G2 Vendor Directory

Scribus vs. Shorthand

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

MetricScribus

by The Scribus Team

Shorthand

by Shorthand

Overall rating4.14.7
Review count27131
Ease of use8.19.4
Ease of setup9.39.2
Quality of support8.29.7
Meets requirements8.99.1
NPS30.76923186.153846
Small Business88.9%48.8%
Mid-Market3.7%27.2%
Enterprise7.4%24.0%
Total page views353965
Total LLM citations3,1304,355

Scribus

Scribus is an open source alternative for entry-level desktop publishing.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Graphics Design
  • Templates
  • Layout Design
  • Features
  • PDF Editing

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