Everything a document manager should do — and the AI to actually do it.

Drop files or folders onto ShabuBox — any file type, multi-select, even onto a note.

Bulk-import from anywhere on disk with a standard file picker.

Native USB support for ScanSnap scanners — iX2500, iX1600, iX1500, iX1300, iX500, and S1500M confirmed — press Scan and go. If ScanSnap Home is holding the scanner, ShabuBox spots it and offers to quit it for you.

Any eSCL / AirScan scanner via Apple ImageCaptureCore, plus a universal scan-to-folder watch fallback.

PDF or JPEG, duplex, color / gray / B&W, 150 / 300 / 600 dpi.

Turn on Long paper and the scanner runs to its full length instead of stopping at letter size — receipts and legal pages come through whole.

Watch scanner starts a scan the moment you press the scanner’s button or drop paper in the feeder. No trip back to the Mac.

Crooked pages are deskewed and trimmed to the paper’s edge automatically, along with auto-rotate, blank-page removal, and background cleanup.

Shrink a scanned PDF in place — one document or a whole selection. Down-only, and it shows you the size before and after.

When a scan fails on a jam or a busy scanner, Reset Scanner reopens the connection so you can just try again.

Tags you already put on a file in Finder are read on the way in, so your existing color-coding isn’t lost at the door.

Everything new lands in one place to review, confirm, or file in a batch.

The same tech as Live Text reads every page. PDFs use embedded text with a Vision fallback for scans.

Invoices, statements, tax forms, EOBs, contracts — it knows the difference.

People, organizations, places, and postal addresses via GLiNER2 — mergeable with aliases.

Files are renamed from their contents at ingest, with dates and currency amounts extracted.

Learns your system and files new arrivals the same way — no rules to write, no uploads.

Auto-files when sure, suggests when close, and abstains when it isn’t. You stay in control.

Tag freely and build smart collections that update themselves from simple criteria.

A running view of what needs your attention — misfiled, unfiled, or duplicated items.

Star the documents you reach for constantly, filter down to just those, and turn on Show favorites on top to keep them pinned to the top of every list.

Every document has its own notes field in the inspector — the context that isn’t printed on the page.

Define your own fields per document type — text, number, currency, date, or yes/no. Add “Policy number” to insurance, “Amount” to invoices.

Filter to a document type and the file list becomes a table with a sortable column for every field you defined.

One palette across files, scanned text, notes, entities, collections, and reminders.

Every OCR’d word of every page is searchable — not just filenames.

Optional, experimental local embeddings (~67 MB) fused with full-text. Off by default.

See your documents on a timeline by their extracted dates.

List on one side, live preview on the other. Arrow keys walk the cursor down the list and the page keeps up — Return opens what you landed on.

Every claim carries an [n] citation to the exact source passage.

Apple Intelligence first, a local open MLX model as backup, extractive passages as a last resort — it never dead-ends.

The picker only shows models your Mac can run — from ~1.7B up to ~27B parameters.

A richer local chat model (Qwen3-4B, ~2.3 GB) is a one-time, optional download.

Markdown notes that link to each other and to your documents — a lightweight personal wiki.

Set follow-ups that sync with Apple Reminders, so nothing slips.

Your documents stay as ordinary files in ordinary folders. The app never destructively changes them.

The database is just an index — it can be rebuilt from your files at any time.

Turn on sync to use your own iCloud Drive. The developer can't see any of it.

Rebuild index, regenerate thumbnails, rescan, and repair the library when you want to.

Anonymous usage statistics are a single switch in Settings, under Privacy. Turn it off and collection stops immediately — your documents, names, and text are never part of it either way.

Scanner misbehaving? Save a plain-text report to a file you choose. Nothing is sent anywhere — you decide whether to pass it on.