Features
Everything Word makes you do by hand, automated.
Table of contents, pagination, title page, lists of figures, heading numbering: Folio Student generates the academic structure while you write. Here is the detail.
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 | €1.99/month verified · €3.99/month otherwise |
| 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 | ✓ |
| Indicated citation standard + dedicated bibliography chapter | 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, title page, heading numbering, pagination) 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.
6 citation standards indicated
APA 7, Vancouver, Chicago, MLA, ISO 690, IEEE: each template indicates the standard expected in your field and prepares a dedicated bibliography chapter, where you enter your references in that standard.
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.
Generated for you
The academic structure, automated
Automatic table of contents
Generated from your headings (H1, H2), with page numbers. Updated on every export.
Lists of figures and tables
Automatically extracted from your content and placed at the start of the document.
Academic pagination
Front matter in Roman numerals (i, ii, iii), body in Arabic numerals. The convention examiners expect.
Heading numbering
Your sections numbered automatically as 1.1, 1.1.1, with nothing for you to maintain.
Standards-ready title page
6 cover layouts (minimal, school, academic, thesis, medical, fine arts) depending on your document type.
French typography
Non-breaking spaces before : ; ? ! and around quotation marks, applied automatically.
Customization
Tune the layout, or let the template decide
| Free | Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Body size | 3 sizes (10, 11, 12 pt) | Free, 8 to 14 pt |
| Line spacing | 1.3 / 1.5 / 1.7 / 2.0 | Free, 1.0 to 2.5 |
| Margins | 4 presets (narrow, standard, wide, binding) | Pixel-perfect control |
| Accent color | 5 tones (sepia, navy, forest, bordeaux, graphite) | Free hex color |
| Fonts | 3 (Garamond, Times New Roman, Calibri) | 17 total (+ 14 Pro) |
| Chapter drop cap | No | Available |
Citations and bibliography
The right standard for your document, indicated
Each template is paired with the citation standard expected in its field (APA, Vancouver, Chicago, MLA, ISO 690, IEEE) and prepares a dedicated bibliography chapter. You write your references in the indicated standard; we format the document around them.
Ready to format your document?
1 free project, no credit card. Pick your template, we handle the structure.
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