G2 Vendor Directory

QuarkXPress vs. Shorthand

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

MetricQuarkXPress

by Quark

Shorthand

by Shorthand

Overall rating4.04.7
Review count303131
Ease of use8.29.4
Ease of setup8.79.2
Quality of support8.29.7
Meets requirements8.49.1
NPS32.65306186.153846
Small Business80.1%48.8%
Mid-Market11.6%27.2%
Enterprise8.3%24.0%
Total page views722965
Total LLM citations8,0004,355

QuarkXPress

QuarkXPress – Revolutionizing Desktop Publishing with AI-Powered Innovation For decades, QuarkXPress has been the go-to solution for designers, publishers, and businesses needing a professional-grade desktop publishing tool. Now, with the latest AI-driven features, QuarkXPress is redefining how creatives work—streamlining design processes and optimizing content output with unparalleled precision. 🔹 AI-Powered Features for the Modern Designer 🔹Image & Text Optimization – Resize, scale, and fit images or text dynamically for perfect composition.

Pros

  • Versatility
  • Layout Design
  • Features
  • Animations
  • Interface Simplicity
  • 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