Overview

Quilt is a native macOS screenshot-to-PDF and document automation tool designed to turn uncopyable screen content, slide decks, and digital textbooks into structured, searchable PDFs. Built 100% local-first using Apple's Vision framework for OCR, it lets users automate keypress/click navigation to capture multi-page material seamlessly and feed clean PDFs directly into AI workflows (like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini).

Pricing: Free tier; $32.99 one-time Pro lifetime license

Minimum macOS: 14.0 (Sonoma)

Architecture: Apple Silicon, Intel

Key Features

Automated continuous capture with custom key press or mouse click navigation
On-device Vision OCR to generate fully searchable, copy-pasteable PDFs completely offline
Seamless scroll capture to grab long web pages and chat threads into single images
Built-in review gallery with annotations, redactions, 3D mockups, and batch cropping
Multi-format exports (PDF, ZIP archive, GIF, PNG, JPEG, HEIC, WebP)