Tisc
Folder Automator for macOS
Tisc is a macOS folder-automation agent that lives in the menu bar and sorts your files while you work. Add any folder, build a set of rules, and Tisc fires the right action the moment a matching file arrives — moving, copying, trashing, tagging, or renaming it without you lifting a finger.
Built for Real Workflows
The person whose Downloads folder is a graveyard. The photographer who drags every shoot into a dated subfolder by hand. The student drowning in scanned assignments. The freelancer who gets invoices, briefs, and contracts all dumped into the same inbox folder. Tisc watches any folder — Downloads, Desktop, an Inbox, a shared drive — and routes every new file to exactly where it belongs, automatically, the moment it lands.
Build Rules Without Writing Code
Each rule has a condition and an action. Combine them freely.
Conditions
- File Type — Image, Video, Audio, PDF, Document, Archive, Spreadsheet, Presentation, Code
- File Name — contains, starts with, ends with, is, or is not any text
- File Extension — is or is not a specific extension (.pdf, .jpg, …)
- File Size — larger or smaller than a threshold in megabytes
- Date Modified — older than a number of days
- Date Created — created more than N days ago
- Source — downloaded from the web
Combine conditions with AND, OR, and NOT to match exactly the files you want — for example: file type is Image AND file name starts with “Screenshot”.
Actions
- Move to Folder — file disappears from the source and appears in the destination
- Copy to Folder — original stays; a copy lands in the destination
- Move to Trash — remove it immediately
- Add Finder Tag — colour-code files for easy Finder and Spotlight sorting
- Rename — prepend or append any text to the filename
- Open With — hand the file off to any app you choose
- Organize by Date — move into year, year/month, or year/month-name subfolders automatically
Runs in the Background — Always
Tisc has no Dock icon. It lives in the menu bar, running quietly at all times. Open the configuration window to add folders, tweak rules, or review the activity log — then close it. Tisc keeps going.
Register it as a login item in one click and it starts with your Mac every morning, ready to work before you are.
Scheduled Scans
Each watched folder can also run its rule set on a schedule — every hour, once a day, or once a week — to catch files that arrived before Tisc was running or slipped through its real-time trigger.
Natural Language Rules (Apple Intelligence)
On Apple Silicon Macs with Apple Intelligence enabled, describe a rule in plain English and Tisc converts it instantly. Type “move PDFs older than 30 days to my Archive folder” and the rule appears, ready to review and save. No form fields. No dropdowns.
Six Built-In Templates
Start in seconds with templates for the most common jobs: Move PDFs to Documents/PDFs, Move screenshots to Pictures/Screenshots, Move videos to Movies, Move music to Music, Trash zip files older than 7 days, and Archive Desktop files older than 30 days. Load one, pick a destination, done.
Activity Log and Undo
Tisc keeps a rolling log of the last 100 actions it has taken. Review what moved where at a glance. Made a mistake? Undo the most recent action with one click — Tisc reverses the file-system operation immediately.
Native and Private
Tisc is a native Mac app built in SwiftUI. All file watching and processing happens entirely on your Mac — no cloud sync, no account, no subscription. Your files never leave your machine.
Privacy
Tisc collects no data and contains no telemetry of any kind. Read the full privacy policy. · Help & User Guide