Portfolio website builder
A portfolio website builder that does the building,
so you can publish tonight.
Most portfolio website builders hand you a blank canvas and a weekend of layout decisions. Bunfolio asks for your work instead. Sign in with Google, paste your LinkedIn profile or answer a few questions, pick one of four finished templates, and your portfolio goes live on a free subdomain that was created for you the moment you signed in.
Google sign-in only. No card, no trial clock.
How it works
How this portfolio website creator works,
from sign-in to live site.
A portfolio website creator should remove work, not move it around. Every step below replaces something you would otherwise do by hand — inventing a password, choosing an address, laying out sections, writing a first draft — and none of them asks for a card.
Sign in with Google
01There is no password to invent and no confirmation email. Your free subdomain is assigned during that first sign-in, derived from your name, so you never have to think one up or check whether it is taken. You can rename it later.
Import LinkedIn, or just answer
02Paste a public LinkedIn URL and we draft your name, title and about section from it. Skip it and the setup wizard asks instead: your photo, the tools you use, your skills, projects you have shipped and how clients should reach you.
Let AI write the first draft
03Your answers go to an AI step that writes the full site — headline, about, services, project descriptions — so you start by editing a draft rather than staring at empty fields. If the AI is unavailable, the wizard still produces a site from what you typed.
Publish, then edit in plain English
04Publish when it reads right. Afterwards the Website page puts a live preview beside a chat box: describe the change you want, and it is made to your content. Nothing to install, host or deploy.
The templates
Four finished designs,
one profile behind all of them.
Every site uses the same sections — home, about, services, skills and tools, portfolio, testimonials and contact — in one of four designs we made end to end. Your content is stored apart from the design, so switching template later re-renders the same projects and bio in a different look and costs nothing.
Noir
Pure black canvas, coral highlights. Suits designers and developers who want high contrast and one striking first impression.
Warm
Soft off-white, warm orange details. Suits writers, consultants and anyone whose words do more selling than their visuals.
Spotlight
Colour-shifting panels, condensed display type. Suits agencies and art directors who would rather be memorable than understated.
Halftone
Violet halftone hero, oversized uppercase type. Suits illustrators and graphic designers who want the work to hit first and hardest.
Free, and where the wall is
A free website builder for portfolio work,
with one paid option.
Free, with no time limit
A permanent bunfolio.com subdomain, not a trial.
All four templates, switchable at any time.
The LinkedIn import, the AI setup and chat editing.
A contact form, with enquiries saved to your dashboard.
Server-rendered title, description, social card and sitemap for your site.
Visitor numbers for your published site.
What free costs you
Connecting a domain you already own is the one paid feature.
Every published site carries a small “Built with Bunfolio” footer line.
Layouts are fixed: no drag-and-drop, no CSS, no extra pages.
We quote no figures on this page. What connecting a domain costs is set in one place and shown on the pricing section of the home page. Everything the free plan includes.
Choosing a builder
Is this the best portfolio site builder for you?
Sometimes it is not.
Portfolio website builders fall into a few kinds, and the right one depends on which job you want to do yourself. The descriptions below are how each tool describes itself on its own home page — we do not quote other companies’ prices or plan limits, because those change faster than this page will.
| Kind of builder | For example | What it is built for | Choose it when |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-in-one website builder | Wix | A drag-and-drop canvas where any element can be moved, an AI site generator, and an app market for adding functionality. | You want full control of the layout and plan to add shop, booking or CRM features later. |
| Business website platform | Squarespace | Polished templates alongside selling products and appointment booking with payments. | Your portfolio also has to sell prints, products or sessions directly. |
| Design-first canvas | Framer | Building and refining a site visually on a design canvas, with an AI design agent working in place. | Designing the site is part of the work you want to show. |
| Bundled creative-suite portfolio | Adobe Portfolio | A portfolio site from Adobe, aimed at people already working in its creative apps. | You already pay for Adobe’s apps — check Adobe’s own site for what your plan includes. |
| Fixed-layout portfolio builder | Bunfolio | Turning your content into a finished portfolio from a short wizard or a LinkedIn profile, on a free subdomain. | You want a professional site live tonight and are happy not to design it. |
For nine tools side by side, including the reader each one suits better than us, read our comparison of the best portfolio website builders.
