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Press kit

Everything you need to write about ContextDrop in one place. Screenshots, copy, the demo, and a working review copy on request.

At a glance

Name
ContextDrop: AI-Ready Markdown
Tagline
Convert PDFs to AI-ready markdown for Mac
Category
Utility (Mac App Store)
Price
US$6.99 direct, US$7.99 Mac App Store, one-time
Platform
macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later
Download size
752 KB
Developer
Anthony Fitzgerald
Released
4 May 2026
Built in
Brisbane, Australia
Mac App Store
apps.apple.com/app/id6762328840
Direct sale
Polar checkout
Privacy
No account, no uploads, nothing leaves your Mac
Press contact
support@contextdrop.app

One-line pitch

ContextDrop converts PDFs into clean, AI-ready markdown so you can use them in Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor without burning your token budget.

Short description (50 words)

ContextDrop is a tiny Mac menu bar app that converts PDFs into clean markdown for AI chat tools. Drag a PDF in, get a .md file out, paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor at a fraction of the token cost. Everything runs on-device. One-time purchase, no subscription.

Long description (150 words)

ContextDrop solves a small but recurring annoyance for anyone using AI chat tools every day: pasting in a PDF eats your chat's context window faster than you'd expect, and the upload limits cap how many you can attach. ContextDrop converts PDFs to clean markdown in a single drag-and-drop on your Mac. Heading detection, table preservation, header and footer suppression, and Apple Vision OCR for scanned pages. Everything runs locally. No account, no uploads, nothing leaves the machine. It's built as a native Objective-C app wrapping a sandboxed WKWebView running pdf.js, with a PDFKit fallback for documents pdf.js can't parse. The whole app is 752 KB on disk. No Electron, no bundled Python. A one-time US$6.99 purchase via Polar, or US$7.99 via the Mac App Store. No subscription.

Demo

Demo: drag a PDF onto ContextDrop, get clean markdown copied to the clipboard

Higher-fidelity version on YouTube: youtu.be/bhpzEFgUKB4 (90 seconds).

Screenshots

The ContextDrop drop zone Token savings indicator after a conversion ContextDrop in the Mac menu bar Export options: save, share, drag out OCR running on a scanned PDF

Ready quotes

"Got tired of running out of chat length and hitting PDF upload limits in Claude and ChatGPT. Built the lightest, fastest version of the conversion I could think of. Drag a PDF in, get markdown out, paste it wherever you want."

— Anthony Fitzgerald, ContextDrop

"Runs on your Mac. No account, no uploads, nothing leaves your machine. I didn't want to be the kind of app that holds onto your files, and you didn't want me to. So I built it not to."

— Anthony Fitzgerald, ContextDrop

Downloadable assets

About the developer

Anthony Fitzgerald is an Australian software developer based in Brisbane. ContextDrop is his first independent Mac app.

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ContextDrop is a Mac menu bar app that converts PDFs into AI-ready markdown for use with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and other AI tools. Everything runs on-device. It's a one-time purchase: US$6.99 via Polar or US$7.99 on the Mac App Store. macOS 14+. Built by Anthony Fitzgerald (Brisbane, Australia). contextdrop.app

For reviewers, podcasters, journalists

Get a free review copy support@contextdrop.app

Email with the publication you write for or the show you make and I'll send you a TestFlight build. Happy to answer technical questions, run live demos, or jump on a call.