Flipa turns any PDF into a fast, realistic
page-flip flipbook - a PDF viewer, PDF embed and page-flip reader in one. It renders
entirely in the visitor's browser, so your file is never uploaded and
no external service ever touches it.
Perfect for catalogs, magazines, brochures, menus, portfolios, e-books, reports and resumes - anywhere you'd otherwise drop in a flat PDF.
Why Flipa
- Fast & lightweight - a smooth page-flip with no heavy 3D/WebGL engine to slow your pages down. Works great on phones and tablets (two-row mobile toolbar).
- Privacy-first - the PDF is served from your own site and rendered locally in the browser. Nothing is uploaded, and there are no third-party calls or trackers.
- Right-to-left, done right - first-class Hebrew, Arabic and Persian: correct reading order, mirrored controls and cover behavior.
- 20-language viewer - English, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Czech, Swedish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Hindi.
- Unlimited flipbooks - free, with no page or book limits.
Reader features
- Double-spread & single-page views with a realistic fold shadow.
- Thumbnails, seek bar, zoom and fullscreen.
- Lightbox mode - open the book in a popup.
- Inline (seamless, auto-height) embedding by default, or a fixed-size iframe.
- Share the page the book is embedded on.
Works everywhere you edit
- Block editor (Gutenberg) - the Flipa Flipbook block.
- Classic editor - an Add Flipbook button.
- Any shortcode:
[flipa id="123"]. See the FAQ for everything it accepts.
- Pro: Elementor / Elementor Pro & WPBakery widgets, WooCommerce product pages, and the
[flipa_shelf] bookshelf grid.
Free vs Pro
The free plugin gives you unlimited flipbooks, the full core viewer (single/double page, drag-to-flip, zoom, seek bar and thumbnails), all 20 interface languages with full right-to-left support (Hebrew, Arabic, Persian), background color, inline & iframe embedding, lightbox, and the shortcode, block and Classic-editor integrations. An optional "Powered by flipa" credit is off by default - it appears only if you turn it on.
Flipa Pro adds
downloading the original PDF, a
print button,
autoplay (auto-advance with loop and autostart),
in-book text search (find any word across the whole PDF, jump to a match and highlight every hit), a nested
table of contents,
page-flip sounds,
password protection,
custom background image,
clickable PDF links (internal page jumps + web/email links), a
QR code in Share,
page-stack depth, a
vertical-scroll reading mode,
3D tilt,
resume reading (each visitor reopens the book on the page where they stopped, kept in their own browser), a chosen
opening page,
links to a specific page that work even when the book is embedded in your own page, the option to
keep the page number out of the address bar, and the
WooCommerce,
Elementor,
WPBakery and
[flipa_shelf] bookshelf integrations.
- Upload the
flipa folder to /wp-content/plugins/, or install the zip via Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin.
- Activate the plugin.
- Go to Flipa → Add New, choose a PDF, set options, save, and copy the shortcode (or use the block/widget).
Bundled libraries
Flipa renders entirely on your own server and never calls a CDN, so it ships PDF.js 3.11.174, StPageFlip 2.0.7 and QRCode.js 1.0.0 inside the plugin. They are the unmodified published builds. THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES.txt in the plugin folder names each one with its license, its copyright holder and a link to its unminified source.
0.19.5
Readers on a privacy-focused browser such as LibreWolf saw every page as colored stripes rather than the document. The reader now detects the browser protection responsible and explains it, instead of rendering an unreadable book.
0.19.4
Important for Pro users with a table of contents: chapter names in Hebrew, Arabic, Russian or any language beyond plain English were being damaged when a book was saved, and a chapter name containing a double quote could empty the whole table. Both are fixed, and names that were damaged are repaired automatically.
0.19.3
Long books now open in seconds instead of minutes and no longer keep the browser busy while they load. Also fixes the page-turn sound picker, and adds importing a PDF's own chapter bookmarks (Pro).
0.19.2
Fixes the Pro version refusing to activate next to the free one, and makes the whole settings screen translatable. Now ships 19 languages.
0.19.1
Fixes a flipbook showing an empty reader on sites that answer on both www and the bare domain.
0.19.0
Fixes blurred pages in scroll mode on long books, a phantom sheet at the cover corner, and an editor preview that ignored your background. Pro gains per-placement opening-page options on the shortcode.
0.18.2
Adds four Pro options under Extras: reopen a book where each reader stopped, choose the page a book opens on, link straight to any page even when the book is embedded in your own page, and switch the page number in the address bar off for a book.
0.18.1
Fixes the loading indicator, which did not appear at all in the default embed mode. Recommended for anyone embedding a flipbook with the shortcode or the block.
0.18.0
Corrects how the Download button is enabled internally, and fixes five reader issues: the toolbar strip, the corner mark in light theme, a clipped book shadow, the page number box, and arrow keys needing a click first. No change to which features are Free or Pro.
0.17.1
Fixes for the new custom page-turn sound: it no longer plays late or twice, and choosing it is now an explicit option in the editor. Recommended if you use your own sound.
0.17.0
A real download progress bar in the reader, so a big book on a slow connection no longer looks frozen. Pro users can now use their own page-turn sound. Block editor translations are fixed.
0.16.3
Adds a Free vs Pro comparison tab in the editor and fixes untranslatable block editor labels. Reader behavior is unchanged.