Your files stay on your Mac.
Convertessa reads roff markup from your .man files and outputs structured LaTeX source. Section headings, bold and italic spans, code blocks, and cross-references are each mapped to their LaTeX equivalents. The result is a .tex file you can compile immediately, include in a larger document, or edit in any LaTeX editor.
Drag one .man file or an entire folder of man pages onto Convertessa. Files stay on your Mac throughout — nothing is uploaded or sent to a server.
Choose LaTeX from the output format list. Convertessa maps every roff section macro, inline decoration, and code block to its standard LaTeX counterpart.
Click Convert. Each .man file becomes a .tex file in the same folder, complete with a minimal preamble so it compiles straight away with pdflatex or xelatex.
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 handles the standard man and mdoc macro sets used in nearly all Unix man pages — sections, paragraphs, bold, italic, synopsis blocks, and indented code. Low-level troff directives that appear rarely in man pages are preserved as LaTeX comments so nothing is silently lost.
Yes. Each converted file includes a minimal preamble and is self-contained, so pdflatex page.tex works immediately. To embed the content in a larger project, strip the preamble and use \input{page.tex} instead.
Yes. Any embedded document metadata is removed during conversion. The .tex output contains only the typeset content.