Compare the Top Free Desktop Publishing Software as of March 2026

What is Free Desktop Publishing Software?

Desktop publishing software provides the tools to turn media files into publishable layouts and templates that can be uploaded, exported and printed. Compare and read user reviews of the best Free Desktop Publishing software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    hyper Digital Asset Management Server

    hyper Digital Asset Management Server

    hyperCMS Content Management Solutions

    The hyper Content & Digital Asset Management Server helps organizations to have full control over all their digital assets, to automate processes and cut costs. Access all your rich rich content directly by conveniently integrating it into the creative workflow of internal/external teams and programs like Adobe CS, MS Office, and OpenOffice. Ensure process control with collaborative approval. Share the content directly on Social Media Networks. Create customized Brand Portals to promote and meassure the success of various rich content.
    Starting Price: $21.00/mo (SaaS) $0 On-Premise
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    Marq

    Marq

    Marq

    Marq (formerly Lucidpress) is a design & brand templating platform that empowers non-designers in your company to create and distribute marketing collateral all on their own (without going off brand). Lockable templates protect your brand while allowing colleagues to make small design tweaks and customizations, easing the workload off your creative team. Say goodbye to rogue branding forever with Marq -- the brand templating platform trusted by over 7 million users worldwide. Get high-quality printed materials shipped straight to your location with our web-to-print features. Or, reach your audience even quicker with Marq's direct mail delivery. Whether its social media posts or printed brochures, our cloud-based platform helps your business manage the brand experience from start to finish.
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    Starting Price: $10 per user per month
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    VistaCreate

    VistaCreate

    VistaCreate

    VistaCreate (formerly Crello) is a graphic design platform where anyone can quickly create engaging projects for any industry or occasion —design skills optional. Crello joined the Vista group of companies and changed its brand name to VistaCreate. Start with one of 50,000 professionally designed templates that are already preformatted and customizable. Easily edit, resize, remove background from images. Edit video content and add sounds and music to create multi-dimensional visuals. Upload your own photos or use VistaCreate Unlimited library of 50M+ free media files including premium images, videos, vectors, backgrounds, and clipart. Easily brand your content with Media Kit functionality. With VistaCreate, everyone can produce designs that look like they took hours, in minutes. VistaCreate is also available on web, iOS and Android devices.
    Starting Price: $0
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    Salasil Desktop

    Salasil Desktop

    Salasil Solutions

    Salasil Desktop a video authoring & broadcasting screen recorder tool ( A Desktop Application working on Windows PCs & laptops) gives you the ability to record computer’s screen, webcam & voice, you will also be able explain your ideas better without the need for technical knowledge using your personal computer and that’s because of Salasil Desktop’s simple annotation toolkit which contains writing tools, presentation tools. Which is compatible with all file formats (PDF, PP, Word, Excel… etc) or web page as well. On the other hand; with Salasil Desktop recorder; you will be able to go live on multi social media platforms simultaneously. We found that instructors, teachers & help-desk officers are facing huge problems with making a video & share it in easy way, since the traditional way of making videos are consuming time, money & require technical background from them. We developed a software for who are looking elegant authoring tool with simple UX & UI
    Starting Price: $7/Month/User
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    Adobe Express
    Adobe Express is the quick and easy app that controls content chaos and scales your brand reach by empowering every team in your company - marketing, HR, sales, and more - to self-serve on-brand content with ease. Powered by Adobe's commercially-safe AI and integrated with the world's leading creative and marketing solutions, maximize your MarTech investments with Adobe Express.
    Starting Price: $9.99 per month
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    FlowPaper

    FlowPaper

    Devaldi

    Bring your static PDF content to life. Responsive digital publishing. The web PDF viewer and digital publishing suite. Convert your catalog, brochure or magazine into a beautiful responsive online publication. Convert PDF documents into interactive online viewing experiences. This web based PDF viewer is specialized in magazines, catalogs, brochures and other high quality print documents. It brings your publications online while preserving the original document layout. Embed this viewer to provide a beautiful seamless viewing experience for your visitors as they flip through your publication. Convert your PDF catalogs to HTML5 to reach maximum readability, speed and text sharpness. Don't let your website visitors wait for large PDF or image files to download, this viewer optimizes your documents for online use and minimizes loading time. The viewer provides both slide and flipbook modes as viewing experiences.
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    Template.net

    Template.net

    Template.net

    Ready-Made Templates. Beautifully Designed, Easily Editable Templates to Get your Work Done Faster & Smarter. Simply Browse, Search, Save & Download our Easy to use Templates. At Template.net we create Premium Designs, Documents for our users. We are a Dedicated Global Team of Coders, Artists, Designers, Lawyers, Marketers & Writers. We are working towards one goal of making the world’s work get done Faster and Smarter! Simple! Why start from Scratch, when you can get your work done faster with our Huge Collection of 100,000+ Beautifully designed, Instantly downloadable, Professionally designed, Ready-Made Templates which are easily Editable, Shareable & Printable. Simply Browse, Search, Save & Download our Easy to use Templates. We Standardize Your Business to help you Create Brand Identity and Visibility, helping you Build Bigger, Better and Faster Business Processes and Improve Productivity through better Organization and Better communication. You Save Time, Money and Frustration.
    Starting Price: $8 per month
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    Venngage

