Free
Free to start, no card.
Build your portfolio, draft your resume, and publish a live site without paying. Folio is on the Pro plan, and the work you make stays yours when paid plans arrive.
Portfolio website for students
The free portfolio website for students with no experience yet.
You build a portfolio with no work experience by treating your coursework, class projects, and internships as the experience, because they are. Folio takes what you have done in school and turns it into a credible portfolio website on your own domain (yourname.com), and it drafts a matching first-job resume that reads clean for the applicant tracking system. It is free to start, so your first portfolio costs you nothing but the projects you already finished.
Build your student portfolio free. Publish it to your name.
Turn your coursework and projects into a first portfolio and resume at your own name. It is free in beta with no card, you keep your slug, domain, and everything you make, and sign-in works by email, Google, or passkey.
- to start your portfolio
- $0
- Free plan, no card. A custom domain is Pro.
How it works
From a class project to a live site at yourname.com.
No blank page, no code, no design degree. You bring the work, Folio handles the rest.
01
Add your projects and coursework.
List the class project, the group build, the internship task, the thing you made for fun. Each one is a portfolio entry. You do not need a job title to have done real work.
02
Let the AI draft each project.
Paste a few rough lines and the AI structures a clean write-up: what you built, the tools you used, and what came of it. You edit every word before anything is final.
03
Pick a student-ready design.
Choose from a set of premium themes that already look hired, not homemade. Your projects drop in and the layout, type, and spacing are handled for you.
04
Publish to yourname.com.
Go live on a Folio address in seconds, or map your own domain so recruiters land on yourname.com. Add two DNS records and Folio issues the certificate for you.
What you get
Everything a first portfolio needs, in one free account.
Students are usually told to buy a domain, learn a website builder, and write a resume in three separate tools. Folio is the one account that does all of it.
Domain
Your name, not a platform handle.
Publish to yourname.com instead of a profile URL with a vendor brand in it. A custom domain is the difference between sending a recruiter a real address and sending them someone else platform.
Projects
Projects and coursework count as experience.
The capstone, the hackathon entry, the internship deliverable, the side project. Each becomes a case study with what you built and what you learned, so an empty work history is no longer the story.
Resume
An entry-level resume that fits one page.
Folio drafts a resume tuned for a first job: education, projects, internships, and skills, structured so a recruiter reads it in seconds and an applicant tracking system can parse it.
ATS
Clean enough to pass the filter.
Before a human reads your resume, software parses it. Folio scores yours for parseability, structure, and keyword coverage against the role, then tells you exactly what to fix.
Design
Premium themes that look hired.
You do not need to learn design. Pick a theme built by Folio and your portfolio looks like it came from someone with a studio behind them, because the craft is built in.
How it compares
A profile is not a portfolio. A handle is not a domain.
The tools students reach for first each miss something a first portfolio actually needs. Folio covers all four in one place.
| Capability | Folio | Canva | Notion | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Your own domain (yourname.com) | Yes, included | Profile URL only | Paid plan | Paid plan |
| Free to publish a real site | Yes, free to start | Profile, not a site | Free site, vendor URL | Free page, vendor URL |
| Matching entry-level resume | Drafted for you | PDF of your profile | Manual template | Not offered |
| ATS score against a job | Built in | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered |
| Designed for project case studies | Yes, project-first | Feed and profile fields | Generic page blocks | Generic docs and pages |
Competitor behavior reflects each vendor's published free and paid tiers and can change. A LinkedIn profile is a profile on LinkedIn, not a website at your own domain. Canva and Notion can publish a page on a free plan, but a custom domain sits on a paid tier. Verify current terms on each vendor pricing page before you decide.
Why it adds up
One account does the work of three tools.
No domain registrar, website builder, and resume app to juggle separately.
$0
to start
Free plan, no card needed.
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account, your whole search
portfolio, resume, ATS, domain
yourname.com
your own address
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to a first AI draft
from a paste, then you edit
The reframe
No experience is not no portfolio.
The hardest part of a first job search is the feeling that you have nothing to show. You do. The course project where you shipped something that worked, the internship task you owned, the analysis you ran for a class, the app you built on a weekend. That is the work. A portfolio is not a record of titles you have held, it is evidence of things you have made, and a student has made plenty.
When you apply through the same big job boards as everyone else, you are one resume in a stack of hundreds, and it is easy to disappear. A portfolio on your own domain is the link that pulls you back out of the pile. It is the page a recruiter opens after your resume clears the filter, the proof behind the bullet points, and an address with your name on it instead of a platform handle. Folio gives you both, the resume that gets you read and the portfolio that gets you remembered, free to start.
FAQ
Honest answers.
Is the student portfolio website really free?
Yes. It costs nothing for the entire beta. Add your projects, draft your resume, pick a design, and publish a live portfolio site with no card required. If paid plans arrive later, your slug, your domain, and everything you built remain yours.
Can I use my own domain like myname.com?
Yes, students get myname.com on the Pro plan, so recruiters land on your name and not a platform handle. It is just two DNS records in your registrar, and Folio takes care of the TLS certificate the first time the site loads. You keep your nameservers and skip a separate hosting account. A LinkedIn profile or a vendor subdomain is not the same as owning yourname.com, and most builders charge a monthly fee for a custom domain. Folio does not.
What if I have no work experience yet?
That is exactly who this is for. Your coursework, class projects, capstones, hackathons, and internships are real work, and Folio is built to present them as case studies: what you built, the tools you used, and what came of it. You do not need a job title to have done something worth showing.
Will it help me pass the ATS for an entry-level job?
Folio drafts a resume tuned for a first job and runs it through the same applicant tracking systems recruiters use, looking at how cleanly it parses, how complete the sections are, and how well your keywords cover the role you paste in. You get the specific changes that lift the score. Nothing guarantees a callback, but the filter stops being a guess and becomes something you can edit toward.
Does Folio build my resume too, or just the website?
Both, from the same content. As you add projects and coursework to your portfolio, Folio can draft a matching entry-level resume that fits one page and reads clean for the ATS. Edit once and the resume and the portfolio stay consistent, because they share one source.
Do I need to know how to design or code?
No. You bring the projects and the words, and Folio handles the layout, type, and spacing with premium themes built in. You pick a design, your work drops in, and the site looks hired rather than homemade. You can edit anything before you publish.
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