About Folia

Serious document work shouldn't cost you your privacy.

Folia is a calm, private PDF studio for the desktop. Every common PDF job — edit, convert, OCR, redact, sign — runs on your own machine, so your files never leave the device. This is the why behind it.

What drives us

Our mission, vision and objective.

Mission
Mission
A full-strength PDF studio that keeps every file on your own device.

We make professional document work — editing, OCR, redaction, signing — possible without sending your files to anyone else’s server. The capability of the expensive suites, with the privacy of working offline.

Vision
Vision
A world where private by default is the normal choice, not the costly one.

We picture a desktop where the safest way to handle a document is also the simplest and the most capable — so no one has to trade getting work done for keeping it confidential.

Objective
Objective
Make on-device the default for everyday document work.

Concretely: ship every common PDF job as a tool that runs on your machine, keep a genuinely useful free tier, and prove that each security operation actually worked — measured, not promised.

How we hold ourselves to it
100% on-device
Every core tool runs in-process — zero uploads by default.
Free tier that lasts
View, annotate and note forever, with no account.
Verifiable by design
Security operations re-read their own output to prove the work.
Built for everyone
Multilingual OCR and a calm UI for non-experts.

Built on a promise you can verify.

Try Folia free — nothing uploaded, no account needed.

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