Answers from your documents – with the source down to the page, and without any document leaving the Mac. DocUnderstand also names and sorts invoices, contracts and scans automatically and reads out the key data; every folder becomes a knowledge store.
No Apple account? The direct version is the same app; the first 500 operations are free. Order annual licence
A general language model knows a lot about the world and nothing about your company. DocUnderstand turns that around: it knows your documents, backs every statement with a source and keeps everything with you.
ChatGPT does not know your maintenance contract. DocUnderstand reads your folders – contracts, invoices, emails, scans – and answers from them, not from the internet. No invented figures.
Every answer shows which file and which page it comes from; one click opens the passage. Your team checks in seconds instead of taking it on trust.
With Apple Intelligence or a local model, everything stays on the Mac – no account, no upload, no passing on to third parties. A cloud model only if you set it up yourself.
Not a feature list, but six situations from accounting, support, administration, practice, workshop and HR – and what DocUnderstand makes of them.
DocUnderstand names each receipt, reads out date, issuer, net, VAT and gross and builds a table from it: for the whole folder, a subfolder or a search, as you prefer. Choose columns, check totals, save as Excel or CSV – ready for the accounting software or the tax advisor.
Before: a morning of retyping and renaming. After: one look at the totals row.
| Date | Issuer | Net | VAT | Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10.08.2026 | T-Mobile Austria | 82,50 | 16,50 | 99,00 |
| 14.08.2026 | Bürobedarf Hofer | 214,10 | 42,82 | 256,92 |
| 02.09.2026 | Musterbau GmbH | 1 000,00 | 200,00 | 1 200,00 |
| 15.09.2026 | Dr. Gerlich + Co | 5 214,34 | 518,30 | 5 732,64 |
| … 36 more rows | ||||
| Total | 28 416,80 | 5 318,21 | 33 735,01 | |
DocUnderstand reads the email, finds the passage in the service manual and the order data from your system, and writes the draft reply. The employee reads, corrects, sends – also from FileMaker or n8n via the interface.
Before: look up the manual, check the order, write it up. After: read and send.
Instead of opening thirty PDFs: one question to the folder. The answer names every source with its page, and one click opens the statement at exactly that spot. DocUnderstand reads out deadlines and amounts along the way.
Before: an afternoon of paging through. After: one question, three sources.
The intake form arrives as a photo or scan. DocUnderstand reads the handwriting field by field, checks totals and dates and delivers the values as JSON – straight into your practice software, your CRM or a FileMaker table. Fields it cannot read with certainty it flags instead of guessing.
Before: retyping, transposed digits, follow-up questions. After: check the values and accept them.
Intake form
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{
"name": "Berger, Maria",
"birthDate": "1984-03-12",
"insurance": "ÖGK",
"allergies": ["Penicillin"],
"phone": "+43 664 123 45 67",
"consentSigned": true,
"uncertain": ["phone"]
}
The customer sends a photo, the technician takes one on site. DocUnderstand recognizes the part and the damage, searches the service manual and the spare-parts list, and gives the repair advice – with part number, labor time and the page where it is stated.
Before: callback, paging through the catalog, second appointment. After: order the part, schedule the appointment.
DocUnderstand reads all three documents, pulls out names, date of birth, validity and conditions, cross-checks them against each other and tells you at the end whether everything is consistent and valid – with the passage where it says so.
Before: three documents, three kinds of official language, a slip of paper with questions. After: a result with sources.
* All personal data is processed in compliance with data protection law using local AI models. Important note: The legal framework for the use of AI in HR differs from country to country. Please check beforehand the rules that apply at your location.
Filing, asking, writing, connecting and following along carry equal weight – and all of it runs entirely on your Mac if you want. Real recordings made with the sample stores the app offers to create on first launch.
Drop in a file – the AI reads type, date and amount, gives it a telling name along with Finder tags, and pulls out the key figures.
A knowledge store is an ordinary folder on your Mac. Whatever you put in it is read and becomes searchable – and you ask in plain language.
Quotes, invoices, reminders or letters grow out of your own documents – with the figures that are in them, not the ones you remember.
A local REST interface that does what the app does. FileMaker, Xojo or your own scripts talk to DocUnderstand directly.
Every answer shows its path. See what the app found, what the model was given and how long each step took – to check, to learn and to experiment.
Invoices, contracts and medical reports are private. That is why the AI runs entirely on your Mac if you want – and nothing is transmitted unasked. Your files stay in your folders.
