Windows tool for Power BI
Real Power BI visuals in your own Word template, one document per customer
Reportfold puts real Power BI visuals into your own Word template and produces one document per customer, department or region, filtered by a period, on a Power BI Pro licence, without Fabric capacity, without an administrator, and without anything leaving your PC.
Windows tool. One-time price of 99 euro per user. Free trial with a watermark, no time limit, no credit card.
Checkout runs through Polar, which acts as merchant of record.
How it works
Three steps. The first one you do once, the other two you repeat every period.
Set up, once
Unzip the download. Install the Azure CLI or the Power BI PowerShell module from Microsoft, and sign in once, yourself, with your own account and your own MFA. Double-click the start file and Reportfold opens in your browser, running on your machine. No installer and no administrator rights: the Azure CLI also ships as a zip package, which Microsoft describes as "useful when you don't have administrative privilege".1
Pick the visuals
Choose your report and the page you want to capture. Reportfold shows that page and you click the visuals you want. Press "Generate and download" and you get a .docx with one placeholder per visual, sized to the proportions of the original. You finish that document in Word, in your own house style, with your own headings and your own written commentary.
Roll out
Choose the dimension (customer, department, region, complex), the values you want, and the period. Press "Start roll-out". Reportfold fills a copy of your template for every value and writes the documents to a folder, with a log of what it did. A capture that fails becomes a visible frame in the document, never a blank space.
What you need
- Windows. There is no macOS version.
- A Power BI Pro licence and access to the report you want to use. Power BI Pro is 14.00 USD per user per month, billed annually, on Microsoft's price list.2
- The Azure CLI or the Power BI PowerShell module, both from Microsoft,
to obtain the token. Reportfold uses Microsoft's own first-party clients: the Azure CLI
application id
04b07795-8ddb-461a-bbee-02f9e1bf7b46,3 or the module, of which Microsoft writes: "For user accounts, an Azure Active Directory (AAD) First-Party application is leveraged for authentication".4 Reportfold registers no application of its own, so there is no consent screen and no admin consent. - Microsoft Edge, which is already on Windows 11. Reportfold drives the browser that is already there and downloads no browser of its own.
- A hidden print page in your report. This is the one change you make to your report, and it is the biggest hurdle in this product.
The hidden print page, in three lines
- In Power BI Desktop, add a page and give the canvas a solid background at 0 percent transparency.
- Put the visuals you want to capture on that page, at the size you want them in Word.
- Right-click the page tab, choose "Hide page", and publish the report.
What it does not do
We would rather you find this out here than after paying.
- No Power BI Report Server. Reportfold works against the Power BI service at app.powerbi.com. Report Server is a separate product with its own web portal, and Microsoft itself describes it as "a basic reporting portal for on-premises reporting" for which "parity should not be expected".5 If your reports live only on Report Server, Reportfold is not for you.
- No Fabric or Premium capacity features. That is the point of the product, but it also means there is no server-side export: everything happens in the browser on your PC.
- No scheduling and no email delivery. You run it and you get a folder of documents. Sending them is your job.
- No PDF output in this version.
- No values or tables pulled from the model as text. Reportfold places the visuals you pick as images, in the template you wrote. The words around them are yours.
- One document per dimension value. No repeated sections inside a single document.
- Static images. Once the document is written, the pictures are pictures. As one competitor puts it in their own article about this problem: "As soon as you screenshot your data, it becomes static and no longer dynamic".6 That applies to every image-based route, including this one.
- No working around your tenant settings. Power BI has a tenant setting called "Copy and paste visuals": "Turn on this setting to allow users in the organization to copy visuals from a tile or report visual and paste them as static images into external applications".7 If your administrator has turned that off, Reportfold stops and says so.
- No signing in for you. You sign in yourself, in a visible browser window, with your own MFA. Reportfold never types a password or an MFA code.
- Conditional Access can block it. A policy that requires a compliant or Microsoft Entra hybrid joined device is a real blocker for a tool like this, because those checks need a device identity registered through Intune or hybrid join.8 If your organisation runs one, ask us for the note for IT administrators at support@kolkworks.com.
- Table visuals get cut off where their content falls outside the visible area. Microsoft documents the same limitation for its own copy feature.9
- The trial watermarks every capture. That is the only difference between the trial and the paid version.
