For the people in the pictures.

Foldpic started from a small frustration. The big photo-book services have lovely editors, then keep the file: Mixbook’s own FAQ says you can’t download your book as a PDF, and Blurb’s PDF is marked “not for printing”. The zine tools that do give you a PDF stop at a single 8-page fold and treat photo albums as out of scope. In between sit thousands of static Etsy templates that leave you to work out the page order and the printer settings yourself.

So we built the part in the middle. Foldpic is a simple editor with real page slots — no layers, no canvas — that imposes your pages correctly for the fold you chose, prints faint guide marks where you cut, and generates numbered fold instructions with diagrams for your exact paper size. The PDF is the product. Print it once or fifty times.

Three formats at launch: the classic 8-page zine from one sheet, a stapled photo booklet of 8 to 32 pages, and an accordion album printed on one side only so glossy photo paper works and nothing has to line up on the back. Every one has been printed and folded on inkjet and laser printers, on A4 and on Letter, before it shipped. More folds are on the way.

Things we hold to: your first project is free and carries no watermark; nothing you make is lost if the tab closes; prices and limits are visible before you hit them; and the instructions explain your printer instead of assuming it. The name is “fold” plus “kin” — the people in the photos.

Questions, bugs, or a photo of something you folded? Write to hello@foldpic.com. Read the guides or see pricing.