# Shorthand review (2026): is it worth it? > Scrolling web story and report publisher Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Shorthand is a platform for building scrolling, visual web stories such as annual reports, feature articles and digital magazines. Stories are built in a browser editor and published to Shorthand's hosting or to the customer's own site or CMS. Publishing is sold through plans arranged with the vendor. - **Category:** Presentations - **Made by:** Shorthand - **Website:** https://shorthand.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want a price, because none is published. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing Shorthand's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Ways to pay less - **Discounts for charities and NGOs** (Nonprofit): Shorthand says it offers discounted plans for registered charities and NGOs, and free educational plans for universities and colleges. Source: https://shorthand.com/pricing/ ## Key features - **Story editor:** Stories are built from sections and layouts in a browser editor, and can be embedded into existing pages. - **Publishing options:** Shorthand-hosted publishing on annual plans, or self-hosted through S3, WordPress, Drupal plugins or API. - **Branding:** Themes carry a team's logos, colors and fonts across stories. - **Collaboration:** Editors, designers and developers work in one shared workspace. - **Analytics:** Built-in cookieless analytics, plus Google Analytics, Tag Manager and other trackers. - **AI Creative Companion:** An AI feature the site describes as turning a rough draft into a designed story. ## Good for - Communications teams producing annual or impact reports - Newsrooms and universities publishing long feature stories - Organizations that need stories on their own domain or CMS ## Worth knowing - No plan prices are published: Core, Unlimited and Enterprise are arranged through the sales team, so pricing is recorded as unverified. - Core includes 12 new stories per year, and publishing a story uses one credit that is not returned if you unpublish. - Unused publishing credits expire at the end of each yearly cycle. - Shorthand says it is SOC 2 Type II compliant and ISO 27001 certified. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Shorthand builds scrolling, visual web stories such as annual reports and digital magazines, then publishes them on its hosting or your own site. Creating is free but publishing needs a paid plan, and no plan price is published. - **Value for money: C.** No plan price is published; Core, Unlimited and Enterprise are arranged with sales, so it sits at C. - **Free plan and trial: C.** Building stories is free, but a paid plan is needed to publish or export them, so you cannot ship anything on the free plan. - **Features: C.** A story editor, publishing, branding, collaboration and analytics. Core includes only 12 new stories a year, and publishing a story spends a credit that is not returned. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating is on record, and designing a story page by page takes learning. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, with WordPress, Drupal, Sitecore, Contentful and Adobe Experience Manager listed. No desktop or phone app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Shorthand's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among presentation tools - Shorthand's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 37 of the 89 other presentation tools we grade, and level with 15. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 46 of 89) and worst on ease of use (C, above 6). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/presentations ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** The plain part of Shorthand you could make: templates and documents. What surrounds it you could not. The 4 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. - You could make: Templates and documents: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: A slide editor. - You could not: Several people working in it at the same moment. - You could not: It plugs into other products, WordPress, Drupal and Sitecore among them. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with WordPress, Drupal, Sitecore, Contentful, Adobe Experience Manager, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Unsplash **Tags:** Presentations, Templates, Documents, Real-time collaboration, AI features ## Alternatives - [Storydoc](https://toolgpa.com/tools/storydoc): Interactive scrolling decks with view analytics. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/shorthand-vs-storydoc) - [Genially](https://toolgpa.com/tools/genially): Interactive presentations, quizzes, games and learning content. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/genially-vs-shorthand) - [Visme](https://toolgpa.com/tools/visme): Template-based design tool for presentations and infographics. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/shorthand-vs-visme) - [Slides](https://toolgpa.com/tools/slides): Browser-based presentation editor with HTML, CSS and code support. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/shorthand-vs-slides) - [Prezi](https://toolgpa.com/tools/prezi): Presentation platform with AI drafts, live polls and quizzes. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/prezi-vs-shorthand) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://shorthand.com/pricing/ - https://shorthand.com/ - https://shorthand.com/features/integrations/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/shorthand Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).