The watermark and the trial
The trial is the full tool: no time limit, no credit card, every feature. Every capture carries a watermark, and a licence key removes it. Nothing else changes, so you can establish whether the tool works in your tenant, with your report and your template, before you pay anything.
This is the same shape of trial that PowerBI Tiles Pro and PowerBI Robots use in this niche, where the trial is functionally identical apart from a watermark on the output.10
Price
99 euro
One time, per user. No subscription.
- Twelve months of updates included.
- After twelve months the version you have keeps working, for as long as you like.
- Renewing for another twelve months of updates is optional and discounted.
- Free trial first: full tool, watermark on every capture, no time limit, no credit card.
Checkout runs through Polar, which acts as merchant of record. That means Polar is the seller on your invoice, handles VAT for your country, and sends you the licence key. Cards and the usual methods are supported. You do not need an account with us.
For organisations: if you need an invoice with a purchase order number, or more than a handful of seats, write to support@kolkworks.com before you buy.
Questions
Does this send my data anywhere?
No. The report is opened in a browser on your PC, under your own Power BI licence. The captures and the finished Word documents are written to a folder on your PC. Reportfold has no server, no account system and no telemetry that carries report content. The only outbound call the paid version makes is the licence key check to the checkout provider, which sends the key, not your data. The trial makes no licence call at all.
Do I need admin consent or an app registration?
No. Reportfold uses Microsoft's own first-party clients: the Azure CLI (application id
04b07795-8ddb-461a-bbee-02f9e1bf7b46)3 or the
Power BI PowerShell module, which Microsoft describes as using "an Azure Active
Directory (AAD) First-Party application ... for
authentication".4 There is no third-party app in the
picture, so there is no consent prompt, no service principal and no client secret. This
matters: since November 2020, risk-based step-up consent means that "users can't
consent to most newly registered multitenant apps that aren't publisher verified", and
such requests are escalated to an administrator.11
Reportfold avoids that whole question by not being such an app.
Why do I need a hidden print page?
Because Reportfold captures what the browser actually renders, and a report page designed for a screen is not a page designed for a document. A hidden print page lets you lay the visuals out at the size and proportion you want in Word, on an opaque background, without changing the report your colleagues use. It is an instruction, not code, and it takes a few minutes per report.
What about Conditional Access?
It applies in full, because Reportfold rides on Microsoft's own clients. Microsoft is explicit that Conditional Access "applies to resources not clients", and that a policy on the Azure management API indirectly affects "Azure CLI, ... Azure PowerShell".12 Three policies are known to break this tool: a requirement for a compliant or hybrid joined device on the Power BI service or on Azure Resource Manager,8 the Microsoft-managed policy that blocks device code flow,3 and the Fabric tenant option "Block Public Internet Access", after which Fabric "isn't accessible from the public Internet".13 Our note for IT administrators lists these in a form your IT department can check in five minutes; ask for it at support@kolkworks.com.
Does it work with Power BI Report Server?
No. See "What it does not do" above.
Do I need Premium or Fabric capacity?
No, and that is the reason this product exists. Microsoft's export API for regular Power BI reports supports only .pptx, .pdf and .png, states that "the report you're exporting must reside in a workspace backed by a Premium, Embedded, or Fabric capacity", and adds that "exporting a Power BI report to a file using the exportToFile API is not supported for Premium Per User (PPU)".14 Dynamic per recipient subscriptions likewise require Premium or Fabric capacity and do not offer Word.15
How is this different from copying a visual as an image by hand?
Copying a visual as an image is an official, free Power BI feature, and you should use it if you need one picture once.9 Reportfold exists for the case where you need the same document forty times, filtered differently each time, every month.
Is this an alternative to Qlik NPrinting?
For the Power BI case, yes, and it is worth being precise about what that means. NPrinting is a Qlik product for QlikView and Qlik Sense, not for Power BI; Qlik publishes no price list for it, and it does not run on Qlik Cloud.16 Reportfold does one part of what NPrinting does, which is: the same document, filtered per recipient, in an Office file, for Power BI reports. It does not do scheduling, distribution or Excel and PowerPoint templates.
Can I get an invoice?
Yes. Polar is the merchant of record and issues the invoice, with VAT handled for your country. If you need a purchase order number on it, contact support@kolkworks.com before you buy.
