Flipa PDF Flipbook

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 behaviour.
• 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, fullscreen and deep-linking to a page.
• 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"].
• 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 colour, 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 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, and the WooCommerce, Elementor, WPBakery and [flipa_shelf] bookshelf integrations.

0.14.1

• The reader now adapts to the page background: on a light background the corner logo, the side arrows and the actions menus switch to a matching light style (they stay dark on dark backgrounds).

0.14.0

• New reader design: a cleaner dark toolbar, a labelled actions menu (icons with text), and minimalist side arrows (previous/next plus jump to start and end) that stay visible while the book sits neatly inset.
• New zoom menu: Fit plus a live percentage with zoom out and in, replacing the old plus/minus buttons.
• A small flipa mark now sits in the reader corner (Pro users can hide it).
• 3D tilt now leans only the book, not the surrounding controls.
• Shared and embedded flipbooks now carry the full actions menu (search, autoplay, print, 3D tilt, page depth and QR), matching the reader on your own site.
• The new reader labels are translated across all 20 languages.

0.13.4

• Fix: in-book text search now indexes text for flipbooks embedded from a URL. Previously the search index only built after flipping through the pages (or when using the Try-your-PDF uploader); it now indexes correctly on load. No other changes.

0.13.3

• Upgrade smoothness: when moving from the free to the premium version, the free version now deactivates itself automatically instead of both being active at once. No change to any flipbook feature.

0.13.2

• Maintenance: internal update-mechanism alignment so the free version and the premium upgrade are recognised as the same product. No change to any flipbook feature.

0.13.1

• Maintenance: updated the bundled Freemius SDK to 2.13.3 (PHP compatibility fixes and account/payment improvements). No change to any flipbook feature.

0.13.0

• New: In-book text search (Pro). A search box in the reader finds any word across the whole PDF, lists the matching pages with a snippet, jumps straight to a result, and highlights every match on the page. Works in page-flip and vertical-scroll reading modes.
• Fix: single-page (single-spread) view no longer over-sizes the page in embedded flipbooks; a lone page now matches one page of the two-page spread. Mobile and vertical-scroll are unaffected.

0.12.2

• WordPress.org compliance: the free version no longer contains any premium feature-gating code. The premium feature settings and the code that turns those features on are now generated only into the Pro build; the free build ships clean, with no disabled or locked controls. No change to the free feature set.

0.11.4

• Media hotspots temporarily hidden while we finish and stabilise the feature (the Media tab and media rendering are switched off behind a flag; the code remains in place). No effect on any other feature.

0.11.3

• Media hotspots: drag to position and resize each hotspot directly on the live preview in the editor (no more guessing percentages). New per-video Aspect control (Auto / 16:9 / 9:16 vertical / 1:1 / 4:3) so vertical YouTube Shorts no longer letterbox - the hotspot and the popup now match the video's shape. Fixed the button hotspot showing as an empty box.

0.11.2

• Media hotspots overhauled: redesigned Media tab (clear cards - every field visible); a single Size % (height follows the media's own proportions, no more squashing); self-hosted video (upload an MP4 from the Media Library); per-video muted Autoplay + Loop; the old "link" is now a styled Button (text + text/background colours + shape); video hotspots show a YouTube-style play button over the thumbnail (no more icon hiding image/button hotspots); and hotspots no longer vanish after a page flip.

0.11.1

• Media hotspots: hotspots now show a real thumbnail (the YouTube video still or the image itself) instead of a transparent box; clicking a hotspot no longer accidentally turns the page; and while you edit a hotspot in the Media tab the live preview jumps to that hotspot's page so you can see where it lands.

0.11.0

• New media hotspots (Pro): place clickable spots on any page to play a YouTube/Vimeo video, open an image or gallery, or link out. Each opens as a lightbox or inline; positioned in % of the page from a new Media tab with live preview. Works in page-flip, vertical scroll and 3D tilt modes.

0.10.2

• WordPress.org / Plugin Check compliance: escaped the admin menu-icon CSS output, unslashed + sanitized all settings inputs on save, and removed the discouraged load_plugin_textdomain() call (translations auto-load on .org).

