Tidy for Mac

Tidy keeps Downloads and the Desktop organized without you having to think about it.

What separates it from other file organizers: it reads what is written inside your files and names each one from its contents. Images and scanned PDFs through Apple's on-device OCR; Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Pages, Numbers, RTF, HTML and LibreOffice files through the readers macOS already ships; and also saved emails, calendar invitations, contacts, EPUB books and screen recordings. A screenshot of an invoice becomes "invoice-mueller-gmbh.png" instead of "Screenshot 2026-08-02 at 11.20.png". Press ⌥Space to search the text inside scanned PDFs and photos, where Spotlight finds nothing.

New in 2.9: a safety net for AI agents. Before you let Claude, Cowork or Codex work in a folder, protect it — from the panel or with a right-click in the Finder. Tidy keeps an instant copy that takes no space, then tells you in plain words what was moved, renamed and deleted, and brings it all back in one click. What the AI created stays; nothing current is overwritten.

You can also scan paper straight from your iPhone camera (Continuity Camera, no cable) and the shot lands in Downloads already named after what it says. Rules can filter by what a file says inside or where it came from: the website it was downloaded from or the app that delivered it, like WhatsApp, Mail or AirDrop.

Everything runs on your Mac. No account, no server, no subscription. Nothing is ever deleted: every move goes to the Trash and every run can be undone in one click.

One-time purchase. The app requires a license code, delivered by email after purchase at tidymacapp.com.