SoftIcon Flipbook – PDF Flipbook & Magazine Viewer

SoftIcon Flipbook turns your brochures, magazines, catalogs, menus and ebooks into a realistic page-turning book, right inside the block editor. Add the Flipbook block, pick a PDF and you see the finished book in the editor. For the Classic Editor and page builders, every flipbook also has a shortcode.

Documentation | Demo | Pricing | Support

Video tutorials: the 30-second promo, every setting explained, add a flipbook, the Hardcover design and reading features and the lightbox and the shortcode for the Classic Editor and Elementor and autoplay and right to left and fullscreen on phones, or watch the whole playlist.

Why choose SoftIcon Flipbook?

• Block first – upload or pick a PDF in the block and preview the real flipbook while you edit.
• Readable on phones – the book switches to one page at a time on small screens, two-page spreads on wide ones. Or force one layout.
• Light on your pages – the flipbook engine loads only when the book scrolls into view, and pages are drawn as the reader gets near them. In a lightbox the book loads only when a visitor opens it.
• Many books on one page – show each one as a cover, button or link that opens the book in a popup.
• PDF or images – build a book from a PDF, or from images in reading order.
• Clear errors – if a PDF cannot be shown (for example a link to another website that blocks it), the block says why and keeps a link to the file.

Features

• Lightbox: a cover, button or text link on the page opens the book in a popup over the page
• Two designs: Classic, or Hardcover book with a cover around the pages, the stack of page edges, a shadow at the spine and large arrows beside the book
• PDF flipbook from the Media Library or a link
• Image flipbook from any set of images
• Auto, always-two-pages or always-one-page layout
• Hard cover: first and last pages turn on their own
• Open at any page, jump to a page from the page counter, or link straight to a page with #page=5
• Thumbnails of all pages: a click opens that page
• Links inside the PDF work: web and email links, and page links that turn the book
• Table of contents from the PDF’s bookmarks
• Search: type a word, see the pages that have it with a short excerpt, and open one with a click
• Share menu: Facebook, X, LinkedIn, Pinterest, email and Copy link for the page that is open; phones use their own share sheet (optional)
• Print: readers print the whole book, one book page on each sheet of paper (optional)
• Zoom with the toolbar buttons, a pinch on phones or Ctrl + scroll on computers; drag to move around a zoomed page
• Toolbar with page counter, previous/next, play / pause, thumbnails, zoom, print, download, share, fullscreen and a page-turn sound visitors can mute
• Keyboard arrows turn the pages, the toolbar works with screen readers
• Fullscreen that fits the book to the screen, with an iPhone fallback
• Fullscreen on phones: the book shows “Tap to read” and one tap opens it full screen
• Autoplay: the book turns its own pages every few seconds, holds under the mouse, stops when a reader takes over, and can start again at the end
• Right to left, for Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu or Persian books: the book opens from the right and the arrows and arrow keys follow
• Start with the thumbnails or the table of contents, so readers pick a page first
• A title above the book
• Maximum height, with its own height for tablets and phones
• Light, Dark or Auto theme (dark when the reader’s device is), and colors for background, toolbar and icons
• Wide and full width alignment
• Flipbooks with a shortcode, such as [softicon_flipbook id="123"], for the Classic Editor, Elementor and other page builders

SoftIcon Flipbook Pro

Everything above stays free, with no limits on books or pages. SoftIcon Flipbook Pro is a separate plugin for sites that want more from their books:

• Shelf of books – show many books on a wooden shelf; a click on a cover opens that book in a popup. Watch the shelf.
• Lead capture – ask readers for their name and email after the pages you choose. Leads are saved on your site, with CSV download and an email for each new lead. Watch lead capture.
• Reading analytics – opens and downloads per book, the most read pages and a daily chart, with a CSV export and no cookies. Watch reading analytics.
• PDF protection – no download button, no right-click saving, and the PDF address kept out of the page.
• Password for a book – readers type a password to open it; the password is checked on your site and never put in the page. Watch protection and the password.
• Page buttons – a button under the book while a chosen page is open, linking anywhere or to a WooCommerce product with its name and price. Watch page buttons.
• Hotspots – draw clickable areas on any page: a link, or a WooCommerce product that opens a card with its picture, name and price. Watch hotspots.
• Branding – your logo in the book’s toolbar, with a link, and your own picture behind the book. Watch branding.
• Watermark – your words or logo drawn into every page, also when printed, with the reader’s name or email if you like.

See every Pro feature in one minute.

Pro replaces the free plugin when you activate it, and every book you made keeps working. Prices and a full comparison are in Flipbook → Pricing in your dashboard.

Try Pro without risk: every Pro plan comes with a 14-day money-back guarantee. Any problem or question, before or after you buy, email us at [email protected]. We build SoftIcon Flipbook for the people who use it, and your satisfaction comes first.

Third-party libraries

• PDF.js 6.4.299 (npm package pdfjs-dist) by Mozilla – github.com/mozilla/pdf.js – Apache License 2.0. Bundled as build/pdfjs.js and build/pdfjs/pdf.worker.min.js (minified upstream build); license in build/pdfjs/LICENSE.txt.
  Also from the pdfjs-dist package: the JavaScript builds of the OpenJPEG (BSD-2) and JBIG2 (BSD-3) image decoders in build/pdfjs/decoders, the Foxit (BSD-3) and Liberation (GPLv2 with font exception) standard fonts in build/pdfjs/standard_fonts, and the Adobe CMaps (BSD-3) in build/pdfjs/cmaps, each with its license file. The fonts and CMaps are binary data files; the build stores each one unchanged as a base64 string in a .json file, which the plugin decodes back to the original bytes for pdf.js.
• StPageFlip 2.0.7 (npm package page-flip) by Nodlik – github.com/Nodlik/StPageFlip – MIT License. License in build/page-flip-LICENSE.txt.
• Freemius Checkout 1.5.1 (npm package @freemius/checkout) by Freemius – github.com/Freemius/freemius-checkout-js – MIT License. Bundled in build/dashboard.js, it opens the Pro checkout window on the Flipbook dashboard when you click Get Pro. License in build/freemius-checkout-LICENSE.txt.

The demo PDFs in assets/demo use the Inter font by Rasmus Andersson – rsms.me/inter – SIL Open Font License 1.1, embedded as subsets. Their HTML source is in the plugin’s GitHub repository (tools/demo-pdf).

The unminified source of this plugin is in the src folder, with package.json and webpack.config.js. Build it with npm install and npm run build; the build copies the pdf.js files from node_modules/pdfjs-dist.

Development

The plugin is developed on GitHub: github.com/softiconai/softicon-flipbook. Bug reports and pull requests are welcome there; for help, use the support forum here on WordPress.org.