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Viewer modes

Choose how your document is presented to readers, from a plain paged view to page-turn animations to story-style swiping.

Your document can be presented to readers in one of four modes: standard, flipbook, magazine, and swipe. All four are available on every plan, including free — the mode is stored on the document itself and is not a plan feature.

Standard mode

Standard mode is a plain paged document view: one page at a time, rendered on a canvas below a toolbar. Readers navigate with previous and next buttons or by dragging the page scrubber slider, which previews pages as it moves and commits the jump on release. The toolbar also shows the current page and the total page count.

Best for: Reports, proposals, instructions, contracts, any document readers prefer to navigate at their own pace.

Devices: Works on all screen sizes; desktop and mobile render the same interface.

Flipbook mode

Flipbook mode uses a page-turn animation that mimics flipping through a bound document. It renders either a single page (1-up) or a two-page spread (2-up); the default layout you choose can be adaptive, and readers can pin 1-up or 2-up for their session using the toolbar toggle on wider screens. The toolbar also has a thumbnail rail, zoom buttons, and fullscreen; on touch screens, pinch-to-zoom works in place of the zoom buttons. Page-turn speed, sound, and reading direction are configurable.

Best for: Magazines, brochures, catalogs, printed materials, any document that benefits from a magazine-like reading experience.

Devices: Best on larger screens where two-page spreads render comfortably; the 1-up layout adapts to phones.

Magazine mode

Magazine mode presents the document as a flat-lay two-page spread around a centre spine, for content laid out as spreads rather than as individual pages. The scrubber moves a spread at a time, and the toolbar carries thumbnails, zoom, and fullscreen. Page-turn speed, sound, and reading direction apply here as they do in flipbook; the 1-up/2-up layout preference and the page cosmetics do not — spreads are the mode's identity.

Best for: Printed magazines, annual reports, layout-heavy content, books and documents designed for a spread-based reading experience.

Devices: Suited to medium-to-large screens; on a narrow stage the spread collapses to a single page automatically.

Swipe mode

Swipe mode presents the document as a story—one page at a time, with a segmented progress bar instead of a toolbar. Readers advance by swiping or flicking left and right, or by tapping the left and right edges of the page. The stage is full-bleed on touch and narrow screens and a bordered portrait card on desktop. Auto-advance can be enabled so pages turn automatically at a set interval.

Best for: Decks, presentations, event schedules, slide shows, any document meant to be viewed one page at a time in sequence.

Devices: Designed for mobile and tablets; on desktop it renders as a centered card.

Readership tracking

Each view session records the mode it was read in, and the viewer-mode breakdown appears in your readership analytics on Basic and above.

Choosing a mode

Set the viewer mode under Behavior in the Configure & Share step. The mode itself is never locked — the panel around it gates the flip and swipe behaviour settings, not the choice of mode.

If you are uploading anonymously (without an account), the viewer mode is the one setting you can persist before claiming the document; unclaimed documents are treated as free tier, so they render in your chosen mode with stock styling. Claimed documents can have their mode changed at any time from the file's settings.

Readers see the mode you set and cannot switch to another one — the viewer loads the document's stored mode and renders only that.