# Zeenly

> Zeenly turns PDF magazines into branded, trackable digital flipbooks for associations and B2B publishers.

Zeenly at zeenly.com has no connection to Zenly, the location-sharing app, or to Zeenly Automations, the WhatsApp point-of-sale product.

## Pricing
Zeenly Pro is US$27 a month, or US$270 a year, for one brand. Publisher is US$54 a month, or US$540 a year, and you only need it if you run more than one brand.
- [Plans and prices](https://zeenly.com/pricing)

## Product
- [Features](https://zeenly.com/features)
- [About Zeenly](https://zeenly.com/about): Zeenly is an Australian platform that turns PDF magazines into branded, trackable digital flipbooks. It has no connection to Zenly or similarly named businesses.
- [Turn a PDF into a flipbook in minutes](https://zeenly.com/pdf-to-flipbook): Upload a PDF and get a page-turning, shareable flipbook in minutes. Add clickable links and video, share a clean link or embed it on your site. Free to start.
- [A digital magazine maker that publishes the PDF you already have](https://zeenly.com/digital-magazine-maker): Publish a digital magazine from the PDF you already have. Your branding, clickable ads and video, and reports you can show sponsors. Free to start.
- [Member magazine software for associations](https://zeenly.com/flipbook-for-associations): Publish your association's magazine as a branded flipbook on your own site, with team access and analytics you can show sponsors. Free to start.
- [An Issuu alternative for associations and B2B publishers](https://zeenly.com/issuu-alternative): Looking for an Issuu alternative? An honest look at when Issuu fits, when a private branded reader fits better, and what to check before you switch.
- [Zeenly vs Issuu](https://zeenly.com/zeenly-vs-issuu)
- [Publish your magazine from Claude](https://zeenly.com/claude): the Zeenly MCP connector for Claude and other AI apps

## Free tools
- [Magazine ad rate calculator](https://zeenly.com/tools/magazine-ad-rate-calculator): Enter your readers per issue and get a full magazine rate card: every ad size, member prices and multi-issue discounts. Free, no signup.
- [Member magazine cost calculator](https://zeenly.com/tools/magazine-cost-calculator): Work out what your member magazine costs per issue, per year and per member, including staff time, design, print and postage. Free, no signup.
- [Media kit generator](https://zeenly.com/tools/media-kit-generator): Fill in your readers, ad options, prices and deadlines and get a two-page magazine media kit as a PDF. Free, no signup, and your details stay in your browser.

## Tap&Turn
How to make, promote and fund a magazine.

### Start
- [Publish your next issue in an afternoon with Claude and the Zeenly MCP](https://zeenly.com/magazine/start/publish-your-next-issue-with-claude-and-the-zeenly-mcp): The magazine is finished and publishing day still eats your week. Connect Claude to Zeenly once and it can do the checking, uploading and link-wrangling with you.
- [Choosing flipbook software for your association: six things that matter](https://zeenly.com/magazine/start/best-flipbook-software-for-associations): Every flipbook tool's marketing page looks the same. Here is what separates them for an association: branding, analytics, team access, embedding, accessibility and cost, plus a fair way to run a trial.
- [Digital or print? How associations settle the argument](https://zeenly.com/magazine/start/digital-vs-print-magazine-for-associations): Somebody on the committee swears by print, somebody else wants it gone. A fair comparison on cost, reach, habits, advertising and effort, plus questions to settle it.
- [How much does a member magazine cost? A straight answer, with a worksheet](https://zeenly.com/magazine/start/how-much-does-a-member-magazine-cost-to-produce): The first question from whoever holds the budget. What a member magazine really costs, from a volunteer-run digital issue to a professional print edition.
- [How often should a member magazine publish? Pick a schedule you can survive](https://zeenly.com/magazine/start/how-often-should-a-member-magazine-publish): Monthly sounds ambitious until you're writing the editor's letter at midnight. How to choose a schedule your team can sustain and your members will actually read.
- [How to start a digital magazine for your members (a 90-day plan)](https://zeenly.com/magazine/start/how-to-start-a-digital-magazine-for-your-members): Somebody said "we should do a magazine", and now it's yours. A step-by-step plan from deciding what it's for to publishing issue one, with a 90-day checklist.
- [How to turn a PDF into a digital magazine (and when a PDF is enough)](https://zeenly.com/magazine/start/how-to-turn-a-pdf-into-a-digital-magazine): How to take a finished PDF and publish it as a page-turning online magazine your members can open in a browser, plus when a plain PDF is the better choice.
- [Issuu pricing, honestly: what you pay and what else is out there](https://zeenly.com/magazine/start/issuu-pricing-and-alternatives): What Issuu charges, what you get at each level and how to choose between it and other platforms if you publish for an association or B2B audience.
- [PDF, flipbook or web articles: which one does which job?](https://zeenly.com/magazine/start/pdf-vs-flipbook-vs-web-articles): Three formats, three jobs. What PDF, flipbook and web articles each do best, and how to combine them so members get what they came for.
- [What to put in your first issue: a 12-item checklist](https://zeenly.com/magazine/start/what-to-put-in-your-first-issue): Blank contents pages are frightening. A twelve-item checklist for your first issue: what each piece is for, how long it should be and what to do if you're short of material.

