Your files stay on your Mac.
Converting a Word document to plain text strips all formatting — fonts, styles, tables, and embedded objects — leaving only the raw characters. The result is a .txt file readable by any editor, script, or pipeline without a Word installation. Document metadata is also removed during conversion.
Drag one .docx file or an entire folder into Convertessa. Everything stays on your Mac — nothing is uploaded.
Choose Plain Text from the output list to set .txt as the target format.
Click Convert. Convertessa strips all formatting and metadata and writes a clean .txt file alongside each source document.
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 in the Word document become newlines in the .txt output, so reading order is preserved even without formatting.
Table cells and list items are flattened to plain lines of text. No grid or bullet structure carries over, because the .txt format has no equivalent.
Yes. Drop a folder onto Convertessa or run convertessa /folder --to txt in Terminal. Every .docx inside is converted in one pass.