# Beacon Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Is Beacon the right Campaign Management solution for you? Explore 30 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/143783/Beacon/reviews --- Beacon 4.2 (30) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/143783/Beacon/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Reviews of Beacon Ease of use 4.2 Customer Service 4.1 ## Pros and Cons in Reviews DA Dave A OwnerE-Learning, Self-employedUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “It really works well as a lead magnet software and integrates with a lot of providers.“ July 13, 2020 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 30 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Ron Elius S. Freelance B2B Copywriter for the Food & Beverage Companies Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Grab your Leads with your awesome Lead Magnet made by Beacon" April 13, 2019 4.0 Easy and Reliable Lead Magnet Creator Pros For a quick idea of a Lead Magnet creation, Beacon has your back. It has ready-made templates, all you need to do is to use the template on your liking. Drag-and-drop, it’s really easy to navigate and customize your Lead Magnet. Cons Because I mentioned that the Pros of Beacon is for a quick idea lead magnet creation, the con for Beacon is you still need a great Designer or Illustrator or both if you want the most highly-valuable Content on your disposal. The limited templates for Beacon is simple and plain because it’s intended to be like that so that you don't think very hard to design your Lead Magnet. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Marketing Consultant Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "The Complete Lead Magnet System from Design to Download" November 4, 2022 4.0 So far it's solved a massive headache and road block in my online business. Pros Beacon have thought carefully about the whole lead magnet journey from design to how to make downloading them easier for the end user. I've not seen any other platform that offers such as complete solution to creating lead magnets and getting them to convert. Cons Some of the design options on the lead magnet forms are a bit limited but I've no doubt more templates are on the way. Alternatives considered [Optinly](https://www.capterra.com/p/218021/Optinly/) Reason for choosing Beacon Beacon is way more than a lead magnet creator, it also enables easy download of your lead magnets via optin forms that can be embedded as popups, inline forms and banners on any website. Review Source Nate R. Director Of Operations Graphic Design Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Slow to start, but they're ramping it up" September 17, 2018 3.0 While it may not be 100% competitive with some of the competing services out there, it's getting closer. Pros The features they offer, from better design functionality to hosting your e books on their site with built in interaction metrics makes this platform pretty nice. They have a few templates available to help improve design and their feature of transposing old blog posts into ebooks can save you a little time during the design phase. Cons Despite some of these great features listed in the pros section, it's not quite put together. Our company has been with them for a while and we can see that they have made huge improvements, which is why we stick with them. from a design perspective, things still feel "box-ey" but that is getting better. Within the next year or so, I would expect them to have a very smooth interface that solves a lot of the problems we have experienced in the past. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Founder/Creative Director Professional Training & Coaching Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Amazing Tool to Create and Distribute Lead Magnets and Ebooks" October 24, 2018 4.0 Even if you have existing content, converting that content into shareable documents \*should\* be easy, but it's not. Beacon takes away much of the frustration out of creating a shareable ebook and gives you some great tools to make the end result attractive, and easy to share. Pros Greatly simplifies the process of creating documents that are (easily) shareable, attractively laid out, and prompt action. It has many templates and layouts which can be further customized to reflect your brand colors and logo. The sharing is done through a link to the document which is hosted on Beacon's server. It allows the creator to (optionally) allow the document to also be downloaded as a PDF. The created documents are mobile responsive but has some quirks. Cons A bit hard to use and get used to but much, much, much easier than other competing products out there. The product has some quirks and potentially some bugs that make the document creation process a bit tedious. Having your own private domain is offered only as an upgrade. Mobile responsiveness is pretty good but has some ways to go. (For example, the social sharing icons interfere with the readability.) Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Doctoral Faculty Advisor Higher Education Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Beacon Lights the Way Home" January 23, 2019 4.0 A product like Beacon works best with a custom domain—a branded website you own that offers a professional polish rather than a goofy and convoluted URL. I was delighted to find their custom domain option works very well—and seems to resolve much more quickly than some other software solutions that also utilize custom domains. Pros My first experience with Beacon came as they were primarily describing the product as a quick and easy way to produce a "lead magnet"—those free books, reports, infographics and the like that websites offer their visitors in exchange for their email addresses. Beacon has since expanded to offer basic leadpage design as well as the inline ads that offer those "magnetic freebies." When designing, say, an ebook, the software can pull in your various blog posts and offer a way to repurpose that content reasonably painlessly using a growing collection of templates. Cons Beacon's initial emphasis on production of lead magnets seemed to make it a bit of a "one-hit wonder," and the initial offering of templates was limited, but as they've expanded I am happy to report they have added features—including leadpages—and made good on their promise to