InstaPDF
Go Paperless (Legacy Version)
Only for Mac
Free
Lost an important document? Not anymore. Store, edit and sync documents to all of your devices. Smart renaming suggestions, multiple accounts, text detection and more. Featured by Apple, iMore, Verizon, The App Factor, TechRepublic, Roar News, appPicker and many more.
AUTOMATIC BACKUPS & INSTANT SYNC
At InstaPDF we focus on one with and one thing only: providing the best service for storing and managing your documents. This is why your documents are kept safe in the cloud. If you delete the InstaPDF app from your local device, nothing is lost. Pick up your new device, download InstaPDF and all your documents will be there waiting for you.
MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS
Restore your work-life balance by keeping your work and private documents separate, but accessible. You can even work on documents for multiple companies. Switch accounts instantly to by pressing CMD + U on your keyboard.
STAMP & DRAW
Annotate your documents by adding highlighting, drawing, adding stamps and signatures. All changes you make are synced to all of your devices.
POWERFUL SHARING
Folders are a powerful addition to your workflow. You can give your accountant access to receipts or use them to keep your documents organised. Individual documents can also be shared via their public links. Sent the wrong document? Set your document to private and it becomes inaccessible.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Encrypt important documents. Set public documents to private with a simple switch. Deleted documents are not recoverable. The documents stored on our service are neither processed nor used as training data for machine learning.
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InstaPDF for iOS & iPadOS is available at https://instapdf.com/
more Disabling public link seems to only disable the short url that you used for the initial sharing, but does not disable access to the actual document assuming someone saved the expanded short url to aws where the doc is stored... may want to make this clear to your users.
Disabling public link seems to only disable the short url that you used for the initial sharing, but does not disable access to the actual document assuming someone saved the expanded short url to aws where the doc is stored... may want to make this clear to your users.
Needs tuning to be perfect.1) Drag & drop feature.2) Sub foldersLove it
Needs tuning to be perfect.1) Drag & drop feature.2) Sub foldersLove it
THIS is what Catalyst apps should be all about!! NO trace of iOS UI and flawless native Mac-like interface!!Sign in with Apple! I love this app
THIS is what Catalyst apps should be all about!! NO trace of iOS UI and flawless native Mac-like interface!!Sign in with Apple! I love this app
Thank you for using InstaPDF to go paperless. What changed?
- Improvements and bug fixes
We'd love to hear your feedback @InstaPDF or https://instapdf.com/support
9.9.2 09/08/2025
Thank you for using InstaPDF to go paperless. What changed?
- Improvements and bug fixes
We'd love to hear your feedback @InstaPDF or https://instapdf.com/support
9.9.1 08/07/2025
Thank you for using InstaPDF to go paperless. What changed?
- Improved: Multiple documents upload via drag & drop
- Improved: Visibility of selected text in document view
- Improved: Compatibility with current system version
We'd love to hear your feedback @InstaPDF or https://instapdf.com/support
9.9.0 12/05/2024
Thank you for using InstaPDF to go paperless. What changed?
- Improved: Upload stability
- Fixed: Toolbar layout
- Fixed: Renaming bundle will reflect change instantly
Plus all the features from 9.8:
- Added: Double click or choose "Share > Open in Preview"
- Added: Folder assignment popover with easy dismissal
- Improved: Interface consistency and performance
- Fixed: Crash when opening documents on older OS versions
We'd love to hear your feedback @InstaPDF or https://instapdf.com/support
9.8.9 03/20/2024
Thank you for using InstaPDF to go paperless. What changed?
- Improved: Upload stability
Plus all the features from 9.8:
- Added: Double click or choose "Share > Open in Preview"
- Added: Folder assignment popover with easy dismissal
- Improved: Interface consistency and performance
- Fixed: Crash when opening documents on older OS versions
We'd love to hear your feedback @InstaPDF or https://instapdf.com/support
9.8.7 03/19/2024
Thank you for using InstaPDF to go paperless. What changed?
