Documents in. Clean Markdown out.
Sankore converts PDFs, Word, Excel and Keynote-era decks into tidy Markdown built for feeding to Claude, ChatGPT and anything else you write prompts for. Entirely on your Mac.
macOS 13 or later · Apple Silicon only · Free to use
The app
Drop files in. Two tabs, no settings maze.
Convert and Consolidate live side by side in one native window. Everything else stays out of the way.
Every conversion shows an estimated token count — a heuristic estimate of the output size, so you know roughly what you’re about to paste into Claude or ChatGPT before you do.
Any document, one clean file
PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX and more become Markdown with headings, lists and tables intact. Scanned pages go through on-device OCR, so paper archives are as usable as digital ones.
# Q3 Financial Report ## Summary Revenue grew **18%** year over year. | Region | Revenue | | ------ | ------- | | EMEA | $4.2M |
Twelve files, one context window
Merge converted documents into a single unified Markdown file, in the order you choose, with clear source headings. One paste instead of twelve uploads.
Sankore intelligently routes each document to the best conversion approach for its type — so a scanned contract, a spreadsheet, and a slide deck all convert accurately, not just adequately.
Local-first, by design
Your documents never leave your Mac.
Web converters ask you to upload a contract, a medical record, a board deck to a server you know nothing about. Sankore does the whole job on your machine. There is no upload step, because there is nowhere to upload to.
Conversion and OCR run entirely on-device. Nothing is queued, cached or processed elsewhere.
No analytics, no telemetry, no account. Sankore works with networking off.
Output lands in the folder you pick. Delete it and the job is gone for good.
Free forever. Premium once.
No subscription, no tiers to outgrow.
Buy Premium once and it stays yours.
- ✓Convert to Markdown, one file at a time
- ✓OCR for scanned documents
- ✓Unlimited conversions, no time limit
- —Batch processing
- —Consolidate
- ✓Everything in Free
- ✓Batch processing — many files at once
- ✓Consolidate into one unified file
- ✓One purchase, no subscription
Questions
What does the “Tokens” number mean?
It’s an estimated token count of the converted file — an approximation of how much of an AI model’s context window or API budget the output will use once pasted in. It’s a heuristic estimate, not an exact count from any specific model’s tokenizer.
Built for Apple Silicon Macs
Sankore is a native macOS app for M-series Macs (M1 and later), macOS 13 Ventura or newer. It does not run on Intel Macs, Windows, Linux, iPad or in a browser — please check before you buy.
Apple Silicon · macOS 13+ · notarized by Apple