G2 Vendor Directory

ExpressionEngine vs. Shorthand

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

MetricExpressionEngine

by EllisLab

Shorthand

by Shorthand

Overall rating3.74.7
Review count56131
Ease of use7.69.4
Ease of setup8.39.2
Quality of support8.19.7
Meets requirements7.89.1
NPS11.76470686.153846
Small Business72.7%48.8%
Mid-Market20.0%27.2%
Enterprise7.3%24.0%
Total page views61965
Total LLM citations534,355

ExpressionEngine

ExpressionEngine is a and secure open-source content management system (CMS) designed to empower developers and content creators to build and manage dynamic websites with ease. Its flexible architecture allows users to organize content into customizable channels, facilitating the creation of diverse content types such as blogs, news articles, product descriptions, and more. With a user-friendly interface, ExpressionEngine enables seamless content editing directly from the front end, eliminating the need to navigate complex control panels.

Pros

    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