keep adding valuable templates. Review Source Dan A. Online Consultant Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Terrible - Wiped Out Hours Of My Work" August 2, 2018 1.0 When it worked, I got good quality lead magnets. Unfortunately it no longer works. Pros Generally easy to use, nice drag and drop functionality. End product looks good - IF you can get that far. Cons 2 days running Beacon wiped all of my work on one of my projects. I was saving every few minutes and when I went into my ebook the next day none of the previous days updates were there. I spent over 6 hours on a Saturday (when I should really have been playing with my kids) making updates and completed the ebook. I was literally saving my project every minute. I then went back into the ebook and none of that day's updates had saved. A whole days work gone. I contacted Beacon and they could not help, other than give me a refund for my most recent payment.I replied to this and 2 days later they still haven't even bothered to read my message. It's now impossible for me to use Beacon, as even if I save my work regularly there is a strong chance that it will wipe out my work. I will have to use Designrr, which is not as user friendly but at least doesn't delete everything for no reason. Review Source Alejandro G. Director de Marketing Insurance Used the software for: 2+ years ### "From blog to ebook with ease and style" October 31, 2018 5.0 If you don't like Beacon, you have many other traditional alternatives: editing your ebook yourself with Word or InDesign but it won't be quick and, if you are not a designer, it might not look professional. Don't make things the hard way. Use Beacon Pros Beacon would design your ebook for you. Just install it, import your content and tweak the automathic ebook Beacon just created for you. Once you like it, use it for your promotion, to get leads, etc Cons I'm a Beacon user who is happy with the features... so it is kind of hard for me to come up with any critique or suggestion. Review Source Mike A. President Health, Wellness and Fitness Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great for creating a free booklet" October 14, 2018 4.0 Overall my experience was good and I will continue to use it. Pros It is ve®y easy to navigate through it many tools. I’ve used it for creating free booklets online. Very easily you can upload images, edit and arrange material. Cons Some aspects are generic. While there are mostly a lot of pros, to creat larger books, I found the quality wasn’t there. Review Source Ahmed Y. Founder and Managing Director Translation and Localization Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Create lead magnets and turn blog posts into ebooks with ease!" August 27, 2022 4.0 Add your blog post URL, and turn it into a beautiful ebook with ease. Pros With Beacon, you can turn your blog posts into beautifully-designed ebooks and generate leads in just a few minutes. They also have a lot of ready-made templates to choose from. Cons Beacon's founder keeps updating the platform regularly, so I don't see any drawbacks at the moment. Review Source lily S. secretary Accounting Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Creating eBook from Existing Web Content" July 19, 2019 5.0 Pros Beacon helps users to create professional-looking ebook quickly and easily. There are many beautiful templates to choose from. Users can even create ebook from existing website content as easy as pasting the link. Cons If you use existing website content, it will be imported into one section and needed further editing. It would be nice if Beacon can automatically separate content into sections based on Headings (H1-H2-H3-etc.) Review Source AR Ale R. Editor Newspapers Used the software for: 2+ years ### "From Post to Book" March 31, 2019 3.0 We use for create checklist, small book or convert post to pdf Pros Beacon is a really nice tool for convert wordpress post or any content into a PDF You cannot make great designs, but is a simple and fast solution for make checklist and leadmagnets fast What i like is - Integration with wordpress - Smart PDF - Lead Magnet - Super fast to create a simple checklist - Easy to use - Nice support Amazing if you dont have a clue in design or need to save time. Cons Is easy to use, but some easy task can be a really pain... Cons - Few options to edit the templates - Need more templates - Cannot add footers or other info - Sometimes get really, really buggy - No undo - You can lost all your work randomly Review Source DL David L. Founder E-Learning Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Create Your Lead Magnet With Ease" December 25, 2018 4.0 While the software has solved one of my headache by helping me creating ebooks with ease. I do really hope that the developer can move a bit faster with their development. The development from end 2016 to end 2017 is at snail pace or non-improvement at all. But luckily, there is quite a lot of improvements from the end of 2017 to end 2018. Hopefully they can continue the momentum like that. Pros \- ready-made templates - easy to use with drag & drop builder, - easily turn your blog post into ebook - custom domain - password lock & lead capture feature Cons \- to provide more flexibility when customizing your content on the page will be great. - development pace is a bit too slow. Review Source SE Sam E. Owner Writing and Editing Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "The tool to help you create good looking lead magnets" November 19, 2022 5.0 I'm creating free lead magnets with Beacon. And even have a page where people can see all the items I have made. It works well and helped me create better looking documents. I like that you can download them as PDF as well so don't have to use Beacon for everything if you don't want to. Pros I like how that I can easily create good looking lead magnets quickly and easily with Beacon. It's great for people that aren't good with layout design. Cons The only negative I've come across is that sometimes when I add a page to an existing document it doesn't always stay in the correct order. Review Source Shelle P. Principal Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great value for lifetime membership" December 8, 2016 4.0 This is a great tool for quickly making eye catching e-books and PDF's of content you have on hand. As someone with a designer background, it