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Rulebook

Set up rules, and Rulebook quietly sorts, renames, converts, beeps, moves, copies, archives and tags your files in the background. Like a personal assistant for your folders, so you never have to organize files manually again.

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Features

Monitoring

  • Monitor any folder for new and changed files
  • Create presets to quickly reuse rule combinations
  • Runs silently in the background, even when the app is closed
  • Pause and resume monitoring per folder

Conditions

  • Match files by name, extension, kind, size, tags, color label, comment, and dates
  • Date conditions for created, modified, added, and last opened, with relative ranges like "in the last 7 days"
  • Match by image dimensions and camera model
  • Search inside PDFs and documents, including Word, Excel, Pages, Numbers, and more
  • Regex support for advanced pattern matching

Actions

  • Move, copy, rename, tag, open, archive, and trash files automatically
  • Convert images between JPEG, PNG, HEIC, TIFF, BMP, and GIF
  • Convert video to MP4 or MOV with resolution and quality presets
  • Convert audio between M4A, WAV, AIFF, MP3, and FLAC, or extract audio from video
  • Process images: resize, crop, rotate, flip, change DPI, adjust quality, and strip EXIF metadata
  • Powerful renaming with prefix, suffix, date stamps, text transforms, and regex replace
  • Chain multiple actions per rule - each step feeds into the next
  • Smart conflict handling: rename, replace, or skip duplicates
  • Run any macOS Shortcut as an action
  • Play a sound when a rule triggers