Convert and edit PDF and Word files without leaving Finder.

Right-click a file, or press and hold it on the desktop, to convert or edit it. Everything runs on your Mac. MaruDoc never sends your files anywhere.

Download for Mac Version 1.0.0 · macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon and Intel · Free
The Mac App Store version is in preparation.

The radial menu that appears when you press and hold a PDF on the desktop. — Pressing and holding a PDF on the desktop. The outer ring shows Excel and PowerPoint next to Word.

Pressing and holding a PDF on the desktop. The outer ring shows Excel and PowerPoint next to Word.

How it works

Right-click a file and choose MaruDoc. Only the actions that make sense for that file are listed.
Press and hold a file on the desktop. A ring of actions appears around the pointer; slide toward one and let go. Items with more choices open a larger outer ring. Let go in the centre and the menu stays open so you can click instead.
Hands-on work such as cropping or marking up opens a small editor right next to the file.

Results are saved next to the original, and on the desktop they appear beside the original icon. Nothing is ever overwritten by a conversion, and in-place changes such as rotating can be undone right away.

What it does

PDF	To Word, Excel, PowerPoint, images (PNG / JPEG / HEIC / TIFF), Markdown, text, HTML, RTF. Add and fix text, highlight, draw, shapes, white-out, redact, notes, signatures, crop, rotate / delete / reorder pages, combine, split, compress, OCR, passwords, page numbers, watermarks
Images	To PDF, PNG, JPEG, HEIC, TIFF. Crop, rotate, resize, compress, remove background, recognise text, remove location data, adjust, mark up
Word	To PDF, Markdown, text, HTML, RTF, images. Edit with formatting
Markdown, text, HTML	To PDF, Word, each other, images. Edit in place
Excel, CSV	CSV and Excel both ways, PDF, Markdown tables, HTML, Word
PowerPoint	Text and images to PDF, Word, Markdown. Extract images
Several files	Combine PDFs and images into one PDF, convert / compress / resize in bulk

Privacy

MaruDoc contains no networking code. Conversion, editing, text recognition and background removal all use frameworks built into macOS and run on your Mac. MaruDoc collects no usage data.

The Mac App Store version runs in the App Sandbox without network permission, so macOS itself guarantees it cannot connect. You can inspect the downloaded app's entitlements with codesign -d --entitlements - /Applications/MaruDoc.app.

Setup

MaruDoc walks you through this on first launch. For the right-click menu, turn on MaruDoc under System Settings, General, Login Items & Extensions, Finder. For the press-and-hold menu, turn on MaruDoc under Privacy & Security, Accessibility. Accessibility is used only to find the file you pressed and to follow the pointer.