Comparison

Create Booklet vs BookletPro

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

Head to head
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

BookletPro

Easily transform any PDF into a printable booklet, zine, or program. This app handles complex page reordering for folding and stapling, even without a duplex printer. Save custom layouts and combine multiple PDFs with Pro features.

Highlights
  • PDF to booklet conversion
  • Multiple layout modes (booklet, pages per sheet, zine)
  • Duplex printing helper
  • Custom paper size support
  • Save and load layout presets
  • Combine multiple PDFs (Pro)
  • Add binding margin (Pro)
Features
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Turn any PDF into a booklet you can print, fold and staple. BookletPro reorders the pages so that a stack of printed sheets, folded down the middle, reads from front to back. That reordering — imposition — is the part that is easy to get wrong by hand and impossible to fix afterwards. Everything happens on your device. Your PDF is never uploaded, and there is no account to create before you can use it. THREE WAYS TO LAY OUT A PAGE • Folded booklet — two pages per side, ordered for the fold. The classic saddle-stitched pamphlet. • Pages per sheet — several pages tiled per sheet in reading order, with optional cutting lines. No folding. • PocketMod zine — eight pages on one side of one sheet. One cut, a few folds, and you have a pocket-sized booklet. Free, including the printed fold and cut guides. NO DUPLEX PRINTER? STILL FINE Most home printers cannot print both sides. BookletPro splits the job into two passes and walks you through it: print the fronts, turn the stack over, print the backs. It then asks how the second pass came out and remembers the answer for that printer, because whether a stack comes back upside down depends on the printer, not on the booklet. PAPER A4, A3, A5, B5, US Letter, Legal and Tabloid, portrait or landscape — plus any size you type in, in millimetres, centimetres, inches or points. If it fits in your printer, it can hold a booklet. SAVE THE SETUP A parish newsletter, a recipe zine and a concert programme each want different settings. Save them once as a preset and get them back in two taps — paper, layout mode and all. FREE, AND WHAT PRO ADDS Free covers a complete booklet: up to 32 pages from one PDF, every paper size, the back cover option, the PocketMod zine, the duplex helper and printing. PRO adds: • Combining up to 10 PDFs into one booklet • A binding margin kept clear at the fold • Printed page numbers • Choosing a page range from the source One purchase covers iPhone, iPad and Mac. PRIVACY Your PDF stays on your device. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored on a server, and analytics is off until you say otherwise — and can be turned back off at any time. SUBSCRIPTIONS AND TERMS PRO is available as PRO Monthly (1 month) and PRO Yearly (1 year), both auto-renewing subscriptions, or as PRO Lifetime, a one-time purchase. The price is shown in the app before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. A subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; you can manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://bookletpro.app/eula Privacy Policy: https://bookletpro.app/privacy

Screenshots

Create Booklet4 screens
BookletPro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Create Booklet at 52% against BookletPro's 0%. Create Booklet also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (26 vs 6). BookletPro's advantage is price (Free vs $4.99) and rating (5.0 vs 2.9). On ads 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

BookletPro is free to download; Create Booklet costs $4.99 up front. BookletPro sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Create Booklet asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

BookletPro holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 26 and 6 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 52% of Create Booklet's written reviews are positive against 0% of BookletPro's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Create Booklet ships an update every 19 months, BookletPro every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Create Booklet versus BookletPro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCreate BookletBookletPro
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating2.9 (26 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews52.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings26 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 19 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS9.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVogelbusch & CoFabian Thanner

Customer experience

Create Booklet

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

BookletPro

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Create Booklet

Reported bugs

29 issues
  • Prints intermittently
  • Ignores print range input
  • Flips pages wrong
  • Cancels job unexpectedly
  • Prints out of order
Show 24 more
  • Pre-Rotate Backsides not working
  • Backside always upside down
  • Doesn't give view of real margins
  • Tutorials not clear
  • Hard to make it work with Word
  • App glitches a lot
  • App moves very slow
  • Test pages didn't work
  • Doesn't let me print as a booklet
  • No backup plan visible
  • Cannot find developer contact
  • Adds ads on every second page
  • Restores back to default template after every print attempt
  • Instruction pages appear on every second print
  • Crops A4 pages
  • Cannot export booklet to PDF
  • Only option is AirPrint
  • Doesn't work with Brother HL-L5100DN
  • Booklet not printing on both sides
  • Random blank pages instead of booklet pages in order
  • Tapping 'create a booklet' doesn't work
  • Test page is the only thing sent to printer
  • App defaults back to help booklet on preview
  • Lacks desktop features like adding page numbers

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add option to print from photo album
  • Add PDF export option
  • Add option to manually print duplex
  • Add page numbers and other desktop features
  • Improve search terms for discoverability

BookletPro

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Create Booklet

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

BookletPro

Subscriptions2
  • PRO Monthly$2.991 Month
  • PRO Yearly$12.991 Year
One-time1
  • PRO Lifetime$24.99

Questions

Is Create Booklet free?
Create Booklet costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is BookletPro free?
BookletPro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Create Booklet or BookletPro?
BookletPro is rated higher. Create Booklet averages 2.9 out of 5 from 26 ratings, while BookletPro averages 5.0 from 6 ratings.
Do Create Booklet or BookletPro have ads?
Neither Create Booklet nor BookletPro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Create Booklet or BookletPro?
Create Booklet ships an update every 19 months, and BookletPro every 3 weeks. Most recently, Create Booklet was updated on November 2, 2026 and BookletPro on November 4, 2026.

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