Import PDFs
Copy up to 32 PDFs into your private library, with optional folders, tags, pinning, and opening.
Automation
Let your documents join the workflow.
Rune & Quill gives Shortcuts real document actions—not just a way to open the app. Import, create, search, and export while keeping your content in your own system.
Featured App Shortcuts
Seven strong starting points.
Convert Markdown
Render Markdown and matched images as a paginated PDF, then add it directly to your library.
Convert Rich Text
Preserve supplied sizes, emphasis, and structure while creating a polished PDF.
Export PDFs
Return annotated files or clean PDFs with the current page arrangement.
Export Clean Originals
Retrieve untouched, byte-for-byte copies of the PDFs you originally imported.
Find Documents
Search titles, notes, overviews, PDF and OCR text, and handwriting.
Create a Notebook
Create a background notebook with a chosen paper style and up to 200 pages.
Workflow ideas
Useful on day one.
Turn an inbox into a library
Take PDFs from Files, Mail, or another Shortcut, choose a Rune & Quill folder, add tags, and import the whole batch.
Publish Markdown as a PDF
Pass Markdown and optional images into Rune & Quill, choose a page size and theme, then receive the PDF and save it to your library.
Build a private research digest
Find matching documents, extract searchable text or handwriting, and export notes and overviews as Markdown for your next step.
Additional actions
Go beyond the featured set.
Use actions such as Get Rune & Quill Document Text and Export Notes and Overview when a workflow needs document content instead of a PDF.
OS 27 and eligible devices
Search and open through the system.
Reader and system search actions can find and open Rune & Quill content on supported OS 27 devices. Apple Intelligence features also depend on Apple’s on-device model being available.
Private local handoffs
From the tools where writing begins.
The Drafts integration packages the content you choose into a bounded local file. You select Rune & Quill from the system share sheet; there is no Rune & Quill server or clipboard fallback.
Send to Rune & Quill
Turn the active draft into a searchable PDF and optionally place it in a nested folder. The current Directory listing is an unlisted preview.
View the Drafts actionRune & Quill’s Drafts integration is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or supported by its platform maker.