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# Swift Publisher

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> Swift Publisher is Mac desktop publishing software offering templates, images, and tools for creating professional documents.
> 
> Verdict: Rated **4.1/5** by 10 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**.

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## Overview

### Who Uses Swift Publisher?

Swift Publisher is used by authors, marketing professionals, event planners, print shops, and Mac users creating brochures, business cards, labels, and publications.

## Quick Stats & Ratings

| Metric | Rating | Detail |
| **Overall** | **4.1/5** | 10 Reviews |
| Ease of Use | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Customer Support | 3.5/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Value for Money | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Features | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) |

## About the vendor

- **Company**: BeLight Software
- **Founded**: 2003

## Commercial Context

- **Starting Price**: US$19,99
- **Pricing model**: Per Feature (Free Trial)
- **Pricing Details**: Version 5 price is 19.99 USD.&#10;Version 5 with additional clipart and fonts collection cost 27.99 USD.
- **Target Audience**: 2–10, 11–50
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Mac (Desktop)
- **Supported Languages**: English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish
- **Available Countries**: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium and 207 more

## Features

- CAD Tools
- Content Import/Export
- Content Publishing Options
- Customizable Templates
- Design Templates
- Image Editing
- Text Editing
- Workflow Management

## Support Options

- Email/Help Desk

## Category

- [Content Management Systems](https://www.capterra.co.za/directory/10007/content-management/software)

## Related Categories

- [Content Management Systems](https://www.capterra.co.za/directory/10007/content-management/software)
- [Graphic Design Software](https://www.capterra.co.za/directory/31010/graphic-design/software)

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## Reviews

### "Intuitive Software for Beginner & Pros" — 4.0/5

> **David** | *31 October 2024* | Nonprofit Organization Management | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: This tool has easy drag and drop functionality in a layered format to organize your info.
> 
> **Cons**: There are some restrictions or challenges with the layered format, especially when dealing with margins.
> 
> This is my go to tool to produce flyers, cards, media banners, presentation ads, and stand alone promo pieces.

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### "Autopublishing bussiness cards, booklets and labels, plus image edition" — 5.0/5

> **Francisco Manuel** | *26 May 2021* | Computer Hardware | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: I like the variety of documents I can edit easily. We use it to make regular documents to our courses and lately to edit some images for the web and everything is easy to acomplish. The program includes more than 500 templates.
> 
> **Cons**: I see it kind of outdated because there is no included photo library, and many other apps like Canva has it. But for basic Mac users I think is OK.
> 
> One feature we use is the capacity to print labels merging a list of our contacts. That feature alone justifies the little price we pay.

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### "Does not work with Adobe Typekit Fonts" — 3.0/5

> **Jeremy** | *24 March 2021* | Religious Institutions | Recommendation rating: 5.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: This software overall works fine for most uses and it is a low cost option.
> 
> **Cons**: It doesn't work with Adobe Typekit. The fonts we purchased through Adobe do actually load in the software even though Swift support says they won't, but on a regular basis the fonts will just get replaced with other fonts, and you have to go and manually change all your fonts back to the font you paid for. Support says the Adobe Typekit fonts don't work with this software and basically just aren't helpful. In the past we have used Microsoft Publisher and a similar thing would happen occasionally but instead of replacing all the fonts, Publisher would warn you that the font couldn't be found and give you a chance to correct the issue. As long as we were connected to the internet and signed in to the Adobe account, we could always find the font and the software would work without replacing all the fonts in our documents. I suggested adding this feature to make Swift compatible with Adobe, but was ignored.
> 
> Low cost software doesn't necessarily equal good value. Would prefer to have paid more for software that is properly compatible with Adobe, considering this is design software.

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### "Awesome, each to use" — 5.0/5

> **Jeff** | *28 February 2020* | Alternative Medicine | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Easy to use and has lots of features. Hard to beat unless you’re a graphic guru. In that case you’ll probably prefer this cause it’s so quick and easy.  Lo.
> 
> **Cons**: Ruler tick marks small and a bit hard to read
> 
> I’m not a frequent graphic app user so it took me a little time to catch the swing of things in SP.  But, OMG\!  After a couple uses, I am exceeding my dreams with it.

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### "unendliche Vielseitigkeit \!\!\!" — 4.0/5

> **Esther** | *20 August 2021* | Education Management | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Rundschreiben mit eigenem Logoentwurf , Rückenschilder mit eigenem Logo Jahreszahlen... auf Ordnerrücken zum Einschieben, Einladungsbroschüren für Herzkongress mit 2tägigen Programm,  und Werbung der teilnehmenden Pharmafirmen oder Medizinproduktehersteller...., Programmheft, eigener Entwurf von Visitenkarten Postkartengröße für kardiologische Praxis mir eigenem einzigartigen Logo - Alles mit SwiftPublisher - Sogar die  Druckerei ist angetan von dem nicht 08/15 Look
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> **Cons**: Es braucht schon einen Lernprozess bis man die unendlichen Möglichkeiten von Layouts erkennt und umsetzen lernt. Nur das ist bei dem Umfang, den diese SuperSoftware bietet, nicht ungewöhnlich. Aber mir macht es immer wieder Freude diesen Prozess zu gehen.
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> Visitenkarten , Terminkarten für Patienten zum Mitgeben wo man die ganze Angebotspalette  optisch gut gegliedert unterbringt

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