Click any frame to upload an image, or drag and drop an image directly onto the frame. Front cover sits alone, inside pages are shown as double-page spreads, and the back cover sits alone at the bottom.
A4 landscape sheets with two A5 pages per side. Print double-sided and flip on short edge.
I’m Ash, a Perth-based photographer who loves all things analogue. I love film, I love print and I love combining the two.
I like things that are real and tactile. I love books and I love zines.
I made Fold & Staple because I wanted an easy way to sequence and print photography zines. Trying to figure out imposition and get the print layout right always confused my brain, and I kept wasting paper and ink trying to make it work.
I also write a Substack about making things, creative habits, notebooks, photography, zines and the small obsessions that seem to hold a life together.
Fold & Staple is free to use. No uploads, no accounts. Just build the zine, save the PDF, print it, fold it and staple it.
Fold & Staple is a small browser-based tool for building A5 and pocket-sized photo zines and exporting print-ready PDFs.
Choose Pocket · 89 × 140 mm for a small notebook-sized zine. The print PDF stays on A4 landscape, with the imposed spread centred on the sheet.
If the reverse side prints upside down, turn on Rotate back sides 180° and save the back-side PDF again.
Use Save flip test PDF before printing a full zine on expensive paper. It creates a simple two-page test to help you work out your printer’s manual feed behaviour.
Save reading PDF exports the zine in normal page order at the selected finished page size. Use it for checking sequence, sharing digitally, archiving or reviewing crops before printing.
Save project creates a .foldstaple project file. Use Open project to continue editing later.
Back cover QR codes are generated locally. Common formats such as @handle, instagram.com/handle and full https:// links are supported.
Large images are resized to a practical print size to keep the app responsive. For ultra-wide images such as 21:9 crops, use:
Images are processed locally in the browser. They are not uploaded to a server. Temporary image data is held in the browser tab while the app is open. Use Start again or close the tab to clear the working session.