--- title: iStudio Publisher Reviews meta\_title: 'iStudio Publisher Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 20 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how iStudio Publisher works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.4 review\_count: 20 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Graphic Design url: https://www.g2.com/categories/graphic-design --- # iStudio Publisher Reviews & Product Details iStudio Publisher is a powerful and intuitive page layout application for desktop publishing on Mac computers. It's ideal for designing a wide range of document types, including newsletters, brochures, adverts, flyers, booklets, invitations, menus, reports, posters, greetings cards, and yearbooks. Start with a professionally designed template or blank document of any size and produce beautiful, professional quality documents with ease. Export finished documents as PDF files or print them out. Please take advantage of the 30-day free\* trial of iStudio Publisher available here: http://www.istudiopublisher.com/downloads/ \* Try iStudio Publisher without entering any payment details. The 30-day free trial provides full functionality and no watermarks! After your 30-day trial expires any documents you have created during the trial will remain available to open and view - simply purchase a licensed copy to reenable the options save, print, and export. * * * Seller [iStudio Software](https://www.g2.com/sellers/istudio-software) Discussions [iStudio Publisher Community](https://www.g2.com/products/istudio-publisher/discuss) Languages Supported English Overview by Andy Carrott Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/istudio-publisher/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Adobe InDesign](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Adobe InDesign") Adobe InDesign 4.6/5(3,439) ](https://www.g2.com/products/adobe-indesign/reviews) [ ![Microsoft Publisher](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Microsoft Publisher") Microsoft Publisher 4.3/5(1,007) ](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-publisher/reviews) [ ![Swift Publisher](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Swift Publisher") Swift Publisher 4.4/5(11) ](https://www.g2.com/products/swift-publisher/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/istudio-publisher/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 20 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) MR Mónica R. Graphic designer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/19/2019 "iStudio publisher the new page and application design." 4.5/5 What do you like best about iStudio Publisher? With I Studio Publisher, we can do page design and we can also create applications, produce brochures, announcements, infoems bulletins, in an easy and friendly way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about iStudio Publisher? What I dislike about the tool is that it is only compatible for Mac. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is iStudio Publisher solving and how is that benefiting you? It is an easy, versatile program and with the tool I have been able to diagram, brochures. It serves to mount my own publications, designing simple pages and allows to make brochures, documents, cards, or presentations, among others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic BS Brian S. Theatre Manager Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/23/2019 "I Love iStudio it's amazing" 5/5 What do you like best about iStudio Publisher? ease of use, it is simple and user friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about iStudio Publisher? need a SIMPLE CROP BUTTON ... to much hassle to crop Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering iStudio Publisher: You will love this! So versatile. Just needs an easy crop feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is iStudio Publisher solving and how is that benefiting you? making our playbills for theatre Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Poudel S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Poudel S.") PS Poudel S. Administrator Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/16/2019 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "It is a good software. " 4.5/5 What do you like best about iStudio Publisher? I like the interface of this software very much. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about iStudio Publisher? It is not a bad software but sometimes it shuts down. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is iStudio Publisher solving and how is that benefiting you? It is better than app I used before. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Jesse O.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jesse O.") JO Jesse O. marketing Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/9/2019 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "istudio is great" 5/5 What do you like best about iStudio Publisher? easy platform to use no matter what age you are, it's very simple Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about iStudio Publisher? I don't dislike anything at the moment.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is iStudio Publisher solving and how is that benefiting you? making newsletters is a breeze Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Consumer Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Consumer Services") UC Verified User in Consumer Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/19/2019 "Handy tools" 4/5 What do you like best about iStudio Publisher? Easy to navigate through. Easy to publish. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about iStudio Publisher? There could be more tools involved to enhance experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is iStudio Publisher solving and how is that benefiting you? It has made displaying work easy and quick. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Heather S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Heather S.") HS Heather S. Owner Design Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/31/2018 "It covers the basics!" 3.5/5 What do you like best about iStudio Publisher? It has beautiful templates. The guidelines are easy to adjust and control. As a designer, it’s simple to create beautiful professional layouts if you can’t afford InDesign. