A genuinely quiet editor
A typographic canvas with nothing to click. Just you, the cursor, and the line you are on — type set the way it will be read.
Folio — a writing studio
Write like it's going to be read.
Folio is a calm, exacting workspace for people who write for a living. Draft in silence, keep every version, and publish the moment a piece is ready — not a click sooner.
12,400writers drafting daily
47.2Mwords kept and versioned
1,894books shipped from a Folio draft
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What's inside
Tools that defer to the writing.
Folio adds nothing you have to manage and removes everything you don't. Six decisions, made so you don't have to.
Every version, kept
Folio takes a snapshot each time you pause. Scrub back to any sentence you have ever written, including the ones you talked yourself out of.
Margins for the research
Pin notes, sources, and second guesses in the margin, anchored to the exact word they belong to. Your thinking stays next to your writing.
Focus sessions
Set a word target or a timer. Folio dims the interface, mutes the rest, and gets out of the way until you land the count.
Publish anywhere, cleanly
Export EPUB, PDF, or Markdown, or push straight to your own site. No mangled quotes, no surprise formatting, no copy-paste penance.
Offline-first, and yours
Your manuscript lives on your machine before anything else. Sync is a convenience you switch on, never a place your work is held hostage.
VoicesDev KrishnanWrites Middle Distance · 41,000 readers Lena VondráčekEssayist & critic
"I've written three books in Folio. It's the first tool that got out of the way — and then had the discipline to stay out of the way.
Margaret OseiNovelist · The Salt Country
My newsletter went from a chore to the best forty minutes of my week. The version history alone saved a piece I'd nearly deleted at 2am.
I tried every app with "focus" in the name. Folio is the only one I hadn't quit by Thursday — and the only one I still pay for.
There's a draft in you. Folio is where it gets finished.
Thirty days, every feature, no card. Bring a paragraph you've been avoiding and see how far it gets.
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