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Hi, I’m Tidy

Your Mac tidies itself

It reads what your files actually say and gives them the name they deserve. On its own, from your menu bar.

on its own, the moment the file lands

Buy Tidy — $9

One-time payment · instant download · 14-day guarantee

Nothing gets deleted here

Three Mac annoyances, solved on their own

Screenshot saved

Auto-Drop

Archives Desktop screenshots and, with on-device AI, renames them by their content (OCR). Trashes them once you no longer need them.

→ Trash

Smart Eject

Detects the .dmg you mounted, ejects the disk and moves the installer to the Trash. Goes beyond macOS’s “Eject When Finished”.

Images

Flow Rules

Sorts your Downloads by type or by filename — and if you like, renames files from their content in your style (or just renames them, without moving).

Don't want to set anything up? Press one button

The three above work on their own, in the background. This one you do yourself, whenever you feel like it. Tidy reads your Downloads and Desktop and shows you the name it would give each file. Tick the ones you want and you are done.

Safe mode included: Tidy only touches new files, unless you ask it to tidy older ones. Nothing gets deleted — and you can undo any action.

Everything it does, nothing trimmed

The long list. It comes from the source code, not from a brochure: every line exists and you can check it by opening the app. If something is not here, Tidy does not do it.

It reads inside your files

7 features
  • Local OCR of images and screenshots
  • Reads scanned PDFs, the ones with no text layer
  • Reads Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Pages, Numbers, RTF and HTML with what macOS already ships
  • Its own index on your Mac, with restricted permissions
  • The index is encrypted, with the key in your Keychain
  • All on your machine: no account, no server, no telemetry
  • Also emails, invitations, contacts, books and screen recordings

It scans and extracts

8 features
  • Your iPhone is the scanner: live viewfinder, no cable, no apps
  • A live outline shows you which document it sees
  • Straightens the page and fixes the perspective on its own
  • Rotation is decided by the angle of the text, in any language
  • Photo or PDF — and the PDF takes as many pages as you like
  • The scan lands in Downloads already named after its contents
  • Extracts the full text of a PDF or image into a .txt
  • Translates what it extracted offline, detecting the language

It renames by content

10 features
  • Names a file after what it actually says inside
  • Describe in your own words how you want names to look
  • Lower case, separator and date format to your taste
  • German transliteration (ä → ae) for file names
  • "Rename now": a manual pass, without writing any rule
  • Edit the suggested name before it is applied
  • Rename in place, leaving the file where it is
  • It knows which files it renamed and never redoes them
  • Right-click in the Finder: “Rename with Tidy”
  • Review desk: the proposed name next to the current one, approved one by one

Rules that work on their own

12 features
  • Filter by extension, age, text in the file name
  • Filter by the TEXT INSIDE the file
  • Filter by WHERE IT CAME FROM: the site that downloaded it or the app that brought it
  • Write the rule in your own words and it infers the extensions (AI, macOS 26)
  • Move to a subfolder, group by month, rename
  • It learns your habits and proposes the rule
  • It warns when a rule shadows another and can never run
  • Tidy the backlog of a folder, when you ask for it
  • Export and import rules in a file you carry yourself
  • Five ready-made sets: design, code, finance, study, photo
  • Rename the destination folder and it pauses and asks you
  • Files into another folder: iCloud Drive, an external disk, whichever you pick

It watches your folders

8 features
  • Downloads, the Desktop if you add it, and any other folder
  • In each folder it only touches what was created after you added it
  • Files away Desktop screenshots, then moves them to the Trash
  • Groups screenshots by the app they were born in
  • Recognises CleanShot, Shottr, Xnapper and Monosnap screenshots
  • Ejects the mounted .dmg and trashes the installer
  • Spots the folder holding a single file and offers to lift it out
  • Optional subfolders, folder by folder

It finds what you are looking for

8 features
  • Searches INSIDE images and scanned PDFs
  • Global panel with ⌥Space, from any app
  • Shows you the passage where your word appears
  • Enter opens, ⌘R reveals in the Finder, ⌘⇧C copies
  • Drag a result straight into an email or a chat
  • Mirrored in the system Spotlight, under its own category
  • Duplicates by content: two files that say the same thing under different names
  • Reads the due date on a bill and offers you the reminder

