From high school to PhD
Format your dissertation
in 5 minutes,
not 30 hours.
Pro academic templates, automatic table of contents and bibliography, cover page matching your school's standards. You write, we format.
1 free project. Student pricing from 1.25€/month after verification.
What you save on a dissertation
Breakdown of the formatting tasks Folio Student handles for you.
30 hours is what you spend formatting instead of writing. Folio Student gives them back.
Why not Word, LaTeX or Notion?
All of these tools exist and some are free. The real question isn't the price, it's how many hours of your life you want to spend formatting instead of writing.
| Word | Office 365 Edu | LaTeX (Overleaf) | Notion / Docs | Folio Student | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Student pricing | ≈ 7€/month | Free (.edu / .ac.uk email required) | Free (Overleaf free) | Free | 1.25 to 1.99€/month |
| Pro academic templates | ✗ | ✗ | A few unmaintained templates | ✗ | ✓ |
| Standards-compliant cover page (committee, supervisor, school) | Build it by hand | Build it by hand | Copy code from another dissertation | ✗ | ✓ |
| Automatic table of contents with page numbers | Possible but fragile, breaks on every edit | Same as Word | ✓ | Without page numbers | ✓ |
| Bibliography in academic styles (APA, Vancouver, Chicago, MLA) | By hand or via Zotero (setup required) | Same as Word | BibTeX (learning curve required) | ✗ | ✓ |
| Page numbering (Roman frontmatter + Arabic body) | Section hacking, fragile | Section hacking, fragile | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Auto lists of figures / tables / abbreviations | Possible but maintained manually | Same as Word | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Built-in academic integrity statement | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Ready-to-submit PDF export in 1 click | Lots of settings | Lots of settings | Compilation can be finicky | Rough layout | ✓ |
| Learning curve | Medium (advanced Word) | Medium (advanced Word) | Steep (50h+ to master) | Low, but not academic-grade output | 5 minutes |
| Formatting time (50-page dissertation) | 20 to 40 h | 20 to 40 h | 5 to 10 h (once mastered) | Can't reach the required quality | 5 to 15 min |
Folio Student isn't a word processor. You simply write your content, or import an existing Word file, and we apply academic conventions (table of contents, bibliography, page numbering, formatting standards) in the background. You stay in control of the writing, we remove the friction of the layout.
Everything a pro dissertation needs, automatic
Templates by level and by field
From a high school internship report to a PhD thesis. Medicine, engineering, law, humanities, fine arts, political science: every field has its conventions, we respect them.
Dynamic cover page
Your school logo, institution name, degree, supervisor, committee, academic year. Fill it in once, we generate a standards-compliant cover page.
A table of contents that actually works
Exact page numbers, updated automatically on every export. No more table of contents drifting because you added a paragraph.
Bibliography in 6 styles
APA 7, Vancouver, Chicago, MLA, ISO 690, IEEE. We automatically apply the style expected in your field. In-text citations stay consistent.
Images with clean captions
Drop in an image, we insert it, captioned, numbered, and listed in the list of figures. Swap the image later without breaking the layout.
Built-in academic integrity statement
Standard text matching your institution's wording, signed by hand or electronically. Included by default in nursing theses, master's dissertations and PhD theses.
Student pricing from 1.25 € / month
Three plans tailored to your pace: monthly with no commitment, annual aligned with the academic year, or a 6-month pass without subscription.
Built for academic requirements
Compliant with academic standards
Cover page conventions, bibliographic styles, layout (margins, line spacing, pagination) tuned to what universities, engineering schools, business schools, nursing schools and medical faculties expect.
You keep ownership of your work
Your content is never used to train a model. Full PDF export anytime. Permanent deletion of your account and all your data in one click.
Your student ID stays confidential
Encrypted storage, access limited to the verifier. Document deleted after verification, only the status 'verified until [date]' is kept.
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