AI File Sorter for Mac and Windows: Sort Files with a Prompt

Drop a folder. Sortio renames every file and files it where it belongs.

Reads each file's contents, names it like YYYYMMDD - Vendor - $Amount or LastName, FirstName, and routes it to the right client, matter, or property folder. Creates the folder if it's missing.

Free to start|Pro from $14.99/mo
Works Offline
macOS
Windows
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Experience the Magic

See how Sortio transforms chaos into order with a simple prompt

Sortio File Organizer

Files

My Documents
tax_return_2022.pdf
w2_2022.pdf
family_photo_2023.jpg
resume_2023.docx
project_proposal.pptx
budget_2023.xlsx
vacation_itinerary.pdf
home_inventory.csv
birthday_party.mov
work_contract.pdf

AI Organization

Who uses Sortio

Built for the way you actually file

Lawyers, realtors, bookkeepers, consultants, project managers, and home archivists already trust Sortio with their pro and personal files.

Solo Lawyer or Attorney

Per client, per matter, per county filing across a backlog of intake docs and exhibits.

Sample prompt

"Rename from content and route each doc to the right client matter folder, create a new folder if the client is unknown."

See the law-firm workflow

Real Estate Agent

Hundreds of MLS photos, drone shots, and transaction docs per property, all due yesterday.

Sample prompt

"Sort these 460 files into folders by property address (e.g. 1127 S Cornell Terrace) and split photos, drone, and transaction docs."

See the realtor workflow

SMB Back Office or Bookkeeper

Payroll runs, vendor invoices, and multi-year archives piling up on a shared OneDrive.

Sample prompt

"Group by vendor and year, separate payroll from invoices, and keep the existing client subfolders intact."

See the back-office workflow

Solo Consultant or Founder

Multi-client deliverables, or multiple businesses, sharing one inbox and one Downloads folder.

Sample prompt

"Route each file to the right client (or business entity) based on the content, and rename grant deliverables by program name."

See the consultant workflow

Engineering or AEC Project Manager

CAD drawings, change requests, BOQs, and meeting minutes scattered across project phases.

Sample prompt

"Organize by project phase and drawing discipline, separate CAD revisions, BOQs, and MOMs into their own folders."

See the engineering workflow

Personal Archivist

Decades of family docs, tax returns, and photo libraries waiting to be filed properly.

Sample prompt

"Sort family photos by year and event, and route tax and house-build documents into the right yearly folders."

See the home workflow

What People Are Saying

How real Sortio Pro customers describe their workflows. Roles only, paraphrased with permission pending.

Legal

"I run per-client filing for a court-appointed practice. Sortio reads each document, drops it into the right client folder, and creates a new one when the client is new. The county tag at the end of the filename is the part I did not know I needed."

LAW

Solo criminal defense attorney

Sortio Pro customer

SMB Back Office

"Three years of payroll PDFs and vendor invoices sat on our shared OneDrive in folders with typos and near-duplicates. I pointed Sortio at a 3,748 file batch and it canonicalized the folder names and routed everything by vendor and date. That was a quarter of bookkeeping work in an afternoon."

BK

Bookkeeper at a construction and trucking SMB

Sortio Pro customer

Telecom and AEC

"Our archive is a 7,000 file telecom project with bilingual filenames in Arabic and English. Sortio is the only tool that read the content and grouped drawings, change requests, and meeting minutes the way an engineer would. Saved weeks on a handover."

PM

Engineering project manager

Sortio Pro customer

Real Estate

"Every listing generates 200 plus photos and a stack of transaction docs. I tell Sortio the property address and it files everything under that address, splits photos from contracts, and renames the scanned disclosures so I can actually search them."

RE

Residential real estate agent

Sortio Pro customer

Financial Services

"I write CDFI grant applications for credit unions. Each filing has hundreds of supporting docs across multiple credit unions. Sortio routes them into the right institution folder and renames each file with YYYYMMDD and the source so my audit trail is clean."

GC

Grants consultant for credit unions

Sortio Pro customer

Public Sector

"Decades of board packets, operations records, and scanned correspondence for a special district. 142 sorts in, Sortio has filed material I had no realistic plan for. The recursive scan and the rename to readable filenames did most of the work."

OPS

Operations manager at a public utility district

Sortio Pro customer

Document Archiving

"I run a Dropbox archive folder named zu archivieren. Sortio watches it, extracts entities, and renames every scanned PDF as Datum then Absender then Betreff. Nearly 3,000 documents indexed without me touching them."

