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A free, open-source file converter you use by dragging.
  Hold a key (Ctrl, Option on macOS), drag files and drop them on a format in the donut that opens at your cursor.



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      Right at your cursor
      No app window to open.
      The formats appear where you already are, only the ones that make sense for the files you drag.
    
    
      270 formats, no other software
      Images, PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HWP, e-books, archives, fonts, CAD, 3D models and geospatial data work without Office, Hancom Office or LibreOffice.
    
    
      Stays on your computer
      Nothing is uploaded.
      Filee works offline and saves the result next to the original.
    
  


 See it in action


  
  Watch the 27-second video and try the interactive demo on filee.sh


 Install

Download from Releases.



Or with WinGet:

powershell
winget install KnifeLemon.Filee


- Windows 10/11: run Filee--win-Setup.exe, or unzip the win-Portable.zip and run Filee.exe.
  - Setup is Filee's own installer, in Filee's languages, and needs nothing else on the PC.
  - It can add the Explorer menu, start at sign-in, the filee command and optional engines.
  - Silent installs take Inno Setup's switches (/VERYSILENT /SUPPRESSMSGBOXES).
- macOS 13+ (preview): unpack the osx-arm64 or osx-x64 package and run ./install.sh.
  - Or open the .dmg and drag Filee to Applications (the filee command comes with install.sh).
  - The build isn't notarized yet, so allow the first start in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.
- Linux x64/ARM64 (Ubuntu 22.04+): unpack the package and run ./install.sh (no root, needs Python 3).
  - Drag gestures need X11.
    On Wayland, use the drop zone and the file manager's right-click menu.

Filee shows new releases in its menu and updates itself, keeping your settings and engines.
After an update, a few slides show what's new.

Windows: Filee doesn't start (no window, no error)?
This happens on Windows 10 that hasn't been updated for a long time, on a PC whose processor supports Hardware-enforced Stack Protection (CET).
Windows turns that protection on but lacks a part that .NET needs, so Filee and Setup stop right away.

- Recommended: install the available Windows updates (the latest cumulative update).
- If updating isn't possible: turning the protection off for Filee alone usually works.
  Run this in PowerShell as administrator:

powershell
Set-ProcessMitigation -Name Filee.exe -Disable UserShadowStack
Set-ProcessMitigation -Name filee-cli.exe -Disable UserShadowStack


Do the same with Setup's file name (e.g. Filee--win-Setup.exe), or use the portable ZIP, which nee

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 New tools

- Annotate (pictures, palette): arrows, boxes, highlights, freehand lines, text and numbered markers, drawn as you see them, in the picture's own colours (also CMYK and greyscale), with right-to-left and complex scripts shaped properly.
- Crop video (video back face): remove black bars found automatically, or crop to 16:9, 9:16, 4:3, 1:1 or 21:9. HDR and 10-bit sources stay HDR and 10-bit.
- Pages per sheet (PDF, palette): 2, 4, 6, 8 or 9 pages on each sheet, on A4, Letter, A3 or the first page's size, with margins, gaps, order and thin borders. Pages stay v