Free Digital Guide Maker

Build digital guides for internal use, then share them privately. Start free and upgrade for advanced features:

  • Interactivity: video, quizzes, and slideshows
  • Secure sharing with SSO and permissions
  • Full branding control across every guide

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What is a digital guide?

A digital guide is an online document that explains a process or set of rules in a clear order. Teams create digital guides to standardize processes, reduce mistakes, and keep everyone aligned as workflows change. Common examples include SOPs, workflow documentation, employee handbooks, and internal training guides. You can share a guide with the right people using permissions, password protection, or SSO, so it stays internal and up to date.

Flip through an interactive digital manual

Use Flipsnack’s digital guide maker to design similar guides to the one you can see below. Enhance any PDF guide with interactions like videos that explain internal processes more effectively, quizzes that connect with the audience uniquely, or photo slideshows to present more pictures in a single space. By using this guide creator, you can make easy updates on any publication without having to resend its link.

How can different guides benefit your business?

SOPs and workflow documentation

Create step-by-step SOPs and workflow guides so work gets done the same way across teams. Update one guide, and everyone follows the latest process without chasing old files.

Internal process manuals for teams

Document how your tools, approvals, and handoffs work in one place. This is useful for the Product, IT, Operations, and Customer Support teams that rely on repeatable processes.

Employee onboarding and training guides

Use onboarding guides, benefits guides, and training manuals to help new hires ramp faster. Add clear steps, required actions, and key resources so people know what to do from day one.

How to make an interactive guide

Use Flipsnack’s drag-and-drop Design Studio to build a digital guide that’s easy to read, easy to navigate, and simple to update when things change.

Create a digital guide
  1. 1. Upload PDF guide or start from scratch

    Bring your PDF guide to Flipsnack’s user manual creator and turn it into an interactive guide with just a few clicks. You can also pick from customizable pre-built templates the one that fits and make it yours.

  2. 2. Enhance manual digital with interactions

    Add interactive elements that make internal documentation easier to understand, like a video that shows a step in the workflow, a short HR onboarding walkthrough, or a checklist-style flow with go-to-page buttons. Use videos, page navigation, and slideshows so employees can move through steps faster and with fewer mistakes.

  3. 3. Add your branding to the digital guide

    Fully brand your guide with your logo, brand fonts, and colors so employees recognize it right away. Use reusable templates for repeatable output so every new guide stays consistent without extra work.

  4. 4. Publish and share your online guide

    Keep your guide internal and share it based on how your company works. Use a link for quick distribution, embed it in your intranet or portal, or send it by email. Control access with permissions, passwords, unlisted sharing, or SSO.

  5. 5. Track your digital guide

    Once your interactive guide is live, you can track how it performs. Get analytics and reporting depth and see views and reader activity so your online guide becomes measurable. Use these insights to improve your next digital manual, reuse what works, and build better results with your guide maker every time.

Browse through professional guide & manual templates

Flipsnack’s online guide creator has a variety of free guide templates to choose from. Whether you are looking for a user manual, show guide, enrollment guide, brand guide, or product guide, each one of our guide templates is professionally designed and ready to be customized. Explore the following guide examples and choose the best one for your business.

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Extensive branding & collaboration for companies

Host guides directly on your website to remove all Flipsnack branding. Use our interactive guide creator to set a custom link, add your logo, personalize the header, and use brand colors to create a cohesive, branded experience that feels like an extension of your website. Additionally, create branded locked templates and work with your team to create these documents using roles and permissions.

Branding customization and collaboration feature presented in Flipsnack’s guide creator

Increase engagement and retention with interactive guides

Make your digital guide more interactive, so readers stay focused from start to finish. Add quizzes and short questions to check understanding, then use forms to gather feedback, and capture requests without sending people elsewhere. This is useful for training guides and HR onboarding interactive guides.

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Online guides that work across devices

Your online guide should look good and feel easy to use on any device. Flipsnack displays your content in a mobile-friendly, responsive format, so your interactive guide stays clear on phones, tablets, and desktops. Buttons, forms, and page navigation remain easy to tap, making the experience smooth for internal teams.

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I ultimately chose Flipsnack because of its enhanced features and was sold on the idea of developing benefit guide templates that could be quickly edited and customized for each of my clients.

Jeffrey Lenderman
Principal and Lead Consultant

Advanced private publishing and sharing for company guides

SSO secure sharing

Flipsnack’s digital online guide helps securely share guides with enterprise-level protection. Effortlessly integrate with your SSO system to safeguard content, and enhance user convenience.

Password-protected & unlisted

Control who sees your internal guide with the unlisted option —only accessible via a direct link you share. Keep it hidden from search engines or add a password to protect guides even more.

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More ways to share digital guides with Flipsnack

Share via email

Send internal guides by email without attachments. Teams always open the latest version, even after you update the content.

Embed

Embed guides in your intranet, knowledge base, or internal portal so employees can access them where they already work. The guide stays interactive and easy to navigate.

Share via link

Share guides instantly with a direct link. Update the guide anytime, and the link stays the same, so you do not have to resend new files.

AI-powered accessible digital guidebook creator

This AI guide solution helps you present information about products or internal processes in a dynamic way using interactions. Offer accessible interactive guides with this AI solution that generates alt text summaries and translation within the platform.

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AI-powered accessible digital guidebook creator

Frequently asked questions

A digital guide enhances user experience and improves accessibility by offering easy-to-navigate publications through go-to-page buttons, and many other interactions. An online guide is easily accessible by everyone with Flipsnack’s AI accessibility feature that automatically adds alternative texts to every page of your guide.

Start with a clear purpose and one process per guide, so people can find what they need fast. Keep steps short, use consistent naming, and add a table of contents so navigation is predictable. Use interactions only when they help someone complete the task, like a short video for a tricky step, go to page buttons for branching flows, and links to the right internal tools or policies. Assign an owner, review it on a schedule, and update the guide when the process changes so teams do not follow outdated instructions.

Integrating a digital guide into a website is a two-step process when using Flipsnack. First, bring your PDF guide to Flipsnack, and once it’s converted into a flipbook, copy its embed code and use it in your existing website. You can easily follow the process in our help center article.

The benefits of using a digital guide are plentiful, starting with how easily you can customize it for different user needs. Create multiple versions of the same original content, and use individual tracking links to see how each of them performs. Another benefit is the number of interactions you can add to a digital guide vs a printed guide, along with plenty of public and private sharing options.

Make engaging digital guides with Flipsnack’s manual maker for free