About FlipCompass

FlipCompass is a catalogue of open-source page-flip and flipbook code on GitHub, listed by stars from GitHub's public search on October 2, 2026, with each project's own description, licence and activity figures. Earlier versions of this site published tool reviews, feature matrices, verdicts, guides and comparisons that were not drawn from any source, and they have been removed.

The source

The catalogue is built from GitHub's public REST API (https://docs.github.com/en/rest), read by the operator on October 2, 2026. The exact requests and the raw API pages are recorded in the fetch manifest, MANIFEST.json, which is the source this page names.

Search endpoint: GET /search/repositories with the query flipbook OR pageflip OR "page-flip" OR "page flip" OR "page curl" OR pagecurl in:name,description,topics, sorted by stars descending, 100 per page. GitHub reported 5,464 matching repositories and caps search results at 1,000, so 1,000 rows across 10 pages were read.

Repository endpoint: GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}, called once for each repository the previous version of this site linked from its /libraries/ pages.

How a repository gets a page

A repository is catalogued when it has 20 or more stars and its name, description or topics contain one of the six search terms flipbook, pageflip, page-flip, page flip, page curl or pagecurl, matched without regard to case. No repository with 20 or more stars in the search rows was excluded for being off-topic. The repositories the previous version of the site linked are catalogued on the same terms: they are included when GitHub answers for them, their name matches the page and they are not a duplicate of another repository. Every excluded row is listed in the build report.

What is published

Every page is one repository and nothing else: the project's own description, its licence, its primary language, its stars, forks and open issues, its topics, its creation and last-push dates, and a link to GitHub. Figures are GitHub's own, read from its public API on October 2, 2026; this site publishes no reviews, rankings beyond the stated stars order, or recommendations.

The order used throughout the site is the number of stars GitHub reports, highest first, with ties broken by full name. Stars are GitHub's own count of users who have bookmarked a repository; they measure attention, not quality or fitness for any particular use.

Earlier versions of this site published material that was not drawn from any real source; it has been removed and replaced by this catalogue.

Source: GitHub public API record MANIFEST.json. Figures as of October 2, 2026.