Storyfolio

Follow one book

One rough idea. Ten spreads. A finished dummy.

Here is The Quiet Hour — a picture book about a grandmother teaching a child to notice the moment between day and night — moving through Storyfolio from the first note to the ready-to-send submission.

A rough idea, written down

Start with a premise, a feeling, or an opening line. Paste in a manuscript you've been drafting in Scrivener. The synopsis and title live at the top of every view — it's the north star.

storyfolio · the quiet hour · synopsis

✦ Project Synopsis

A child and her grandmother step onto the porch at dusk. Grandma teaches her to notice the moment when the world is tucking itself in — the pink, the purple, the blue. By the end, the child is the one pointing out the fireflies. A book about slowness, noticing, and the small inheritances between generations.

Splits naturally into spreads. Optional AI helps when the prose is unstructured.

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Gather your visual references

Drag images onto a free-form board: photos, screenshots, sketches you love, color palettes, anything that's making you feel something for the book. Storyfolio extracts the top colors from each image automatically — tap a swatch later to copy the hex straight into Procreate. Tag images by character, scene, palette, style, composition. Attach them to specific spreads when you know where they belong; leave them on the project library when they're still floating. From your iPad, an iOS Shortcut "Save to Storyfolio" sends images here from anywhere — Pinterest, Photos, Safari, in two taps.

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Lay out the storyboard

A standard picture book lives in 32 pages — a Cover, a Title page, 14 body spreads, and a back cover. Storyfolio gives you the whole book as a single SVA-style sheet — drag, insert, reorder, lock. Word-density tints show your pacing at a glance. See the whole arc before you commit to any single page. Press ▶ Read to walk the book aloud — adjustable beat between page-turns, optional voice that reads the manuscript so you can hear the rhythm before the words feel right on the page.

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Work one spread deeply

Open a spread. Write the beat, the manuscript, and the art notes. Upload sketches — every version is kept — and iterate without losing earlier directions. Locking a spread marks it final.

Open it next to Procreate

Companion mode is a quiet read-only window of the current spread — your gathered references arranged the way you placed them, your sketch versions in a swipe-through carousel, the manuscript text below. Pin it on your iPad in Sidecar / split view next to Procreate, and the references stay with you while you draw. No tab-switching, no flow lost. Tap any inspiration → palette swatches → copy a hex → paste into Procreate's color picker. Iterate without breaking the spell.

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When you're stuck, ask

Storyfolio holds an Editorial Companion — trained on the questions great picture book editors actually ask. Share your storyboard and you'll get back the kind of questions that move a book forward: "What does your protagonist want, here, in this moment?" "Where's your page-turn surprise?" "What story does the illustration tell that the words don't?" Never automated answers. The work stays yours — you just have an editor down the hall.

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Send it out

Export a book dummy PDF, a clean manuscript, and a one-page statement — the three documents agents and editors actually ask for. Lock the spreads you want included and press publish. Optional AI helps you find comparable picture books for your query letter, so you don't lose an evening to Goodreads.

What's inside

Built for the slow work of picture books.

Every feature started as something the maker wished existed. Nothing is here to fill a grid — if it's in the app, it earned its keep.

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Manuscript import

Drop in a .docx or paste your draft. Storyfolio suggests spread breaks — you review, accept, and edit. Your words, already paginated.

→ supports .docx, .md

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Companion mode

Open Storyfolio next to Procreate (Sidecar / split view). The current spread, your gathered references, and your sketch versions live in one quiet read-only panel — so you don't lose flow tab-switching while you draw.

→ iPad-friendly · pinch to zoom

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Editorial Companion

Trained on the questions great picture book editors ask. Share a spread, get the kind of feedback that sharpens your book — never pre-written manuscripts, never AI-generated illustrations. Bring your own API key.

→ private, BYO key (Gemini, Claude, OpenAI, Kimi)

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Submission PDFs

Three exports agents actually want: book dummy, manuscript with art notes, and a one-page logline/POV/comparables statement.

→ pdf · single click

Palette & mood

Paint by feeling. Pick swatches and mood keywords; Storyfolio threads them into every scene prompt.

Version every sketch

Upload as many passes as you like. Label them "rough", "refined", "final". Nothing is ever overwritten.

v1 · v2 · v3 ← current

Yours, locally

Stored in your browser, never on a server. Not used to train AI. Storyfolio can’t see your work — no one can. Export anytime.

● stored locally · never trained on

Pricing

Free forever. One-time Pro. No subscriptions.

Storyfolio is a tool, not a service. The whole craft surface is free, forever — share it with your critique group. Pay once when you need a clean, professional deliverable.

Free forever

$0/ forever

The whole craft surface. Unlimited everything. The tier you share with your critique group.

Unlimited projects & spreads
Writing, layout, characters, Flow & Draw — all of it
Manuscript import (.docx, .md)
Editorial Companion (bring your own API key)
PDF export with small "Made with Storyfolio" footer
Stored locally on your device

Open Storyfolio

No signup. No card. Open it and begin.

Pay once · own it forever

Pro

Storyfolio Pro

$49one-time $79

When it's time to send to agents or hand a clean dummy to an editor. Done once, not operated forever.

Everything in Free, plus —
Clean PDFs (no “Made with Storyfolio” footer)
DOCX manuscript exports — agent-ready, formatted for submission
Web Dummy — self-contained .html file you can email or host anywhere
Mini Dummy (printable) — saddle-stitch foldable mini book. Print double-sided, fold, staple, hand to an editor
Mini Dummy (preview) — reading-order PDF. Flip through to see your bound dummy before printing
Quiet Pro icon in the sidebar — for the days you want to feel like the maker you are

Get Storyfolio Pro →

$49 one-time. License key arrives by email; paste it into Settings to unlock. 30-day refund, no questions.

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No subscriptions. No seats. The Editorial Companion uses your own API key, billed by you, with whatever provider you trust. If you buy Pro and hate it, email the maker within 30 days for a full refund — no questions.

Picture book makers know the calm.
And they know the noise.

One rough idea. Ten spreads. A finished dummy.

A rough idea, written down

Gather your visual references

Lay out the storyboard

Work one spread deeply

Open it next to Procreate

When you're stuck, ask

Send it out

Built for the slow work of picture books.

Manuscript import

Companion mode

Editorial Companion

Submission PDFs

Free forever. One-time Pro. No subscriptions.

Storyfolio

Storyfolio Pro

Your work stays your work.

From storyboard to submission.
Start the one you've been holding.

Picture book makers know the calm.And they know the noise.

One rough idea. Ten spreads. A finished dummy.

A rough idea, written down

Gather your visual references

Lay out the storyboard

Work one spread deeply

Open it next to Procreate

When you're stuck, ask

Send it out

Built for the slow work of picture books.

Manuscript import

Companion mode

Editorial Companion

Submission PDFs

Free forever. One-time Pro. No subscriptions.

Storyfolio

Storyfolio Pro

Your work stays your work.

From storyboard to submission.Start the one you've been holding.

Picture book makers know the calm.
And they know the noise.

From storyboard to submission.
Start the one you've been holding.