Native for macOS 26 · Apple Silicon
Merge PDFs, convert images, transcribe video, compress media, and run 180+ operations on your own machine. No uploads, no ads, no waiting on a progress bar that isn't yours.
7-day free trial, then €19 once · macOS 26+ · Apple Silicon · signed & notarized
The web-tool tax
Every look-alike runs the same ritual: send your private files to someone else's server, wait, dodge the ads, hit the paywall, download. Filox does the work where the file already lives — on your Mac, in the time it takes the others to finish uploading.
The index
Drop a file and Filox suggests the operation, or hit ⌘K and search 90+ of them by name. Here's a live slice.
Images
Video
Audio
Archives
Text & Data
Developer
Office & Files
On-device AI
The flagship triad
Most of Filox matches the web tools and beats them on speed and privacy. These three aren't parity — they run on Apple's newest on-device frameworks, and they're simply better.
Turn any audio or video into text and subtitles with Apple's on-device SpeechAnalyzer — faster than Whisper Large, 20+ languages, no length limit. Burn-in captions or export SRT/VTT in one pass.
Audio · video → text · SRT · VTT
Remove backgrounds, OCR documents with real layout and tables, lift Live Text, smart-crop by saliency, blur faces — all on the Vision framework, on-device and instant.
Background removal · OCR · smart crop
Merge, split, compress, OCR, sign, fill, watermark, redact, compare, annotate. Everything the web PDF tools charge for — at full quality, with nothing leaving your Mac.
40+ PDF operations
Built like an instrument
No round-trip to a server. Work runs on your Apple Silicon, off the main thread, parallelised across every core. Most operations finish under three seconds.
Nothing is uploaded, cached, or indexed by anyone. The only network call Filox ever makes is its own update check. Privacy by architecture, not by policy.
Drop a hundred files at once. No caps, no queue behind another user's job, no “3 free conversions then sign in.” Batch is the default, not the upsell.
Where a specialised web tool still beats us — full-fidelity Office export, a missing codec — we say so plainly, right on this page and inside the app.
What we don't fake
We ship what native frameworks let us ship at full quality — and we tell you where they don't. No faking, no half-shipping.
Web tools run LibreOffice server-side. Filox extracts text and data faithfully, but won't render slide-perfect conversions.
We read them, but export to higher-quality formats (M4A, HEIC) and tell you the trade-off in the UI.
Proprietary, no legal native path. ZIP, TAR, and Apple Archive are fully supported — including AES-256 encryption.
No on-device Apple model exists yet, and we won't bundle a half-baked one. The day Apple ships it, so do we.
Your files never leave the machine — because there's nowhere for them to go.
Pricing
No subscriptions on the core app, no ads, no mid-operation paywall, no signup to use what you paid for. Start free for seven days.
Try every operation free for a week. Keep it forever for a single €19.
macOS 26+ · Apple Silicon · Signed & notarized by Apple
The on-device intelligence layer, when you want it. Cancel anytime.
Funds the on-device AI work. Still no cloud, no API keys, no data leaving your Mac.
Questions
No. Every operation runs on-device. The only network Filox touches is its own update check — there is no upload, no account, no telemetry, no cloud.
A 7-day free trial, then a one-time €19 for the entire core app — forever, with free updates. The optional on-device AI layer is a separate subscription. No ads, no upsells, no mid-task paywalls.
Yes — there is no round-trip to a server. Operations run on your Apple Silicon at native speed, in batch, with no artificial limits. Most finish before a web tool has finished uploading.
macOS 26 or later on Apple Silicon. The app is signed, notarized, and distributed as a direct download — auto-updating via Sparkle.
Right on this page, and inside the app. Where a specialized web tool still wins — full-fidelity Office conversion, certain codecs — we say so plainly instead of faking it.
One native app that does the work locally — instantly, privately, at the quality Apple would ship.
7-day free trial, then €19 once · macOS 26+ · Apple Silicon