Academic CV maker
Folio is a free academic CV maker that structures the long-form sections academics need, including publications, teaching, grants, awards, and service, instead of forcing your record onto a single page. From the same record it builds an academic website on your own domain that imports your ORCID profile and Google Scholar output, so your work stays current in one place. An academic CV is long-form and differs from a one-page resume, and Folio is built for that difference rather than working against it.
Build your academic CV free. Keep your domain and your record.
Build the long-form CV and the scholarly website from one record that imports ORCID and Scholar. Beta asks for no card, the CV export is never paywalled, and you sign in with email, Google, or a passkey.
What you get
Generic resume builders cap you at a page and have no idea what a grant or a publication is. Folio is built around the academic record, then publishes it twice: as a CV and as a website on your own domain.
Publications
Group work by peer-reviewed articles, conference papers, chapters, and preprints, with the ordering and formatting your field expects. The CV is long-form by design, so a long publication record has room to breathe instead of being trimmed to fit one page.
ORCID
Pull your works and identifiers from your ORCID profile rather than retyping every citation. Your CV and your website draw from the same imported record, so updating one place keeps both current.
Scholar
Bring in your Google Scholar publication output and surface metrics like your h-index where they belong. Reviewers and search committees see your scholarly footprint without you maintaining the numbers by hand in two places.
Teaching
Courses taught, grants and funding, honors, invited talks, and service are first-class sections, not afterthoughts squeezed into a margin. The structure matches what a faculty or postdoc application reviewer reads top to bottom.
Website
The same publications, teaching, and bio become an academic website with a real homepage, not a single bio link. It is the page a collaborator, search committee, or journalist reads after they find your name.
Domain
Go live on yourname.com instead of a university subpage that disappears when you move institutions. Add two DNS records and Folio issues the TLS certificate for you, so your scholarly presence follows you across appointments.
How it works
No template wrangling, no separate site builder, no retyping citations.
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Connect ORCID and bring in your Google Scholar output, or paste an existing CV. Folio structures your publications, teaching, and grants into the right long-form sections.
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Order your publications the way your field expects, add teaching and service, and edit any field. The CV stays long-form, so nothing is cut to force a single page.
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From the same record, generate an academic website with a homepage, publications, and bio. Edit the record once and both the CV and the site update together.
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Map your own domain and go live, then export a clean CV to attach to an application. The download is free and yours, every time.
How it compares
Resume builders cap you at a page. Overleaf and Google Sites each cover one half. Folio does the long-form CV and the website from one record.
| Capability | Folio | Resume builders | Overleaf | Google Sites | AcademicPages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Long-form CV structure | Built for it | Capped at one page | Yes, via LaTeX | Not a CV tool | Manual markdown |
| Publications, teaching, grants | First-class sections | No academic sections | You template it | You build it by hand | You configure it |
| Import ORCID and Scholar | Built in | Not offered | Manual entry | Manual entry | Manual entry |
| Academic website included | From the same record | Not offered | Not a website | Yes, separate build | Yes, you maintain it |
| Your own custom domain | Yes, free during beta | Paid plan if any | Not offered | Paid Workspace plan | You set it up |
Competitor behavior reflects each tool published free and paid tiers and the typical workflow it expects, and can change. Overleaf is a LaTeX editor where you author a CV from a class file but get no website; Google Sites builds a site but is not a CV tool and maps a custom domain only on a paid Workspace plan. Verify current terms on each vendor page before you decide.
Why it adds up
The CV, the website, and the domain all draw from one source.
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record, two outputs
edit once, CV and website both update
$0
to export your CV
no download paywall, ever
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sources imported
ORCID profile and Google Scholar output
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domain that follows you
yourname.com, not a department subpage
Why long-form matters
A resume is a one-page pitch trimmed to a single role. An academic CV is the opposite: a complete, long-form record of your scholarship, where a search committee expects to see every peer-reviewed publication, every grant, every course, and every invited talk. A tool that caps you at a page is working against the document you actually need to submit.
The website is what completes the record. A CV is the file you attach to an application, but a scholarly website on your own domain is where collaborators, students, and reporters find you, read your work, and confirm your h-index and Scholar profile. Folio builds both from one imported record, so your CV and your public presence never drift out of sync, and your domain stays yours when you change institutions.
FAQ
Yes. The whole tool is free throughout the beta, and downloading your CV is never paywalled. Structure your publications, teaching, and grants, build the matching academic website, and export the CV, none of it asking for a card. Should paid plans arrive, the CV, slug, domain, and record you built remain yours.
A resume is a one-page document tailored to a single job, while an academic CV is a long-form record of your full scholarship: publications, teaching, grants, awards, and service, with no page limit. Folio is built for that long-form structure, so a long publication record has room to breathe instead of being cut to fit one page.
Yes. Folio imports your works and identifiers from your ORCID profile and brings in your Google Scholar output, so you do not retype every citation. Your CV and your academic website draw from the same imported record, which means updating one place keeps both current and your h-index stays accurate.
Both. From the same record, Folio builds a scholarly website with a homepage, publications, teaching, and bio, published on your own domain. The CV is the file you attach to an application; the website is the page a collaborator or search committee reads after they find your name.
Yes, and your scholarly site lives on it free during beta, not on a department subpage you lose when you move. Point two DNS records at your registrar and Folio issues the TLS certificate for you. Your presence stays at yourname.com and follows you across appointments, instead of disappearing when you change institutions.
Yes. Courses taught, grants and funding, honors, invited talks, and service are first-class sections, not afterthoughts. The structure matches what a faculty, postdoc, or fellowship reviewer reads top to bottom, and you edit every field before anything is final.
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