Your data never leaves your computer

RaioPDF does its work on your own machine. Your documents aren't uploaded, and there's nothing to sign into.

What runs on your machine

Everything you do to a document — opening, editing, organizing, redacting, Bates numbering, scrubbing metadata, even OCR — happens on your computer. The steps that need a heavier engine run a small helper alongside the app that only your own computer can reach. Nothing is sent to an outside server.

OCR is on your machine too

Making a scanned PDF searchable normally means uploading it somewhere. RaioPDF does it locally, with a built-in text-recognition toolchain. The pages never leave your computer.

No tracking

RaioPDF collects no analytics and sends no usage data. If a future version offers to send anonymous error reports — so crashes can be fixed — it will be strictly your choice: off unless you turn it on, never carrying your documents or anything that identifies you. And today, if you export a diagnostics file to troubleshoot a problem, it's saved to your computer and not sent anywhere.

"Open Raio to AI" is off unless you turn it on

RaioPDF has no AI of its own. There is an optional setting that lets your own AI assistant use RaioPDF's tools. It's off by default, and even when you turn it on, it talks only to the AI program you connected — over a direct on-device channel, not the internet.

The one thing that reaches out

Your documents never leave your machine. By default, the only reason RaioPDF connects to the internet at all is to check whether a newer version of the app has been released, from its official releases — and that's only ever about the app itself. Nothing about your files, or how you use them, is sent anywhere unless you specifically ask it to (see error reports above).