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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

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01 · 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

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Blurb

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Blurb, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Fewer trackers than BlurbNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

17 of the 60 sites closest to Blurb match.

  1. 01
    Lulu lulu.com Top 10K English No trackers

    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.

    Compare Lulu with Blurb →
  2. 02
    Mixbook mixbook.com English No trackers

    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!

    Compare Mixbook with Blurb →
  3. 03
    Draft2Digital draft2digital.com English No trackers

    Draft2Digital

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  4. 04
    Shutterfly shutterfly.com Top 10K English No trackers

    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.

    Compare Shutterfly with Blurb →
  5. 05
    Ghost ghost.org Top 10K English No trackers

    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.

    Compare Ghost with Blurb →
  6. 06
    Joomag joomag.com English No trackers

    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.

    Compare Joomag with Blurb →
  7. 07
    Zenfolio zenfolio.com English No trackers

    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.

    Compare Zenfolio with Blurb →
  8. 08
    Spreadshirt spreadshirt.com English No trackers

    Explore custom fashion & creative designs | Spreadshirt

    Spreadshirt is your creative platform: Design custom apparel & accessories or shop & personalize designs from independent designers.

    Compare Spreadshirt with Blurb →
  9. 09
    CafePress cafepress.com English No trackers

    CafePress | Best merchandise to express yourself

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  10. 10
    Springer Science+Business Media springer.com Top 1K English No trackers

    Client Challenge

    global publishing company

    Compare Springer Science+Business Media with Blurb →
  11. 11
    Adobe adobe.com Top 100 No trackers

    Adobe: Creative, marketing and document management solutions

    Adobe is changing the world through digital experiences. We help our customers create, deliver and optimize content and applications.

    Compare Adobe with Blurb →
  12. 12
    OverDrive overdrive.com Top 10K English No trackers

    OverDrive: Free ebooks, audiobooks & movies from your library.

    Thousands of libraries & schools offer free digital content thru OverDrive's suite of products/services. Learn more about Libby, Kanopy, Sora & TeachingBooks.

    Compare OverDrive with Blurb →
  13. 13
    Appwrite appwrite.io English No trackers

    Appwrite · The open-source cloud for developers and agents

    Appwrite is an open-source developer platform with Auth, Databases, Storage, Functions, Messaging, and Sites. The open-source cloud for agents and developers.

    Compare Appwrite with Blurb →
  14. 14
    Carbonmade carbonmade.com English No trackers

    Carbonmade - Your Online Portfolio

    Carbonmade helps you show off your work and get discovered. Perfect for photographers, illustrators, motion designers, graphic designers, copywriters or anyone else who creates. NO coding needed, fully customizable layouts with everything included.

    Compare Carbonmade with Blurb →
  15. 15
    Substack substack.com Top 1K English No trackers

    Substack

    Substack is the app for independent voices: a free newsletter, video, and podcast hosting platform with paid subscriptions built in.

    Compare Substack with Blurb →
  16. 16
    Everand everand.com English No trackers

    Client Challenge

    digital library

    Compare Everand with Blurb →
  17. 17
    Gumroad gumroad.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Earn your first dollar online with Gumroad

    Start selling what you know, see what sticks, and get paid. Simple and effective.

    Compare Gumroad with Blurb →

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

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
9,216
Vector
384-d
Query
34 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.

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