10 Best jQuery Flipbook Plugins for 2014

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Also known as page flips, flipbooks have become one of the most popular interactive animation shortcuts in web design. They’re easy to implement in Flash, websites, documents, and online magazines that are being created and published almost every day.

The use of flipbook effects in web design enables owners to present their products, sales brochures, contents, etc. in an eye-catching and visually appealing manner. By combining HTML5 and CSS3, you can achieve great animations. This is also possible with the use of jQuery flipbook plugins which will render a smoother option.

In today’s post, we’re going to showcase 10 of the best jQuery flipbook plugins for your web projects. They will make the HTML content and images flip 360 degrees and animate them using jQuery and CSS3 transform and rotate. We hope you’ll find them useful.

Enjoy!

QuickFlip 2

True to its name, QuickFlip 2 uses an animation shortcut that’s barely noticeable when flipped quickly. The shortcut improves performance while allowing the page-flip effect to work smoothly with any piece of markup, regardless of images, backgrounds or CSS.

BookBlock

This plugin is ideal for creating booklet-like components that allows page-flip navigation. You can use any content such as images or text. It transforms the structure only when necessary (like when flipping a page), and uses some overlays as shadow for the pages to make it look more realistic.

Metro JS

Metro JS is a jQuery plugin that allows you to easily enable Metro-inspired interfaces on the Web. It focuses on live tiles, application bar and theming. It’s currently on its early development phase, but all of its features should work well on Internet Explorer 7+, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, Android, iOS, OS X, and Windows Phone.

imBookFlip

This plugin lets you display book-like content in an iframe or directly on the page. The pages can be set up to turn when manually clicked or as an auto-play. The API also allows direct pointing to a desired page. Sadly, there’s no support for dragging a page.

Flippage

Flippage keeps the page-flip effect inside or over the images displayed, resulting in an amazing 2D-like experience. It uses HTML5, CSS3 and hardware acceleration, and works well even on mobile browsers.

jQuery Flipbook Slider

This slider plugin is perfect for any type of content such as Flash, videos, iframes, HTML and text. You can choose to flip the pages manually with drag-and-drop. It comes with automatic pagination, vertical and horizontal layouts, and supports all modern browsers.

Flip!

Flip! allows you to easily flip your elements in four directions. The plugin enables you to define directions where you want to flip your content, and you can also define background, color, and speed of animation. It supports onAnimation and OnEnd animation, where animation can be executed on any given time.

The jFlip Plugin

This plugin lets you build a book-like image gallery. You can flip the book pages to view the next or previous image, clicking or dragging the animated corners shown when hovering on the gallery area.

Portfolio Flipping Slider

The Portfiolio Flipping Slider plugin changes your portfolio images when it’s flipping. The flipping effect is triggered when you click on the pagination, so when a user clicks a page, each of your portfolio images will flip 360 degrees and when its animation is near the end, it will change with a new image.