Remove PDF passwords, right from Finder

PDFUnlock

Tiny macOS app to unlock PDFs, right from Finder. No uploads, nothing leaves your Mac.

Free · macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon & Intel

Motivation

Tons of financial documents I get are password-protected which makes it a pain to share it with anyone (which also includes AI).

To remove the passwords, people often resort to either using online tools, or re-exporting the PDF (using Preview or similar tool). Both are time-consuming, and online tools also put sensitive documents at risk.

I built this tiny app to solve this problem in the most frictionless way as possible. It's both free and open source.

How it works?

Right-clicking a PDF and choosing Open With → PDFUnlock

1 Right-click the PDF and open it with PDFUnlock.

Typing the PDF password and clicking Unlock

2 Type the password and unlock. Done.