Comparison

Booklet Maker vs Foldly

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

Head to head
About

Booklet Maker

Transform any PDF into a print-ready booklet with advanced imposition, signature folding, and cleanup tools. Features include page numbering, watermarking, and an inline editor for text corrections. Batch processing and presets streamline your workflow.

Highlights
  • Saddle-stitched booklet imposition
  • Custom n-up grid imposition
  • Signature folding with creep compensation
  • PDF cleanup tools (crop, remove blank pages)
  • Configurable page numbering
  • Inline text editor for PDFs
  • Batch imposition with Booklet Factory
Features
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BookletMaker is a PDF imposition and template app that turns any PDF into a print-ready booklet and gives you 40+ fully editable templates for bulletins, programs, invitations, cards, zines, menus and photo books. Change every word, photo and shape, then print on your own printer. It runs on your Mac, iPad and iPhone, with no account and no upload, in 34 languages. COMMON QUESTIONS How do I make an invitation, card or bulletin? Open Templates, pick a design, tap any text, photo or shape to change it, then print or save. How do I print a PDF as a booklet? Open the PDF, choose a preset, then print or save. Page order, rotation and duplex flipping are automatic, with a guided mode for printers without duplex. What is PDF imposition? Arranging pages so folded sheets read in the right order. BookletMaker does saddle-stitched booklets, mini-booklets, n-up grids, signature folding and creep compensation. Does BookletMaker upload my files? No. Every page is processed on your device, and your documents and photos never leave it. Templates are plain files the app downloads; nothing about your documents is sent. What does Pro add? Signature folding, creep, fold margin, hole punch, watermarks, letterhead, batch tools, Pro templates, My Templates and My Presets. Anyone who bought the app before 2.0 keeps everything unlocked. KEY FEATURES • Templates: 40+ fully editable designs for bulletins, programs, invitations, cards, zines, menus and photo books. Every text, photo and shape can be changed; add text, photo frames and shapes, rotate, group and ungroup, reorder layers, recolor art, change the page background, undo and redo. • A floating bar over your selection and an editing panel with tabs for text, style, font, color, photo and arrange. • My Templates: save your own designs and start from them again (Pro). They stay on your device. • My Presets: save your own print settings, plus ready-made presets for booklets, zines, cards and handouts (Pro). • Imposition: saddle-stitched booklets, mini-booklets, 2-up, 4-up or any custom n-up grid, with page order and rotation handled for you. • Signature folding up to 32 pages, and creep compensation that keeps the trim straight. • Fold lines, staple marks and cut guides, with solid, dashed or dotted lines. • Made for iPhone Duo: open the fold like a book, with the preview on one side and Settings on the other. • Cleanup: crop margins, remove blank pages, split landscape spreads, rasterize corrupted PDFs. • Page numbers: position, size, color, format, starting offset, skip-first for covers. • Hole punch margins with visual guides, plus a fold margin for cutting sheets in half. • Watermark and letterhead overlays. • Grayscale and lightened content for draft prints. • Find & Replace, highlights, redaction, sticky notes, ink and signature stamps. • OCR: Apple Vision makes scanned PDFs searchable; export recognized text. • Output: save the imposed PDF, flatten annotations, password-protect, export pages as images, or print via AirPrint. • Booklet Factory: batch-impose whole folders with your saved presets. BOOKLETMAKER PRO The core of BookletMaker stays available to everyone. Pro unlocks the advanced print shop: booklet signatures, creep, fold margin, hole punch, watermarks, letterhead, batch processing, Pro templates, My Templates and My Presets. Pro comes as a yearly or monthly subscription, or as a one-time lifetime purchase. Bought BookletMaker before 2.0? Everything stays unlocked for you. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends; manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://bookletmaker.app/privacy PRIVATE BY DESIGN BookletMaker runs on your device and your documents are never uploaded. Anonymous usage statistics can be switched off in Settings.

About

Foldly

Features
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Want to print a PDF as a folded booklet — a zine, a program, a short manual or a story for the kids? Foldly reorders and pairs the pages in saddle-stitch order, so you just print double-sided, fold down the middle and staple. Pick a PDF, check the sheet-by-sheet preview, and tap Make Booklet. Share the result or save it to Files, then print it from any app. • SADDLE-STITCH PAGE ORDER — two pages per landscape sheet side, arranged so that after printing, stacking and one center fold the pages read 1, 2, 3 … in order. • BLANKS HANDLED FOR YOU — booklets need a multiple of 4 pages; Foldly adds the blank pages at the end and tells you how many, and how many sheets of paper you need. • SHEET-BY-SHEET PREVIEW — see which pages land on the front and back of every sheet before you print. • STAYS SHARP — pages are placed as vectors, not screenshots, so text prints crisp. Each page is kept upright, scaled to fit its half and trimmed to its visible page area. Links and bookmarks are carried over where possible. • BATCH MODE — with the unlock, turn up to 50 PDFs into booklets in one go. • SAME PAPER AS YOUR PDF — the booklet uses your document's page size turned sideways, so a Letter or A4 PDF prints on Letter or A4 paper, each page shrunk to half size. How to print: choose double-sided printing and flip on the short edge. If your printer can't print double-sided, Foldly can't do that part for you. Limits: PDFs up to 200 pages and 80 MB. Everything happens on your iPhone — your PDF is never uploaded and no account is needed. Your first booklet is free. A one-time $4.99 purchase unlocks unlimited booklets and batch mode. No subscription, no ads. Questions: overlapmarr@gmail.com

Screenshots

Booklet Maker4 screens
Foldly3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Foldly at every 2 days against Booklet Maker's every 5 days. Booklet Maker's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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

Both are free to download. Booklet Maker sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Foldly sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Booklet Maker ships an update every 5 days, Foldly every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Booklet Maker versus Foldly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBooklet MakerFoldly
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB1 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperMOBILE ALCHEMY LTDJhomar Maravillas

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Booklet Maker

Subscriptions2
  • BookletMaker Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
  • BookletMaker Pro Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • BookletMaker Pro — Lifetime$49.99
1 purchases

Foldly

One-time1
  • Unlock Unlimited$4.99

Questions

Is Booklet Maker free?
Booklet Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Foldly free?
Foldly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Booklet Maker or Foldly have ads?
Neither Booklet Maker nor Foldly shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Booklet Maker or Foldly?
Booklet Maker ships an update every 5 days, and Foldly every 2 days. Most recently, Booklet Maker was updated on October 25, 2026 and Foldly on October 25, 2026.

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