DOC

SMB owner archiving a multi-year document folder

Sortio Pro customer

Personal Archive

"I had wedding photos sprawled across four folders the photographer dropped, with duplicates everywhere. Sortio deduped the near-identical shots, separated HEIC and MOV from JPG, and gave me one clean gallery I can actually share with family."

PA

Homeowner consolidating wedding and family galleries

Sortio Pro customer

Small Business

"I run a few businesses out of one machine. A Rule Builder rule moves anything mentioning the holding company into its own folder, and the gelato retail invoices route separately. Filing is finally not my job anymore."

FND

Multi-venture founder

Sortio Pro customer

Legal

"I run per-client filing for a court-appointed practice. Sortio reads each document, drops it into the right client folder, and creates a new one when the client is new. The county tag at the end of the filename is the part I did not know I needed."

LAW

Solo criminal defense attorney

Sortio Pro customer

SMB Back Office

"Three years of payroll PDFs and vendor invoices sat on our shared OneDrive in folders with typos and near-duplicates. I pointed Sortio at a 3,748 file batch and it canonicalized the folder names and routed everything by vendor and date. That was a quarter of bookkeeping work in an afternoon."

BK

Bookkeeper at a construction and trucking SMB

Sortio Pro customer

Telecom and AEC

"Our archive is a 7,000 file telecom project with bilingual filenames in Arabic and English. Sortio is the only tool that read the content and grouped drawings, change requests, and meeting minutes the way an engineer would. Saved weeks on a handover."

PM

Engineering project manager

Sortio Pro customer

Real Estate

"Every listing generates 200 plus photos and a stack of transaction docs. I tell Sortio the property address and it files everything under that address, splits photos from contracts, and renames the scanned disclosures so I can actually search them."

RE

Residential real estate agent

Sortio Pro customer

Financial Services

"I write CDFI grant applications for credit unions. Each filing has hundreds of supporting docs across multiple credit unions. Sortio routes them into the right institution folder and renames each file with YYYYMMDD and the source so my audit trail is clean."

GC

Grants consultant for credit unions

Sortio Pro customer

Public Sector

"Decades of board packets, operations records, and scanned correspondence for a special district. 142 sorts in, Sortio has filed material I had no realistic plan for. The recursive scan and the rename to readable filenames did most of the work."

OPS

Operations manager at a public utility district

Sortio Pro customer

Document Archiving

"I run a Dropbox archive folder named zu archivieren. Sortio watches it, extracts entities, and renames every scanned PDF as Datum then Absender then Betreff. Nearly 3,000 documents indexed without me touching them."

DOC

SMB owner archiving a multi-year document folder

Sortio Pro customer

Personal Archive

"I had wedding photos sprawled across four folders the photographer dropped, with duplicates everywhere. Sortio deduped the near-identical shots, separated HEIC and MOV from JPG, and gave me one clean gallery I can actually share with family."

PA

Homeowner consolidating wedding and family galleries

Sortio Pro customer

Small Business

"I run a few businesses out of one machine. A Rule Builder rule moves anything mentioning the holding company into its own folder, and the gelato retail invoices route separately. Filing is finally not my job anymore."

FND

Multi-venture founder

Sortio Pro customer

For personal and professional use

From organizing family photos to managing client projects

Home & Family
Photos & Media
Students
Downloads
Freelancers
Developers
Creatives
Legal
Finance
Tax Season
Compliance & Audit
File Retrieval
2M+ files organized
macOS
Windows
Product Hunt
GDPR Compliant
Data stays on device
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Works With

Fits into your existing setup

Sortio works directly with the folders you already have. Whether your files live on your desktop or are synced from the cloud, organizing them is one prompt away.

Built for Macand Windows

Sort folders synced from

OneDrive
SharePoint
Google Drive
Dropbox
iCloud Drive
Box

If the folder shows up in File Explorer or Finder, Sortio can sort it. No integration setup required, on Windows or Mac.

Native integrations

Clio

API integration

Upload sorted documents straight to the right matter. Two-stage matter matching with confidence scoring.

More integrations coming

Tell us what you use. The integrations we build next come from what paying customers ask for.

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Built for Regulated Work

Your files never leave your machine unless you choose

Sortio is designed for legal, financial, healthcare-adjacent, and grant-administration work where client documents and regulated data cannot leave your control.

Local by default. Cloud only by choice.

File indexing, content reads, and rule-based sorting all run on your Mac. The only time content leaves your device is when you explicitly enable a cloud AI provider, and you decide which one.

On-device indexing
File names, paths, and metadata are read and stored locally.
Bring your own model
Point Sortio at Ollama, OpenAI, Anthropic, or any compatible endpoint.
30-day rolling retention
If you use our hosted AI, content is purged on a 30-day window.
No PII in logs
Diagnostics capture errors, not file contents or client data.

