Authory

What it is

Authory is a portfolio and backup service for writers and other people who publish under their own name. The company's homepage describes it as a way to "create a beautiful portfolio and automatically back up your work": it aggregates everything you have written or recorded and generates a portfolio page from it. The site names four groups of users, writers, journalists, content marketers and thought leaders. It is not a general website builder. You do not design pages from scratch; you point Authory at where your work lives and it assembles the result.

What you build and how

The product has six areas, which the homepage lists as Portfolio, Archive, Analytics, Tracking, Collections and Newsletter. The core idea is that the archive comes first and the portfolio is drawn from it.

The archive is a searchable, full-text copy of your work. The company says Authory constantly searches for your published content and backs it up when it finds it, covering past, present and future pieces, and that you can download the archive at any time. A writer who reviews the tool on Authory's own blog describes the automatic import as the reason for choosing it: after connecting a source, with the website where the work was published as the starting point, every bylined article was pulled into the database. That writer reports roughly 48 hours for the first import, with more than 500 articles found across various sites, and says setup itself took under 3 minutes. The same review says content is saved in its original format as text and media rather than as a screenshot, and that the backup survives even if the source link dies or becomes a redirect.

Not everything has a byline, so the company's comparison page explains the other routes in. Automated import finds bylined work. Everything else, including non-bylined articles, PDFs, audio and video files, social media posts and books, is added by pasting a URL, uploading a file or using the browser extension. For websites and emails that are hard to show, the homepage says Authory takes screenshots automatically and adds them to your account, and you can upload PDFs too. The company also says it sends notifications when it finds your work, so you can track when and where something was published, which is the Tracking area.

The portfolio is the public face. The homepage calls it a self-updating portfolio page, and the pitch is to show your experience "without building an entire website." The comparison page says the layout is professionally designed on every plan, with branding and layout options inside it, and no freeform page builder. The blog reviewer calls the customization limited but precise: no templates or element editors, but you can upload your own images.

Collections are how you tailor what you send. The company says unlimited collections come with every plan. They are standalone mini portfolios drawn from the archive, separate from the public portfolio, each with its own link and private by default. The homepage describes using a collection per area of focus, so you can send a custom page with each pitch, job application or partnership.

Analytics are social rather than web-first. The company says its social media impact figure, on every plan, shows the engagement your articles received on social media no matter who shared them, and the homepage adds that this works even when the content sits under another brand's name. Google Analytics and Search Console integration is listed for the Professional plan. The newsletter area sends automated email digests with links to your latest content, daily or weekly, so readers can follow your work.

The evidence from the pages

Authory publishes its prices. Its comparison page lists three paid plans. Billed annually, Lite is $9 a month, Standard is $15 and Professional is $24. Billed monthly, they are $12, $19 and $29. Lite is a manually updated site of up to 50 items, with the full content archive, Smart Share links and social media engagement tracking included. The comparison names Standard as the plan with automatic import and backups. The company says the $5 a month gap on annual billing between comparable plans in its comparison buys byline matching from a domain alone rather than connected feeds, backfilled past work rather than new items only, full-text backups and a searchable archive.

There is also a Free plan. The company's wording is that it publishes "a public, searchable, backed-up portfolio of up to 10 items, at no cost." The homepage repeats that a free plan is available, that no credit card is needed and that you can cancel anytime. A 14-day trial gives the full Standard or Professional experience without a credit card.

On data handling, the homepage says Authory is "ad- and AI-free, forever," and does not sell data to PR firms or to AI companies. Content added to an account is treated as private, which the company calls 100% copyright compliant, only you can access the full-text backup, and the company says it will not republish your content. On lock-in, the homepage says "No lock in, ever" and that you can export your entire archive at any time as an XML or HTML file. It shows a rating of 4,8/5 stars, though the page does not say who gave the ratings or how many there were.

The pages do not state a customer count, a company location, a founding year or a compliance certification such as SOC 2. They do not describe a custom domain option for Authory itself, so check that before you plan around one.

For support and learning, the site links to tutorials, a blog and a browser extension.

Who it suits and who it does not

Authory suits a writer with a long and scattered publishing history. A freelancer who has bylines at many outlets, a journalist who worries about publications going dark, or a content marketer who needs a different set of samples for each pitch gets the most from automatic import, backup and collections. The free plan lets someone try the portfolio and the archive with up to 10 items before paying, and the export promise means the archive can leave with you.

It suits people less if the portfolio itself is the main product. The company says there is no freeform page builder, so a designer or photographer who wants full control over page layout will find the options narrow. It is also built around written and recorded work rather than visual galleries. The 50-item ceiling on Lite and the 10-item ceiling on Free mean a prolific writer will need Standard or Professional to get automatic import and a large archive, and the pages publish no usage limit for the higher plans. If you only need a handful of links on a one-page site, a simpler tool may do.