[!NOTE]
Rotiva was built from scratch by Denish Chairany and is open source under GPL-3.0.
Forks are welcome, but they must stay open source, credit the author, and use a different name and
logo. See TRADEMARKS.md.
What is Rotiva?
Rotiva is a small Windows app that lives in your system tray. While you're dragging a photo, video,
document or any other file, press Shift and a format wheel pops up right at your cursor. Point at the
format you want and let go — the converted file is saved right next to the original.
No uploading to online converters, no ads, no queues.
How it works
| Step | Details |
|---|
| 1 | Drag a file | From Explorer, the desktop or any folder. One file or several at once. |
| 2 | Press Shift | While still holding the left mouse button. The format wheel appears right at your cursor. |
| 3 | Point & drop | The direction of your cursor picks the format — no need to land exactly on a segment. Drop in the center to cancel. |
Prefer right-click? Everything on the wheel is also in the Explorer right-click menu under
Rotiva ▸ (Windows 11: Show more options).
Supported formats
The wheel adapts to the file you drag. The file's own format is hidden automatically.
| Type | From | To |
|---|
| 🖼️ Images | PNG, JPG, WEBP, AVIF, HEIC, BMP, TIFF, GIF, ICO, PSD, SVG, JXL, DNG, CR2, NEF, ARW, … | PNG, JPG, WEBP, AVIF, PDF, ICO, TIFF, Compress, Text (OCR), Edit |
| 🎬 Video | MP4, MKV, MOV, AVI, WEBM, WMV, FLV, 3GP, MPG, TS, VOB, … | MP4, WEBM, MOV, MKV, AVI, GIF, MP3, WAV, Compress, Edit |
| 🎵 Audio | MP3, WAV, FLAC, OGG, OPUS, M4A, AAC, WMA, AIFF, M4B, AMR, APE, … | MP3, WAV, FLAC, OGG, OPUS, M4A, AAC, AIFF, Edit |
| 📄 Documents | DOCX, DOC, ODT, RTF, TXT, MD, HTML | PDF, DOCX, ODT, TXT, HTML, MD, RTF, EPUB |
| 📊 Spreadsheets | XLSX, XLS, CSV, TSV, ODS | XLSX, CSV, ODS, PDF, XLS, HTML, JSON |
| 📽️ Slides | PPTX, PPT, ODP, PPSX, PPS | PDF, PPTX, ODP, PNG, JPG |
| 📕 PDF | PDF | DOCX, ODT, PNG, JPG, Split, Compress, Text (OCR) |
| 🗜️ Archives | ZIP, RAR, 7Z, TAR.GZ, … | Extract, ZIP |
| 📚 E-books | EPUB, FB2 | PDF, EPUB, DOCX, HTML, TXT, MD |
| 💬 Subtitles | SRT, VTT, ASS, SSA, SMI, LRC | SRT, VTT, ASS, LRC |
| 🧾 Data | JSON, YAML | JSON, YAML, CSV |
Features
- Compress — shrink photos, videos (MP4 up to 1080p) and scanned PDFs without changing the format.
- Merge into 1 PDF — drag several images, documents, spreadsheets or PDFs at once.
- Grab text (OCR) — read the words in an image or scanned PDF with Windows' built-in OCR, straight to your clipboard.
- Split PDFs — one PDF per page, or export every page as PNG/JPG.
- ZIP & extract — pack many files/folders into one ZIP; .zip, .rar, .7z and .tar.gz extract in one move.
- Edit — the EDIT segment opens a second page: rotate, flip or gray out images; rotate, flip or reverse videos (reverse up to 30 s); even out or reverse audio, or save its cover art.
- Burn in subtitles — drag one video and one subtitle file together and pick BURN IN.
- Password-protected ZIP (Windows) — LOCK packs files into an AES-256 ZIP. Open it with 7-Zip or WinRAR.
- Contact sheet — SHEET puts several photos, or 16 frames of a video, into one picture.
- Convert the clipboard (Windows) — copy files or an image, or take a screenshot, then press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+V.
- Built-in guide (Windows) — open Guide from the tray menu for step-by-step help.
- Light & fast — the wheel is a small window right at your cursor, with no full-screen effects, so it opens
instantly even on 4K screens. Pick S / M / L size from the tray menu.
- Changed your mind? Move back to the center of the wheel and let go: nothing is converted.
- 100% offline — FFmpeg, ImageMagick, Ghostscript, LibreOffice, Pandoc & 7-Zip come bundled. Your files never leave your PC.
Installation
- Download
Rotiva-Setup-x.y.z.exe from Releases.
- Run the installer. If SmartScreen appears, click More info → Run anyway
(the installer isn't signed with a paid code-signing certificate yet).
- Find the Rotiva icon in the system tray, then drag a file + Shift.
Installs per user to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Rotiva — no admin rights and no .NET install needed.
Uninstall via Settings → Apps → Installed apps → Rotiva.
Click the tray icon for the Rotiva menu: start with Windows, the Explorer right-click menu, wheel size,
and links to the website, GitHub and support.
macOS & Linux
Download the macOS .dmg (Apple Silicon or Intel) or the Linux AppImage from
Releases.
Same wheel and conversions: right-click files → Open With → Rotiva, or drag files and press
Shift. The conversion engines come from your system (brew install … / apt install …);
the release notes list the commands. The macOS app isn't notarized yet, so allow it once in
System Settings → Privacy & Security.
Open source
Rotiva is open source under GPL-3.0. The app is in src/Rotiva (C# / .NET 8 / WPF) and
the installer in installer/. See BUILDING.md to run it from source or
build the installer.
Bug reports, ideas and pull requests are welcome in Issues; see CONTRIBUTING.md
and the Code of Conduct. Security problems: please report them privately as described in
SECURITY.md.
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