Your files stay on your Mac.
Converting Djot to Plain Text removes all markup syntax — headings, links, emphasis, and code fences — leaving the prose as a clean .txt file. Convertessa processes every file locally on your Mac; nothing is uploaded or sent anywhere. Use it to extract readable content for piping into other tools or plain-text archiving.
Drag a .djot file or an entire folder onto Convertessa. The app lists every file ready for conversion.
Choose Plain Text from the output format list. No quality slider appears because .txt is lossless.
Click Convert. Convertessa strips all Djot markup and writes a .txt file next to each original.
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.
Yes. Paragraph breaks from the Djot source are preserved in the output. Inline markup — bold, italics, links, and code spans — is stripped, leaving only the underlying prose.
Yes. Drop a folder onto Convertessa or run convertessa ./folder --to txt in the terminal to batch-convert every .djot file inside.