Keep a PDF toolkit in your Dock.
No uploads, no account, no waiting in a queue.
Turn PDFs into Word and Excel files, stitch them together, cut them apart, shrink them, lock them and sign them. Folio works with no internet connection and no account, so your contracts and invoices stay where they are.
Free · macOS 14+ · Apple silicon & Intel · How to open it the first time
Pick a tool, drop your files on it, check the options, press the button. Results land beside the original with a clear suffix — the original is never touched.
Lines are joined back into real paragraphs, headings keep their size, bold stays bold, and every PDF page starts a new Word page.
Folio lines up text by row and column to rebuild tables, one sheet per page. Numbers arrive as numbers, ready for a SUM.
See every page as a thumbnail. Drag to reorder, rotate with ⌘[ and ⌘], remove what you don’t need, undo anything.
Three levels, from text-preserving to maximum shrink, with the size before and after. If a file can’t get smaller, Folio says so instead of saving a bigger copy.
Draw with your trackpad or type your name in a handwriting style, drag it into place, resize it, and save a flattened copy.
Photos become pages in A4, Letter or their own size with optional margins. Word, RTF, HTML and text files are laid out into tidy pages.
Tax returns, leases, medical letters and payslips are exactly the files you shouldn’t hand to a website. Folio does all of its work with Apple’s own PDFKit, Core Graphics and Core Text, right on your Mac.
There’s no sign-in and nothing to upload. The only time Folio goes online is the optional update check.
Folio rebuilds the text: paragraphs, font sizes, bold and italic. Complex layouts with columns, text boxes or decorative graphics are simplified, and pictures aren’t carried into the Word file. For a pixel-perfect copy, use PDF to Images.
Not yet. Scans are pictures of text with nothing to select, so the text and spreadsheet converters have nothing to read. Merge, split, arrange, compress, protect and sign all work fine on scans.
Light runs Apple’s Reduce File Size filter and keeps text selectable. Balanced and Strong redraw each page as a 150 or 96 dpi image, which shrinks scans and photo-heavy files dramatically but makes text unselectable.
No. Remove Password needs the current password; it saves an unprotected copy for when you’re tired of typing it.
Yes. Drop PDFs, images or documents on Folio in the Dock. If the open tool can use them they’re added straight away; otherwise Folio highlights the tools that can.
Folio is distributed directly from this website. Here’s how to open it the first time.
No uploads, no account, no waiting in a queue.