### Craft
- [How to stop your AI copy sounding like AI](https://zeenly.com/magazine/craft/how-to-stop-ai-copy-sounding-like-ai): Your members can spot it in a sentence. How to set Claude up so its drafts sound like your magazine, and what to fix by hand before anyone else reads them.
- [15 AI prompts for magazine editors (copy and paste)](https://zeenly.com/magazine/craft/ai-prompts-for-editors): Fifteen ready-to-use prompts for headlines, summaries, proofreading and fact-check lists that help an editor work faster while keeping control of the writing.
- [How to check AI-assisted writing: the six-point review before it goes out](https://zeenly.com/magazine/craft/check-ai-assisted-writing-before-it-goes-out): AI mistakes arrive in good grammar and a calm tone. Here is the human check for facts, quotes, names, tone, originality and privacy before anything reaches your members.
- [Designing your magazine in Canva or InDesign (no designer needed)](https://zeenly.com/magazine/craft/design-your-magazine-in-canva-or-indesign): You don't need a design degree for a magazine that looks tidy. A handful of rules for fonts, colour, white space and images, whether you use Canva or InDesign.
- [Editorial calendar for a member magazine: never scramble at deadline again](https://zeenly.com/magazine/craft/editorial-calendar-for-a-member-magazine): Most member magazines don't fail for lack of ideas. They fail three weeks before publication. Plan a year of issues so you know what's coming, who's writing it and when it's due.
- [Headlines, standfirsts and pull-quotes: win the first two seconds](https://zeenly.com/magazine/craft/headlines-standfirsts-and-pull-quotes): Readers decide in about two seconds. How to write headlines that promise something, standfirsts that add to them and pull-quotes that stop the scroll.
- [How to get members to write for your magazine (and edit them kindly)](https://zeenly.com/magazine/craft/how-to-get-members-to-write-for-you): A call for submissions gets you two replies, and one is from someone selling something. How to recruit contributors, brief them, handle late copy and edit so they'll write again.
- [How to interview members: get past "I just do my job" and into a story](https://zeenly.com/magazine/craft/how-to-interview-members): Members say "I just do my job" and then go quiet. How to prepare, ask better questions and shape the conversation into a profile people read to the end.
- [Make every issue work for six weeks: how to repurpose a member magazine](https://zeenly.com/magazine/craft/how-to-repurpose-each-issue): An issue takes weeks to make and ten minutes to read. A routine for turning each one into emails, posts, short videos and web pages that keep working.
- [How to write a magazine feature people finish](https://zeenly.com/magazine/craft/how-to-write-a-magazine-feature): The piece readers remember is the one writers dread. A step-by-step method for a clear, readable feature, from the angle to the final edit.
- [How to keep one voice when several people (and a tool) write for you](https://zeenly.com/magazine/craft/keep-a-consistent-voice-with-several-writers-and-ai): How to make a member magazine sound like itself when volunteers, staff and AI tools all contribute, using a short voice guide and a light editing pass.
- [A one-page magazine style guide that ends the "email or e-mail?" debate](https://zeenly.com/magazine/craft/magazine-style-guide-one-page): Organisation or organization? Email or e-mail? A one-page style guide that settles it once, with a template to fill in.
- [Should your magazine tell readers when it uses AI?](https://zeenly.com/magazine/craft/should-your-magazine-disclose-ai-use): A practical way to decide whether, when and how to disclose AI use in a member magazine, with sample wording you can adapt.
- [How to use AI to proofread your magazine without losing your voice](https://zeenly.com/magazine/craft/use-ai-to-proofread-without-losing-your-voice): AI can catch typos and tidy grammar in minutes, but it can also sand the personality off your writing. Here is a simple method that keeps your voice intact.
- [What to hand to AI and what to keep for yourself when making a magazine](https://zeenly.com/magazine/craft/what-to-hand-to-ai-and-what-to-keep): A practical rule for deciding which magazine tasks suit AI help and which belong with a human editor, so you save time without losing what makes your magazine yours.
- [Where to find story ideas when the contents page is blank](https://zeenly.com/magazine/craft/where-to-find-story-ideas): Four weeks to deadline and an empty contents page. Ten reliable places to find stories inside an association, and a habit that keeps ideas coming.

