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About PDF Archiver: Scan & Archive

An archive that outlasts the app. Your documents are PDFs in folders sorted by year — with the date, a description and tags written into the filename. Readable on any machine, with or without this app. HOW IT WORKS • Point your iPhone at the page. The scan lands in your inbox, cropped and straight. • Apple Intelligence suggests the date, a description and tags — on your device. • Check them, fix what's off, save. The document is renamed and moved to your archive. • Find it again in PDF Archiver, in Spotlight, in the Finder, or in whatever file manager you happen to open — because the search terms are part of the filename. Already have PDFs? Drop them in — from your scanner, a mail attachment, your downloads folder. WHY PDF ARCHIVER • Everything stays on your device. Text recognition and suggestions run locally. There is no PDF Archiver server. • No account. No sign-up, no password, no email address. • You choose where files live: iCloud Drive, a local folder, or any folder you point the app at. • No lock-in. Your archive is a folder of PDFs. Copy it to a backup drive, a NAS, a Windows machine — it stays readable. • Open source. The code is on GitHub. • A person answers. Questions go to one developer, not a ticket queue. Most get a reply within a few hours. ON EVERY DEVICE iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Vision Pro. Widgets show what's still untagged. Shortcuts automate what you do often. The share sheet takes documents from any other app. BUILT SINCE 2018 First release in February 2018, still shipping updates today. One developer, eight years. "The Mac app uses a simple file name convention, which simply notes keywords, data and descriptions in the file name of the documents and can therefore be used largely independently of the operating system, cloud provider and Mac or PC application." — iFun TRY IT, THEN BUY IT Two weeks free, no account and no credit card. After the trial you can subscribe — or buy the lifetime licence and keep the app. Prices are listed at the top of this page. Cancel whenever you like. Your documents stay readable either way — they are just PDFs in a folder. QUESTIONS Answers to the most common ones: pdf-archiver.io/faq Write to us: [email protected] The code is at github.com/PDF-Archiver/PDF-Archiver Privacy policy: pdf-archiver.io/privacy Terms of use: pdf-archiver.io/terms

Ratings & reviews

4.6

9 ratings

5 ★ 89% 4 ★ 0% 3 ★ 0% 2 ★ 0% 1 ★ 11%

What’s new

Version 4.6.0 · Updated September 12, 2026

This release is a clean-up — it fixes the problems reported most often. Fixed • Documents are no longer filed twice. • Documents still being processed when the app quits are no longer lost. They finish on the next launch. • The app stays responsive while text recognition runs. • On the Mac, ⌘S saves from the document window again. • The suggestion cache kept filling up even when switched off. • In the custom prompt, input beyond 500 characters was silently discarded although the field allowed more. • A folder that was deleted and recreated is watched again. Improved • Tag suggestions fit better: no duplicates, nothing already on the document, at most four, sorted alphabetically. • PDFs with a damaged text layer are detected and recognised again, so the "Searchable" mark is accurate. • Tagging no longer waits when there are no suggestions. Questions or requests? Write to us: [email protected]

App privacy

The developer, Julian Kahnert, reported these privacy practices to Apple.

Data Not Linked to You

The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:

  • Diagnostics: Crash Data

Used for: Other Purposes

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