PDF Meta Cleaner & Compressor
Clean & compress PDFs offline
Only for Mac
$5.99
Mac
Remove hidden PDF metadata and compress file size — offline on your Mac. Safe, Balanced, or Aggressive modes. Signed PDFs skipped automatically.
Prepare PDFs for sharing — offline on your Mac.
PDF Meta Cleaner & Compressor removes hidden metadata such as author, software tags, creation dates, and tracking information. Optionally compress file size for email attachments and uploads — while keeping visible document content intact.
Perfect for sending documents to clients, publishing online, submitting academic work, sharing scans, or reducing PDF size without uploading files to the cloud.
What is removed
- Author, creator & producer fields
- Title, subject, keywords
- Creation & modification dates
- Software tags and device names
- Hidden metadata objects & XMP data packages
Compression (optional)
- None — metadata cleaning only
- Safe — structure optimization; no visible quality change
- Balanced — moderate compression, ideal for email
- Aggressive — smallest files; best for scans and photo-heavy PDFs
Balanced and Aggressive re-render pages as images. Text may no longer be selectable and form fields may be flattened.
What stays untouched (metadata cleaning & Safe compression)
- Page content & formatting
- Text, images & graphics
- Annotations, highlights & comments
- Form fields and layout
Signed PDFs
Digitally signed PDFs are detected and skipped automatically. Processing would invalidate the signature — signed contracts and official documents are never modified.
Why users choose PDF Meta Cleaner & Compressor
- Clean metadata without altering visible content
- Shrink bloated PDFs for email and uploads
- Avoid unintentional personal disclosure
- Share PDFs with confidence
- No cloud required — everything runs locally on your Mac
- Fast batch processing for multiple files
- Before/after file size shown in the log
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Part of The Beaver Tools — a collection of focused Mac utilities.
REQUIREMENTS
macOS 12 or later
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
Improved UI
The developer, Christian Ahrweiler, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Christian Ahrweiler
- Size
- 26.7 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2025 by Chris Ahrweiler