- Added: PDF Editor to rearrange, merge and edit document pages
- Improved: Search algorithm and performance
Plus all the features from 9.8:
- Added: Double click or choose "Share > Open in Preview"
- Added: Folder assignment popover with easy dismissal
- Improved: Interface consistency and performance
- Fixed: Crash when opening documents on older OS versions
We'd love to hear your feedback @InstaPDF or https://instapdf.com/support
9.8.4 03/15/2023
Thank you for using InstaPDF to go paperless. What changed? This release focuses on putting the "Insta" back in InstaPDF. Improved performance and efficiency across the board.
- Added: Double click or choose "Share > Open in Preview"
- Added: Folder assignment popover with easy dismissal
- Improved: Search algorithm
- Improved: Interface consistency and performance
- Fixed: Crash when opening documents on older OS versions
We'd love to hear your feedback @InstaPDF or https://instapdf.com/support
9.8.2 03/05/2023
Thank you for using InstaPDF to go paperless. What changed? This release focuses on putting the "Insta" back in InstaPDF. Improved performance and efficiency across the board.
- Added: Double click or choose "Share > Open in Preview"
- Added: Folder assignment popover with easy dismissal
- Improved: Search algorithm
- Improved: Interface consistency and performance
We'd love to hear your feedback @InstaPDF or https://instapdf.com/support
9.8 02/28/2023
Thank you for using InstaPDF to go paperless. What changed? This release focuses on putting the "Insta" back in InstaPDF. Improved performance and efficiency across the board.
- Improves print modal
- Improves upload and network performance
- Several bug fixes and performance improvements
We'd love to hear your feedback @InstaPDF or https://instapdf.com/support
9.7.1 11/25/2022
Thank you for using InstaPDF to go paperless. What changed? This release focuses on putting the "Insta" back in InstaPDF. Improved performance and efficiency across the board.
- Instantly share stamped, signed or marked-up documents. The upload process now happens in the background and will allow you to continue using the app without interruptions
- Faster and smarter sync - the sync engine has been re-written to be faster and more efficient by only reloading documents that have been changed
- Documents can now be pinned more quickly in the reader view
- Thumbnails will now work more reliably when offline
- UI & icon size consistency improvements
We'd love to hear your feedback @InstaPDF or https://instapdf.com/support
9.2.5 06/30/2022
Thank you for using InstaPDF to go paperless. What changed?
- Added: Real-time sync for InstaPDF CloudSafe subscribers
- Improved: Overall stability and speed
We'd love to hear your feedback @InstaPDF or https://instapdf.com/support
9.2 06/01/2022
Thank you for using InstaPDF to go paperless. What changed?
- Improves overall stability
- Improves UI (top bar visibility)
- Improves cloud stamp behaviour
- Fixes incorrect button size (reload and add) in Stamp View
- Fixes incorrect highlight state when adding documents to a folder in the sidebar
We'd love to hear your feedback @InstaPDF or https://instapdf.com/support
9.1.9 05/27/2022
Thank you for using InstaPDF to go paperless. What changed?
- Fixes crash on launch discovered in the latest OS update
- Fixes occasional crashes when document inconsistencies would occur
We'd love to hear your feedback @InstaPDF or https://instapdf.com/support
9.1.3 02/21/2022
Thank you for using InstaPDF to go paperless. What changed?
- Improves window behaviour. InstaPDF will now close when all windows of the application are closed.
- Restores keyboard shortcut functionality
- Help menu item now correctly resolves to InstaPDF's Helpdesk
- Slight design tweaks
We'd love to hear your feedback @InstaPDF or https://instapdf.com/support
9.1.2 08/02/2021
Thank you for using InstaPDF to go paperless. What changed?
- Added ability to pin documents to the top
- Added ability to open main window from menu bar item
- Improved OCR performance
- Improves import function to preserve document orientation
We'd love to hear your feedback @InstaPDF or https://instapdf.com/support
9.1 06/28/2021
Thank you for using InstaPDF to go paperless. What changed?
