Folio WriterUnlock Folio Writer
Folio Writer is free forever to write and organize in — on the Mac and on iPhone and iPad. Pro and Premium are one-time in-app purchases on the App Store — free to try for 7 days, no account needed. Folio Pro is one purchase for both platforms: buy it on the Mac and it unlocks on iPhone and iPad; buy it on iPhone or iPad and it unlocks on the Mac.
Introductory offer: $5 off through November 1, 2026.
Finish and ship your own manuscript.
- Compile & export — PDF, Word, LaTeX, Typst, EPUB, HTML, Quarto, and source
- Executable Quarto code cells — Python & R figures from your data
- The whole-manuscript preview
- Corkboards arranged by label or status
- Snapshots and version history, with a changes view
- Revision passes, collections, the figure and name browsers, and read-aloud proofing
- Word (.docx) import
- On iPhone and iPad: the manuscript preview, Suggesting with Accept/Reject, Snapshots, templates, and Compile
- Live sync with the iPhone and iPad apps
Introductory offer: $10 off through November 1, 2026.
The full studio — everything in Pro, plus everything that talks to other people and other tools. Already own Pro? Upgrade for the difference ($19.99), right in the app.
- Everything in Folio Pro
- The freeform canvas — frames, mind maps, and image export
- Track changes — mark edits, review them with Show My Edits, accept or reject each one, and revert a snapshot or version as reviewable changes
- Tracked changes in exports — native Word revisions, or colored insertions and deletions in PDF and HTML
- The Word review round trip — tracked changes out, reviews back in
- References from your Zotero library
- The Response to Reviewers builder, and web capture into Research
- The writing assistant — local model, Apple Intelligence, or your own account
Upgrading from Pro to Premium
Already own Folio Pro? You never pay twice: open Folio Writer ▸ Unlock Folio… and Premium is offered for $19.99 — the difference between the two tiers — with your Pro purchase credited automatically. Everything Pro unlocked stays unlocked, and the upgrade follows your Apple ID to every Mac you own.
One Pro, Mac and iPhone/iPad
The iPhone and iPad app is free to write in — editor, binder, search, sync, and version history. Its advanced features (the whole-manuscript preview, Suggesting with Accept/Reject and the review bar, Snapshots, Insert Template, and Compile) are Folio Pro — the same one-time purchase as on the Mac, at the same price. Buy it once on either platform and Restore Purchases on the other; you never pay twice.
Or subscribe
Folio is also available by the month or year, for writers who would rather pay as they go or keep their work in the cloud: Pro at $1.99 a month or $19.99 a year, Premium at $3.99 a month or $39.99 a year. A subscription unlocks that tier on the Mac and on iPhone and iPad for as long as it runs, and comes with complimentary Folio Cloud storage — 100 projects and 1 GB for Pro, unlimited projects and 3 GB for Premium — so your projects sync to every device and open in any browser. One-time purchases come with the free cloud allowance of 2 projects and 50 MB. Subscriptions are sold only in the apps through the App Store, billed to your Apple ID, and cancelled any time in Manage Subscriptions; the web app never asks for a card. Need a different storage plan? Contact us.
How buying works
Download Folio Writer free from the App Store, write for as long as you like, and unlock Pro or Premium from inside the app (Folio Writer ▸ Unlock Folio… on the Mac; Settings ▸ Folio Pro on iPhone and iPad). Purchases are handled by Apple, tied to your Apple ID, and restore automatically on every Mac, iPhone, and iPad you own. Your writing never locks, before or after.
Students and educators
Write from your university address and ask — I'd rather Folio Writer was used than not.