Learn how to customize and optimize the Flipsnack flipbook player for a better reader experience
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Save options for future flipbooks
Overview
The Flipsnack flipbook player is the viewing environment for your published or draft flipbooks. It’s where readers interact with your content and where you can control the display experience. From toolbar positions and page transitions to accessibility and sharing controls, the player defines how your publication is experienced.
Key benefits:
- Responsive design: Seamless reading across desktop, tablet, and mobile
- Custom appearance: Match the player to your brand using skins, logos, and colors
- Enhanced readability: Smart layouts adapt to readers' screen size
- Advanced controls: Share, download, or embed flipbooks
- Accessibility support: Screen reader-friendly for an inclusive experience
Requirements
- Available for all Flipsnack plans. Fully branded flipbooks available for Business and Enterprise plans.
- Customization available for both published and unpublished flipbooks.
Customize the Flipbook player
- Go to My Flipbooks on the Dashboard.
- Locate the flipbook you want to update.
- Click the Customize button from the flipbook card options.
Alternatively, within the Design Studio (while you’re editing your flipbook), use the Customize button in the top-right corner.
You’ll be redirected to the Customize page, where the interface is divided into sections like Appearance, Branding, Menu controls, and more.
Branding options
- Add logo: Upload and add a link to your brand logo.
- Background color: Transparent, solid color, or custom image.
- Player accent color: Apply brand colors to player UI elements. Once set, the accent color will appear on the progress bar, selected items, and hover states.
Note: Set your brand colors from the Branding page for quick access. You can find the Branding section on your Dashboard.
Appearance options
- Player skin: Choose between Classic (toolbar above the flipbook) and Modern (toolbar below).
- Page transitions: Select Flip, Slide, or vertical Scroll effects.
- Layout style: Smart view (the flipbook adapts to the screen: it displays as a two-page view on desktops/laptops and a single-page view on mobile devices), Single page, or Two-page layout.
Next you can set the following:
- Tooltip language: Set the interface language shown to readers.
- Automatic transition: Enable and configure automatic page turning.
- Flip sounds: Add realistic page-turning sound.
- Right-to-left orientation: For RTL languages like Arabic or Hebrew.
- Shadow and link highlights: Enhance visual depth and interactivity.
- Animate interactions: Make your interactions pop by animating them.
- Highlights on links: Make your links pop by highlighting them.
- Auto-detect links: We detect any unmarked links in your flipbook and automatically link them for you.
Menu controls
- Control in normal mode: Display control settings without having to enter
fullscreen mode. - Navigation bar: Hide or show the bottom navigation bar.
- Navigation arrows: Hide or show the bottom navigation arrows.
- Share options: Enable sharing on social media or via email.
- Pages overview: Every page thumbnail will be visible after publishing.
- Allow fullscreen: Enable immersive viewing.
- Download PDF: Allow readers to download your flipbook in PDF format.
- Print PDF: Allow readers to print your flipbook.
- Show shopping list: Allow readers to add products to their list and download it.
- Search: Readers can search within the publication.
- Background audio: Add mp3 audio that plays across pages in the background.
Tip: You can zoom in and out more easily using a trackpad (pinch gesture) or by holding CTRL and scrolling with the mouse wheel.
Table of contents
Allow readers to easily navigate your flipbook by adding a table of contents. Here’s how to do it:
- Activate Table of contents: Check the box labeled Activate Table of Contents to enable it in your flipbook.
- Start with table of contents open: Check this box if you want to set your publication to open with the Table of Contents already expanded. This makes it easier for readers to navigate from the very beginning. Note: this box will appear only if you activate the table of contents.
- Add chapters/subchapters: Click Add new to insert a chapter or subchapter. Enter a name and assign it to the appropriate page number.
- Edit as needed: You can edit, reorder, or delete chapters and subchapters anytime.
Lead form
Flipsnack’s lead form feature helps you collect contact information from readers directly within your flipbook.
Set it on a specific page and add up to 8 fields—such as name, email, phone, or even custom inputs—and choose which ones are required.
Validation options ensure that data like emails or phone numbers are entered correctly. You can also include a Privacy Policy link and optional GDPR compliance checkbox for transparency. All collected data appears under the Statistics section in your flipbook dashboard, and it’s available for CSV download.
You can block content until users submit the form and customize it with your own title, input placeholders, and button text.
Or you can allow users to skip it:
Note: Lead forms are available starting with the Professional plan.
Google Analytics/ Tag manager
You can integrate Google Analytics with your Flipsnack profile or flipbooks either directly through Flipsnack (quick and simple) or using Google Tag Manager (recommended for custom domains and advanced cookie control). Both methods require your Google Analytics Measurement ID or GTM Container ID, which you then paste into the appropriate field in Flipsnack’s settings or flipbook customization panel to start tracking visitor behavior and traffic.
Read this help center article for a step-by-step guide.
Product detection
Automatically detect SKUs in your catalog and instantly transform them into shoppable products.
Accessibility
Flipsnack’s Accessibility feature helps make flipbooks usable for all readers by complying with WCAG, ADA, and Section 508 standards.
Publishers can enable accessibility by adding titles and descriptions for each page manually, extracting existing text automatically, or generating summaries using AI.
These descriptions are read by screen readers like VoiceOver or NVDA, allowing visually impaired users to navigate and understand the content. The flipbook player itself is fully keyboard-navigable, and interactive elements are screen-reader friendly.
To activate Accessibility on your flipbook:
- Go to the Accessibility section and enable it.
- Now, you can Generate AI summary for each page, Extract flipbook text, or Manage content manually. Even if you generate it with AI, you can still edit the text after (recommended).
I clicked Generate AI summary, and here’s the result:
Save options for future flipbooks
To apply your preferred Appearance, Branding, and Menu control settings to future flipbooks, just check the box at the bottom.
Troubleshooting
- Flipbook not updating? Try refreshing after saving changes in Customize.
- Missing buttons in player? Check if they’re enabled in Menu controls.
- Accessibility not working? Ensure you've added titles/descriptions to each page.
Next steps
- How to customize your flipbook’s appearance
- Public sharing options explained
- Sharing Flipbooks via Email: Options Explained
- Sharing flipbooks with readers only
- Using Google Analytics with your flipbook
- Enabling accessibility features
- How to create a table of contents for your flipbook
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