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What you are downloading
One Windows installer, about 636 MB, holding the whole application. Folia is a desktop program rather than a web app in a wrapper: once installed it opens documents, converts, runs OCR, redacts and signs entirely on your own machine, and needs no network connection to do any of it.
The size is mostly the parts that would otherwise live on a server. The conversion engine, the OCR models and the rendering stack all ship with the application, because the alternative is uploading your documents so that someone else can run them.
The free tier is genuinely usable
No account, no trial timer, and no watermark on anything it produces. It is not a demo that stops working — it is the free tier, and for a lot of people it is all they ever need. A licence adds the Power and AI tiers rather than lifting a restriction from what you already have.
Windows will warn you the first time
SmartScreen shows its blue "Windows protected your PC" panel for installers it has not seen often yet. That is a reputation signal, not a verdict on the file. Choose More info, then Run anyway. If you would rather check first, the installer is served over HTTPS from our own domain and from nowhere else.
It does not phone home to work
There is no telemetry and no analytics in the application. A licensed copy re-checks its licence periodically, sending only a hashed machine identifier and the licence id; an unlicensed copy has nothing to check. Optional downloads — extra OCR languages, fonts, local AI models — are fetched once, when you ask for them, and run offline afterwards.
Removing it leaves nothing behind
Folia uninstalls from Windows Settings like any other program. Your documents were never copied anywhere, so there is nothing of yours to clean up — the only things the installer added were the application itself and whatever models you chose to download.
Try it before installing anything
The online version at tools.foliadocs.com is free, needs no account, and runs in your browser. Putting a real document through it is the quickest way to see what the output looks like before downloading a 636 MB installer — and if the result is right there, it will be right in the desktop version too.