What is your refund policy?
There is a free trial with no time limit and no credit card, so you can establish whether it works in your tenant before you pay anything. The refund terms are in the Refund policy.
Transparency
Reportfold is built by Kolkworks, a small Dutch studio, with AI agents doing the engineering under human direction. Support is answered by Kolkworks: replies written by an AI agent say so at the top of the message, and anything touching your money, your licence or your tenant is checked by a human before it goes out.
Kolkworks products are built and operated by AI agents under human supervision. We are open about this: it is how we keep prices low and quality checked.
Sources
All Microsoft and competitor pages below were consulted on the dates given, by the research team, and are quoted rather than paraphrased where the wording matters.
- Install the Azure CLI on Windows, and ZIP package of Azure CLI on Windows, Microsoft. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli-windows and techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azuretoolsblog/zip-package-of-azure-cli-is-available-on-windows/4039425 (consulted 1 September 2026).
- Power BI pricing, Microsoft. microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/products/power-bi/pricing (consulted 31 August 2026).
- Plan for mandatory Microsoft Entra multifactor authentication, Microsoft Learn, which lists the Azure CLI under application id 04b07795-8ddb-461a-bbee-02f9e1bf7b46, and Microsoft-managed Conditional Access policies, which include "Block device code flow". learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/authentication/concept-mandatory-multifactor-authentication and learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/conditional-access/managed-policies (consulted 1 September 2026).
- Connect-PowerBIServiceAccount, Microsoft Learn. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoftpowerbimgmt.profile/connect-powerbiserviceaccount (consulted 1 September 2026).
- Power BI usage scenarios: on-premises reporting, Microsoft Learn. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/guidance/powerbi-implementation-planning-usage-scenario-on-premises-reporting (consulted 1 September 2026).
- "The quick and easy ways to export Power BI to Word", UpSlide, article dated 26 July 2024. upslide.com/blog/the-quick-and-easy-ways-to-export-power-bi-to-word/ (consulted 31 August 2026). UpSlide sells a competing product; the quote is used as a description of the problem, not as independent evidence.
- Export and sharing tenant settings, Microsoft Learn. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/admin/service-admin-portal-export-sharing (consulted 31 August 2026).
- Conditional Access: Grant, and Require device compliance, Microsoft Learn. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/conditional-access/concept-conditional-access-grant and learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/conditional-access/policy-all-users-device-compliance (consulted 31 August 2026).
- Copy and paste a visualization in Power BI, Microsoft Learn. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/visuals/power-bi-visualization-copy-paste (consulted 31 August 2026).
- PowerBI Tiles Pro, DevScope: free trial "with the presence of a watermark on every embedded report and dashboard". powerbitiles.com/Pro/ (consulted 1 September 2026). PowerBI Robots FAQ: free use with a red watermark on all images and PDFs. docs.pbirobots.powerbitiles.com/about/faqs (consulted 31 August 2026, via search result; the page itself was not readable by our tools).
- Publisher verification overview, Microsoft Learn, and Configure risk-based step-up consent, Microsoft Learn. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity-platform/publisher-verification-overview and learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/enterprise-apps/configure-risk-based-step-up-consent (consulted 1 September 2026).
- Targeting resources in Conditional Access policies, Microsoft Learn. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/conditional-access/concept-conditional-access-cloud-apps (consulted 1 September 2026).
- Set up and use a tenant-level private link, Microsoft Learn. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/security/security-private-links-use (consulted 1 September 2026).
- Export Power BI report to file, Microsoft Learn. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/embedded/export-to (consulted 31 August 2026).
- Dynamic per recipient subscriptions for Power BI reports, Microsoft Learn. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/collaborate-share/power-bi-dynamic-report-subscriptions (consulted 31 August 2026).
- Qlik NPrinting pricing threads on Qlik Community, and Qlik NPrinting product lifecycle. community.qlik.com/t5/Qlik-NPrinting/NPrinting-Pricing/td-p/1929086 and community.qlik.com/t5/Product-Lifecycle/Qlik-NPrinting-Product-Lifecycle/ta-p/1826342 (consulted 31 August 2026, via search result; the pages themselves were not readable by our tools). NPrinting is a trademark of Qlik. Reportfold is not affiliated with Qlik or with Microsoft.