- Improves upload stability and speed.
We'd love to hear your feedback @InstaPDF or https://instapdf.com/support
9.0.8 05/18/2021
Thank you for using InstaPDF to go paperless. What changed?
- Improved Smart Suggestions Autocomplete
- Improved Keyboard Navigation and Shortcuts
We'd love to hear your feedback @InstaPDF or https://instapdf.com/support
9.0.7 05/17/2021
Thank you for using InstaPDF to go paperless. Version 9 unifies InstaPDF's codebase on all platforms and delivers feature parity.
This minor release fixes password entry on protected documents, remembers your last adjusted stamp size and improves OCR performance.
New Features
- Smart Suggestions when naming documents
- Stamp & Markup Interface: PDF annotations are now editable (e.g. Stamps, Drawings, Highlights can be moved/deleted) and will be flattened on export.
- Added Upload options from the Files and Clipboard
- Option to show documents as grid and thumbnails
- Added alternate Icons in several colours and styles
- Ability to export single page
- Stamps are now synced via the cloud
- OCR Content can now be viewed separately
- Added ability to open a document in a separate window
Changes
- Improves sync logic and reloads documents, titles and tags quickly
- Completly re-written interface to improve usability and readability
- Interface now adapts to device font size
- Dark mode colors
- Consistent use of contextual menus throughout
- Better image import interface
- Faster account switcher interface
- OCR accuracy and performance
- Adds date and time to title on upload where no title is specified
Privacy Improvements
- Document links are now private by default, and are set to public only when sharing a link
- All third party frameworks have been removed
We'd love to hear your feedback @InstaPDF or https://instapdf.com/support
9.0.5 05/14/2021
Thank you for using InstaPDF to go paperless. Version 9 unifies InstaPDF's codebase on all platforms and delivers feature parity.
This minor release fixes folder navigation issues, stamp customisation options and re-adds "Remove from Folder" to the context menu. Visit https://instapdf.com/support?helpMe=stamp for more information.
New Features
- Smart Suggestions when naming documents
- Stamp & Markup Interface: PDF annotations are now editable (e.g. Stamps, Drawings, Highlights can be moved/deleted) and will be flattened on export.
- Added Upload options from the Files and Clipboard
- Option to show documents as grid and thumbnails
- Added alternate Icons in several colours and styles
- Ability to export single page
- Stamps are now synced via the cloud
- OCR Content can now be viewed separately
- Added ability to open a document in a separate window
Changes
- Improves sync logic and reloads documents, titles and tags quickly
- Completly re-written interface to improve usability and readability
- Interface now adapts to device font size
- Dark mode colors
- Consistent use of contextual menus throughout
- Better image import interface
- Faster account switcher interface
- OCR accuracy and performance
- Adds date and time to title on upload where no title is specified
Privacy Improvements
- Document links are now private by default, and are set to public only when sharing a link
- All third party frameworks have been removed
We'd love to hear your feedback @InstaPDF or https://instapdf.com/support
9.0.3 05/05/2021
Thank you for using InstaPDF to go paperless. Version 9 unifies InstaPDF's codebase on all platforms and delivers feature parity.
This minor release improves stamp customisation options and re-adds "Remove from Folder" to the context menu. Visit https://instapdf.com/support?helpMe=stamp for more information.
New Features
- Smart Suggestions when naming documents
- Stamp & Markup Interface: PDF annotations are now editable (e.g. Stamps, Drawings, Highlights can be moved/deleted) and will be flattened on export.
