalog for you as well.
No account needed — see your catalog first, sign up only if you like it.
What it costs to publish under your own name
Every tool here does the basics. The price gap opens up at the tier where a custom domain and your own branding appear.
A custom domain starts at Advanced; Optimal (≈€80/month annually) doesn't include one. There's no free plan — a 14-day trial, then annual billing — and multiple domains plus SSO sit on Enterprise.
The shape of the difference
A long-established, well-made tool aimed at sales teams sharing collateral, with strong tracking and a desktop publisher — priced accordingly.
This chart is our opinion, not a benchmark — we drew both shapes. The checkable facts are in the table below, and every price links to their own page.
Feature by feature
Filter it however you like.
Start from your website
Whether you need a finished PDF before you begin.
Pages designed for you
Covers, contents, section openers, full-bleed photography, spreads across the gutter.
Enquiries from the page
Readers pick items and send them to you.
Your own domain
White-label
Whose name is on the page your customer reads.
Reader analytics
Time per page, drop-off, referrers, clicks, per-recipient tracking links.
Free plan
Three real differences
The same tracking, an order of magnitude cheaper
Per-recipient links and open notifications are their core, and ours from the free plan. Their custom domain is ≈€214/month; here it's Pro.
We make the catalog too
They convert what you already have. We design the pages from your store, then let you fix anything by clicking it.
You can try it without a card
They have no free tier and bill annually. Ours is free for three catalogs — and you can build one without an account.
Two screenshots stitched together — their upload/import screen on the left, our "paste your store URL" field on the right. Shoot both at the same window width so the contrast in effort is obvious.
When FlippingBook is the better choice
- Your sales team lives in a CRM and you want flipbooks wired into it.
- You need self-hosting or an on-premise publisher for compliance reasons.
- You send documents one prospect at a time and want per-lead notifications above all else.
Screenshot of /dashboard/catalogs/<id>/insights on a catalog with a few hundred views — stat tiles, the drop-off bars and a tracking link row. Blur the catalog name if it's a client's.
Judge it against your own file
Paste your store URL, or drop in the PDF you'd have uploaded there. It takes about a minute and costs nothing.
Free for three catalogs · see the plans