Shorthand Pros and Cons

Shorthand enhances our content offerings, showcasing brilliant imagery, video and text. Our organization leverages Shorthand to increase the stature of our research products and to dynamically display our industry leading data, insights and analysis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It took some time and development to sync with our CMS (Ektron) but we managed to build it and works well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of use, Great customer support, Integration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Higher Price than competitors and lack of a more basic plan above the free one Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shorthand helps us create impactful stories about our work. Not having a design background, the templates are easy to use and look so good. We love that our readers get to 'experience' a story, with scrolling triggering onscreen actions within the stories. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I haven't found any downsides to using Shorthand Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is very easy to use and the automatic saving of work is invaluable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is quite fiddly to use for putting photos in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of use, inspiring finished articles Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Unable to download each article as a PDF. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to use, no coding required

Pages always look great on any screen

Very simple to adapt for mobile

Allows you to focus on your story instead of wasting your time on tools that are hard to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not for people who want to move a button 1 pixel to the right Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ability to tell stories in an engaging and different way allows us to showcase our stories, photos and videos to our audience on web in a way we haven't been able to before. We are super excited to test shorthand and explore what is possible with the tool. On top of that, the shorthand team are brilliant. They are responsive and keen to help. We are new to shorthand and our success manager Morgan has provided great feedback on our stories to improve them and has provided brilliant support to our team. She has been responsive, helpful, and has either been able to answer all our questions or provide solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As we get familiar with the tool it can take quite a lot of time to build out our stories. The only other note is that the product is quite expensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As the title says, Shorthand gives us a way to tell more engaging, immersive stories. As a publisher, it gives us a way to provide a more premium experience to our audience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We've been using the platform for several years and like the way it is continually updated. But would love to see features that bring some additional interactive features that some other similar platforms have. Also, Shorthand always feels very desktop-first. That's fine. But often converting experiences to mobile feels secondary. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shorthand has enabled us to give our print publications a lease of new life as we can now present them as immersive features with a slick and modern look. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I'd like there to be more freedom in terms of moving items around on Shorthand, as it stands users are quite limited in terms of placement, and this isn't the best thing when using Shorthand to create online magazines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You can create landing or minisites right away quickly and impressive at the same time. Obviously you can't manage them as they would be created with a CMS, but these are different products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shorthand could grow so much with more modules to add inside their creative layout. I know that this could not be the right objective, anyway this could help a lot agencies and clients that need to create quickly different typologies of landing pages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.