Folio for iPhone, iPad and Android · Updated 20 October 2026
codeplay.md@gmail.com — the Folio developer. You can also reach the same address from inside the app: Settings → Contact us, which opens a mail draft already addressed.
If something is broken, four lines make the difference between a guess and a fix:
A screenshot is worth more than a description of a screen. Please do not send us your CV file unless we ask for it — see privacy below.
Open the CV, look at the preview, and tap Download. Folio renders an A4 PDF on the device — no server is involved and no internet connection is needed — and then each platform hands it over the way that platform expects:
| Platform | What happens to the file |
|---|---|
| iPhone and iPad | The system share sheet opens and you choose where it goes — Save to Files, an email, a messaging app, or Print |
| Android | The PDF is saved to your Downloads folder, and the app confirms it with a message you can tap to open the file |
On Android, into Downloads — open it from the notification, from your Files app, or from the message the app shows. On iPhone and iPad, wherever you sent it from the share sheet; Folio does not keep a folder of its own. If you dismissed the sheet by accident, tap Download again — nothing was lost and nothing was left half-written.
The app names the cause rather than saying “error”: not enough free space, a CV with no sections filled in yet, or an export you cancelled. If you see something else, or a message that does not match what you did, send us that exact wording — it points straight at the line of code that produced it.
A free export carries one discreet Folio line at the foot of the page. The only way to get a clean PDF is Folio PRO. On Android, a free export comes after a short video; the line stays on the page either way.
Nothing else is stamped on the page, and the line never covers your text or changes the layout of the template.
Not today. Folio exports PDF only, at A4, which is the format and the page size the templates are designed and measured for.
While you edit, Folio tells you what the page is doing — Fits on 1 page, 2 pages, or how many lines are overflowing. A CV that overflows still exports; the indicator is there so the overflow is your decision rather than a surprise.
When you want it back on one page, in the order that usually works:
If you already have a CV as a PDF, Folio can read it and fill the fields in for you instead of you retyping the whole thing. Pick the file, confirm, and check the result — it is a starting point, not a perfect copy, and how clean it comes out depends on how the original was made. A PDF that is really a scanned photograph of a page will not import well.
Import and the cover letter are the two features that send your CV off the device. For import, the file is uploaded to our server, the text in it is read by a language-model provider so it can be turned into fields, and we keep no copy of the file or the text once the import has finished. If you would rather that did not happen, do not use import — typing a CV in by hand sends nothing anywhere.
Import needs a connection and can be temporarily unavailable. Everything else in Folio works offline.
With Folio PRO, Folio writes a cover letter for one job from a CV you have already filled in. Give it the company and the role, paste the job ad if you have one, and watch the letter appear. Change any paragraph by hand or ask for a new version of it. Each letter is kept with the CV it was written from, and you can save it as a one-page PDF, share it or copy the text.
Before the first letter, Folio asks you. It sends your job title, summary, work history, education, skills and address, with the company, the role and the job ad, to our server and on to a language-model provider that keeps nothing and does not train on it. Your name, email, phone and photo stay on your device, and we keep no copy of anything. You can withdraw your agreement in Settings at any time. The privacy policy has the detail.
Writing a letter needs a connection. A letter can be cut short if the connection drops, and you can ask for it again.
No. Folio has no sign-up, no password and no server of ours behind it. Everything you type is written to storage private to the app, on the device you typed it on, and the app works with no internet connection at all.
No. Because nothing is uploaded, there is nothing to sync. A CV created on your phone exists on that phone.
Export the PDFs you care about first, and keep them somewhere you control. If your device backup is switched on — iCloud Backup on iPhone and iPad, Google One on Android — the app's data may travel with that backup when you restore the new device, but that backup belongs to Apple or Google and we cannot see it, guarantee it, or restore it for you.
Removing the app removes its private storage with it, and we have no copy to send you — that is the direct consequence of never receiving your data. Exported PDFs are unaffected; they live wherever you saved them.
A photo is optional, and several templates are designed without one. When you add one, Folio asks your device for access to your photo library — you can refuse, and the rest of the app carries on working. The photo is cropped on the device and stored with the CV. It is never uploaded. Removing the photo, or deleting the CV, removes it. A template that has a photo area does not draw an empty frame when there is no photo: the space closes up and the rest of the page moves into it.
Whether to put a photo on a CV at all depends on where you are applying: it is normal in much of Europe and discouraged in the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland.
The app's interface is available in 12 languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian and Indonesian. It follows your device language, and you can override it in Settings → Language.
The language of the app and the language of your CV are separate things. You can write the CV in any language you can type on your device, whatever the interface is set to.
There are 44 templates. Switching between them never retypes anything — your content is stored once and the template only decides how it is drawn, so you can change your mind at any point, including after you have exported.
So that you do not spend time looking for them, these do not exist in the app today:
If one of those is the thing you needed, tell us — the mail address above is also where feature requests are read.
| Platform | Needs |
|---|---|
| iPhone and iPad | iOS or iPadOS 15.0 or later |
| Android | See the app's Google Play listing for the current minimum |
| Internet | Not required — creating, editing and exporting all work offline |
The full policy is at appenginex.com/privacy/folio/. The short form: the CV you write is stored on your device, and what the app sends on its own is anonymous crash and usage information — which screen was opened, which template was chosen, whether an export finished — never a line of what you wrote.
The one thing that does upload your CV is the PDF import above, and only when you start it. The file goes to our server, its text is read by a language-model provider so it can be turned into fields, and we keep no copy afterwards. Section 7 of the policy is exact about it. If you would rather nothing left the device, type the CV in instead — everything else in the app works offline.
To delete the CVs themselves, delete them in the app, or remove the app. For anything concerning the diagnostic data — a copy of it, or its deletion — write to codeplay.md@gmail.com with “Privacy” in the subject line, and read section 12 of the policy first; it explains what we can and cannot look up, given that we do not know who you are.
Folio is free to download and free to use. You can write a CV, choose from the free templates and export it without paying and without an account.
Folio PRO unlocks every template, exports without the Folio line, and removes advertising. The price and what it includes are shown inside the app before you confirm anything.
Ads are Android-only: a short video before a free export. There are no banners and nothing interrupts you while you edit. When you export without PRO, the export screen offers two choices: watch the video and download, or buy PRO. If no video can be shown — no connection, no ad available, or no consent — the export goes ahead without one. There is no advertising at all on iPhone and iPad. In Europe you are asked for consent the first time you tap to watch a video; you can switch ad personalisation off at any time in your device’s Settings → Google → Ads, and PRO removes the offer entirely.
Refunds. Purchases are handled by the store you installed the app from and not by us: we cannot see your receipt and we cannot issue a refund. Those requests go to reportaproblem.apple.com for the App Store, or through Google Play’s order history on Android. A purchase that did not unlock what it should have is a bug, and that one is ours — write to us, and try Restore purchases on the paywall screen first.