Open a thousand pages like one.
Drop in a folder, a data room, or a case file. PageHawk lines up every document and PDF, compares versions, scores what matters, and gets you to the right page fast. On your Mac. Nothing uploaded.
PageHawk on a 512-document legal data room: every file scored, the keeper flagged, the diff in the panel, the whole collection on your Mac. Shown with real public court records as sample data.
See the whole set, not one file at a time.
Reading a big stack of documents is slow because you can open only one at a time. PageHawk lays the whole set out at once, compares and scores it, and takes you straight to what matters.
- 1GatherDrag in a folder, a data room, a case file, or a stack of PDF versions. PageHawk reads them all and lays them out together.
- 2CompareEvery document, side by side, scored on your focus query, recency, and what changed between versions. Near-duplicates are grouped.
- 3KeepKeyboard-first review, fast enough that you never reach for the mouse. Flag the keepers, and export them where they need to go.
A few moves over any pile.
The slow parts done for you. The call left to you.
Rank what matters.
Point PageHawk at what you care about: a clause, a metric, a method. It scores every document on that focus, plus recency and what changed, so the page you need rises to the top.
Group the near-duplicates.
A folder of 142 files collapses to 38 groups, each holding its best copy. You review groups, not forty versions of the same memo.
Export a review list.
Flag the keepers and send them on: a PDF bundle, a citation list, or a copy-paste set. The export stays on your Mac.
One tool for every kind of pile.
Anywhere you have many documents and need the right one, PageHawk is faster than your eye alone.
See it for your work.
The same app, the work that looks like yours. Open a use case.
Find the changed clause across a 500-document data room, and the near-duplicate pleadings buried in a discovery production.
Compare filings and deal drafts at the pace of the deal: quarter over quarter, version over version, in one pass.
Triage two hundred papers for a literature review, compare revisions, and surface the ones that actually matter.
Group related papers and methods, read figure-heavy preprints side by side, with nothing sent to a server.
Review OCR-heavy archives: registers, manifests, and declassified files, read and matched on your Mac.
Every screenshot is the real interface, populated with genuine public records: court opinions, SEC and central-bank reports, arXiv papers, national-archive scans. In PageHawk they would be your own files, read and scored on your Mac.
See exactly what changed.
Line up two versions of a contract, a filing, or a draft. PageHawk marks every change, by page and by clause, so you keep the right one with proof instead of memory.
- Word-level redline, added and removed colour-coded
- Side by side and scrollable, with a change list and minimap
- Export a Word tracked-changes file or a PDF redline
A real PageHawk comparison, rendered on device.
Your files never leave your drive.
No document upload. No cloud processing. No account needed to open your files. PageHawk reads, scores, and compares everything on your Mac, and the index it builds stays on your drive.
The work you are choosing between is often the work you most need to keep private: client photos, unsigned contracts, drafts no one else should see. They stay where they are.
Reading the pile is the slow part. PageHawk is the fast part.
Do what the cloud tools do. Without the cloud.
Compare, ask, summarize, and redline like the best tools on the market, with the one thing none of them offer: every document stays on your Mac. Where a rival has a feature but uploads your file to get it, you'll see it marked.
| Feature | PageHawk | Draftable | Adobe Acrobat Pro | PDF Expert | ChatPDF / Humata |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100% on-device, nothing uploaded | ✓ | ✓Windows only | ✗ | ✗AI in cloud | ✗ |
| Ask your documents (AI Q&A, page-cited) | ✓ | ✗ | ✓cloud | ✓cloud | ✓cloud |
| Ask across a whole folder of documents | ✓ | ✗ | ✓cloud | ✗ | ✓cloud |
| Summarize & extract key terms | ✓ | ✗ | ✓cloud | ✓cloud | ✓cloud |
| Compare PDF, Word & text, side by side | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | PDF only | ✗ |
| Export Word tracked-changes redline | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Export redline as PDF | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | partial | ✗ |
| OCR scanned / image-only documents | ✓ | partial | ✓ | ✓ | partial |
| Rank a folder by what you're looking for | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Works fully offline / air-gapped | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | partial | ✗ |
| Mac-native | ✓ | ✗Windows | ✓ | ✓ | ✗web |
| One-time price, no subscription | ✓ | ✗subscription | ✗subscription | sub for AI | ✗subscription |
The honest answers.
Does PageHawk upload my photos or documents?
No. Everything is read and compared on your Mac. No file is uploaded, and there is no account to create.
Does it decide for me?
No. PageHawk scores and groups to make the choice fast, but the keep and cut calls are yours. The scores inform you; they do not overrule you.
What file types does it read?
PDFs, Word and text documents, and scanned or image-only files. If there is a format you live in, tell us and we will look at supporting it. For photo culling, see Gander.
How large a collection can it handle?
PageHawk is built for big sets: a folder of hundreds of PDFs, a full data room, a literature pile. It reads and compares them on your Mac, so the limit is your disk and memory, not a server.
One price, no subscription?
$79, once. No monthly tax, no account. Buy it, keep it, use it on your Mac.
What do I need to run it?
A Mac on macOS 26 with Apple Silicon. Nothing else, and no connection required to do the work.
One price. Yours to keep.
No subscription, no account, no cloud to opt out of. Buy it once and own it.
- Ask your documents & whole folders, with page citations
- Compare PDF, Word & text, export Word + PDF redlines
- Rank a folder by relevance · OCR for scans
- Share by AirDrop, Mail or Messages, nothing uploaded
- Summarize and extract key terms on device
- Fully on-device. Nothing uploaded, ever. Free updates within the major version
- Everything in Pro, no feature limits
- Compare thesis and co-author drafts
- Ask questions across a folder of papers, privately
- Your unpublished research never leaves your Mac
Pick the winner in a fraction of the time.
$79, one time. Cull photos, compare versions, and keep the best, all on your Mac, with nothing uploaded.