Local-First by Default

Files are indexed and analyzed on your Mac. Sortio reads from disk, builds its plan locally, and never uploads file contents unless you opt into a cloud provider. Learn more

Bring Your Own Model

Use Ollama for fully local AI, or plug in your own OpenAI, Anthropic, or other API-compatible key. When you BYOK, file content flows to your provider under your account, not ours. Learn more

30-Day Cloud Retention

If you opt into Sortio's hosted AI, content is purged on a 30-day rolling basis. We keep aggregated usage stats so we can bill and improve the product, never your documents. Learn more

Audit-Logged Moves

Every file move, rename, and rule application is logged locally with a timestamp and source/destination path. Export the journal for compliance reviews, discovery, or your own records. Learn more

Sortio is built for professionals handling client documents, financial records, and regulated data. Local AI keeps sensitive content on your machine; cloud AI is opt-in and auditable. If your workflow touches privileged, PHI-adjacent, or grant-administration files, configure Sortio for local-only mode and your data never crosses your network boundary.

Advanced Features

Designed for Productivity

Powerful tools that help you organize your digital life with ease and precision

AI Rule Builder

Describe how you want files sorted in plain English, and Sortio builds the rules for you. Once a rule is set, it keeps working on every new file, no technical knowledge required.

Smart Folders

Set a folder once. Sortio routes every new file to the right place automatically, by client, project, or category, so your workspace stays organized without you thinking about it.

Reads Your Documents

Sortio opens your files and extracts the important details: people, companies, dates, dollar amounts, document types. Every file you add makes your library smarter.

Search by Meaning, Not Filename

Stop guessing filenames. Type 'tax return 2024' or 'invoice from Acme Corp' and find it instantly, even if the file is named IMG_4032.pdf.

Intelligent Sorting

Our AI-powered system organizes your files according to your instructions. Sort by file name, metadata or content with a simple toggle, and watch the magic happen.

Know What's in Your Files

See every person, company, and dollar amount across all your documents at a glance. Perfect for tax prep, compliance checks, or just knowing where things are.

Rule Discovery

Browse and import community-created rulepacks tailored for your profession. Lawyers, students, designers, and more can get started instantly with pre-built sorting solutions.

Intelligent File Renaming

Automatically rename files based on content, context, or pattern with our AI-powered renaming tool. Toggle this feature on or off to maintain complete control.

Smart Suggestions

Receive intelligent recommendations for file organization based on your past sorting patterns and content analysis.

Secure Activity Logging

Track every file movement with detailed logs showing what happened to each file, when it moved, and where it went. All logs are stored securely.

Offline Mode

Enable offline mode to ensure your data never leaves your device, providing complete privacy and control over your file organization.

Most file organizers move files around. Sortio actually reads them.

Other tools

  • Look at file names and dates
  • Move files into folders
  • You still can't find anything

Sortio

  • Reads document contents
  • Extracts people, companies, dates, amounts
  • You search by meaning and find it instantly

The result

  • Sort smarter because Sortio understands context
  • Find any document in seconds
  • Spot sensitive files before they become a problem
Community-Driven

Built With and For Our Community

Sortio is shaped by our users. Your feedback directly influences our roadmap, ensuring the features you need the most get prioritized.

Feature Leaderboard

Most Voted

Semantic Searching

Locate files with natural language prompts instead of exact filenames or paths.

Planned
High Priority
100%

Cloud Storage Integration

Connect with popular cloud storage services including Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, and OneDrive to sort and organize files stored in the cloud.

Planned
High Priority
87%

Content Searching

Sort and find files based on their content rather than just metadata.

Planned
High Priority
86%

Smart Files

Intelligently tag files with metadata and attributes to enhance searchability and organization. Uses AI to extract relevant information from file contents.

Proposed
High Priority
79%

Prompt Tips

Resources to help users get the most out of Sortio, including website guides and YouTube tutorials.

Planned
Low Priority
47%
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Choose Your Plan

Simple, Flexible Pricing

Start free, upgrade when you need more. Plans for individuals, teams, and enterprises.

Pro is built for...

  • You sort 100+ files at a time, regularly
  • You work with client, matter, project, or property folders
  • You have years of unfiled documents you keep meaning to deal with
  • You want Spaces watching Downloads or a Dropbox archive 24/7
  • You need files renamed from content, not just moved

If you only need a one-time cleanup...

  • Sorting 50 family photos or a single tax folder? Free is enough.
  • One-time household decluttering? Start Free, upgrade only if you hit the limit.
  • Need it for one specific job? Standard ($9.99/mo) covers ad-hoc projects.

