Recognized on the device
Text recognition runs on your iPhone, iPad or Mac. Scanning and searching never need a connection.
Every page you keep, clear and within reach.
Luminary turns paper into searchable documents, keeps them in a library that organizes itself, and answers questions about what they say — on your iPhone, your iPad and your Mac.
Mac: direct download · version 1.0 · 10.0 MB · macOS 26 or later · notarized by Apple.
iPhone and iPad: free on the App Store · iOS 18.6 or later.
- Free to download
- Text recognition on your device
- No account — iCloud does the syncing
- Notarized by Apple
Scan
Paper in. A clean page out.
Point your iPhone or iPad at a page and Luminary finds the edges, straightens the perspective and keeps every page of a multipage document together. On a Mac, Continuity Camera takes the picture with a nearby iPhone or iPad and drops the scan straight into your library.
- Edges, crop and perspective corrected
- Multipage scans stay one document
- Import photos and PDFs you already have
Find
Every word becomes text you can search.
Text recognition runs on your device, so a scan becomes text you can select, copy and search — without the page leaving your phone or your Mac. Your documents also show up in Spotlight.
- Select and copy text from scanned pages
- Copy all, or export the text as JSON
- Search by name in the app and in Spotlight
Ask
Ask your documents. Get the answer.
Choose the documents, ask in plain words, and get an answer with the excerpts it came from. Luminary asks before it sends anything, and you can switch sharing off in Settings whenever you like.
- Answers limited to the documents you select
- Source excerpts with every answer
- Asked first; off whenever you want
Organize
A library that keeps itself tidy.
Tags, page counts and clear names, in a library that follows you through iCloud Drive. Ask for AI suggestions and Luminary proposes names and tags for you — only when you choose to.
- Tags and search by name
- The same library on iPhone, iPad and Mac
- AI suggestions only when you ask for them
Sign and prepare
Sign it, crop it, send it.
Add text or draw a signature with your mouse or trackpad, rotate and crop pages, put them in order. Editing a PDF’s images makes a separate copy, so the original you scanned or received stays exactly as it was.
- Text and hand-drawn signatures
- Rotate, crop and reorder pages
- Your source PDF is never overwritten
iPhone and Mac captures with fictional sample documents.
On the Mac
Made for a big screen, not stretched to it.
A real Mac app with a sidebar library, a reader and an inspector side by side, and drag and drop wherever a file can go. It opens the same library as your iPhone and iPad.
Download for MacMac: direct download · version 1.0 · 10.0 MB · macOS 26 or later · notarized by Apple.
Privacy
Your documents stay yours.
A scanner holds contracts, invoices and medical letters. So here is exactly what leaves your device, and when.
No Luminary account
Your library syncs through iCloud Drive, under your own Apple Account. There is nothing to sign up for.
AI only when you ask
Document chat and AI suggestions send the relevant text or images to OpenAI through AIProxy — after Luminary asks, and never otherwise.
Switch it off
Turn sharing off in Settings and Luminary keeps working as a scanner, reader and library.
Pricing
Free to use. Ten AI credits to start.
Scanning, text recognition, reading, organizing, cropping and signing are free and stay free. Document chat, AI suggestions and AI-structured exports use credits. More credits and an optional Unlimited Access subscription are offered in the app, with prices shown there.
- Your credit balance is kept in iCloud, so it follows you to every device
- Credits you buy stay until you use them
Questions, answered
Is Luminary free?
Yes. Downloading it and everything that does not use AI — scanning, text recognition, reading, organizing, cropping and signing — is free. You start with 10 AI credits; document chat, AI suggestions and AI-structured exports use them, and more are offered in the app.
Do I need an account?
No Luminary account. Your library syncs through iCloud Drive and your credit balance through iCloud, both under your own Apple Account.
Does text recognition send my documents anywhere?
No. It runs on your iPhone, iPad or Mac. A document leaves your device only when you use an AI feature, after Luminary asks, and only to OpenAI through AIProxy. You can switch sharing off in Settings.
Can I scan on a Mac without a scanner?
Yes. With Continuity Camera, a nearby iPhone or iPad signed in to the same Apple Account takes the picture and the scan lands in Luminary on the Mac. It needs Wi‑Fi, Bluetooth and two-factor authentication on the account.
Which devices does it run on?
iPhone and iPad with iOS or iPadOS 18.6 or later, from the App Store, and Macs with macOS 26 or later, as a direct download for Apple silicon and Intel.
Why is the Mac version a direct download?
Its Mac App Store version is being prepared. The direct download is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so macOS checks it before it opens, and it is the same app.
Which languages does it understand?
Luminary’s interface is in English, and its text recognition is tuned for English. Documents in other languages written in the Latin alphabet are recognized too, but accented letters can come out less accurately.
Can it edit any PDF?
Most. Some protected or digitally signed PDFs cannot be annotated, because changing them would break the protection or the signature.
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