Folio WriterUnlock Folio Writer
Folio Writer is free forever to write and organize in. Pro and Premium are one-time in-app purchases on the Mac App Store — free to try for 7 days, no subscription, no account.
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
- Live sync with the free iPhone and iPad apps
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.
How buying works
Download Folio Writer free from the Mac App Store, write for as long as you like, and unlock Pro or Premium from inside the app (Folio Writer ▸ Unlock Folio…). Purchases are handled by Apple, tied to your Apple ID, and restore automatically on every Mac 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.