File tools for your Mac

26 tools that run on your Mac. Drag a file, tap ⌘, and pick one. Results are saved next to the original and never overwrite it.

Image tools

Edit photo: Edit photos in Ferrocast with a live preview and nine sliders: brightness, contrast, saturation, warmth, clarity, sharpen, grain, denoise and dehaze.
Annotate photo: Annotate an image in Ferrocast with arrows, boxes, highlights, numbered labels, text, callouts and a magnifier on its own canvas. Saves a PNG copy.
Add a background: Place an image on a colour, a blurred copy or another picture in Ferrocast, with padding, rounded corners and a shadow. Previewed live, saved as a copy.
Crop image: Crop an image in Ferrocast with a draggable rectangle, fixed aspect ratios such as 1:1 or 16:9, or exact width and height. Saves a copy.
Redact photo: Redact faces or text on-device with Vision, or cover areas you drag with a solid colour or a blur. Ferrocast saves the result as a copy.
Make a collage: Combine two or more images into a collage in Ferrocast: grid, row, column or featured layouts with width, spacing, corners and background.
Create a PDF: Combine selected images into one PDF with Ferrocast, one page per image, in an order you choose. Output sits next to the originals.

Trim video: Trim a video in Ferrocast with a frame-accurate viewer, timeline and start and end markers, or a typed trim range. Requires ffmpeg.
Crop video: Crop the frame of a video in Ferrocast with a draggable rectangle, aspect presets or exact width and height. Requires ffmpeg.
Change video speed: Speed a video up or down in Ferrocast between 0.25x and 4x with presets and a calculated duration, keeping pitch. Requires ffmpeg.
Join videos: Join several video clips into one MP4 with Ferrocast, choosing their order. Silent clips get generated silence. Requires ffmpeg.
Video snapshots: Save a full-resolution PNG of any video frame with Ferrocast, picking the frame on a timeline or by stepping frame by frame. Requires ffmpeg.
Split video: Split a video into clips with cut markers or equal parts in Ferrocast. Every clip is written into one new folder. Requires ffmpeg.
Redact video: Cover several areas of a video for chosen time ranges with a solid colour or blur in Ferrocast. Each area has its own rectangle. Requires ffmpeg.
Mute video: Remove the sound from a video with Ferrocast in one step, written as a new copy next to the original, so the source file is never changed. Requires ffmpeg.

Normalize audio: Set the loudness of an audio file with Ferrocast: target LUFS, loudness range and true peak, measured first. Requires ffmpeg.
Audio to video: Make an MP4 from one audio file with Ferrocast, showing the waveform or a still image in landscape, portrait or square. Requires ffmpeg.
Trim audio: Trim audio in Ferrocast on a waveform with exact start and end boxes and a Trim silence button, as a new copy next to the original. Requires ffmpeg.
Audio channels: Switch an audio file between mono and stereo and set the left and right volume in dB with Ferrocast, as a new copy next to the original. Requires ffmpeg.
Bleep audio: Replace several ranges of an audio file with a 1 kHz tone in Ferrocast, chosen on the waveform. Offered for audio files only. Requires ffmpeg.

Merge PDFs: Merge two or more PDF files into one with Ferrocast, choosing the order in a Choose Order window. Output is a new copy next to the originals.
Organize PDF pages: Reorder, rotate, duplicate and remove PDF pages with thumbnails in Ferrocast, or type a page order. Saves a copy and never overwrites.
Split PDF: Split a PDF into one file per page with Ferrocast from the Convert view. Output is written next to the original and never overwrites.

Compress: Compress images by size, percentage or preset, and audio, video and PDF files, with Ferrocast. Output is a new copy next to the original.
Edit metadata: Inspect, edit or remove metadata of audio, video, GIF and PDF files in Ferrocast, grouped by file, track and chapter. Images use typed commands.