is not overly powerful, but it is a very quick and easy way to get content into an ebook for lead magnets or sharing how to's or any other digital downloads you'd like to provide. Pros \-Quick -Easy -A number of nice templates to choose from -Update to be able to create your own templates Cons \-Must stay within the pre-defined layouts for the most part -If you are used to designing in In Design or elsewhere, you may be frustrated by not being able to tweak the designs further Review Source CS Claire S. Spiritual Mentor and Coach Professional Training & Coaching Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Very Helpful for Turning Blogs Into Handouts" August 1, 2021 5.0 I was happy with the finished product and felt comfortable using it as a handout/lead magnet. Pros It makes producing a handout/ebook that is attractive out of a blog post very easy. It is integrated in Wordpress. Cons I had to do some tweaking after conversion - a little more than I expected, but it wasn't a deal breaker. Review Source Leah P. Founder Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Beacon has been pretty helpful in helping me to create Beacon has been pretty helpful" March 7, 2018 5.0 Pros I like that it is pretty simple to create a lead magnet. I'm looking forward to trying out the new features as I think that was one of the weak points. Cons The templates available are very plain and that is a bit of a turn-off. It's hard to be creative with the current platform so I'm excited to see the changes. Review Source Craige Hardel -. Owner Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Absolute time saver" November 20, 2018 5.0 Really nice application which makes the ebook creation for lead magnets and other parts of a marketing campaign for multiple brands much quicker and easier Pros Really makes the ebook creation process easy unlike other solutions. You don't have to be a professional designer to use this They have templates for most ebook types and allow you to create your own You can also create and use your brand colors which is really nice and speeds up the design process Cons Its a wonderful and useful solution but pricing could be out of reach for those who may really need it and cannot afford to have a designer on their team Review Source Mayo L. Teacher Education Management Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Create Stunning eBook for and from your Website " July 31, 2019 5.0 Pros The premise of Beacon is to create lead generation ebook from the content of your website. But it can be used to create any ebook. Cons The templates are good but it would be better to have more templates as alternatives. Review Source Retno W. English Teacher Architecture & Planning Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Might be the easiest incentive maker out there" January 10, 2019 5.0 Pros If you need incentives to get your web visitors to join your mailing list, you can use Beacon to create beautiful ebooks from your existing web content. Cons The incentive should not be limited to ebooks only. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Customer Success Manager Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Awesome idea for content repurposing without needing design resources" December 27, 2017 4.0 Pros It's super easy to simply pull up your URL and it automatically brings in all images and text right into the content piece you want to create. Cons Managing and editing the content within is not easy. It clumps everything into one page but then splitting them up and styling is time consuming. There's also not a lot of templates available. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Freelance Contributor Publishing Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Super Time Saver" May 11, 2018 5.0 Pros I love that you can make a custom branded template. It makes developing a series of lead magnets. There was an issue with the template development and I reached out to customer service. I got incredible support from the team. Cons There aren't any cons I can find so far. I have had no issues that weren't easily resolved, and create quality products in a fraction of the time... and save money on graphic design and formatting at the same time. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Director Computer & Network Security Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Good marketing tool to generate leads." May 13, 2022 5.0 Pros Beacon allow us to use ready templates to generate leads, tracking as well as increase final deal conversion rate. Cons I wish I can direct import of my word content to Beacon. Review Source Saransh D. CEO Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Appreciative" August 4, 2019 4.0 Pros This software is really useful if you are looking to make an ebook. Easy to use. Cons Starting its kinda confusing but once you learn it, then it becomes easy. Review Source MB Myra B. Digital marketing specialist Events Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Got this as a lifetime membership deal and it's okay..." November 9, 2017 3.0 Pros It integrates with hubspot, which is great because you can select from your published blogs to generate an ebook. There are a couple of great templates but it doesn't take long to exhaust their usage. Cons I got this in hopes that it would be a timesaver for repurposing blog content into instant ebooks. Since I have a graphic design background and am accustomed to the powerful design capabilities of Adobe products, I find this tool to be crippling. The auto generated formatting is often wonky and it can very very time consuming to fix! Review Source MB Myra B. Digital marketing specialist Events Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "A neat tool, but needs some work" June 22, 2019 4.0 Pros I love the hubspot integration to be able to pull blogs into an ebook format. Cons The image and text formatting is frustrating to have it look the way you want. I've also had a couple times where it didn't save my changes...so as much as it can save time, it can also seriously waste time too. Review Source Similar Products Featured ## Related categories [Campaign Management](https://www.capterra.com/campaign-management-software/) ## Send me user reviews about this product ### Fill out the form and we'll send a list of the top-rated software based on real user reviews directly to your inbox.