FilesDesk reads what is inside your files, PDFs, photos, screenshots, invoices, documents, and renames them automatically with clean, descriptive, searchable names. Fully offline with local AI, or online with OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini.
Most Mac rename tools are find-and-replace with regex. FilesDesk actually reads and understands your files, then writes a name that tells you what is inside.
Vision models analyze PDFs, images, and screenshots. Text models read documents. You get names that describe what the file actually is, not generic timestamps.
Rename photos by date taken, camera, lens, ISO, aperture, and GPS location. Reverse-geocodes coordinates into place names. Pairs with AI vision for subject recognition.
Point FilesDesk at Downloads, Screenshots, or your scanner output folder. New files get renamed automatically, a true set-and-forget smart renaming tool on macOS.
Self-managed lifetime license runs local AI on your Mac via Ollama (qwen2.5vl, llava). Files never leave the device. Perfect for sensitive legal, medical, and financial work.
Use your own OpenAI, Claude, or Gemini API key, or use FilesDesk managed credits. Three modes, you pick the tradeoff between convenience, cost, and privacy.
Build reusable naming patterns from date, AI title, EXIF, OCR amount, OCR date, counter, parent folder, and more. Consistent naming across every project.
Before and after, what the smart renaming tool for macOS actually does.
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FilesDesk is a smart renaming tool for macOS that reads the actual contents of your files and renames them with descriptive, searchable names. It supports PDFs, photos, screenshots, invoices, and documents, runs fully offline with local Ollama models, and can also use OpenAI, Claude, or Gemini.
Yes. FilesDesk runs natively on M1, M2, M3, and M4 Macs, as well as Intel Macs. macOS 12 Monterey or newer is required.
Yes. The self-managed lifetime license uses local AI via Ollama. Your files never leave your Mac. Ideal for legal, medical, and financial workflows.
Yes. FilesDesk runs on both macOS and Windows, offers a one-time lifetime license in addition to subscriptions, and gives you three AI modes: managed cloud, bring-your-own-key, and fully offline Ollama.
Yes. Set your macOS screenshots folder as a Watch Folder in FilesDesk. Every new screenshot gets renamed by its visible content, for example slack-deploy-approval-2026-04-20.png instead of Screenshot 2026-04-20 at 10.42.15.png.
Yes. FilesDesk for Mac is free with 15 managed credits included, no credit card required. Upgrade to Basic ($8/mo), Pro ($20/mo), or Self-managed Lifetime ($40 one-time) when you need more.
Download the smart renaming tool for macOS. Free to start, 15 AI credits, no card.
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