Poets
Small Hours
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✦ PRICING ✦
Free to make.
$2.99 to keep.
One price, paid once, per zine. No plans, no seats, no monthly anything. You see the finished zine before you decide whether it's worth $2.99.
Building
Free
Genuinely free — not a trial, and no card anywhere.
- Build unlimited zines — no account needed to start
- 10 ready-made templates, fully written
- Unlimited images, articles, quotes and stories
- Watermarked PDF preview to download and check
- A shareable public link for any zine you publish
Pay once, per zine
The clean PDF
$2.99one-off
Only when you've seen the zine and want the real copy.
- Clean PDF with no watermark
- Print-resolution export, ready for a print shop
- Every page laid out properly — nothing cut across pages
- Saved to your account so you can re-download any time
- Yours to sell, print, or give away — no licence attached
You buy from inside the builder, once your zine exists.
For context
$15/mo
A design subscription
Charged whether you open it or not.
An afternoon
Fighting a word processor
And it still looks like a word processor.
$2.99
One finished zine here
Once, for that zine. Nothing recurring.
Questions people actually ask
Is this a subscription?
No. There is no recurring charge anywhere on zine.best. You pay $2.99 for a specific zine's clean PDF, and that is the end of the transaction. If you make five zines and only want two as PDFs, you pay twice.
What does the free version actually give me?
Everything except the clean PDF. You can build as many zines as you like, use every template and section type, upload as many images as you want, publish a shareable public link, and download a watermarked PDF to check the result. The watermark is the only thing the payment removes.
Why charge for the PDF and not the builder?
Because you should be able to see the finished thing before deciding it's worth money. Charging up front means people pay for a promise. Charging at the download means they pay for something they've already looked at.
Can I sell or print what I make?
Yes. The zine is yours. Print it, sell it at a fair, give it away, put it in a shop. We don't take a cut and there's no licence attached to the output.
What if the PDF comes out wrong?
Download the free watermarked preview first — it's laid out identically, so you'll see any problem before paying. If something is still wrong with the paid copy, email support@zine.best and we'll refund it.
Do I need an account?
Not to build, and not to buy. You can go from the homepage to a finished zine without signing up. When you pay, we create an account on the email you give us so the zine is saved and you can download it again later.