Every PDF tool you reach for, in one calm app.
Compress, merge, convert, sign, redact and edit PDFs on your Mac. Put your files on the desk once and use them in any of 21 tools. Every result is a new file, and nothing is uploaded.
How it works
Drop PDFs and images anywhere on the window, or click Add Files. They wait on the desk, ready for any tool, so you add them once.
21 tools in four groups: shrink and combine, convert, protect and sign, edit and check. Each one works on the files already on the desk.
Every result is saved as a new file, where you choose. The file you started with stays exactly as it was.
What it does best
Pick Smallest, Balanced or Light and Sheaf shows the new size before you save. Drag the slider across a page to compare the original and the compressed copy at full size, so you can see what changed. Text stays selectable and searchable.
Word documents keep headings, lists, tables and pictures as real, editable text. Tables go to Excel as cells, with numbers you can add up. Or take plain text or Markdown in reading order. Best for text documents and clear tables; a complex layout flows into one column.
Change the words already on the page, or find and replace them across the file. Add text, pictures, shapes, drawings, highlights, stamps and notes. Undo and redo as you go.
Black out text so it is gone from the file, not just covered. Sheaf suggests what to remove: emails, phone numbers, account numbers, names, dates and addresses. Tick what should go, or search for a word, or drag over anything.
And also
Join files in the order you set, or split by ranges, every few pages, or one file per page.
Lock a PDF with a password (AES-256), or remove a password you know.
Recognise the text in scans with Apple's Vision, on your Mac, so you can search and copy it.
JPG, PNG and HEIC to PDF at full quality, or pages to JPG or PNG at the size you pick.
Save a web page as real pages, with its links kept.
Number pages in the style and place you pick, and trim margins on one page or all of them.
Rescue a damaged PDF that won't open.
In Finder's Services menu: Open, Compress, Merge, Make Searchable or Convert Images to PDF with Sheaf.
A look inside
Price
Private by design
Compressing, converting, reading scans and redacting all happen on your Mac. Your files are never uploaded.
No sign-up, no analytics, no ads and no tracking. We collect nothing.
Every result is saved as a new file. The file you started with stays as it is.
Saved signatures and recent files stay in Sheaf's own storage, and you can delete them. Passwords you type to open a file are forgotten when Sheaf quits.
Questions
Every tool works, saving included, for 3 days. Nothing is charged and the trial never turns into a payment. After that, Sheaf is $14.99 once to keep saving, with no subscription; every tool still opens so you can try it.
No. Every tool runs on your Mac, and text in scans is read with Apple's Vision framework on the device. Sheaf goes online only to load a page you ask Web Page to PDF to save, and for the App Store to handle the trial and purchase.
For text documents and clear tables, closely: headings, lists, tables and pictures come across as real, editable content. Charts drawn in the PDF come across as pictures, and a complex layout flows into one column.
Yes. The text under each black box is taken out of the file, not just covered over, so it can't be copied, searched or uncovered later.
Sheaf is coming soon to the Mac App Store. It needs macOS 14 or later.
Free for 3 days, then $14.99 once. For Mac, coming soon.
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