Your files stay on your Mac.
Flat ODF Text stores a document as a single flat XML file. Converting to Plain Text extracts the readable content and discards all markup, styles, and embedded metadata, leaving only the character text. The result is a lightweight .txt file that opens in any editor or script.
Drag one or more .fodt files into Convertessa, or use the folder picker to load a whole directory at once. Files stay on your Mac throughout.
Choose Plain Text from the output format list. Convertessa will extract the document text and strip all XML markup, formatting, and metadata.
Click Convert. Each .fodt file becomes a .txt file saved alongside the original. No data is sent to any server.
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.
No. Plain Text has no formatting layer, so styles, headings, bold, and italic are all discarded. Only the character content is retained.
Yes. Author fields, revision history, and other document properties embedded in the .fodt file are removed from the output.
Yes. Drag a folder onto Convertessa or run convertessa ./folder --to txt in the terminal to convert every .fodt file in the directory in one pass.