TNC FlipBook 3D transforms your PDFs and images into beautiful, interactive 3D flipbooks with realistic page-turning physics powered by WebGL and Three.js.
TNC FlipBook 3D includes PDF links, text search, and a dark/light theme toggle.
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Video overview
A quick tour of TNC FlipBook 3D in action.
Please note: this is a general overview that shows both free and Pro features together, and it does not indicate which is which. To see exactly what is included in the free plugin versus Pro, check the "Use cases" and "TNC FlipBook 3D Pro" sections just below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXqcmrlhg2o
Features
- Realistic 3D WebGL page flip with physics
- 2D CSS fallback for older devices
- PDF and image sources
- Clickable PDF hyperlinks (internal + external)
- PDF text search with highlighting
- Table of contents / PDF outline
- Thumbnail navigation panel
- 4 viewing modes: 3D, vertical scroll, horizontal scroll, reading mode
- Dark and light theme toggle with 7 color schemes
- Print, download, social sharing
- Autoplay with speed control
- Fullscreen mode
- Lightbox popup mode
- Deep linking (shareable page URLs via #page/N)
- RTL support for Arabic, Hebrew, and more
- 20 languages included
- Gutenberg blocks + shortcodes
- Per-flipbook toolbar customization
- Keyboard navigation
- Responsive design
- Unlimited flipbooks, unlimited pages
- No watermark, no branding
Use cases
Turn a PDF you already have into something readers tap, explore, and act on. A few popular ways to use it:
Free:
- Digital magazines and newsletters - publish each issue as a real page-turning read with a contents list, search, and shareable links to any page.
- Restaurant and cafe menus - put your menu online as a book that looks right on phones. Swap the PDF and it updates everywhere.
- Course materials and workbooks - give students textbooks and handouts they can read, search, and flip through on any device.
- Portfolios and lookbooks - photographers, designers, and studios show their work as a clean flip-through instead of a plain download.
- Annual reports and company profiles - turn a long report into an easy, on-brand reading experience.
- Travel guides and brochures - let visitors browse your destination guide like a printed booklet.
With Pro:
- Shoppable catalogs - add clickable spots to any product in your catalog so a shopper taps an item and goes straight to the product page or their cart. Your print catalog starts selling.
- Real estate brochures - mark rooms, units, or plots right on the page, and let buyers tap for details or send an inquiry without leaving the flipbook.
- Lead magnets and gated guides - offer a free guide, lookbook, or whitepaper and ask for an email before the reader unlocks it, so every download grows your list.
- Sell ebooks and premium PDFs - lock a FlipBook behind a WooCommerce product so only buyers can read it. Great for ebooks, reports, back issues, and course packs.
TNC FlipBook 3D Pro
One simple plan -
$59/year for one website - unlocks every feature and every add-on, including any add-ons released in the future. No tiers, no per-feature upsells.
Pro adds:
- More interface languages
- All color schemes plus brand and hardcover colors
- Merge multiple PDFs with named chapters
- Interactive hotspots (links, media, and products)
- AI read-aloud with premium voices
- Content protection and watermarks
- WooCommerce page gating
- Google Analytics 4 tracking
- Export and import flipbooks
- Page video overlays
- PDF form viewer
- User bookmarks and notes
- Every add-on included at no extra cost, now and in the future (page builders, membership and e-commerce integrations, AI chatbot, and more)
- Priority support
Get Pro - $59/year
Why TNC FlipBook 3D?
- PDF links and search included — both work out of the box
- WebGL 3D rendering — page flip with paper-bend physics
- Smart fallback — uses a lightweight 2D mode when WebGL is unavailable
- Modern admin — Clean wizard-based setup, no confusing settings
- Developer friendly — Clean code, no jQuery dependency on frontend, REST API proxy for secure file serving
Embedding Options
- Shortcode (inline):
[tnc-flipbook-3d-embed id="123"]
- Shortcode (popup link):
[tnc-flipbook-3d-link id="123"]Click to read[/tnc-flipbook-3d-link]
- Gutenberg Embed Block: Search "Flipbook" in the block inserter
- Gutenberg Link Block: Insert a clickable link that opens a flipbook popup
- Direct URL: Each flipbook has its own permalink at
/flipbook/your-book/
1.1.7
- Fixed: The alignment control (left, center, right) on the FlipBook Image Link block now positions the image as expected.
1.1.6
- Improved: Faster front-end loading. The plugin now serves minified JavaScript and CSS to visitors.
- Fixed: A critical error that could occur when saving or updating a FlipBook on some hosts.
1.1.5
- Refreshed the in-admin Pro upgrade and Add-ons pages with current plan and add-on details. No changes to the FlipBook viewer.
1.1.4
- Improved: When you turn off every toolbar item, the toolbar now hides completely instead of leaving an empty bar, and the "More" (three-dot) menu no longer appears with nothing in it.
- Improved: Sharper PDF page rendering, with extra detail when you zoom in on capable desktops.
- Improved: Jumping to a far page from a thumbnail, the table of contents, search, or the page box now goes straight there instead of flipping through every page in between.
- Improved: Navigation arrows now sit on a subtle backdrop so they stay readable over any page colour.
- Fixed: In Single Page Flip mode, the last page (and pages reached with the First/Last arrows) could appear blank. They now display reliably.
- Fixed: The Share QR code now scans correctly.
- Fixed: A shared link to a specific page now opens the correct FlipBook and page.
- Fixed: On mobile, the toolbar and book are no longer clipped behind the browser's own bars on short screens.
- Fixed: In the vertical and horizontal scroll readers, a top toolbar no longer overlaps the pages.
1.1.3
- Minor improvements and refinements to the admin interface.
1.1.2
- Fixed: in 2D page-flip mode, the left page could appear mirrored (reversed) in Firefox. It now displays correctly.
1.1.1
- Misc. improvements and refinements to the admin interface.
1.1.0
- New: PDFs that contain JPEG 2000 images (common in print-ready and InDesign exports) now display those images instead of blank areas.
- New: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text now renders correctly in PDFs that rely on external character maps.
- New: PDFs that do not embed their fonts now fall back to the standard PDF fonts instead of a browser default.
- Improved: if your server is not set up to serve the viewer's engine files correctly, the FlipBook now shows a clear on-screen message with the exact fix instead of staying blank.
1.0.1
- Refreshed the plugin listing (title and keywords) and added companion add-on information to the description.
- No functional changes to the plugin.
1.0.0
First public release on
WordPress.org.
- 3D WebGL page-flip rendering, with a 2D CSS fallback when WebGL is unavailable
- PDF and image sources
- Automatic PDF links, text search, and table of contents (outline)
- 7 color schemes (Slate, Paper, Midnight, Ocean, Forest, Glass, Sepia) with a dark/light theme toggle
- 20 interface languages with automatic right-to-left support
- Toolbar customization with selectable toolbar layouts
- Reading mode, vertical and horizontal scroll viewers, single-page mode, and lightbox popup
- Deep linking to a specific page (#page/N)
- Gutenberg blocks (embed, link, image-link) and shortcodes
- Full WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility (keyboard navigation, screen-reader support, focus indicators)
- Responsive design