G2 Vendor Directory

Microsoft Publisher vs. Shorthand

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

MetricMicrosoft Publisher

by Microsoft

Shorthand

by Shorthand

Overall rating4.34.7
Review count1,008131
Ease of use9.09.4
Ease of setup9.29.2
Quality of support8.69.7
Meets requirements8.89.1
NPS47.7867286.153846
Small Business47.6%48.8%
Mid-Market25.8%27.2%
Enterprise26.6%24.0%
Total page views2,351965
Total LLM citations7,8674,355

Microsoft Publisher

Microsoft Publisher is a desktop publishing application designed to help users create professional-quality publications with ease. It offers a range of pre-designed templates and intuitive tools, enabling the creation of various materials such as brochures, newsletters, greeting cards, and more. With a focus on page layout and design, Publisher allows for precise control over text, images, and other elements, ensuring that the final product appears exactly as intended, whether in print, online, or via email.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Layout Design
  • Versatility
  • Template Availability
  • Intuitive
  • Visual Appeal

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