Your files stay on your Mac.
DocBook encodes technical documentation in verbose XML. Convertessa rewrites that structure into Typst's compact markup syntax, preserving headings, sections, lists, and inline code. Your files are processed locally — nothing is uploaded.
Drag one .dbk file or an entire documentation folder into Convertessa. The app reads each file's structure without sending anything to a server.
Choose Typst from the output format list. Convertessa targets the .typ format your Typst compiler expects.
Click Convert. Convertessa writes .typ files alongside your originals, ready to compile with the Typst CLI or desktop app.
Images, audio, video, documents, archives and eBooks — all converted natively, right on your Mac.
Pick a format you have — see everything Convertessa can turn it into.
Convert hundreds of files at once with per-type group defaults and individual overrides.
First-class support for HEIC, AVIF and WebP — encode and decode, both ways. Read JPEG XL and a dozen more modern formats too.
Drop files anywhere on the window. Native, instant, and exactly what you’d expect on a Mac.
Dial in compression, resolution and bitrate. Keep originals pristine or shrink for sharing.
Never overwrite a file by accident. Convertessa appends safe suffixes automatically.
Every job is logged locally. Re-run a previous conversion or revisit recent outputs in a click.
Bundle your converted files straight into a single ZIP, TAR or 7z — packaged and ready to share the moment a job finishes.
Right-click any file in Finder and choose Convert. A Quick Action handles it on the spot — no need to open the app first.
Shrink Convertessa to a tidy mini window that tucks into a corner — just a drop zone and a format picker for quick, one-off conversions.
No cloud. No account. No upload. Every conversion happens entirely on-device, using the power already in your Mac. What you convert is nobody’s business but yours.
Script conversions, wire them into your build, or batch a folder from the terminal. The same engine, no GUI required.
Read the full CLI documentation →Shrink Convertessa down to a small, focused window — drop, convert, done, with your recent conversions one click away.
macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon & Intel
New formats, new features, and fixes — every release, on the record.
Convertessa maps common DocBook structural elements — section, para, itemizedlist, programlisting, and emphasis — to their Typst equivalents. Elements with no direct Typst counterpart are preserved as verbatim blocks so nothing is silently dropped.
Yes. info blocks containing author, revision, and publication metadata are stripped during conversion. The output .typ file contains only the document body, keeping your Typst source clean.
Yes. Point Convertessa at the folder containing your .dbk files — or run convertessa docs/ --to typ on the command line — and every file in the folder is converted in one pass.