On Authory?
Keep the clips. Add a real site.
Authory does one thing that nothing else does as well: it automatically finds your published articles across the web and backs them up, so a portfolio of your writing keeps itself current even when a publication takes a piece down. That automatic clip backup is a job Folio does not do, so if collecting your byline is the point, keep Authory. Folio answers a different need: paste your resume and get a multi-page professional website on your own domain, with a designer resume, a live ATS score, and a matched cover letter. The honest split is below.
What Authory is great at.
A fair account before the comparison. Authory is a specialist for writers, and its automation is genuinely rare. If your work is a stream of published articles, it is built for you.
It tracks your byline across publications and pulls new pieces in without manual entry.
Every article is saved, so a piece survives even if the original page disappears.
A portfolio of your published work that updates itself as you publish more.
Writers and reporters with clips scattered across outlets are exactly who it serves.
Authory and Folio, judged fairly.
Different tools for different needs. Authory wins on automatic clip collection and backup. Folio wins when the goal is a professional site drafted from a resume.
| Authory | Folio | |
|---|---|---|
| Best at | Auto-collecting and backing up your writing | A professional site drafted from your resume |
| Clip backup | Yes, automatic and rare | No, it does not collect articles |
| Built around | Your published byline | Your resume and career history |
| Stays current | Pulls new pieces in for you | You update it as your career moves |
| How you build it | Connect sources, it collects | Paste a resume, get a draft in about a minute |
| Resume tooling | None | Designer resume with a live ATS score |
| Cover letter | No | Matched to the same profile |
| Custom domain | Yes, on paid plans | On paid plans, TLS handled automatically |
To collect and safeguard a body of published writing, Authory is the specialist. For a resume-driven professional site with a scored resume, that is what Folio is for.
When to stay on Authory.
Folio does not crawl the web for your byline and never will. If a self-updating archive of your clips is the point, Authory is the better tool, and we will say so.
Move to Folio if you
- +Want a professional website built from a resume, not a clip archive.
- +Want a designer resume and a live ATS score alongside the site.
- +Want separate pages for work, about, and contact, drafted for you.
- +Want a matched cover letter drawn from the same profile.
Keep Authory if you
- −Want your articles collected and backed up automatically. Authory is better here.
- −Need a portfolio of writing that keeps itself current.
- −Worry about pieces vanishing when a publication changes or closes.
- −Are a journalist whose work is a stream of published clips.
Authory questions, answered.
Straight answers on where each tool wins and where it does not compete.
Does Folio collect my articles like Authory?
No. Automatic collection and backup of your published writing is Authory's core strength, and nothing in Folio does it. Folio builds a professional website from a resume, with a designer resume, a live ATS score, and a matched cover letter. If keeping your byline archived is the point, keep Authory.
Can Folio back up my published clips?
No, that is what Authory is for. Folio is built around your resume and career story, not a self-updating archive of articles. It fits a hiring goal rather than a clip-preservation one.
What does the ATS score do?
It shows live how readable your resume is to an applicant tracking system, so nothing important is lost in parsing. You can try the free ATS score checker before you build.
Do both support a custom domain?
Yes. Authory supports a custom domain on its paid plans, and Folio connects one on its paid plans, with TLS handled automatically. On that point they are comparable.
How does Folio build the site?
You paste your resume and it drafts the pages, the copy, and a matched designer resume. See resume to portfolio for how each section becomes a page.
Should I leave Authory?
Not for clip backup. Authory is the right tool for collecting and safeguarding your writing. Consider Folio when you separately want a professional site built from a resume with a scored resume beside it.
Keep reading.
The product, how a resume becomes a site, and the free tool to check your resume.
Keep the archive.
Add a professional site.
Stay on Authory for the automatic clip backup it does so well. When you want a professional website built around your experience, paste your resume into Folio and get a multi-page site, a scored resume, and a matched cover letter in about a minute, on your own domain with TLS handled for you.