Folio is the design canvas, planning ladder, and print-ready PDF for modern yearbook programs. Built for the advisors, editors, and students who want their book to look like a real book — not a template.
A real design canvas that doesn't require a design degree. Snap to grids, pull from your style guide, drop in a photo, done. Cmd-Z is your friend.
Advisors stay in control of who can do what. Students edit their assigned pages, editors run day-to-day, advisors hold the keys. Approve every page on the way out.
Folio is built so the book has a voice. Brand themes, reusable text styles, master pages, and a yearbook ladder that keeps the narrative arc together — not a chaotic dump of photos.
Other yearbook tools optimize for the sales rep. Folio optimizes for the advisor on deadline night, the editor running a 30-page spread review, and the student who got handed two pages and a folder of camera-roll photos.
Most yearbook tools spit out a screen-grade PDF and call it a day. Folio renders a real 300 DPI, CMYK-friendly export with proper bleed and trim boxes. Send it straight to the printer.
Not template-only. Full vector control: shapes, type, images, masks, opacity, drop shadow, rotation around the geometric center. The kind of canvas an editorial designer expects, not a slide-deck imitation.
Drag a roll of photos into the asset library and let Folio auto-fill empty frames. Smart cropping holds the faces, and you stay in control — every suggestion is a one-click revert.
Parents and contributors don't need an account. Send a tokenized link and they can drop photos straight into your library, tagged with their batch label. Revoke any link any time.
Define the steps each page must move through — Editor review, Advisor sign-off, Final approval — in your colors. Track every page's status from the Page Overview at a glance.
Every page has an assignee, a deadline, and a state. The Yearbook Ladder shows the whole book in sequence. Your day shows what's due, by you, today, across every project.
Define the palette, typography, and master pages once. Edit Heading and every Heading on every page updates. Theme presets to start from, type-scale generator to bulk-create the stack.
Folio is built around the idea that a yearbook is a printed thing kept on a shelf for decades. Real typography, real paper colors, real archival quality — not a feed of content.
A yearbook isn't a marketing brochure or a class slideshow.
It's a printed thing your kids will hand to their kids.
The software should respect that.