--- title: Shorthand Reviews meta\_title: 'Shorthand Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 126 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Shorthand works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.7 review\_count: 126 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-10' parent\_category: name: Content Marketing url: https://www.g2.com/categories/content-marketing --- # Shorthand Reviews & Product Details Visit Website Shorthand is the beautifully simple visual storytelling platform that helps the world's iconic brands tell their most important stories. Shorthand empowers content creators, designers, and developers to publish visual stories with up to 10x higher audience engagement, in a fraction of the time. Global organisations such as Honda, the BBC, TripAdvisor, and Sky Sports use Shorthand to engage their high-value audiences on their owned properties. Creating premium digital stories is often slow, fragmented, and resource-intensive. Shorthand solves this with a powerful no-code editor that lets anyone create, edit, and publish stunning reading experiences in minutes — without needing design or development skills. Prebuilt templates, AI-powered auto layout, and PDF import help teams move from source material to published story faster, while built-in workflow and collaboration tools keep everyone aligned. The AI Creative Companion takes this further, letting teams generate story drafts, explore ideas, and make edits using natural-language prompts directly inside Shorthand — reducing production friction while keeping teams in full editorial control. With Shorthand for WordPress, teams can create and publish immersive stories straight from their CMS, bringing Shorthand's storytelling tools to the world's most widely used publishing platform. Users can publish Shorthand content nearly anywhere — via AWS, their CMS, Shorthand hosting, or by embedding directly on their website. The Shorthand team is a band of geeks with art and heart, dedicated to helping content teams build the world's most impressive and impactful digital content. * * * Product Website Shorthand Seller [Shorthand](https://www.g2.com/sellers/shorthand) Discussions [Shorthand Community](https://www.g2.com/products/shorthand/discuss) Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Ricky Robinson (CEO, Shorthand) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 2 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/shorthand/pricing) ## Shorthand Integrations (15) What do users say about integrations? Verified by Shorthand [ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") AWS Cloud ](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-cloud/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Drupal ](https://www.g2.com/products/drupal/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Flourish ](https://www.g2.com/products/flourish-flourish/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Google Analytics ](https://www.g2.com/products/google-analytics/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Google Tag Manager ](https://www.g2.com/products/google-tag-manager/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Infogram ](https://www.g2.com/products/infogram/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Microsoft Teams ](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-teams/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Slack ](https://www.g2.com/products/slack/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") SoundCloud ](https://www.g2.com/products/soundcloud/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Umbraco ](https://www.g2.com/products/umbraco/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Unsplash ](https://www.g2.com/products/unsplash/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Vimeo ](https://www.g2.com/products/vimeo/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") WordPress.com ](https://www.g2.com/products/wordpress-com/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") WordPress.org ](https://www.g2.com/products/wordpress-org/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") YouTube Live ](https://www.g2.com/products/youtube-live/reviews) Show More ![Jad Z.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jad Z.") JZ Jad Z. Creator Graphic Design Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/8/2023 "Quick and easy way to create amazing visual stories" 5/5 What do you like best about Shorthand? Easy to use, no coding required Pages always look great on any screen Very simple to adapt for mobile Allows you to focus on your story instead of wasting your time on tools that are hard to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Shorthand? Not for people who want to move a button 1 pixel to the right Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Shorthand solving and how is that benefiting you? Shorthand enables me to rapidly create functional web pages, all the while having confidence in their seamless performance across various screen dimensions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic MS Molly S. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/2/2023 "Shorthand success manager Morgan is fab!" 5/5 What do you like best about Shorthand? The ability to tell stories in an engaging and different way allows us to showcase our stories, photos and videos to our audience on web in a way we haven't been able to before. We are super excited to test shorthand and explore what is possible with the tool. On top of that, the shorthand team are brilliant. They are responsive and keen to help. We are new to shorthand and our success manager Morgan has provided great feedback on our stories to improve them and has provided brilliant support to our team. She has been responsive, helpful, and has either been able to answer all our questions or provide solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Shorthand? As we get familiar with the tool it can take quite a lot of time to build out our stories. The only other note is that the product is quite expensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Shorthand solving and how is that benefiting you? Previously we have only had basic blog and news templates to display our content on our website and have not been able to showcase photo stories or content or produce long-form content in a way that is engaging to our audiences. Shorthand is a great solution to that problem for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Stuart F.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Stuart F.") SF Stuart F. Vice President, Branded Content Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/17/2023 "A great way to tell more engaging stories" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Shorthand? As the title says, Shorthand gives us a way to tell more engaging, immersive stories. As a publisher, it gives us a way to provide a more premium experience to our audience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Shorthand? We've been using the platform for several years and like the way it is continually updated. But would love to see features that bring some additional interactive features that some other similar platforms have. Also, Shorthand always feels very desktop-first. That's fine. But often converting experiences to mobile feels secondary. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Shorthand solving and how is that benefiting you? We are always looking for ways to deliver a more premium experience for the content we publish. That's specifically where Shorthand fits in. Our creative teams regularly find ways to make the platform even more impactful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Andrew N.