Shorthand Reviews in April 2025: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

"An engaging and user-friendly way to add value and compile a story without prior coding knowledge."

What do you like best about Shorthand? The fact you could create an interesting scroll-read without having prior coding knowledge. Functional section layouts and easy ways of adding images and text. Alternative smaller screen versions and alt text for accessibility were useful additions.

"Online storytelling in a simple and safe way"

What do you like best about Shorthand? Shorthand is an online storytelling system, easy to use, and custom designed for clients. with the pre-defined styles the visual identity is always respected. Used by a designer, magic can happen. I have been using Shorthand for 4 years now and never had a problem that they could not solve and the help is always very fast.

"Excellent tool, excellent support"

What do you like best about Shorthand? An excellent storytelling tool that is stable and powerful. Wonderfully responsive support from an outstanding company. Shorthand's generous support of journalism education is helping prepare the next generation of journalists.

"Super easy and intuitive"

What do you like best about Shorthand? The ease by which we can edit/alter templates and stories within the platform. Makes review pretty easy, too. What do you dislike about Shorthand?

"It radically changed how we think of content and what we can accomplish."

What do you like best about Shorthand? The universe of possibilities it opens up for us, in terms of what we can do with our content. It's very flexible, and yet, it always looks cohesive and elegant. The user experience is wonderful every time. The Reveal Section has endless uses: we've published animated cartoons, interactive waterworks infographics, pie/bar charts and photographs. This range provides an opportunity to rethink content - what we can do and how we can do it - and to ...

"Deploying Shorthand to increase the power of our stories"

What do you like best about Shorthand? The software is extremely easy to get to grips with. After a short trial we were up and running and making compelling web pages, making rich and dynamic content.

"Shorthand is easy to learn, fun to use and produces amazing results"

What do you like best about Shorthand? I like not worrying about making an story/page responsive - the preview shows the end product for the majority of devices, and the setting the focal point takes care of the rest. I like finding creative ways to combine sections. Still finding them a year into using it!

"Shorthand has enabled us to deliver content in a wider range of styles and in a more engaging manner"

What do you like best about Shorthand? The relative simplicity of the system - it's very easy to find your way round. And it's pretty intuitive too. Where it's not, there's normally some kind of help page or article that points you in the right direction. Also like the preview option to check your work as you go along and that you don't have to constantly save while putting an article together. When Ive' encountered technical publishing-related issues, I'm pleased to say the help desk has ...

"Fabulous, easy and limitless"

What do you like best about Shorthand? Ease of use and endless possibilities!!! What do you dislike about Shorthand?

"Easy to pick up and use - fabulous customer support"

What do you like best about Shorthand? The people who work there are really great - helping out with any problems quickly and giving time for long calls when we have had questions.