Your files stay on your Mac.
Man pages are written in roff markup — precise for terminal display, but awkward to share or edit outside Unix toolchains. Converting to Word (.docx) produces a structured document with headings, sections, and code blocks that opens in Microsoft Word, Google Docs, or LibreOffice. Convertessa runs entirely on your Mac; no file is ever uploaded or transmitted.
Drag one .man file or an entire folder of man pages onto Convertessa. Every file is processed locally — nothing leaves your machine.
Choose Word from the output format list. Convertessa maps roff section headings such as SYNOPSIS, DESCRIPTION, and OPTIONS to Word heading styles in the resulting .docx.
Click Convert. Word files are written alongside the originals, ready to open in Microsoft Word, Pages, LibreOffice, or Google Docs.
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. Convertessa maps roff section macros to Word heading styles, so standard sections like SYNOPSIS, DESCRIPTION, OPTIONS, and SEE ALSO appear as structured headings in the output .docx.
Yes. Supply a folder path or a glob pattern — convertessa *.man --to docx — and Convertessa converts every man page in one pass, writing one .docx file per source.
Yes. Embedded document metadata is stripped from the output .docx, so author fields, creation timestamps, and other properties from the original roff source are not carried over.