Comparison

Create Booklet vs In Folio

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Create Booklet

Transform any document into a compact booklet format for easier reading and paper saving. This tool rearranges and scales pages for double-sided printing and folding, making it ideal for casual reading, pamphlets, and more.

Highlights
  • Create booklets from any document
  • Saves paper and offers convenient reading
  • Supports cloud drives (iCloud, Dropbox)
  • Corrects duplex printing issues
  • Handles right-to-left languages
  • Supports landscape booklets
  • Adjusts page zoom to minimize margins
Features
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With Create Booklet anything can be printed as a booklet. When you read on paper print a booklet instead of a stack of pages. It's more convenient to hold and saves paper. It's for every one from casual reading to pamphlets. Create Booklet is a super easy booklet creator. Since 2005 Create Booklet has been the standard for Mac, it's about time we released it for iPhone and iPad! ____________________ What is a Booklet? A booklet is a double sided printing you fold so it becomes a small book. For this to work, all pages are shrunk so that two pages fit per sheet side. More over these pages are resorted so when you fold the paper, the first pages is on the front and page 2 is exactly of the backside of this page etc. Your life will become more comfortable for just the price of a single cup of nice coffee. You get a complete solution to save a lot of paper (and thus the rainforest) and comfortably read booklets — instead of having to handle stacks of papers. _____________ Built for you! Create Booklet is built to be instant and easy. Still if you are missing a feature let us know! You know we listen! _________ Features • Support for Cloud Drives: Access your PDFs right from within Create Booklet. No matter if it's on iCloud, DropBox or other solutions. • Duplex correction: We don't know why, but many printer drivers have problems with booklets. A booklet needs short-sided-binding duplex. So if your printer has trouble with that, Create Booklet has the solution: Pre-Rotated Backsides :-) • Right to left languages: If your text is right to left, your booklet needs to be that way, too – “no problemo”. • Landscape booklets: You have a landscape PDF? Create Booklet can make it into a landscape booklet. • Zoom pages: If you want to e.g. fit two US Letter pages onto one US Letter sheet, this will create a margin. Create Booklet can help you with it's page zoom to minimize margins. (Still we recommend fitting formats, DIN A or US Letter onto US Legal and vice versa.) __________________ Customers love it Here are some comment on Create Booklet for Mac. “OMG! This is about the best and most valuable utility I have found in a loooong time. Finally I can create and print booklets from within Quark XPress without having to pay a fortune for their Printcollection XTension. Thank you so much!!!” — Guido Henkel “Wow. I wish this existed years ago, or that I'd known about it. [...]. Thank YOU.” — Mark “THANK YOU for Create Booklet! I have used it several times now to print out playbills for my children's various school plays, and it has been an absolute lifesaver. […]” — William W. Lin “[…] I came across this site, and it was almost like a Christmas miracle ;-) Thanks so much for making and sharing Create Booklet. It works perfectly and really helped me out.” — Dan “[…] This Create booklet may just save my wedding :) […]” — Tim “Create Booklet is simply amazing. Drop dead simple to use, and the results are perfect.” — Nate “Thank you SO MUCH - this program is a life-saver. Or at least a hair-saver, because I was about ready to pull mine out! Thank you!” — Linda Lewis “WOW!!! Thank you so much - entered a new world of printing.” — Patrick _____________________ Why Create Booklet • Easistestest: Because any booklet is just a tap away thanks to Create Booklet. It's that easy! • It's a Booklet: Means fun to hold and read, saves paper and that way you're protecting the rainforest (uses only a 4th of a typical print). • Productive: Create Booklet has many ways to get a document in, choose whatever fit's your situation. • Blazing fast: Any booklet is created in seconds. ______ Enjoy Now you have time to tell your friends about Create Booklet for iOS! Website: TheKeptPromise.com Facebook: facebook.com/TheKeptPromise Twitter: @TheKeptPromise

About

In Folio

This app helps you create professional-looking booklets from PDF files. It automates the process of arranging, folding, and stapling pages for a polished publication. Supports various folding formats like folio, quarto, and octavo.

Highlights
  • Create booklets from PDFs
  • Supports folio, quarto, six, octavo folds
  • Automated photocomposition
  • Adjustable paper and print formats
  • Preserves original document resolution
  • Available in 6 languages
Features
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Have you ever struggled at home or at the office to print a user manual such as a booklet, folded in 2 or 4 or more, and give your publication a professional look? In Folio assists you in the preparation and execution of your impressions, to create booklets assembled, folded, stapled like a real book. You can now create booklets or books: - folio, pages folded in 2 - in quarto, pages folded in 4 - in six, pages folded in 6 - in octavo, pages folded in 8. Whole pdf file preparation can be automated. In Folio works on Mac, allowing you to do everything directly on your Mac, without needing an iPhone or iPad. With photocomposition capability, the process is fully automated: - Copy the PDF file, in A4, A5, A6, or A7 format, ISO or US, into the 'In Folio' app documents. - On a Mac, you can copy the file by dragging and dropping its icon onto the “In Folio” icon - Select the print paper format (A4 or A3, ISO or US). - Request “PhotoComposer.” - Print the file without having to do anything other than check the double-sided mode and print orientation. Printing is performed without any loss of resolution from the original document. You can also print large documents (more than 16 pages) in Book mode: the layout is divided into sections, which are easier to fold. These sections are then assembled into a book that can be bound. A complete user manual is available on our website:https://alphanumsapps.com In Folio is available in 6 languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Greek. In Folio works on IOS 13 and higher on iPhone or iPad or macOS 14 or higher. Note: Even if your high-end printer handles layouts in quarto, in Six, 'In Folio' offers you unprecedented ease in creating any type of book or booklet, from in folio to in octavo.

Screenshots

Create Booklet4 screens
In Folio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Create Booklet at 52% against In Folio's 0%. Create Booklet also leads on rating (2.9 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (26 vs 2). In Folio's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 19 months) and price ($1.49 vs $4.99). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Create Booklet costs $4.99 and In Folio $1.49 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Create Booklet holds the better App Store score, 2.9 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Create Booklet has 26 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 52% of Create Booklet's written reviews are positive against 0% of In Folio's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Create Booklet ships an update every 19 months, In Folio every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Create Booklet versus In Folio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCreate BookletIn Folio
Price$4.99$1.49 — better
Rating2.9 (26 ratings) — better1.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews52.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings26 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 19 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#197 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVogelbusch & CoAlphanums

Customer experience

Create Booklet

All ratings26 ratings
Positive46.2%
Neutral7.7%
Negative46.2%
Written reviews50 reviews
Positive52.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative38.0%

In Folio

All ratings2 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Create Booklet

No in-app purchases

None

In Folio

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Create Booklet free?
Create Booklet costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is In Folio free?
In Folio costs $1.49, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Create Booklet or In Folio?
Create Booklet is rated higher. Create Booklet averages 2.9 out of 5 from 26 ratings, while In Folio averages 1.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Create Booklet or In Folio have ads?
Neither Create Booklet nor In Folio shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Create Booklet or In Folio?
Create Booklet ships an update every 19 months, and In Folio every 2 weeks. Most recently, Create Booklet was updated on October 10, 2026 and In Folio on October 2, 2026.

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