Who it suits
An online portfolio builder for people with work to show,
not a layout to design.
Freelance developers and designers
You need one link that shows your projects, your services and how to hire you — and the portfolio has been on your to-do list for a year. This is the version you finish this week.
People between roles
Your LinkedIn already holds most of the story. Import it, add two or three projects with real outcomes, and send hiring managers a site instead of a PDF.
Writers, consultants and coaches
Your words sell more than your visuals. The Warm template is set for reading, with serif headings and a generous measure.
Students and career changers
Coursework and self-directed projects are enough to start. Free here has no expiry date, so there is no reason to wait until you feel ready.
Not for you if you want to design it
If arranging the page is the part you enjoy, a canvas builder will make you happier. We would rather say so here than after you have signed up.
Before the portfolio
Free tools,
no account needed.
Not ready for a whole site? Our free tools work without signing up: a resume builder that exports a PDF, a bio generator, a LinkedIn headline generator and more.
Read next
Before you build,
decide what goes on it.
A builder can only lay out what you give it. These guides cover the part no tool does for you.
What pages should a portfolio website have?
The five pages nearly every portfolio needs, the ones that usually earn nothing, and how to decide between a page and a section.
Turn your LinkedIn profile into a portfolio website
Which profile fields transfer cleanly, which need rewriting, and the two things you have to write from scratch.
How many projects should your portfolio show?
The number to aim for, how it changes by discipline, and how to prune: keep, rewrite or archive.
Questions
What people ask
before they pick a builder.
What is a portfolio website builder?
A tool that turns your work, bio and contact details into a published website without you writing code or arranging hosting. They split into two kinds. Canvas builders hand you a blank page and a set of blocks to arrange, which is flexible and slow. Fixed-layout builders like ours ask for your content and lay it out for you, which is fast and less flexible. Decide which of those two jobs you actually want before you compare anything else.
Is there a free website builder for a portfolio?
Several, and the useful comparison is where each one puts its wall. Ours gives every account a subdomain automatically at the first Google sign-in, includes all four templates, the LinkedIn import and the AI setup, and has no trial clock. The one paid feature is connecting a domain you already own. Every published site carries one small “Built with Bunfolio” line in its footer.
Do I need to know how to code to build a portfolio website?
No. You sign in, answer a short set of questions or paste a public LinkedIn URL, pick a template and publish. Changes afterwards are made by describing them in plain English next to a live preview. The flip side is that there is no HTML or CSS to edit, so a developer who wants to hand-tune the markup is better served by a static site of their own.
Can I build my portfolio website from my LinkedIn profile?
Yes. Paste a public profile URL in the setup wizard and we draft your name, title and about section from it, then you edit the result. The import is a shortcut rather than a requirement: skip it and the wizard simply asks you the same questions instead.
Which is the best portfolio website builder?
It depends on the job. A canvas builder suits you if arranging the page is the part you enjoy, a general website builder suits you if the site must also sell products or take bookings, and a fixed-layout builder like ours suits you if you want a finished site tonight. Our comparison page covers nine tools side by side, including the reader each one suits better than us.
Can I use my own domain with a portfolio website builder?
Yes. You buy the domain from any registrar and connect it from the Website page; connecting one is our only paid feature, with the current options on the pricing section of the home page. Your free subdomain keeps working alongside it, so the site never depends on the paid part staying paid.
Get started
Your subdomain is already waiting,
the moment you sign in.
Sign in with Google, bring your LinkedIn or answer a few questions, and publish. Connect a domain of your own later, only if you decide you want one.
Google sign-in only. No card, and nothing to cancel.