Apple's built-in AI model – runs immediately and entirely on the device.
Download selected models with one click; text recognition, embedding and search run locally as well.
Your own server in the office or a cloud model with your own key – only if you set it up.
The app comes with a local REST interface. Anything that speaks HTTP – FileMaker, Xojo, scripts, your own tools – can have documents recognized, ask questions and manage knowledge stores. OpenAI-compatible endpoints so existing tools work without rebuilding; the guide with examples sits right inside the app.
curl -X POST http://localhost:8787/process \
-H "Authorization: Bearer docunderstand-xxxx" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"filename":"Invoice.pdf",
"mimeType":"application/pdf",
"data":"<Base64>"}'curl -X POST http://localhost:8787/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer docunderstand-xxxx" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"Contracts",
"messages":[{"role":"user",
"content":"When does the maintenance contract expire?"}]}'
# The answer with its sources – as with any OpenAI clientBy default the interface listens on 127.0.0.1 only. Network access is a deliberate setting.
One key for analysis and questions, a separate one for administration – they are never interchangeable.
The interface accepts passwords only from this Mac, and it hands out neither keys nor passwords.
Your documents stay in your folders – DocUnderstand works where they already are.
Watch the videoThe AI runs on the device – Apple Intelligence right away, local models with one click. No account, no cloud required.
A knowledge store is an ordinary folder with subfolders. Whatever you change or delete, the app follows – nothing is stored twice.
Open stores side by side, restored at the next launch. Watched folder and operation from the menu bar.
A knowledge store as a package for another Mac – with documents, or just settings and knowledge. Interface in 22 languages.
On the Mac App Store · Family Sharing for Subscription and Pro · Three sample stores on first launch if you want
500 operations free – documents and questions together, with no time limit at all. After that you pick the plan that suits how you work. Every feature is in every tier; the tiers differ only in quantities.
0 €
500 operations included – one counter for processing, questions and AI summaries.
2,99 € /month
or €29 a year
19,99 € /month
or €199 a year – roughly two months free
| Feature | Free0 € | Subscription€2.99/month · €29/year | Pro€19.99/month · €199/year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Processing documents | |||
| Name files automatically and read out data – through the watched folder too | 500 in total | unlimited | unlimited |
| Put files, emails and web pages into the knowledge store | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Knowledge store | |||
| Knowledge store | 3 | 20 | unlimited |
| Documents per knowledge store | 20 | 500 | unlimited |
| Subfolders, notes, question-and-answer pairs, templates | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Search by meaning and keyword, five embedding models | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI summary and automatic keywords in the store | 500 in total | 500 per month | unlimited |
| Asking | |||
| Questions to your documents, with sources | 500 in total | 500 per month | unlimited |
| Trace the path of every answer | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Composing documents | |||
| Write and revise drafts – from templates, with key facts and evidence from the document store | 500 in total | 500 per month | unlimited |
| Templates with fields, opening questions and a checklist for the finished text | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| REST interface | |||
| Recognition and extraction (/process, /extract) | 500 in total | unlimited | unlimited |
| Questions, draft replies and summaries (/ask, /draft-reply, /summarize, OpenAI-compatible) | 500 in total | 500 per month | unlimited |
| Models and devices | |||
| Apple Intelligence, local models, your own server | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Family Sharing: share with up to 5 family members | – | ✓ | ✓ |
500 in total: Free gives you 500 operations in total – every automatically processed file, every question, every AI summary and every step while composing counts as one. 500 per month: On the subscription, questions, AI summaries and the steps while composing are limited to 500 per calendar month; processing is not. Each Mac counts separately. A failed request does not count.
Prices as listed on the App Store; they may vary by country. Subscriptions can be cancelled anytime, directly in the App Store. With Family Sharing you share Subscription and Pro with up to five other family members.
Not every company buys through Apple: the invoice has to go to the business, there is no Apple account, or the Macs are centrally managed. That is why DocUnderstand Pro is available as an annual licence directly from us – the same app, the same features, the same price.
199 € /year
How it works: you order, we send the invoice and the licence file. Drop the file onto the drop area in Settings › Plan – or double-click it in the Finder. The free tier and the subscription remain App Store only.
The direct edition is the same app. The first 500 operations are free; you add the licence file later.
Download for MacThe direct edition keeps itself up to date: the app reports new versions at start-up and installs them once you agree – there is nothing to download by hand.
DocUnderstand and DocOversee share the same core: local AI, questions in plain language, every answer with its source. They differ in what happens to your files.
