What's new in Colophon

Colophon is in active development, ahead of its first App Store release. This page will track what changes from version to version once it ships. For now, here's what the first release brings.

Version 1.0: coming to the App Store

The first release brings the full document studio together on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, entirely on-device: in-place text and image editing with object copy and paste, true redaction, and page organization — reorder, rotate, crop, combine documents, Bates-number them, and resize pages to a standard paper size.

Marking up runs deep: highlight, underline, and strikeout that snap to the text; rectangles, ellipses, lines, arrows, comments, text boxes, and callouts; and pressure-sensitive freehand ink. You can find and replace text on the page, print, fill and flatten forms and export their data as XFDF, and pull every annotation into a Markdown summary.

Security covers drawn and cryptographic signatures with trusted RFC 3161 timestamping, signature verification, password protection, and removing a password again. Scanning captures paper straight to searchable PDF with automatic OCR. On-device Apple Intelligence chats over your documents and library with page-cited answers, full-content search reaches every document, and Colophon plugs into the system through Spotlight, Shortcuts, and Siri. On the Mac it's a real Mac app, with a native menu bar and the full keyboard-shortcut set.