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.
Early access locks after 7 days · purchases are not open yet · macOS 26+ · Apple Silicon
By downloading, you agree to the Terms of Use.
The web-tool tax
Many browser tools begin by uploading your file to a remote server. Filox keeps file operations on your Mac, removing that transfer step without claiming every web service behaves the same way.
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 audio or video into text and subtitles with Apple's on-device SpeechAnalyzer in 20+ supported languages. Burn in captions or export SRT/VTT in one pass; speed varies by hardware and source media.
Audio · video → text · SRT · VTT
Remove backgrounds, OCR documents with layout and tables, lift Live Text, smart-crop by saliency, and blur faces using Apple's Vision framework on-device.
Background removal · OCR · smart crop
Merge, split, compress, OCR, sign, fill, watermark, redact, compare, and annotate PDFs, with processing kept on your Mac.
40+ PDF operations
Built like an instrument
No upload or download round-trip. Work runs on your Apple Silicon, with completion time depending on the operation, file size, and media format.
File operations stay on your Mac. Limited network requests support update checks and the pseudonymous trial anchor; there is no file upload or usage telemetry.
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 support reliably — 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.
Not supported in the current release. ZIP, TAR, and Apple Archive are supported, including encrypted Apple Archive output.
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
The planned core licence is one-time, with no ads or account. Sales are not open yet and will initially be limited to Germany; the current early-access build runs for seven days.
Planned German price: a perpetual core licence for a single €19 payment.
The preview locks after 7 days. Buying is not available yet, so download only if you want to test Filox now.
No payment taken · macOS 26+ · Apple Silicon · Developer ID signed · notarized by Apple
By downloading, you agree to the Terms of Use.
A separate optional AI layer is planned, but no subscription or final feature set is available today.
Any future AI offer will receive its own price, terms, and privacy disclosure before subscriptions open.
Questions
No file operation uploads your files. Processing stays on your Mac. The app makes limited network requests for update checks and the pseudonymous trial anchor described in the Privacy Policy; it has no usage telemetry or account.
The planned core price in Germany is a one-time €19 for a perpetual licence, with released core updates included at no extra charge. Sales are not open yet: the current download is a 7-day early-access preview that locks when it ends. A separate optional AI subscription is planned but not available.
It can be, because there is no upload or download round-trip. Actual speed depends on the operation, file size, media format, and Mac; Filox does not promise a fixed completion time.
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, without file uploads or usage analytics, at native Mac quality.
The preview locks after 7 days · purchases are not open yet · macOS 26+ · Apple Silicon
By downloading, you agree to the Terms of Use.