0.10.1

• Fix: PDFs now load on HTTPS sites even if the saved PDF URL is http:// - the URL is auto-upgraded to https to avoid the browser's mixed-content block (the "Could not read this PDF: Failed to fetch" error). Applied both in the renderer and the viewer.

0.10.0

• Free/premium build split for WordPress.org: the Pro-only integrations (Elementor, WPBakery, WooCommerce, and the bookshelf) now live in __premium_only files inside is__premium_only() guards, so Freemius strips them from the generated free build while the premium build keeps everything. No change for existing Pro customers.

0.9.8

• 3D tilt: reverted to the clean look - the outer/spine shadows and page-stack depth are hidden while tilted (they showed as detached bands on the rotated book); the book leans with its own built-in fold shading. Shadows and depth still appear in normal flip and scroll modes.

0.9.7

• 3D tilt: hides the page-stack depth while tilted (it protruded past the rotated book); the outer drop shadow and fold shadow stay. Depth still shows in normal flip and scroll modes.

0.9.6

• Editor: choosing Vertical scroll now forces Page view to Single and disables the dropdown (they can't coexist). 3D tilt keeps the outer drop shadow and fold shadow, flattens the page-stack depth so it leans with the book, and uses a gentler angle + GPU hints for sharper edges.

0.9.5

• 3D tilt polish: hides the fold shadows, page-stack depth and single-page overlay while tilted (they don't compose in 3D), so the book leans cleanly. Vertical scroll and 3D tilt are now mutually exclusive - turning one on turns the other off (in the viewer and in the editor).

0.9.4

• New 3D tilt mode (Pro): the book leans toward the reader's cursor for a lively, three-dimensional feel. Enable a default under the Book tab; readers can toggle it from the toolbar. Disabled automatically while zoomed or in vertical-scroll mode.

0.9.3

• Renamed the "View toggle" control to "Spread toggle" consistently across the editor's Display tab and the viewer settings (matching the toolbar tooltip).

0.9.2

• Vertical scroll now always uses single-page rows (fixes a blank render when a double-spread book was opened in scroll mode); the spread toggle is hidden while scrolling and restored when you switch back to page-flip. Renamed the spread toggle's tooltip to "Spread toggle".

0.9.1

• Vertical scroll mode now sizes each page to the uploaded PDF's proportions and fits one full page to the viewer height, so the first page shows in full on load and each scroll reveals a complete page. Re-fits on resize.

0.9.0

• Vertical scroll reading mode (Pro): open a flipbook as a continuous top-to-bottom scroll. Readers can toggle between scroll and page-flip with a new toolbar button; clickable PDF links and zoom work in both modes.

0.8.0

• Viewer interface expanded to 20 languages (added Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Czech, Swedish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, and RTL Persian).

0.7.0

• Bookmarks (Pro): visitors can save pages (kept in their browser) via a new Bookmarks menu, and you can add publisher bookmarks shown to everyone.

0.6.0

• Free/Pro licensing (Freemius-ready) with a clear feature split; an optional "Powered by flipa" credit is off by default.
• Contents: nested two-level table of contents (foldable chapters + sub-chapters), light or dark menu theme, blank-page (label-only) rows.
• Viewer polish: bundled Poppins UI font, autoplay (auto-advance with loop / autostart), a print button, and a "More" overflow menu to declutter the toolbar.
• Bundled all libraries locally (no CDN) for WordPress.org compliance.

0.1.0

• Initial release: PDF→flipbook engine (RTL + 7 languages), CPT + tabbed editor with live preview, TOC with sections, thumbnails, seek, zoom, password, sounds, QR share, clickable PDF links, lightbox, bookshelf, inline/iframe rendering; Gutenberg block, Elementor, WPBakery, Classic-editor button and WooCommerce integrations.
• Free/Pro split: free includes the core viewer, RTL + 7 languages, lightbox and unlimited books; Pro adds the table of contents, sounds, password, custom background image, clickable PDF links, QR share, page-stack depth, and the WooCommerce/Elementor/WPBakery/bookshelf integrations. An optional "Powered by flipa" credit is off by default for all tiers.