Best Desktop Publishing Software

Compare the Top Desktop Publishing Software as of January 2026

What is Desktop Publishing Software?

Desktop publishing software provides the tools to turn media files into publishable layouts and templates that can be uploaded, exported and printed. Compare and read user reviews of the best Desktop Publishing software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    hyper Digital Asset Management Server

    hyper Digital Asset Management Server

    hyperCMS Content Management Solutions

    The hyper Content & Digital Asset Management Server helps organizations to have full control over all their digital assets, to automate processes and cut costs. Access all your rich rich content directly by conveniently integrating it into the creative workflow of internal/external teams and programs like Adobe CS, MS Office, and OpenOffice. Ensure process control with collaborative approval. Share the content directly on Social Media Networks. Create customized Brand Portals to promote and meassure the success of various rich content.
    Starting Price: $21.00/mo (SaaS) $0 On-Premise
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    Marq

    Marq

    Marq

    Marq (formerly Lucidpress) is a design & brand templating platform that empowers non-designers in your company to create and distribute marketing collateral all on their own (without going off brand). Lockable templates protect your brand while allowing colleagues to make small design tweaks and customizations, easing the workload off your creative team. Say goodbye to rogue branding forever with Marq -- the brand templating platform trusted by over 7 million users worldwide. Get high-quality printed materials shipped straight to your location with our web-to-print features. Or, reach your audience even quicker with Marq's direct mail delivery. Whether its social media posts or printed brochures, our cloud-based platform helps your business manage the brand experience from start to finish.
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    Starting Price: $10 per user per month
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    Adobe InDesign
    InDesign is the industry-leading layout and page design software for print and digital media. Create beautiful graphic designs with typography from the world՚s top foundries and imagery from Adobe Stock. Quickly share content and feedback in PDF. Easily manage production with Adobe Experience Manager. InDesign has everything you need to create and publish books, digital magazines, eBooks, posters, interactive PDFs, and more. Design everything from stationery, flyers, and posters to brochures, annual reports, magazines, and books. With professional layout and typesetting tools, you can create multicolumn pages that feature stylish typography and rich graphics, images, and tables. Create digital magazines, eBooks, and interactive online documents that draw people in with audio, video, slideshows, and animations. InDesign makes it easy to manage your design elements and quickly deliver immersive experiences in any format.
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    Starting Price: $20.99 per month
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    Adobe Express
    Adobe Spark is now Adobe Express, and it’s better than ever. Quickly and easily make standout content from thousands of beautiful templates with the all-new Adobe Express. Available on web and mobile. Adobe Express makes it easy to get started with thousands of beautiful templates, plus assets for social media content, logos, and more. Feel like you’ve got the help of a trusted designer in your corner with the entire Adobe Stock* royalty-free photo collection plus a full library of Adobe Fonts at your fingertips. Make anything you need, all in one place, with intuitive tools that let you remove backgrounds, animate text, add your brand, and so much more. With just a few taps you can resize content for any social media site and add Adobe Photoshop quality effects in a snap. Design flyers, TikToks, resumes, and Reels with the new, all-in-one Adobe Express. Stand out with amazing artwork generated by Adobe Firefly AI. Create easier. Dream bigger.
    Starting Price: $9.99 per month
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    Microsoft Publisher
    Create polished, professional layouts without the hassle. Precisely lay out and style text, pictures, borders, calendars, and more. In Publisher everything you add stays exactly the way you’ve designed it, in print, online, or in an email. Easily design unique, specialized materials for any purpose. Create everything from simple greeting cards and labels to professional newsletters and marketing materials using Publisher’s wide range of pre-designed templates. Publish in the way that suits your audience best. Share pixel-perfect printouts, send professional-quality email publications, or export to industry-standard non-editable formats.*
    Starting Price: $6.99 per year
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    Xara Designer Pro
    Xara Designer Pro is our flagship product and includes all the illustration, photo editing, DTP and web design features of photo & graphic designer, web designer premium and page & layout designer. It is a single integrated solution for all your creative work, for print and the web. Here are just some of the reasons why we believe Xara Designer Pro stands out from the competition, making it a great choice for all your graphic design needs. Xara Designer Pro is our flagship all-in-one creative title. In one completely integrated and consistent interface it provides all the tools for a range of graphic design tasks that would normally require three or more separate ‘suite’ programs: illustration, photo editing, advanced page layout, web graphics, websites and more. Xara Designer Pro is based on one of the world's most sophisticated, high performance vector rendering engines.
    Starting Price: $14,99
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    Xpublisher

    Xpublisher

    Fabasoft Xpublisher

    Xpublisher is the key to collaborative creation, full management and easy publishing of content in all channels, enabling the highly automated production of journals, books and technical documentation. Create, edit & review structured content quickly and easily with our online XML editor. Access all your XML documents anytime, anywhere and collaborate with other authors in real-time, regardless of their technical proficiency (Note: XML is not mandatory, you can also work with common MS Word documents.) Manage & structure your content & any additional digital assets (e.g. images, video, audio) efficiently with our digital asset management system & publishing system Xpublisher, for a highly automated, fast & accurate multichannel-publishing. Numerous leading companies are already convinced by Xpublisher. We deliver turnkey solutions to help you master these challenges, so you can create content efficiently and publish it automatically
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    vjoon K4

    vjoon K4

    vjoon GmbH

    vjoon K4 publishing system enables small teams and large business units with thousands of users to deliver more quality content faster and across multiple digital channels or in print. Collaborate efficiently, stream-line your processes and automate your workflows! vjoon K4 is used by over 26.000 people worldwide, who are working for content marketing agencies, magazine publishers or corporates. vjoon K4 is highly integrated with Adobe InDesign and InCopy. It can be installed on-premises or in the cloud . Find out more on our website and get in touch! We offer a customized live-demo of vjoon K4, where you will get to know the product with the help of an expert.
    Starting Price: $99.00/month/user
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    Canvasflow

    Canvasflow

    Canvasflow

    Canvasflow is the mobile publishing hub that connects your content to your audience. Choose where your content comes from and to where it is published. Stay in control. Packed with smart tools to make responsive content authoring simple and rapid. Manage production, streamline workflows and engage your audience everywhere. Canvasflow is a mobile publishing hub that enables you to create, manage and distribute beautiful, responsive content straight to your audience. Delivering strong reader experiences is essential to increasing digital revenues. Canvasflow makes your content more readable, accessible and discoverable helping you to grow users and build deeper engagement with your audience. Create beautiful responsive stories rapidly from scratch or use existing content from multiple sources. Use our simple drag and drop editor that requires no design or developer skills. Create editions or continuous article based content to suit your publishing needs.
    Starting Price: $2000
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