DocUnderstandThe tool.
Your files stay where they are. DocUnderstand renames them, assigns tags, extracts data as JSON or CSV and serves other programs through the REST API and Shortcuts.
For anyone with a flow of files: offices, developers, automators.
DocOverseeThe document store.
Your papers move into projects with folders, versions, deadlines and a vault. Scan on iPhone, get the overview on iPad, run the hub on Mac – synced through your iCloud.
For anyone who wants their documents organized and always at hand: families, practices, law firms.
Go to DocOversee ↗Both apps can be used side by side.
With Apple Intelligence or a local model: nothing. Text recognition, search, embedding and answering all run on the Mac. Only if you yourself set up a server or a cloud model with your own key do text excerpts go there – just the passages needed for the question, never your whole folders. Nothing goes to schubec: no content, no usage data; crash reports only if you agree at first launch.
The provider bills that by usage, not us – from fractions of a cent to a few cents per question, depending on the model. DocUnderstand shows the cost of each request in the log, so you keep track. With a local model or Apple Intelligence, a question costs nothing.
Spotlight finds files in which a word occurs. DocUnderstand answers the question: it understands what is meant, even without the exact word, summarizes the matching passages from several files and names the page. And it can write – draft replies, summaries, translations, documents from templates.
With local processing, personal data stays on your device – there is no processing by us and no processor you would have to engage. If you use a cloud model, your contract with that provider applies; you decide which one and for which stores. The log of each request shows which passages were transmitted.
An ordinary folder on your Mac that DocUnderstand reads and watches – with all its subfolders. You put files in as you always have; the app reads them, summarizes them, tags them and answers questions about them. There is no second filing system inside the app: whatever you change in the Finder, DocUnderstand follows.
DocOversee is the document store: your papers move into projects with folders, versions, deadlines and a vault – on Mac, iPhone and iPad, synced through your iCloud. DocUnderstand is the tool for files that stay where they are: rename, tag, extract data, serve other programs through the REST API and Shortcuts – Mac only. Both share the same core and can be used side by side. Go to DocOversee ↗
Yes. With Apple Intelligence or a local language model, no document leaves your Mac; text recognition, embedding and search run locally as well. Data is transmitted only if you set up a server or a cloud model yourself.
No. Once a local model is downloaded or Apple Intelligence is available, DocUnderstand works entirely offline. You need the internet only to download models and for cloud models, if you use any.
Read for their content: PDF, Word (DOCX), Excel (XLSX), PowerPoint (PPTX), Pages, Numbers, Keynote, OpenDocument, text, Markdown, RTF, HTML, CSV, JSON, emails (EML, MSG) with attachments, images with text recognition and image description, and web pages. The older .doc and .xls formats are not read. Any other file may still sit in the folder – it is found by name, keyword and note.
Every statement carries a source, and one click opens the page it quotes. And every answer has a path: which passages were found, what the model received, how long it took. If nothing in your documents fits, the app says so instead of inventing something.
Yes. Subscription and Pro support Apple's Family Sharing: once it is set up in your Apple Account settings, up to five other family members use your subscription without buying their own – each on their own Mac and with their own documents.
Nothing is deleted or locked – your knowledge stores and documents stay readable and searchable. Only nothing new is added until you take out a subscription, move to Pro, make room, or the next month begins in your subscription. A failed request, by the way, does not count.
Yes, Pro is available as an annual licence directly from us – €199 a year, the same as in the App Store. You order through the form, receive the invoice and the licence file, and drag the file into the app. The free tier and the subscription stay in the App Store, because billing there is handled by Apple.
In features, not at all. It is the same source code, notarised by Apple; the plan is simply unlocked with the licence file instead of your Apple account. That is why there is no Family Sharing there: it belongs to the App Store. In return, the direct edition needs no Apple account and can be rolled out on managed Macs. It updates itself; the App Store edition gets its updates through the App Store.
Yes, in both directions. Both versions are the same app and share database, documents and settings on your Mac; after switching, everything is there again. A newer version does not lock out the older one: the database is only extended, never restructured – in the older version you merely miss the newer features. Only the unlock does not carry over: in the App Store your subscription or Pro counts with Apple, in the direct version the license file. Install only one of the two at a time; both live as “DocUnderstand.app” in Applications.
macOS 26 or later and a Mac with Apple Silicon. Apple Intelligence runs without a download; local language models need 2 to 10 GB of disk space depending on their size, and memory to match.
Download for free, try it at your own pace, then decide.
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