### Money
- [Update your layout mid-campaign without losing a single click](https://zeenly.com/magazine/revenue/update-your-layout-mid-campaign-without-losing-clicks): A sponsor's price is wrong and the issue went out nine days ago. How to swap the PDF and keep the same link, the same stats and the same advertiser numbers.
- [Association sponsorship packages: build three that actually sell](https://zeenly.com/magazine/revenue/association-sponsorship-packages): Stop answering "what can we do with you?" with a list of twenty items. Build two or three named, priced packages that are easy to sell and fair to sponsors.
- [How to create a media kit for your magazine in one afternoon](https://zeenly.com/magazine/revenue/how-to-create-a-media-kit): A media kit tells advertisers who reads your magazine and what it costs to reach them. Build one in an afternoon, with a template you can copy.
- [How to get advertisers for a member magazine: your first 20 conversations](https://zeenly.com/magazine/revenue/how-to-get-advertisers-for-a-member-magazine): No track record, no problem. Who to approach, what to say, how to follow up and what to offer when you're selling your first ads.
- [How to price ads in a digital magazine: clicks, impressions or a flat fee](https://zeenly.com/magazine/revenue/how-to-price-ads-in-a-digital-magazine): The three common ways to price advertising in a digital magazine, when each makes sense and how to pick one that is fair to you and the advertiser.
- [How to prove ad value to sponsors: the one-page report that wins renewals](https://zeenly.com/magazine/revenue/how-to-prove-ad-value-to-sponsors): Advertisers rarely cancel because the ad failed. They cancel because nobody told them it worked. What goes in a one-page advertiser report and where the numbers come from.
- [How to renew advertisers: the three-email routine](https://zeenly.com/magazine/revenue/how-to-renew-advertisers): Winning an advertiser takes a dozen emails. Keeping one takes three, sent at the right time. A step-by-step routine with timings and a template.
- [Magazine advertising rates: set your rate card without guessing](https://zeenly.com/magazine/revenue/magazine-advertising-rates-and-rate-card): Pricing is where first-time sellers freeze. How to work out what to charge, build a rate card and handle discounts, with a worked example you can adapt.
- [Sponsored content or display ads: what suits an association magazine?](https://zeenly.com/magazine/revenue/sponsored-content-vs-display-ads): How sponsored articles and display ads differ, when each works for members and advertisers, and how to label and manage them so readers keep trusting you.
- [Sponsorship pitch emails: three templates to steal and adapt](https://zeenly.com/magazine/revenue/sponsorship-pitch-email-templates): A cold first message, a warm note to a past sponsor and a follow-up. Three short templates, and the one change that makes each sound like you wrote it for them.

### Reach
- [Archive mining: turning old issues into new traffic](https://zeenly.com/magazine/reach/archive-mining-turn-old-issues-into-new-traffic): You've got years of good articles sitting in old PDFs, and you're short of content. How to use Claude to find what's still worth reading and bring it back as web pages.
- [Email subject lines for magazine launches: 20 to steal, and what to avoid](https://zeenly.com/magazine/reach/email-subject-lines-for-magazine-launches): Your subject line gets about a second. Twenty examples for announcing a new issue to members, grouped by approach, with notes on preview text and what to avoid.
- [How to embed a digital magazine on your website (copy-and-paste snippet)](https://zeenly.com/magazine/reach/embed-a-digital-magazine-on-your-website): Let members read the latest issue without leaving your site. A copy-and-paste iframe snippet, sizing tips and what to do if it won't show.
- [How to get members to actually read the magazine](https://zeenly.com/magazine/reach/how-to-get-members-to-read-the-magazine): Why members don't open the magazine, and a short list of fixes that raise readership: the email, the first page, the content and the habit.
- [How to promote a digital magazine: 15 low-cost ideas for associations](https://zeenly.com/magazine/reach/how-to-promote-a-digital-magazine): Fifteen practical, low-cost ways to get more of your members to open and read your digital magazine, from email tweaks to event mentions.
- [SEO for a digital magazine: do article pages beat a flipbook?](https://zeenly.com/magazine/reach/seo-for-a-digital-magazine): How search engines treat flipbooks and PDFs, why article pages are easier to find, and a simple way to get your magazine's content discovered without starting a blog.
- [How to share your digital magazine on LinkedIn without it looking like spam](https://zeenly.com/magazine/reach/share-a-digital-magazine-on-linkedin): Practical ways to post your magazine on LinkedIn so members and professionals engage, with post templates and a few things to avoid.

### Numbers
- [Analyse your reader survey in ten minutes](https://zeenly.com/magazine/numbers/analyse-your-reader-survey-with-claude): Two hundred comments, one spreadsheet and a board meeting on Thursday. How to use Claude to find what readers told you, check it's right and get it onto one page.
- [How to measure whether your magazine is working: five numbers, one page](https://zeenly.com/magazine/numbers/how-to-measure-whether-your-magazine-is-working): A board member asks "is the magazine worth it?" Five simple measures, how to collect each and how to use them to improve and to report to your board and sponsors.