Drop your
paperwork in.
It files itself.
ShabuBox is a document management app for Mac, built for your scanned and downloaded PDFs. Drop in your shoebox of bills, statements, and EOBs — on-device AI reads every page, learns where things go, and files them for you, then answers questions with citations. Your documents never leave your Mac.
then $24.99, once. no subscription. no account. no cloud.
What is ShabuBox?
ShabuBox is a document management app for macOS that organizes your scanned and downloaded PDFs. On-device AI reads every page, pulls out the type, dates, amounts, and names, learns the folder structure you already use, and files new documents there for you — as ordinary files in ordinary folders. You can then search every word or ask a question in plain English and get an answer with citations back to the source page, without anything leaving your Mac.
Four moves from pile to peace of mind.
all on your mac →Drop it in
Drag files or press Scan. Any format, any pile size.
It reads it
Apple Vision OCRs every page — even photographed receipts.
It gets it
On-device models find the type, dates, amounts, and entities.
It files it
A classifier that learned your system puts it where it belongs.
A real document manager — with AI that actually does the filing.
Answers with receipts — every claim cites its page.
Your 2025 property tax totaled $8,410.32, paid in two installments of $4,205.16. [1][2]
Scan straight in — reliably
Direct ScanSnap USB or any AirScan network scanner — or just drop files into a watched folder. Turn on Watch Scanner and pressing Scan on the machine starts the capture; ShabuBox auto-straightens crooked pages, and if the feed jams it offers a one-click Reset Scanner to get you back to scanning.
People, orgs & places
Every entity becomes a browsable index.
Search everything
Every scanned word, note, and entity.
Files itself — and knows when not to
A classifier learns your system. It auto-files when sure, suggests when close, abstains when it isn't.
Your files stay yours
Real files in real folders. The database is just a rebuildable index — quit anytime, everything's still in Finder.
Make it yours
Favorites, notes, custom fields, and typed tables — filed your way.
There's no account, because there's nothing to sign in to
The models run on your Mac. Documents never leave it. No accounts, no third-party trackers — just anonymous usage statistics you can switch off. See how →
"What if you stop making it?"
If ShabuBox is ever truly abandoned, its source opens under MPL-2.0 — automatically, forever. And your files are ordinary files no matter what. Read the promise →
Free for 30 days, full-featured. Then it’s yours — one payment, no subscription, no tiers. See pricing →
Every feature free for 30 days. Then $24.99. macOS 26 · Apple Silicon.