    Venngage

    Venngage

    Venngage is the simple design platform for bringing your dull data, dry documents and complex communications to life. Using our engaging visual communication templates, created by our expert in-house designers, Venngage users can easily create powerful visuals; no design experience required. Our easy-to-use drag and drop editor, alongside some helpful articles, videos and courses, will have you creating dazzling designs in minutes. Venngage has a wide range of templates perfect for business and professional communications including infographics, charts, reports, diagrams, mind maps, presentations, and more so that you can impress your boss, your clients, prospects and online audience.
    Starting Price: $10/month
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    Libris Unify

    Libris Unify

    Libris Systems

    Build personalized, bespoke brochures in under a minute. Adding a person’s name, with relative content can increase the response rate by up to 500%. Unify is a simple time saving tool that enables you to create a personal bespoke brochure not just for one client, but every client – helping your business stand out from the crowd and speeding up your sales process. Drag the line across the image below to see how personalization can transform your current brochures, simply done by typing the recipient's name and clicking a button within Unify. An engaging customer experience is essential from the very first interaction. Getting it right goes a long way to securing a future client. With over 20 years in corporate and education branding, we have helped many clients understand the value of their brand and how to develop it in order to get the most from it.
    Starting Price: $37 per month
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    YUMPU

    YUMPU

    YUMPU

    Turn your PDF into a page flipping online catalog! YUMPU Publishing transforms your PDF documents into search engine-compatible content with which you generate more traffic. Thanks to social sharing, you can tap into new target groups and maximize your reach, which increases your sales over the long term. It’s never been easier to integrate magazines directly into your website. With interactive elements, you can encourage visitors to stay longer on your site. This is how it’s done: Generate a code – copy it – integrate it into the desired location. Benefit from the rising popularity of social media and attract new readers by sharing your magazines on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and LinkedIn. Or simply share the link to your magazine or a page of it via email. No matter whether you’re using your desktop computer, smartphone or tablet, the content will always be displayed perfectly.
    Starting Price: €14,95 per month
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    nextPrint

    nextPrint

    nextPrint

    A simple drag and drop editor to build and share magazines online. Create a magazines with images, videos and text, and create links to your business from inside the magazine to create an interactive experience. The editor is built with an image manager where you can upload images or videos you want to use in your magazines, and all your magazines are stored online so no need to manually share your projects between devices.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Consonance

    Consonance

    Consonance

    You create the books. We take care of the rest. Consonance brings harmony to your teams, so your publishing can grow. From acquisition and peer review, to metadata, contract management, rights, royalties, permissions, production, P&L management, contact management, and with tailorable code-lists throughout the app, Consonance is the complete publishing management system for complex publishing companies who want to achieve stability, consistency and harmony as the basis for growth. Review the documentation for an in-depth look at Consonance's extensive feature list. Consonance provides sector-specific tools for collaboration across teams, departments, and countries, regardless of size and focus: our largest customer has more than half a million live products. We work in a streamlined way which encourages rapid, prioritised delivery of value to our customers, relying on tools including Basecamp, Freshdesk, GitHub, Heroku, AWS, Bugsnag and Skylight.
    Starting Price: $50 per month
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    XMPie

    XMPie

    XMPie

    The leading technology for engaging your audiences with personalized, relevant communications across Print and Digital media touchpoints. Boost collaboration, visualization and time-to-market for your 1:1 multichannel marketing campaigns. New! The Circle GUI now powers XMPie's Cross Media dashboard giving a clear and unified view for managing touch points and deploying and monitoring the entire multichannel campaign. Circle features an intuitive user interface that enables interactive diagramming and visualization of all phases of a multichannel marketing campaign-from conceptualization to campaign creation, through to execution and results monitoring. Service providers, agencies and clients can together sketch, view, plan, build, and automate 1:1 multichannel communications campaigns at every stage of development.
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    Calaméo

    Calaméo

    Calaméo

    Calaméo is the first multilingual digital publishing platform and has a community of five million users worldwide. Calaméo provides private and professional users with a dynamic and innovative medium to instantly publish and share interactive and multi-media magazines, brochures, reports, newsletters, presentations and catalogues on any device. Create an immersive digital experience for your readers with our elegant viewer. Our features make it easy to manage sharing for your online documents. Get the statistics you need to understand your audience. Schedule the date and time you want your publications to become available. Use your favorite platforms like YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion or SoundCloud to enhance your creations. Use our attractive library widget to display your publications on your own website. Use our sharing options to embed all of your publications and make them easy to access on your own website. Increase your audience with the power of social media.
    Starting Price: $14 per month
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    DDP

    DDP

    Dynamic Digital Publishing

    Dynamic Digital Publishing (DDP) lets you banish boring web documents and paper forms and replace them with exciting, animated and dynamic flipbook documents your visitors will love. Easily convert your existing PDF documents and forms using our online system, manage them in a central portal and then use our tools to see what content really resonates with your visitors. We help you save time, beautify your online documents and increase your marketing reach! Replace boring documents on your website with beautiful, animated, dynamic web documents from DDP. Convert your existing documents today! Convert your existing PDFs into beautiful online documents your visitors will love. Your documents can be hosted on your own website. Your staff can manage all your published documents through an easy-to-use web portal. Each staff member can have different permissions. Create dynamic documents which let the visitor choose what they want to see to create a personalized viewing experience.
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