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.
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