Restaurant menu
Osteria Vallembra — Autumn Menu
A six-page autumn menu, read the way a guest at the table would read it: on a phone, from a QR code. When a price changes, the file is replaced and the same link shows the new menu.
Flipbook examples
Eleven finished flipbooks, each made from an ordinary PDF in cloud storage. Open any of them and turn the pages the way your readers would.
What a flipbook looks like in practice: a document with a cover and pages that opens in the browser and turns like a book — on a laptop as spreads, on a phone one page at a time. Each example below started as a PDF in Google Drive, and became a flipbook by pasting its share link into Toombler. No upload, no editor, and no app for the reader.
The organisations and names are invented: these are sample documents we made to show the format at its best. The flipbooks themselves are real — the same viewer, the same embed code and the same limits as yours.
Flip through one now
Restaurants and shops
Product catalogue
Norden Workshop — Spring Catalogue
Prices, product codes and the ordering terms on the last page. Change a price at the source and the flipbook shows the new one — no new upload, no new link.
Magazines, newsletters and books
Magazine
Mistral — Issue Seven
A small magazine from cover to letters page. The columns and the pull quote are real text, not a picture of text, so the issue stays sharp when zoomed and can be searched.
School newsletter
Fielding Primary — Autumn Newsletter
Term dates, the phone policy and a lost-property appeal — the kind of document that used to be an attachment nobody opened. Parents read it on their phone, one page at a time.
Club magazine
Kestrel Rowing Club — Quarterly 48
Results, membership numbers and three quotes for a new roof. One link in the club chat and every member can read it, with an archive of past issues next to it.
Ebook
The Quiet Craft
Four short chapters with a working table of contents, taken from the book’s own outline. Readers can jump to a chapter and search the text.
Business documents
Annual report
Larkfield Trust — Annual Report
Figures, a five-year table and a page headed “What went wrong”. Every number is selectable text, so a journalist or a trustee can quote it without retyping.
Property brochure
Kade 12 — Harbour Quarter
Photographs, the floor plan and the measurements, as selectable and searchable text. When the asking price changes, the same link shows the new brochure.
Product manual
Meridian M1 — User Manual
Fitting steps, a table of run times and a troubleshooting page. Search for “battery” and the viewer takes you there — which is what a QR code on the box should lead to.
Creative and personal
Portfolio
Studio Aveline — Selected Work
Three projects, with the thinking written next to each image. A link you can put in an email instead of attaching forty megabytes.
Wedding invitation
Iris & Tomas — 14 June
An invitation with the running order and a practical page, sized to read well on a phone. Send the link instead of the attachment.
What the good examples have in common
- They were designed as pages. A cover, a reading order, spreads that belong together. A flipbook adds little to a one-page form or a spreadsheet.
- The text is text. Exported from a layout program or a word processor, not scanned. That keeps it sharp when zoomed, searchable and readable by screen readers and search engines.
- They are sized for a screen. Under 10 MB, with type that is still readable on a phone. A file exported for print is often ten times larger than it needs to be — see reducing PDF file size.
- They have bookmarks. The bookmarks in a PDF become the flipbook's table of contents. Longer documents without them are hard to navigate — see clickable tables of contents.
- They are kept current at one link. Replace the file at its source and every embed, QR code and shared link shows the new version.
Make one from your own PDF
- Put the PDF in Google Drive, Dropbox or OneDrive and share it so anyone with the link can view it. A Google Doc or Slides deck works too.
- Paste the share link at toombler.com/app and give it a title.
- Copy the link or the embed code and put it on your site, in an email or behind a QR code.
Step by step: how to make a flipbook from a PDF. Looking for something to publish first? There are thirty flipbook ideas, and public flipbooks made by other people are in the gallery.
Frequently asked questions
What is an example of a flipbook?
A restaurant menu, a magazine issue, a product catalogue, an annual report or a portfolio, published as pages that turn in the browser. Every example on this page is one of those, made from a plain PDF.
Are these real flipbooks?
Yes. They run in the same viewer as every Toombler flipbook. The documents are samples with invented names, made to show the format.
Can I use one of these as a template?
Toombler has no templates or editor: it turns the PDF you already have into a flipbook. Design the document in any tool that exports a PDF — Word, Google Docs, Canva, InDesign — and the result looks like these.
Can I embed a flipbook like this on my own website?
Yes. Every flipbook has an embed code that works on WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, Webflow and any site that accepts HTML.
Do readers need an account or an app?
No. A flipbook opens in any browser, on a phone or a computer. Readers never sign in.