A calm, fast PDF app for Mac that puts reading first and keeps your documents private. Read comfortably, mark up, sign, fill forms, redact and organize — every tool one click away, everything on your Mac.
Smooth native reading with single, two-up and continuous layouts. Reading themes, an outline/table of contents, page snapshots, and fast full-document search make long PDFs easy to navigate.
Highlight, underline, strike-through, draw, and add notes. Annotations save right inside the PDF — no separate sidecar file to lose or sync.
Reorder, insert, merge and split pages with drag-and-drop. Pull out exactly the pages you need, convert images to PDF, and export pages.
Fill PDF form fields and save the values, add your signature, and flatten a completed form into the page so it can't be changed.
Redact sensitive text so it's truly gone — not just covered. Set passwords and permissions. Every security operation runs locally on your Mac.
Posters tiled across multiple sheets, folded booklets, and N-up layouts — straight from the app, with the options you actually need.
TruePath PDF runs entirely on your Mac. There's no account to create, no cloud upload, no analytics, and no tracking — your documents never leave your computer. The app is a single signed binary running inside Apple's sandbox.
Buy once. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no upsell. The app you pay for is the app you keep.
TruePath PDF ships with an open-source Model Context Protocol server that runs on your Mac. Hook it up to Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any other MCP-aware client and your AI can read, search, organise, and edit your PDFs — without uploading them anywhere.
Nine tools, free, no key required:
Two-line setup for Claude Desktop — drop this into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"truepath-pdf": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@truepathpdf/mcp-server"]
}
}
}MIT-licensed, runs entirely on your Mac, no network call at use time. Full source and tool docs at github.com/JoyTruepath/truepath-pdf-mcp. A Pro tier (redact, fill forms, flatten, sign, compress, annotate, autocrop, batch, OCR via Apple Vision) ships next, gated by an offline-verified license key — buy once, no subscription.
TruePath PDF is built by Joy Truepath Pte. Ltd. in Singapore. If you have feedback or hit a bug, email [email protected] — real people read every message.