Online flatplan software for publishers
Add pages, type in article topics and ads, colour-code each kind of material and fine-tune the details with your team. Simple and easy to use.
Try the full version free for 14 days · Free forever for smaller projects
Why Papelot?
Three situations every editorial team knows. And what Papelot does in each of them.
In a spreadsheet, nobody notices until the proofs. In Papelot you lock the position: any change that would move it stops first and asks you.
A third of a page under the events, half a page next to the recipes, all of page 23. Papelot keeps a running total — in full pages and fractions, separately for confirmed ads, provisional ads and free space.
Not the one from last week’s email. One flatplan in the browser, saved after every change, version history with names and times — and a preview link that always shows the latest state.
How does it work?
Name, date, page size, binding and page count. Make the next issue from the previous one in a single click — layout only, or layout with content.
Split pages into columns and rows, give each slot a category and a note, drag pages and whole spreads around. Material without a place waits in the tray.
A PDF on A4 or A3 with page numbers, descriptions and a legend — readable in black and white, too. Or a preview link for editors, ad sales and the printer, no account needed.
Features
Exactly what editorial teams do by hand today — without renumbering pages after every change.
Page 1 on its own, then 2–3, 4–5… Page numbers update themselves. With saddle-stitched binding you get a warning when the page count isn’t divisible by four.
Full pages, halves, thirds and quarters — in columns and rows, up to a 4 × 4 grid. Changing a layout never deletes content without asking.
Confirmed ad, provisional ad, free space, editorial — with your own names and colours. A category always has a name, not just a colour.
A paid-for ad stays on its page even when someone adds, deletes or moves earlier pages.
How many pages go to ads, how many to editorial, how many are left. Search by title or client name, filter by category — page numbers stay where they are.
Material without a place waits in the tray and doesn’t count towards usage. A new issue starts from the previous one — with its content or just the layout.
Admin, editor, guest. Collections for several titles or clients. A preview link that needs no login, and a PDF to print out.
Every change saves itself, undo and redo just work, and version history lets you go back. If you lose connection, changes wait locally and sync when you’re back online.
Your flatplan, anywhere
Papelot runs online, with nothing to install. Open the same flatplan on the office computer and on your laptop at home, while your sales rep checks free space on a tablet at a client’s and the printer gets a preview link without creating an account.
Who’s behind it?
For years we’ve published Zakoplan — a free monthly about Zakopane and the Podhale region of the Polish Tatras — and we also produce publications for businesses. We planned our flatplans in a spreadsheet at first, then in tools that were missing features. Papelot was built for us; now we’re making it available to other publishers.
“Every issue is a project of its own: ads, deadlines and hundreds of changes. We needed a tool that keeps track of page numbers and paid-for positions for us — and that we’re not embarrassed to show our clients.”
Zakoplan: zakoplan.pl · Custom publishing: montinea.pl
Data security
Yes! Looking after our users’ data is our priority — on the free plan, too.
Saved after every change, with a visible status. If you go offline, changes wait locally.
Go back to an earlier flatplan — with the name and time of each change.
PDF and data export are available on every plan.
Data is stored in a European data centre, and every team is kept separate from the others.
Pricing
Prices in euros, excluding VAT, billed yearly — two months free compared with monthly billing (US dollars on the pricing page). Every payment comes with a VAT invoice. Bigger team? See the custom package on the full pricing page.
FAQ
It’s the plan of an issue: which pages form each spread, where the articles go, where the ads go and how much space is left. Some newsrooms call it a page plan or a ladder. Papelot is a tool for planning it.
No. Papelot plans what goes where; you lay out the pages just as you do now. The PDF from Papelot is an issue plan for editors and advertisers, not a production file for the printer.
Weeklies and monthlies, guidebooks, local newspapers, catalogues, brochures, company and university newsletters, zines. Any page size, any binding.
A free plan, a position lock that also guards against indirect shifts, a phone preview and proper VAT invoices. We’re preparing a full comparison for the knowledge base.
Sign up without a card and you get the full Studio plan for 14 days. After that, your account moves to Free. Your data stays; issues over the limit are read-only until you choose a plan.
Yes. Admin, editor and guest roles, plus collections on Studio — separate titles or clients within one team, with access set per collection.
A free account in a minute, no card needed. Your first 14 days come with the full Studio plan.
