AnyFlip (flipbook PDF host)
- Free allowance
- FREE plan: 100 GB storage, unlimited number of publications, 5 uploads/day, 150 MB max PDF.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- per-object-cap100 GB cap
- Evidence
- reported4 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | FREE plan: 100 GB storage, unlimited number of publications, 5 uploads/day, 150 MB max PDF. unit GB; metered on stored-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits | 150 MB per PDF; 5 uploads/day free (60/day Pro); 30,000 daily opens; 100 GB cap; watermark on free embeds; download of the source PDF is plan-gated in practice. |
| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
| Egress | No egress metering documented; free plan caps "Daily Opens" at 30,000/day and readers can download the PDF; flipbooks are served from online.anyflip.com with a per-page HTML reader. Free tier embeds an AnyFlip watermark in the embed. |
| Per-object cap | 100 GB cap (100000000000 bytes) |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | unknown wrapper-only |
| Tooling | No public API; upload is the web form at anyflip.com/quick-upload/ (POST without a session 302s to /login.php). Flipbook pages are static per-page HTML at online.anyflip.com/<a>/<b>/files/basic-html/pageN.html so a downloader can be written, but there is no upload client. |
| Composes with | Unlimited free accounts x 100 GB each. Rate is the binding constraint, not storage: 5 uploads/day x 150 MB = 750 MB/day/account, so 10 TiB/month needs ~450 accounts uploading daily. |
| Reliability | Originals are re-served as derived page images, and the free download path returns 403 without a session; content is publicly listed, so anything put here is discoverable. |
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Evidence 4
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | anyflip.com/pricing/ | table: 'Storage | 100G' (free column), 'Uploads / Day | 5', 'Daily Opens | 30 000' |
| 2026-10-21 | anyflip.com/faq/ | 'The max PDF file size is 150 MB'; 'There is no limit on the publications you may have' |
| 2026-10-21 | anyflip.com/quick-upload/ | probe: POST -F file=@t.pdf -> 302 Location: /login.php (no anonymous upload) |
| 2026-10-21 | online.anyflip.com/xrbo/eygi/files/basic-html/page2.html | probe: GET -> 200 HTML reader page; GET https://online.anyflip.com/xrbo/eygi/download.pdf -> 403 |
Unknown values 4
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read