G2 Vendor Directory

Adobe InDesign vs. Shorthand

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAdobe InDesign

by Adobe

Shorthand

by Shorthand

Overall rating4.64.7
Review count3,441131
Ease of use8.39.4
Ease of setup9.09.2
Quality of support8.59.7
Meets requirements9.49.1
NPS74.97058886.153846
Small Business58.1%48.8%
Mid-Market27.1%27.2%
Enterprise14.8%24.0%
Total page views1,412965
Total LLM citations12,2674,355

Adobe InDesign

A professional page layout application for print and digital publishing, InDesign lets you design, preflight, and publish a broad range of content for print, web, and tablet apps. It offers precise control over typography, built-in creative tools, an intuitive design environment, and tight integration with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Layout Design
  • Tools
  • Features
  • Visual Appeal
  • Time-saving

Shorthand

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.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Easy Creation
  • Storytelling
  • Ease of Creation
  • Quality
  • Features