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Showing a Flipbook on a Big Screen

Put a flipbook on a classroom whiteboard, a projector, or a TV — with Presenter mode, by cable, by casting, or by screen mirroring.

Showing a Flipbook on a Big Screen

Teachers put flipbooks on classroom whiteboards, sales teams put catalogues on stand screens, and offices put reports up in meeting rooms. There are two ways to do it:

  • Presenter mode, built into the flipbook: the big screen follows the pages you turn on your laptop, tablet or phone, with no cable, casting or mirroring. Needs the publisher to be on the Creator plan or above.

  • Any other way you would show a web page: a cable, Chromecast, AirPlay, or the TV's own browser. Works on every plan.

Presenter mode

  1. On the big screen, open its web browser and go to the flipbook's site address followed by /present — for example zenflip.io/present, or yourdomain.com/present if the flipbook is on a custom domain. The screen shows a six-digit code. The code lasts 15 minutes; reload the page for a new one.

  2. On your own device, open the flipbook and click Show on another screen in the toolbar.

  3. Type the six digits into Code from the screen and click Start presenting.

From then on, the big screen turns to whichever page you are on, within about two seconds. It never signs in, so there are no credentials to type on a remote. To finish, click the same toolbar button, now labelled Stop presenting; the big screen shows Presentation ended. A presentation with no activity from you for 30 minutes ends on its own.

Who can present

  • A public flipbook (free, no password, no required lead form): anyone, without signing in. This is the classroom case: a teacher can put any public book on the whiteboard.

  • A paid, password-protected or lead-gated flipbook: you need to be signed in with access to it. Otherwise you see Sign in to present this publication.

If something goes wrong

You see

What it means

No Show on another screen button

The publisher's plan does not include Presenter mode (Creator and above; it is the publisher's plan that counts, not yours), or the flipbook is embedded in another website or open in the mobile app, where the button is not offered

That code did not work. Check the screen for the current one.

The code was mistyped or has expired. Reload the /present page for a new one

Presenting isn't available for this publication.

The publisher's plan does not include Presenter mode

The rest of this article covers the other routes, from most to least reliable.

Fullscreen

Whichever method you use, turn on fullscreen first. It removes the browser's own toolbars so the book fills the screen.

  • Click the fullscreen button in the flipbook's top bar, or

  • Press F

Press F again, or Esc, to come back out.

Arrow keys turn pages while you are in fullscreen, so you can stand away from the keyboard with a presentation remote — most of them send arrow keys.

By cable (the most reliable)

Connect your laptop to the projector, whiteboard or TV with HDMI or USB-C, open the flipbook, and press F.

This works on every operating system, needs no network, and does not depend on the room's Wi-Fi — which is why it is the right choice when the presentation matters. If your laptop mirrors rather than extends, the flipbook fills both screens and you control it from yours.

Casting from Chrome (Chromecast and Google TV)

If the room has a Chromecast or a Google TV:

  1. Open the flipbook in Chrome on your laptop

  2. Open Chrome's menu (⋮) and choose Cast

  3. Pick the device, then choose Cast tab from the Sources dropdown

  4. Press F for fullscreen

Choose Cast tab, not "Cast screen". Tab casting sends just the flipbook, so notifications and anything else on your desktop stay private.

Microsoft Edge has the same feature in its own menu.

AirPlay (Apple TV, AirPlay-compatible TVs)

Apple TV cannot open a web page by itself — tvOS has no web browser. You reach it by mirroring your own screen:

From a Mac: Control Centre → Screen Mirroring → choose the Apple TV. Then open the flipbook and press F.

From an iPad or iPhone: swipe down for Control Centre → Screen Mirroring → choose the Apple TV. Then open the flipbook and use the fullscreen button.

An iPad on a stand, mirrored to an Apple TV, is a good classroom setup: you turn pages by swiping and the class watches the big screen.

Amazon Fire TV

Two options:

Open it directly. Fire TV includes the Silk browser. Open Silk, type the flipbook's address, and it plays on the TV with no other device involved. Good for a flipbook that stays up all day on a stand or in a reception area.

Mirror to it. From an Android phone or tablet, or a Windows laptop, use Fire TV's Display Mirroring (hold the Home button on the remote → Mirroring) and mirror your screen.

Smart TVs (Samsung, LG and others)

Most smart TVs ship a web browser. Open it, enter the flipbook's address, and the book plays on the TV directly.

Typing a long address with a remote is the awkward part. Two ways around it: use a short link if you have one, or send the link to the TV browser from your phone if your TV supports that.

Windows: wireless display

Windows can project to a Miracast-compatible display or TV: press Windows + K and pick the display. Then open the flipbook and press F.

Android

Most Android phones and tablets can cast their screen from Quick Settings — look for Cast, Smart View, or Screen mirroring depending on the manufacturer.

Which to choose

Situation

Best option

Any room where the screen has a browser and the publisher is on Creator or above

Presenter mode

Classroom with a cable to the whiteboard

HDMI + fullscreen

Classroom with a Chromecast

Chrome → Cast tab

iPad-led lesson

AirPlay mirroring to an Apple TV

Reception screen or trade-show stand, left running

Open the address in the TV's own browser

A meeting where it must not fail

A cable

Private and paid flipbooks

Opening a flipbook's own address directly in a TV's browser only works if the flipbook is public. (Presenter mode is different: the screen opens /present, never signs in, and you sign in on your own device instead.) A TV browser is not signed in to anything, so a publication that requires a reader login, a password, a purchase, or a lead form will ask for credentials that are awkward or impossible to enter on a remote.

For those, mirror or cast from a device that is already signed in — cast the tab from your laptop, or mirror your iPad. The screen is then just showing your session, so access is already sorted.

Tips for a room

  • Turn off auto-flip if the publication has it, so pages do not advance while you are talking. Readers can pause it from the viewer, and publishers can switch it off per publication.

  • Check it before the room fills up. Cast connections and room Wi-Fi are the two things that fail, and both fail faster to diagnose when nobody is watching.

  • Use a cable if the content is critical. Casting adds a wireless hop and a second or so of lag.

  • Hide what you do not need. A publisher can switch off toolbar buttons per publication in Settings → Viewer Controls, which makes for a cleaner screen.

Known limits

  • There is no Chromecast or AirPlay button inside the flipbook. Web pages cannot start a cast session on their own — that has to come from the browser or the operating system. Presenter mode is the built-in alternative.

  • Apple TV and Roku have no browser, so they can only be reached by mirroring from another device.

  • A cast tab keeps running on your laptop. Closing the tab, or letting the laptop sleep, stops the display.