Every document,
clean Markdown.
Sygal turns PDFs, Word, Excel, slides and screenshots into clean Markdown and structured JSON, right on your Mac or PC. No account, no cloud, no subscription.
14-day trial · No card needed · macOS 12+ & Windows 10+
Reads everything you throw at it
Messy in. Structured out.
Drop a dense PDF, a spreadsheet or a screenshot. Sygal returns clean Markdown you can read, or JSON your pipeline can parse.
# Q3 Financial Report 2024 Acme Corp SAS · Confidential ## Executive Summary Total revenue reached **€4.8M**, a **+18% YoY** increase. ## Key Metrics | Metric | Q3 2024 | Change | |--------|---------|--------| | Revenue | €4.8M | +18.0% | | Margin | 71.2% | +2.8 pts | | NPS | 68 | +7 pts |
Your AI reads markup you never see.
Drop a Word, Excel or PDF straight into your AI and it has to read every invisible layer of formatting wrapped around your text. That bloat is billed in tokens, every single time.
Ask 20 questions about the same file and the gap compounds: 1× in Markdown against 7× for raw HTML. Convert once with Sygal, reuse it at the cheapest text rate forever.
Lower cost
API · RAG · high volumeToken-based pricing rewards clean input. The same page in Markdown can cost a fraction of the raw file, and the saving repeats on every prompt and re-analysis.
Better answers
EveryoneA clean document fits more real content into the context window, with no formatting noise to distract the model. Less clutter in means sharper answers out.
Orders of magnitude based on public API pricing; actual figures vary with each document's content.
Everything you need to go from
file to finished.
Built for people who live in Markdown: developers, researchers, and anyone feeding documents into Obsidian, Notion or an LLM.
100% on-device
Documents are converted locally. Nothing is uploaded, no account required. Your files never leave your machine.
Smart routing
Documents go through MarkItDown locally; images and screenshots go through OCR automatically. No settings to touch.
Screenshot OCR
Paste a screenshot with ⌘V and read the text out. Pick your engine: OpenAI, Mistral or Claude.
Edit before you export
Preview the source, fix the Markdown in the built-in editor, then ship it. No round-trips to another app.
Searchable library
Every conversion is saved locally with search and filters. Find any file in seconds.
Batch export
Export to .md or .json one by one or in bulk, or copy straight to your clipboard.
Built for people who work in text.
If your documents keep ending up inside an editor, a note vault or an AI prompt, Sygal saves you the messy middle step.
Developers & AI builders
Feed clean text into RAG pipelines, embeddings and fine-tuning. JSON output your code can parse straight away.
Obsidian & Notion users
Drop documents into your knowledge base as clean Markdown, with headings, lists and tables kept intact.
Researchers & students
Turn papers, PDFs and slide decks into searchable, quotable notes you can actually work with.
Finance & legal
Pull tables out of Excel and dense PDFs into structured data, locally, without uploading sensitive files.
Your OCR, your rules.
Images run through the OCR provider you pick, with your own API key. Pick on cost and volume, and switch whenever you like.
Billed per token, by image resolution.
Everyday, mixed documents.
Flat price per page, with an even cheaper async batch mode.
Large volumes of scans.
Billed per token; the priciest at volume.
When you specifically want Claude.
OCR runs through your own API key and the engine you choose: no markup, swap anytime. Every other format is converted 100% locally, with nothing sent anywhere.
What stays in. What leaves.
No account, no telemetry, no cloud sync. Here is exactly what happens to your files.
Stays on your device
- Your documents and their content
- Every conversion to Markdown and JSON
- Your local library and search index
- App settings and API keys
Only this leaves
When you OCR an image, that one image is sent to the provider you picked (OpenAI, Mistral or Claude), using your own API key. Nothing else.
Documents (PDF, Word, Excel, etc.) never leave your machine, even for OCR. Your email is only used if you ask for the download link.
Three steps. No learning curve.
From a pile of documents to clean, structured text in under a minute.
Drop or paste
Drag in files, import a whole folder, or paste a screenshot.
Auto-convert
Sygal routes each file to the right engine and converts it instantly: locally for documents, OCR for images.
Review & export
Fix anything in the editor, then export .md or .json: single, batch, or straight to your clipboard.
Pay once. Own it forever.
No subscription, no usage meter, no surprise renewal. One price, yours to keep.
Includes 14-day free trial. No card to start.
Start free trial- Unlimited conversions, no monthly caps
- All formats: PDF, Word, Excel, slides, HTML, CSV, images
- Local conversion + OCR (OpenAI · Mistral · Claude)
- Built-in Markdown editor & preview
- Searchable local library
- Batch export to .md / .json
- macOS & Windows · UI in 5 languages
- 1 licence · up to 2 machines
Free updates within the major version · 14-day money-back guarantee
Questions, answered.
Everything you might want to know before you try Sygal.
Yes. Documents are converted locally with MarkItDown, so they never leave your machine and there's no account to create. Only images sent through OCR reach an API (OpenAI, Mistral or Claude), and you choose the provider and key.
“I'm an independent developer in Paris. I built Sygal because I was tired of pasting documents into tools that upload everything, lock you into a subscription, and still hand back messy text. Sygal is the tool I wanted for myself: local, paid once, no nonsense. If it saves you the same headache, that's the whole point.”
Cyrill Semah
Creator of Sygal
Stop copy-pasting.
Start converting.
Try Sygal free for 14 days. Drop in your first document and watch it turn into clean Markdown, on your machine, in seconds.