It’s that simple.

Archivist archives your documents on iPhone, iPad and Mac. PDFs live in your iCloud Drive folder, document data in Apple’s CloudKit database. All you need is an iCloud account.

Free to try with up to 10 documents. No subscription. See how it works

Go paperless

Scan with your iPhone or iPad. Import files and photos. On your Mac, drag a file into the list.

Archivist document scanner on iPhone — Scan pages with your camera on iPhone and iPad.

Dropping a file into Archivist on Mac — Drop a file on your Mac and Archivist creates the document.

Archivist supports PDF, JPG, PNG and TIFF files. You can also import from the share sheet in other apps.

Ready for more?

Turn on AI document properties and Archivist fills in the title, document type, topics and correspondent. It is off by default. Use a remote AI provider, or let Apple Intelligence do the work on device on supported devices running iOS 26, iPadOS 26 or macOS 26. Every new user gets 10 tokens for remote AI detection.

AI document properties detection on iPhone — Archivist asks AI for a title, a document type, topics and a correspondent.

AI document properties detection on Mac — Review the result before you save, or start AI detection from the context menu.

Remote AI detection sends an excerpt of the document to the AI provider. Apple Intelligence runs on device. You decide whether to turn it on.

Everything in its place

The tools you need to file, find and edit documents, without a subscription.

PDF editing

Add, move, rotate and delete pages.

OCR

Copy the document text to the clipboard.

AI support

Set the title, document type, topics and correspondent with a remote AI provider or Apple Intelligence.

Finder file tags macOS

Set topics and document types as Finder tags.

Correspondents

File letters, invoices and statements by sender, with an optional correspondent folder in iCloud Drive.

Name cards

Scan a business card, then add the contact to your address book after a quick review.

No user lock-in

Your PDFs stay in iCloud Drive in a simple folder structure: drawer, topic, correspondent, year. See the structure

No BS

No login. No subscription. No ads. No data mining. No data leaks. Yes, we’re serious.

Your files stay yours

Archivist does not lock your documents in a database. Every PDF is a normal file in iCloud Drive, in a folder structure you can read: drawer, topic, correspondent, year.

Correspondent folders are optional. Documents without a correspondent sit directly under the topic.

Open the same files in Finder, the Files app, or any PDF reader. Even without Archivist.

Document metadata lives in CloudKit. Your PDFs stay in iCloud Drive.

iCloud Drive

Archivist

PrivateDrawer

BankingTopic

Example BankCorrespondent

2026Year

statement.pdf

Archive it. Find it later.

Free to try with up to 10 documents. No subscription.

Questions? support@archivist-app.com