Elad Itzkin AI & Product Consultancy
Elconvo · free Mac app · macOS 14 or later

Convert anything on your Mac by dragging it.

Hold ⇧ while you drag a file and a wheel of formats opens around your pointer. Drop it on one and the converted copy lands right beside the original. No window to open, no upload, no account.

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Apple Silicon and Intel · 3 MB · Open source (MIT)

01 · The wheel

Formats with ⇧, tools with ⌥⇧

The format wheel around a dragged picture
⇧ drag: formats
The tools wheel for a picture
⌥⇧ drag: tools
  1. 01

    Start dragging, press Shift

    From Finder, the desktop, anywhere. The wheel opens around your pointer with the formats that make sense for that file, and the centre shows its size. Several files or a folder? It shows their total.

  2. 02

    Add Option for tools

    Compress, crop, trim, remove a background, read metadata. Press or release ⌥ mid-drag to switch between formats and tools.

  3. 03

    Drop on a petal

    A small progress window shows the job, then Finder shows the result next to the original. Your file is never changed.

02 · Converts

What it converts

ImagesJPEG, PNG, HEIC, AVIF, WebP, TIFF, GIF, BMP, JPEG 2000, PSD, TGA, EXR, HDR, EPS, WBMP, SVG, ICO, ICNS, PDF
RAW photosSony, Canon, Nikon, Fuji, Olympus, Panasonic and more, to DNG, 16-bit TIFF or PNG, JPEG, HEIC
AudioM4A (AAC or lossless), MP3, WAV, AIFF, FLAC, CAF, AAC, OGG, Opus, WMA, MMF, iPhone ringtone
VideoMP4, MOV (H.264 or HEVC), M4V, WebM, MKV, AVI, WMV, FLV, MPG, 3GP, animated GIF, audio only
DocumentsWord, RTF, HTML, Markdown, ODT and text, to PDF, DOCX, DOC, ODT, RTF, HTML, text
PDFTo Word keeping headings, lists and real tables; scanned pages read with on-device OCR. Also images per page, text. Illustrator files too.
3D modelsOBJ, STL, 3MF, PLY, USDZ, USDA, in any direction
SubtitlesSRT, WebVTT, plain text
DataJSON, CSV, TSV, property lists
ArchivesExtract ZIP, 7z, RAR, TAR, GZ, BZ2, ISO and more; pack files and folders into ZIP, 7z, TAR.GZ, TAR.XZ, TAR.BZ2
03 · Tools

Tools for the file you are holding

Photos

Edit

Crop with aspect presets, adjust exposure, contrast, warmth and more, mark up with arrows, boxes and text, pixelate or black out, remove the background.

Size

Shrink

Compress images, video, audio and PDFs, or fit them to an exact size like 2 MB for an upload form.

Video & audio

Cut

Trim, split, snapshot a frame, crop video, change speed, mute, join, normalise loudness, mono or stereo.

PDF

Arrange

Reorder, rotate and delete pages, split into pages, merge several, build a PDF or collage from images.

Privacy

Metadata

See every field with GPS location flagged, edit title, author and copyright, or strip it all before you share.

Files

Size & checksums

The true size of files and folders, largest first, plus MD5 and SHA checksums with a paste-to-verify box. Read QR codes too.

Also in Finder: right-click ▸ Services ▸ Elconvo: Size & Info or Show Metadata. And a Copy petal puts the dragged files on the clipboard to paste anywhere.
04 · Install

Install in a minute

  1. 01

    Download and drag to Applications

    Elconvo.dmg always points at the latest version.

  2. 02

    Allow it once

    Elconvo is not signed with an Apple Developer ID yet, so macOS stops it the first time. Open System Settings ▸ Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway.

  3. 03

    Let it start at login

    It lives in the menu bar, so the wheel is there whenever you drag. Updates: menu bar icon ▸ Check for Updates.

Optional and free: brew install ffmpeg adds MP3, OGG, WebM, MKV and more; brew install imagemagick adds WebP and EPS; Adobe DNG Converter adds RAW to DNG.
Support

Free, and made by one person

Everything runs on your Mac. Files, photos and their metadata are never uploaded. If Elconvo saves you time, a coffee on Ko-fi keeps it going. The app asks once a month whether you like it, and stops for a year once you have donated.

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