- Added Upload options from the Files and Clipboard
- Option to show documents as grid and thumbnails
- Added alternate Icons in several colours and styles
- Ability to export single page
- Stamps are now synced via the cloud
- OCR Content can now be viewed separately
- Added ability to open a document in a separate window
Changes
- Improves sync logic and reloads documents, titles and tags quickly
- Completly re-written interface to improve usability and readability
- Interface now adapts to device font size
- Dark mode colors
- Consistent use of contextual menus throughout
- Better image import interface
- Faster account switcher interface
- OCR accuracy and performance
- Adds date and time to title on upload where no title is specified
Privacy Improvements
- Document links are now private by default, and are set to public only when sharing a link
- All third party frameworks have been removed
We'd love to hear your feedback @InstaPDF or https://instapdf.com/support
9.0.2 05/04/2021
Thank you for using InstaPDF to go paperless. Version 9 unifies InstaPDF's codebase on all platforms and delivers feature parity.
This minor release improves window size restoration, performance and other smaller issues.
New Features
- Smart Suggestions when naming documents
- Stamp & Markup Interface: PDF annotations are now editable (e.g. Stamps, Drawings, Highlights can be moved/deleted) and will be flattened on export.
- Added Upload options from the Files and Clipboard
- Option to show documents as grid and thumbnails
- Added alternate Icons in several colours and styles
- Ability to export single page
- Stamps are now synced via the cloud
- OCR Content can now be viewed separately
- Added ability to open a document in a separate window
Changes
- Improves sync logic and reloads documents, titles and tags quickly
- Completly re-written interface to improve usability and readability
- Interface now adapts to device font size
- Dark mode colors
- Consistent use of contextual menus throughout
- Better image import interface
- Faster account switcher interface
- OCR accuracy and performance
- Adds date and time to title on upload where no title is specified
Privacy Improvements
- Document links are now private by default, and are set to public only when sharing a link
- All third party frameworks have been removed
We'd love to hear your feedback @InstaPDF or https://instapdf.com/support
9.0.1 04/29/2021
Thank you for using InstaPDF to go paperless. Version 9 unifies InstaPDF's codebase on all platforms and delivers feature parity.
New Features
- Smart Suggestions when naming documents
- Stamp & Markup Interface: PDF annotations are now editable (e.g. Stamps, Drawings, Highlights can be moved/deleted) and will be flattened on export.
- Added Upload options from the Files and Clipboard
- Option to show documents as grid and thumbnails
- Added alternate Icons in several colours and styles
- Ability to export single page
- QR Code Reader in Scanner View
- Stamps are now synced via the cloud
- OCR Content can now be viewed separately
- Added ability to open a document in a separate window
Changes
- Improves sync logic and reloads documents, titles and tags quickly
- Completly re-written interface to improve usability and readability
- Interface now adapts to device font size
- Dark mode colors
- Consistent use of contextual menus throughout
- Better image import interface
- Faster account switcher interface
- OCR accuracy and performance
- Adds date and time to title on upload where no title is specified
Privacy Improvements
- Document links are now private by default, and are set to public only when sharing a link
- All third party frameworks have been removed
We'd love to hear your feedback @InstaPDF or https://instapdf.com/support
9.0 04/28/2021
Thank you for using InstaPDF to go paperless. What's new?
- Added right click to open documents in Preview
- Fixed visuals when launching InstaPDF for the first time
- Fixed keyboard navigation on account switcher
6.1.3 11/12/2020
Thank you for using InstaPDF to go paperless. What's new?
- Added support for dragging individual or multiple pages from Preview to InstaPDF for uploading
- Removed early loading indicator when asking for document deletion confirmation
6.1.2 11/04/2020
Thank you for using InstaPDF to go paperless. What's new?
- Introduced new Italic font option for custom stamps
- Fixed default stamp not rendering correctly on some devices
Plus all the features from 6.1
- Added ability to create Custom Stamps
- Added ability to add Custom Text in Markup
- Fixes refresh button
- Improves sync performance
6.1.1 09/22/2020
Thank you for using InstaPDF to go paperless. What changed?
- Improvements and bug fixes
We'd love to hear your feedback @InstaPDF or https://instapdf.com/support
more Version 9.9.2 09/08/2025
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