PDF Archiver1
Scan it.
Point your iPhone at the page.
The scan lands in your inbox, cropped and straight. Text recognition runs on your device — nothing is uploaded, nothing waits on a server.
since 2018 · open source
Scan it. Tag it. Find it.
An archive that outlasts the app. No database, no server, no lock-in — just folders and files that stay yours.
Nothing leaves your device · Two weeks free, no account
Mastodon2026-03-12Date--electricity-billDescription__.pdf
Three steps, start to finish
No workflow to learn. Point, check, done.
2
Tag it.
Date, description, tags.
Apple Intelligence suggests all three, on your device. On the Mac, ↹ moves between fields — check them, press ⌘S, and the document is renamed and moved to your archive.
3
Find it.
Search a tag, or the text inside.
It works in PDF Archiver, in Spotlight, in the Finder, and in whatever file manager you happen to open.
_bill-leaseenergyOn Mac, iPhone and iPad.
Widgets show what's still untagged. Shortcuts automate what you do often. The share sheet takes documents from any other app.
Already have PDFs? Drop them in — from your scanner, a mail attachment, your downloads folder.
Keep it.
Your archive is a folder of PDFs, sorted by year. This is the filename from above, at rest.
2026-03-12Date--electricity-billDescription__.pdf
Date, description, tags — written into the name. No capitals, no spaces, no umlauts, so the names survive every filesystem they land on.
Copy the folder to a backup drive, a NAS, a Windows machine. It stays readable. In ten years, it still will be — with or without this app.
Archive/
├── 2017/
│ └── 2017-05-12--apple-macbook__apple_bill.pdf
└── 2026/
├── 2026-03-12--electricity-bill__energy_bill.pdf
└── 2026-04-02--lease-agreement__flat_contract.pdfWhat that means in practice
Everything stays on your device.
There is no PDF Archiver server to send documents to.
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.
Open source.
The code is on GitHub, if you want to check.
Built since 2018.
One developer, still shipping updates today.
A person answers.
Questions go to one developer, not a ticket queue.
What users say
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 With the PDF Archiver I have finally managed to bring some order and structure to my PDF collection with documents, contracts and other documents that I have been building since 2014.
Sir Apfelot Until now, all PDFs with cryptic file names were stored in a single folder. With the help of PDF Archiver I have finally been able to structure my accounting.
Jörg P.
Try it first.
Two weeks free. No account, no credit card. After the trial you can subscribe, or buy the app once and keep it.
Questions?
The FAQ answers the ones we get most.
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