Your PDFs never leave your Mac. Manila is a one-time purchase — not a subscription — that merges, splits, organizes, compresses, redacts and signs PDFs entirely on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded, ever. Every "free PDF tool" website asks you to upload your bank statement, lease, contract or medical record to somebody's server. Manila does the same jobs on your Mac using Apple's own PDF engine, inside the macOS App Sandbox with no network entitlement at all. That is not a promise in a privacy policy: the operating system refuses to let Manila make a connection, and anyone can check it in Terminal: codesign -d --entitlements - /Applications/Manila.app THE TOOLS • Merge — combine PDFs in the order you choose • Split — every page, chunks of N, or page ranges like 1-3, 7, 9-12 • Organize — reorder, rotate and delete pages by dragging thumbnails • Compress — shrink scans by re-encoding images; text is never rasterized • Extract — pull text out as .txt and embedded images out byte-for-byte • Images to PDF — turn photos, screenshots and scans into a PDF, one page per image • Redact — real redaction: the covered content is removed from the file, not hidden under a box, and document metadata is scrubbed • Sign — draw, type or import a signature and stamp it on the page; text stays selectable • Verify — check a Manila signing receipt offline REDACTION THAT ACTUALLY REDACTS Most tools draw a black rectangle over the text and leave the text underneath. Manila rebuilds every marked page so the covered content no longer exists anywhere in the output file, and removes the author, title and creator metadata at the same time. A TAMPER-EVIDENT RECEIPT FOR SIGNATURES Optionally, Sign writes a receipt next to the PDF, signed with a key that lives in your Mac's Secure Enclave. Anyone with Manila can later prove the file has not changed since you signed it — offline. It is tamper evidence, not a certificate-authority identity, and the app says so. PAY ONCE Manila is free to try: every tool works for your first ten runs. One in-app purchase unlocks it for good. No subscription, no account, no sign-in, no analytics. Works with drag and drop, Open With from the Finder, and batches of files. Requires macOS 14 or later.
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