Papers.rip
A sheet of paper crumpled into a ball

Scan the stack. Keep the documents.

Papers turns a stack of paper into separate documents with readable names, filed into folders on your Mac. Once they are filed, the paper is optional.

Coming to the Mac App Store

Requires macOS 27 and Apple Intelligence

The Papers window: fourteen scanned pages grouped into eleven named documents, sorted into folders for health, banks and bills, work and study
Fourteen sheets in, eleven named documents out — checked before anything is written to disk.

Feed it a stack, get back an archive

Load the feeder and walk away. By the time the last sheet is through, the whole stack has been read.

  • Reads while it scans

    Every page is recognized as it arrives, so organizing the stack afterwards takes one short moment rather than a wait.

  • Straightens itself

    A sheet that went in sideways or upside down is turned before it is read — and before it is filed that way for good.

  • Catches double feeds

    A sheet that went through twice is found by what it says. The newer scan is kept, and the older copy waits to one side for you to decide.

  • Names things properly

    Type, who it is about, which organization, which period. Parts that are not known are simply left out.

  • You have the last word

    Split, merge, rename, move a page. Nothing is written until you confirm, and existing files are never overwritten.

  • Eight folders

    Documents, health, banks and contracts, work, home, purchases, government, everything else — inside a folder you choose.

Invoice - Anna Weber - Stadtwerke München - 2026-03 - K7M2QP.pdf

Your papers are the private kind

Bills, contracts, test results. Here is exactly where they go, so you do not have to take it on faith.

  • Read on your Mac

    Text is recognized locally, by macOS itself. Images of your pages are never uploaded anywhere.

  • Grouped by Apple

    Only the recognized text leaves, and it goes to Apple Intelligence on Private Cloud Compute — not to a server of ours. We have none.

  • Nothing is kept

    Scans and page images are deleted with the session. What is left is the PDFs, in your folder, on your disk.

Scanning is free

Feed paper in, straighten it, save the whole stack as one PDF — that costs nothing, with no account and no time limit. Reading it is the paid part, by monthly or yearly subscription; the price for your country is shown on the App Store.

Free

Always

  • Scan from any scanner macOS supports
  • Reorder and rotate pages
  • Save the stack as one PDF

Subscription

Monthly or yearly, cancel any time

  • Every page read and described
  • Duplicate sheets found and dropped
  • Separate documents, named automatically
  • Filed into folders in your archive