A screen recorder with sound, a screenshot and markup tool, PDF tools, a file converter, a desktop organiser and a duplicate finder. One native app that runs on your Mac, for $15 once.
Everything in one place
Record, capture, convert, shrink, file and find, from one window, one menu bar item and a few keyboard shortcuts.
Record the whole screen, a window or an area with system audio and your microphone, pause, then trim it, make a GIF or compress it. Screenshots open in a markup editor with arrows, boxes, text, highlighter, blur and numbered steps.
Microphone and click highlights need macOS 15 or later. macOS records whole windows, not single browser tabs.
Screen record with soundDrop in PDFs and images and every page becomes a thumbnail you can drag, rotate or remove. Save one merged PDF, extract pages, split into single pages, add or remove a password. Compress tries several methods at three levels and only saves a result that is at least 5% smaller.
“pdfs from last week over 5 mb” becomes filters you can see. Text in documents and in screenshots on your Desktop and in Downloads is searchable too.
Sample files. Nothing on your Mac is read by this page.
HEIC to JPG, PNG to JPG, MOV to MP4, PDF to images, Word or Markdown to PDF, plus compress, resize and strip location data. The original is never changed.
Three templates read each file on your Mac and propose where it goes. You see every move first, and any run can be undone. Orrel never deletes and never overwrites.
Exact duplicates matched by their contents, large files, old installers and forgotten downloads, listed for review. What you pick goes to the Trash, so Finder’s Put Back still works.
Find duplicate filesEvery port your projects listen on, with the folder, the tool and what started it: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or a terminal. Stop leftovers in one go, and see CPU and memory per app.
Free up port 3000Orrel includes an MCP server with 12 tools. Connect Claude Desktop or Cursor in one click, or Claude Code with one command. Your assistant can search and read your files, merge and compress PDFs, convert files and see what’s running. It asks before anything writes or stops.
Quick Look shows .md files with headings, tables, code and task lists.
A small app for keeping track of trips, with offline maps.
| Area | State |
|---|---|
| Maps | Done |
| Sync | In review |
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trip.save()Compared
Each specialist app goes deeper in its own job. Orrel covers the version of each job you do every week, shares one search and one menu bar item between them, and costs $15 once.
| The job | Often bought separately | In Orrel |
|---|---|---|
| Screenshots, markup and recording with sound | CleanShot X Basic, $35 with a year of updates | Included |
| Filing Desktop and Downloads automatically | Hazel, $42 | Included, no rules to write |
| Converting images, video and audio | Permute, $14.99 | Included |
| Merging, compressing and locking PDFs | PDF Expert, a yearly subscription | Included |
| Searching your whole Mac in plain English | Spotlight, built in | Visible filters over the same index |
| Letting Claude or Cursor use your files and tools | Rarely offered by file apps | Built-in MCP server, 12 tools |
| Price | Over $90, plus a subscription | $15 once |
Prices from each developer’s own site, checked on 25 October 2026, in US dollars before tax. If you need custom rules, cloud sharing or full PDF editing, the specialist app is the better choice, and our comparison pages say so.
Built like a Mac app should be
Search, text recognition, invoice naming, conversion and duplicate checks run locally. Nothing is uploaded.
No sign-up and no analytics in the app. Your licence key is all you need.
Signed with an Apple Developer ID, notarised by Apple, with signed updates built in.
Every tidy run can be put back from History. Clean Up only moves files to the Trash.
Capture, convert, tidy now and open localhost servers without opening the main window.
A Quick Action, a Dock drop target, a Quick Look extension and Shortcuts actions.
Pricing
The trial includes every feature, with no card and no account. After seven days Orrel needs a licence. Pick the one that covers your Macs.
$15 once
For your own Mac.
Buy for 1 Mac$30 once
For a desktop, a laptop and one more.
Buy for 3 Macs$50 once
For a household or a small studio.
Buy for 5 MacsCheckout is handled by Stripe. When you’ve paid, you’ll see your licence key and an Activate in Orrel link. A licence activates online once on each Mac. When the trial ends without a licence, Orrel locks; files it has already moved stay where they are.
Questions
Download Orrel and use everything for 7 days. There’s no card to enter and no account to make. When the trial ends, Orrel locks until you enter a licence. Files it has already moved stay where they are, in ordinary folders you can open in Finder.
One licence per number of Macs you use yourself: $15 for one Mac, $30 for three or $50 for five. Each is a one-time payment with updates included. If you have a desktop and a laptop, the three-Mac licence covers both with one spare.
After checkout, the confirmation page shows your licence key and an Activate in Orrel link, which opens Orrel and activates it. You can also paste the key into Orrel’s settings. Activation needs an internet connection once on each Mac; after that, Orrel doesn’t need one.
Free the old Mac from Orrel’s settings, then activate the key on the new one. If the old Mac has already gone, email hello@orrel.app with your licence key.
Your key is shown on the confirmation page after checkout, so copy it somewhere safe, such as alongside your Stripe receipt. If you’ve lost it, email hello@orrel.app with the email address you paid with.
If Orrel isn’t right for you, email hello@orrel.app. The 7-day trial is there so you can check it does what you need before you pay.
Tidying only moves loose files at the top of Desktop and Downloads. It never touches subfolders, skips partial downloads, leaves new files alone until your waiting period has passed, skips files that changed after the preview and never overwrites a file that’s already there. Clean Up moves files to the Trash only after you’ve reviewed them. Nothing is deleted outright.
It can’t make MP3 files, because macOS has no MP3 encoder, and it doesn’t read MKV or WebM video. Word and Markdown files convert to PDF, but nothing converts into Word. Every conversion writes a new file beside the original.
Orrel isn’t in the App Sandbox, so it relies on macOS permissions. Full Disk Access is optional: it lets Orrel search everywhere. Without it, macOS keeps some folders out of reach and asks before Orrel opens Desktop, Documents or Downloads. Screen Recording is needed for screenshots, recording and Copy Text from Screen. You can change either in System Settings › Privacy & Security.
No. Automatic tidying runs only while Orrel is open. It can sit in the menu bar and open at login if you want it running.
Only to check for updates and to activate your licence once on each Mac. Your files and their text never leave your Mac. If you connect an AI assistant, what Orrel’s tools return is sent to that assistant as part of your conversation.
No. Orrel is sold directly from this website. The download is signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarised by Apple, and updates are signed too.
Orrel needs macOS 14 or later. It’s designed for macOS 26, where it looks and works best. Recording your microphone and click highlights need macOS 15 or later.
Yes. Orrel was called Nook while it was being built. It’s the same app with a new name.
Guides
Plain guides to everyday Mac jobs. Each shows what macOS already does, how Orrel does it, and where Orrel stops.
Try everything free for 7 days. Then $15 once for one Mac, $30 for three or $50 for five.
Signed and notarised disk image · Updates built in · macOS 14 or later