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Blurb
Who runs Blurb, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest Print-on-demand self-publishing alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Lulu
Measured from Blurb’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Blurb01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Blurb
Blurb blurb.com
Create and print custom books and magazines with Blurb’s professional book printing services. Perfect for photographers, self-publishers and creators.
Wikidata: Book publishing platform
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Blurb tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
tracker that follows visitors
7 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 8 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 3 tools
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Blurb
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Blurb, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to Blurb match.
- 01
Global Book Printing, Publishing, and Technology Company | Lulu
Lulu is a publishing technology platform for on-demand book printing and global fulfillment, powered by APIs and ecommerce integrations.
Very close - 02
Mixbook | Create Custom Photo Books, Cards & Gifts – Free Designs
Make personalized photo books, cards, calendars & more in minutes with Mixbook Studio™. Easy AI-powered tools. 43K+ rave reviews. Shop picture books starting at $14.99!
Very close - 03
Draft2Digital
Very close - 04
Shutterfly | Photo Books, Cards, Prints, Wall Art, Gifts, Wedding
Shop Shutterfly for custom photo books, prints, cards, invitations, gifts, wall art, calendars, and more. Personalize your favorite moments with high-quality, meaningful photo products.
Very close - 05
Overnight Prints | Custom & Quick Online Printing Services Shop
Need online printing services? Overnight Prints is your online printing shop for fast, high-quality prints. Design and order your custom products online now!
Very close - 06
Printful: Custom Print On Demand & Dropshipping
Design and sell custom products online with print-on-demand dropshipping. Sign up for free and start an online store without inventory.
Very close - 07
VistaPrint Official Website: Online Printing Services
VistaPrint online printing services help you create and order the best custom products: marketing materials, business cards, signage, promotional products, custom gifts, packaging and more.
Very close - 08
Online Printing Services: Professional Custom Printing
Online printing services to create high-quality business cards, stickers, postcards, and more. Professional custom printing by MOO, the best online print shop.
Very close - 09
Ghost: The best open source blog & newsletter platform
Beautiful, modern publishing with email newsletters and paid subscriptions built-in. Used by Platformer, 404Media, Lever News, Tangle, The Browser, and thousands more.
Very close - 10
Pixieset: Client Photo Gallery, Website, CRM for Photographers
Build your photography business with Pixieset’s all-in-one platform: deliver client galleries, create websites, book clients, accept payments & more. Start free!
Very close - 11
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Very close - 12
Digital Publishing and Content Experience Platform | Joomag
Joomag is a leading Content Experience Platform for creating and distributing high-design content — magazines, catalogs, brochures, proposals and reports that are personalized and interactive.
Very close - 13
Zenfolio: Website & Gallery Solutions for Photographers
Build your photography business with Zenfolio. Our all-in-one solution offers a professional portfolio website, shareable client galleries, e-commerce, and workflow automation tools for photographers.
Very close - 14
Explore custom fashion & creative designs | Spreadshirt
Spreadshirt is your creative platform: Design custom apparel & accessories or shop & personalize designs from independent designers.
Very close - 15
CafePress | Best merchandise to express yourself
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Very close - 16
Workplace and Digital Printing Solutions | Xerox
Workplace solutions, document management and digital printing technologies to help organizations communicate, connect and work.
Very close - 17
Buy Custom & Blank Labels, Stickers, Cards & Tags | Avery.com
Buy blank & custom printed Avery labels, stickers, tags & cards online. Order your size, shape & quantity of roll labels & sheet labels. Choose from professionally printed & printable labels.
Very close - 18
Wiley-VCH - Home
Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim - A passion for publishing
Very close - 19
Client Challenge
global publishing company
Very close - 20
Hotmart — Learn what you want, teach what you know
Learn more about Hotmart, the leading platform for selling and distributing digital products.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Blurb’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Blurb uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Blurb adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 12 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,208
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 36 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Blurb’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- Astro page source: data-astro-cid-
- Fonts
- Adobe Fonts asset https://use.typekit.net/
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 ip4:69.25.104.64/26 ip4:66.150.244.128/26 ip4:64.30.155.0/24 i…
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace TXT v=spf1 ip4:69.25.104.64/26 ip4:66.150.244.128/26 ip4:64.30.155.0/24 i…
- Microsoft 365 MX blurb-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1933.awsdns-49.co.uk
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT v=spf1 ip4:69.25.104.64/26 ip4:66.150.244.128/26 ip4:64.30.155.0/24 i…
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=2wRqY6IrIINLY7B8Qcp-qur9HsiRTO04g4gws…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=emH8I2akIku0wpO1UafaYBrRsPoXisuuvQTVwtskzAk
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Google Workspace 12/20
- Microsoft 365 12/20
- Amazon Route 53 10/20
- Apple Business · not on blurb.com 9/20
- Cloudflare · not on blurb.com 9/20
- Atlassian 8/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on blurb.com 6/20
- Google Fonts 6/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on blurb.com 6/20
- Google Tag Manager 6/20
- jQuery · not on blurb.com 6/20
- Bootstrap · not on blurb.com 5/20
- Zendesk 5/20
- OpenAI · not on blurb.com 5/20
- PHP · not on blurb.com 4/20