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about iStudio Publisher? There’s a few downfalls. First being it’s overall simple nature. Sure it’s great to do a mock up, but I could never do even a third of the design components that myblsyputs require. Second, for some reason the vector files save funny and you can’t open them on a PC. Third, not compatible with PC. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering iStudio Publisher: Spring for Adobe InDesign and Adobe Illustrator. Significantly better investment and overall performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is iStudio Publisher solving and how is that benefiting you? It makes doing on the spot mock ups with clients easy. Plus it’s wallet friendly. I can create base designs and concepts to merge them into one big idea via InDesign. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Andy Carrott of iStudio Publisher [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/istudio-publisher-review-827658/official_response/edit) Hello Heather, thanks for your review and feedback. Please email support@istudiopublisher.com about the problems you mentioned with saving vector files and opening them on a PC and we'll be pleased to help. Best regards, The iStudio Team. Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite CM Communications M. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/21/2018 "The right tool for the job" 5/5 What do you like best about iStudio Publisher? Value and features, great utility for the price. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about iStudio Publisher? Would like some built-in picture enhancement tools for raw images. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is iStudio Publisher solving and how is that benefiting you? Newsletter and flyers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Andy Carrott of iStudio Publisher [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/istudio-publisher-review-1004219/official_response/edit) Many thanks for your review. iStudio Publisher supports resizing, stretching, flipping, cropping, tiling, and changing the opacity of images, but doesn’t support any pixel based editing, or include image filters. We don’t have any present plans to add these image editing features, as we‘re busy developing other aspects of iStudio and have many new features and improvements planned. We recommend using a separate image editing app to prepare images before inserting them in an iStudio document. Thanks again, The iStudio Team. Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Hospitality](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Hospitality") UH Verified User in Hospitality Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/20/2018 "Fantastic and easy to use" 5/5 What do you like best about iStudio Publisher? Without great computer knowledge this program is so easy to use and has been a great asset to our business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about iStudio Publisher? The only thing I would like is many more recent files to be available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering iStudio Publisher: Please don't over complicate the program, we don't require the best graphic design program just the most user friendly at a reasonable price. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is iStudio Publisher solving and how is that benefiting you? The program is so versatile, whilst we only use the basic functions it is much more user friendly than other programs we have tried. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Andy Carrott of iStudio Publisher [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/istudio-publisher-review-850762/official_response/edit) Hi, and thanks for your kind words. The maximum number of document files iStudio keeps in its recent documents list is determined by the value of the general system setting at Apple menu \> System Preferences \> General \> Recent items. You can set this to a maximum value of 50. Best regards, The iStudio Team. Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Alberto D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Alberto D.") AD Alberto D. Co-founder and Creative Director Design Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/3/2017 "Professional Publisher for the rest of us!" 5/5 What do you like best about iStudio Publisher? Ease if use and professional formats compatible Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about iStudio Publisher? I wish more format exports as Quarks and others and imports Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering iStudio Publisher: Before buying make sure your past work can be edited with the app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is iStudio Publisher solving and how is that benefiting you? I used to work on Quark and after working as a freelancer I wasn’t sure if buying Quark for me was going to be a good move so I tried to find something similar but inexpensive and that how I ended up adding to my pro apps this app! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Architecture & Planning](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Architecture & Planning") UA Verified User in Architecture & Planning Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/5/2017 "My goto layout and publishing software" 4.5/5 What do you like best about iStudio Publisher? Ease of use and user interface. Full-featured and very cost effective Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about iStudio Publisher? I have not found anything to complain about with this software. That said, I don't fancy myself a power user Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering iStudio Publisher: For my purposes, and as I said previously I'm not a power user, this is all the program you'll ever need for publishing and layout. If you're like a lot of people I know and they work with proprietary files and share a lot, check to make sure you have the compatibility you'll need to accommodate your workflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is iStudio Publisher solving and how is that benefiting you? I use this for laying out brochure information and proposals for prospective projects. I have established a format and work with that, as you do with such efforts. I like that it is a Mac-based program that works much like all my other graphic programs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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