Free

$0

Get started with basic features

  • 50 AI credits to start
  • Rule-based sorting (5 rules)
  • Up to 50 files per sort
  • Community rulepacks
  • Preview before applying
  • Sort history & undo
  • Local LLM / BYOK
  • Import rulepacks
  • Watch folders
  • Scheduled runs
Most Popular

Pro

$14.99/mo or $99/yr

For power users who need more

  • 5,000 AI credits/month
  • Unlimited Spaces & automations
  • Knowledge Graph indexing
  • Auto-sort on file change
  • BYOK (no credits used)
  • AI sort: up to 5,000 files / run
  • Unlimited via automations
  • Unlimited file renaming
  • Import/export rule packs
  • Commercial license
  • Email support (48h)

Team

$29/seat/mo

Shared workflows for teams

  • Everything in Pro
  • Unlimited credits per seat
  • Team workspaces
  • Shared automations
  • Admin console & seats
  • Centralized LLM policy
  • Priority support (24h)

Enterprise

$50+/seat/mo

Advanced security & compliance

  • Everything in Team
  • SSO/SAML + SCIM
  • Audit logs
  • Self-hosted deployment
  • Dedicated CSM + SLA
  • Custom ontologies
  • Volume discounts (25+ seats)

Compatible with macOS 11.0+, Windows 10/11, and Linux

*Prices may vary by location. All plans include end-to-end encryption and local-first processing.

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about Sortio. Can't find the answer you're looking for?Contact our team

Yes! Sortio offers a free tier that includes 5 AI sorting credits, rule-based sorting with up to 5 rules, and sorting up to 50 files at a time. It's a great way to try Sortio before upgrading.

Yes, Sortio backs up your files before making any changes. You can easily revert to the original organization at any time from within the app.

Sortio offers two tiers: Free (50 AI credits to start, basic features) and Pro ($14.99/month or $99/year, 5,000 AI credits/month, unlimited rule-based sorting, watch folders, scheduled runs, and commercial license).

Yes, Sortio's Free tier includes 50 AI credits to get you started with no payment required. You can sort files, try rule-based sorting, and explore the app. When you need more credits or advanced features like watch folders and scheduled runs, upgrade to Pro at $14.99/month or $99/year.

Watch Folders (available in Pro) are folders you configure that automatically sort and organize new files as they arrive. Simply set up a Watch Folder once, and any files dropped into it will be automatically organized according to your preferences, keeping your digital workspace tidy without manual effort.

Sortio maintains detailed logs of all file operations, including what files were moved, when the movement occurred, and where they were relocated to. These logs are securely stored and provide a complete history of file organization while ensuring your privacy.

Yes, your Sortio purchase allows you to use the app on multiple devices of the same operating system. A macOS license can be used on multiple Mac computers, and a Windows license can be used on multiple Windows computers, but a macOS license cannot be used for Windows and vice versa.

Sortio uses advanced machine learning algorithms to understand the context of your files. You can toggle between sorting by file names/metadata or by analyzing file content. It then organizes them based on your instructions or preferences. AI sorting uses credits that refresh monthly on paid plans.

Yes, Sortio can work with any language. Simply include your preferred language in the prompt when providing instructions, and Sortio will organize your files according to that language's context and requirements.

Yes, Sortio offers unlimited file renaming for Standard and Pro users. You can intelligently rename files based on their content, metadata, or patterns you specify.

Yes. Open the Options panel on the Sort page and turn on Restrict to a folder list. You can either paste a list of folder names you want Sortio to use (Documents, Photos, Videos, etc.), or point Sortio at an existing folder structure on disk and have it use only those subfolders. Anything that doesn't clearly fit goes to a fallback folder you choose. The AI cannot create folders outside your list.

AI sort is capped per run so results stay fast and accurate: Free plans up to 50 files, Pro plans up to 5,000. For larger folders, Pro includes unlimited automations (deterministic rule-based sorting) that run instantly across any number of files at no AI credit cost. For a 30GB archive, automations are typically the right tool.

When you add a folder, Sortio scans your documents and extracts key information — names, companies, dates, amounts, and document types. This happens on your device. No file contents are stored in the cloud.

Yes. Sortio's smart search lets you find documents by their contents, not just filenames. Search for a person's name, a company, a dollar amount, or a document type and Sortio finds the right files instantly.

Absolutely. Sortio can help you identify every document containing sensitive information like financial data, personal details, or legal terms. Great for tax prep, regulatory compliance, or just knowing what's in your files.

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