It looks after your privacy

7 features
  • Warns if a card number, an IBAN or a passport is sitting in the open
  • Validates the numbers for real (Luhn, mod-97): no false alarms
  • Detects executables dressed as documents (Invoice.pdf.app)
  • Discreet mode: notifications without file names
  • It only warns. It never moves or deletes on its own
  • “Keep Tidy off this”: what you mark is never moved, renamed or trashed
  • Safety net: undoes what an AI did to a folder

It follows your day

11 features
  • Stage mode: hides the Desktop before you share your screen
  • Hides widgets too, and puts everything back as it was
  • Travel mode: downloads what iCloud left in the cloud only
  • Tells you how much space you would get back before doing it
  • Release notes inside the app, offline
  • A searchable activity log that survives restarts
  • Order the panel sections the way that suits you
  • Share a card with everything you have tidied so far
  • Tags in the Finder what it organized, if you turn it on
  • Siri and Shortcuts: rename, search and protect from your own shortcuts
  • A panel in groups you collapse and reorder to suit you

The app
  • Lives in the menu bar and stays out of the Dock
  • Universal: Apple Silicon and Intel, macOS 14 or later
  • Five native languages: Spanish, English, German, Portuguese, French
  • Search panel usable with a screen reader and without a mouse
  • Automatic updates, signed
  • Notarised by Apple
  • Activated with a code that arrives in your email, no account
  • The code is verified on your Mac, with no connection
  • US$9 once, with a 14-day guarantee

What Tidy doesn't do
  • Doesn't delete. Not your files, not caches, not your Library
  • Doesn't promise reclaimed gigabytes or clean up any «junk»
  • Doesn't move anything you haven't approved first
  • Doesn't upload your documents: there is no server to upload to
  • No account, no session, no subscription that expires
  • Doesn't read your mail, your calendar or your clipboard
  • Doesn't exist for Windows, and there are no plans for it

It never deletes anything. And everything can be undone

It is what our first users praised most: you can leave it running unsupervised, anxiety-free. Here is how we guarantee it:

Never deletes

Archives or moves to the Trash. Never erases a file.

Only new files

Your existing backlog stays out of it, unless you ask.

Dry run mode

Flip it on and Tidy shows you its plan — what would move, and where — without moving anything. Approve with one click.

Searchable history

Every action is recorded and survives restarts. Review what went to the Trash before you empty it.

Run-level undo

One click reverts an entire sorting pass — not file by file.

Privacy audit

Warns you if a sensitive document sits in plain sight — cards, IDs, contracts — and if an executable arrives disguised as a PDF. It only warns: deciding is up to you.

A safety net for AI

Before Claude, Cowork or Codex works in a folder, protect it. If something goes wrong, Tidy tells you what was moved and deleted, and brings it back in one click.

One price. Forever

No subscription, no surprises. Pay once and Tidy is yours — with lifetime updates.

USD one-time payment

Buy Tidy

macOS 14 or later · Apple Silicon and Intel · 14-day guarantee

Everything you’d wonder before paying $9

Can Tidy delete something important?

No. Tidy never deletes: it archives and moves to the Trash, always reversibly. And it only touches new files — your existing backlog stays untouched.

Is $9 really a one-time payment?

Yes. One payment, yours forever, with lifetime updates. No subscription, no hidden charges.

Will it slow my Mac down?

Tidy is a small native app that lives in your menu bar. It doesn’t scan your disk or run heavy daemons in the background.

Does it work with my iCloud Downloads folder?

Yes. You can point Tidy at any folder — including a Downloads folder in iCloud Drive — from Flow Rules → Watched folder → Change. macOS grants access to that folder and Tidy sorts it just like the default one.

Can it watch more folders, not just Downloads?

Yes (v1.10). Under Flow Rules → “Watch another folder…” you add as many as you like — Documents, an external drive, wherever your screenshots land — and your same rules keep them tidy, nothing new to set up. Each folder tidies into subfolders inside itself, and Tidy only touches files created after you added it: you can point it at ten years of files without fear.

What is the privacy audit?

A button (v1.10) that looks at what sits in plain sight in your watched folders and warns you if a sensitive document was left lying around: a card number, a scanned ID or passport, a bank account, a signed contract. It only warns — nothing gets moved, encrypted or deleted. The analysis happens entirely on your Mac. And if a file arrives that runs code disguised as a document (“Invoice.pdf.app”), Tidy warns you the moment it lands.