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Andrew N.") AN Andrew N. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/29/2023 "A mediocre experience" 2.5/5 What do you like best about Shorthand? Shorthand has enabled us to give our print publications a lease of new life as we can now present them as immersive features with a slick and modern look. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Shorthand? I'd like there to be more freedom in terms of moving items around on Shorthand, as it stands users are quite limited in terms of placement, and this isn't the best thing when using Shorthand to create online magazines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Shorthand solving and how is that benefiting you? Shorthand has given us a great platform to present our publications digitally. We still publish a flipbook magazine with every issue, but are finding our readers are now swaying towards our immersive issues done on shorthand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Paolo P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Paolo P.") PP Paolo P. Country Information Technology Manager and GDPR Controller Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/29/2023 "Create landing at speedlight" 4/5 What do you like best about Shorthand? You can create landing or minisites right away quickly and impressive at the same time. Obviously you can't manage them as they would be created with a CMS, but these are different products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Shorthand? Shorthand could grow so much with more modules to add inside their creative layout. I know that this could not be the right objective, anyway this could help a lot agencies and clients that need to create quickly different typologies of landing pages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Shorthand solving and how is that benefiting you? Quick creation of landing pages, or minisites with their new site collection builder. So quick creation and impressive. The final result is always appreciated from client side. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Nicholaus L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Nicholaus L.") NL Nicholaus L. Principal, Workplace Design & Construction Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/4/2023 "Creating a high design Case Study" 5/5 What do you like best about Shorthand? It was a great platform for creating high design presentation material for our C-Suite stakeholders to take them on a case study journey. The interface was super intuitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Shorthand? I'd say, I wish there were more options of page styles and even more functionality...mostly because more just means we can use this in a multitude of ways. But it definitely outperforms several other methods, as-is. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Shorthand solving and how is that benefiting you? The design and fluidity that it is capable of, is really allowing it to shine over other platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Naomi M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Naomi M.") NM Naomi M. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 2/7/2023 "Shorthand makes creating beautiful multimedia stories easy for anyone." 4.5/5 What do you like best about Shorthand? Shorthand is a fantastic tool for publishers looking for an interactive and highly visual way of telling stories. New features are regularly released meaning Customer service is great; when I've had any issues with the platform the team has always been very responsive and helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Shorthand? I can't think of many things to dislike about Shorthand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Shorthand solving and how is that benefiting you? We don't have in-house developer capacity to dedicate to creative multimedia articles, and yet there is appetite among our partners, clients, and our in-house news team for this type of content. Shorthand enables us, with very limited technical capacity, to tell the kinds of engaging, visually rich stories that we want to tell. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite QL Quoc Minh L. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 2/2/2023 "Shorthand helps us produce high quality stories at ease and fast" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Shorthand? It's very easy to make new beautiful templates and everyone can use it without any knowledge of coding. It saves much time and removes all burdens for the newsroom. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Shorthand? I am happy with what Shorthand offers and I don't have anything to complain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Shorthand solving and how is that benefiting you? I do not have many coders in the newsroom while I need to produce many long-form stories which attract readers and make them spend longer time on the website. With Shorthand, my team can produce good stories as fast as 30 or even 15 minutes. In the past we could only produce one story every week. Now we can produce long-form stories every day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Laura C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Laura C.") LC Laura C. Data Journalist Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 2/3/2023 "Shorthand has allowed us to create innovative and immersive content" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Shorthand? The most helpful things about Shorthand are its story editor —which allows non-coders to create professional scrollytelling projects— and the aesthetics of the projects —highly customizable with amazing results Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Shorthand? I'm overall deeply satisfied with my Shorthand experience, but if I had to say the least useful things about this software, would be the limited transitions in Reveal section. Besides, I'd like to be able to use videos in some sections in which, so far, only pictures are allowed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Shorthand solving and how is that benefiting you? It helps us to engage more our readers and it has upgraded the quality of how we showcase our content Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Josh A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Josh A.") JA Josh A. VP, Business Analyst - Group Technology Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 2/2/2023 "Easy to set up, easy to use, anyone can create engaging content with no need for developers" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Shorthand? Shorthand has allowed us to create super engaging web content without the need for more complex systems or having to get developers involved. The Shorthand customer success team have been most helpful in getting us up and running. The ability to publish in various ways is also a plus point. Shorthand's scrollmation and reveal sections are gamechanges, and used correctly can make web content jump off the screen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Shorthand? The fundamentals of the platform are excellent but we're still looking at ways to move beyond that, understand usage and readership data better and have more control as an adminstrator. But improvements are coming down the line. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Shorthand solving and how is that benefiting you? Ability for non developers to create and publish engaging web content. Allows us to understand readership metrics and push the boundaries of the type of content we can create. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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