Support
Help with Document Organiser — the app that appears on your home screen as “Documents”. A person reads every message.
- Contact
- The free documents, and subscriptions
- iCloud backup and restore
- Exporting your documents
- Privacy and security
- Versions and devices
Contact
What to include in a report
- Your iPhone or iPad model and its iOS or iPadOS version.
- The app’s build, from Settings › About in the app — it reads like “Version 1.0.0 (234)”. The number in brackets is the one that tells us exactly which build you have.
- What you did, what you expected, and what happened instead. A screenshot helps, if it shows no numbers you would rather keep to yourself.
Never send us a document, a card number or an ID number. We do not need them to help, we will never ask for them, and we cannot open your documents anyway — they are encrypted with a key only you hold.
The free documents, and subscriptions
What is free?
Your first three documents, with everything included — search, reading cards and IDs, sharing, reminders and iCloud backup. There is no time limit on them.
What happens when I add a fourth?
The app asks you to subscribe. If you add it from the share sheet, it is saved, and the app asks the next time you open it. Your documents are never held behind the payment: the same screen lets you download every document as one zip file, and they stay on your device, encrypted, and in your iCloud backup if that is on.
What happens if my subscription ends?
The app locks, and the screen that locks it offers two things: subscribe again, or download every document as one zip file.
What are the plans?
A monthly subscription or a yearly subscription. Prices are shown in the app in your local App Store currency, which is why you will not find them written here.
How do I cancel, or change plan?
In the app, open Settings › Subscription › Manage subscription, which opens Apple’s own sheet. Or in iOS, open Settings › your name › Subscriptions. A cancelled subscription runs to the end of the period you have paid for. Apple handles when a change of plan takes effect and any credit or refund that goes with it.
I paid on another iPhone or iPad. How do I get it back here?
Sign in with the same Apple Account and tap Restore Purchases on the plans screen, or in Settings › Subscription. Purchases belong to the Apple Account that made them, not to the device.
I want a refund.
Refunds for App Store purchases are handled by Apple, not by us. Ask at reportaproblem.apple.com, signed in with the Apple Account that paid.
A plan is missing from the list, or a price looks wrong.
Every plan and price comes from the App Store when the screen opens. If one is missing, close the app and open it again on a working connection. In a TestFlight build, prices may be shown for a different country than the one you buy in — that is the sandbox, not the real store.
iCloud backup and restore
Is my library backed up?
Yes, unless you have turned it off. A new install backs up to your own iCloud from the start. What goes up is the same encrypted file that sits on your device, and the key that opens it travels only through iCloud Keychain, which is end-to-end encrypted. We cannot read your backup, and neither can Apple.
Check on the sync screen, reached from the library’s toolbar or from Settings › Backup. It says whether backup is on and how many documents are there.
I have a new iPhone or iPad. How do I get my documents onto it?
- Sign the new device into the same iCloud account, with iCloud Keychain on (Settings › your name › iCloud › Passwords & Keychain).
- Install the app and open it. It notices your library in iCloud and offers to import it.
- Tap Import your documents. A small library arrives in seconds; a large one shows its progress and carries on if you leave the app.
The old device can stay signed in. Both then keep each other up to date.
It says “Waiting for iCloud Keychain”.
The documents have arrived but the key that opens them has not. The key is shared only through iCloud Keychain, so check it is on for this device, and that the device the documents came from has been unlocked and online since. It can take a few minutes. If it never clears, the other device may have iCloud Keychain off — turn it on there, and the key follows.
How do I stop backing up?
On the sync screen, tap Stop syncing on this device. Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode is asked, because the app makes this device a key of its own. From then on, what you add stays on this device only, and nothing restarts backup for you — not a reinstall, not a new version. What this device had already sent to iCloud stays there until you delete it.
How do I delete my documents from iCloud?
Stop backup first, on every device that uses it. Then in iOS, open Settings › your name › iCloud › Manage Account Storage, find Documents, and delete its data. That removes the encrypted copy from your iCloud; the documents on each device are untouched.
Sync is slow, or seems stuck.
A first import fetches documents in batches and shows an honest count as they land, so a spinner before the count is normal — the app is asking iCloud what there is. iCloud also throttles transfers in the background; keep the app open for a large first import, on Wi-Fi if you can. If a document is listed but will not open, the key has not arrived yet — see the iCloud Keychain question above.
Exporting your documents
How do I export everything?
In the app, open Settings › Backup › Download all documents. You get one zip file containing every document in the format it arrived in — the original PDF or images, never a re-photographed copy — and the share sheet to send it wherever you like: Files, AirDrop, Mail. The same button is on the screen that appears if a subscription lapses, so the way out is never behind the payment.
How do I share one document, or a few?
From a document’s screen, tap Share to send the original, or choose only the pages you need. In the library, select several documents and share them as one zip.
Is the export encrypted?
No. An export is for taking your documents somewhere else, so it is the plain originals. Treat the zip as you would the paper: keep it somewhere you trust, and delete the copy when you are done with it. Inside the app, everything stays encrypted.
Privacy and security
Does anything leave my device?
Only three things, and each one you can see: the encrypted backup to your own iCloud, if backup is on; the optional reader, which the app fetches from a fixed address when you press its Download button; and whatever you share or export yourself. There is no server of ours, no account, no analytics and no trackers. The full list, and what each request carries, is in the privacy policy.
Why does it ask for Face ID?
Your documents are encrypted with a key kept in your device’s Keychain, and Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode is what releases it. The same prompt reveals a masked number. If Face ID fails, the same sheet offers your passcode — you are never locked out of your own documents by a bad angle.
Why does it ask for full calendar access?
To keep the reminders you set in a calendar of its own, called Documents, and to find that calendar again. iOS has no permission for “only this app’s own calendar”, so it has to ask for more than the app uses. The app never reads or changes your other events, and a reminder never contains a card or ID number. Say no, and everything else works; you simply will not get reminders.
What is the reader download, and where does it come from?
On a device without Apple Intelligence, the app can download its own reading model — about 1.4 GB — to answer questions about a document on the device. It comes from two fixed addresses on Hugging Face, pinned to an exact version and checked byte for byte against a stored fingerprint; a file that does not match is thrown away. It downloads only when you press the button, never on its own, and once it is there nothing about your documents is ever sent anywhere to be read. Remove it from Settings › On-device intelligence whenever you like.
Is my card’s security code stored?
Only if you leave it in. It is an ordinary detail on a payment card that you can clear at any time, fully masked wherever it is shown, and revealed only with Face ID or your passcode.
What happens if I take a screenshot?
It goes into your photo library as an ordinary picture, outside the app’s encryption — so if a number was showing at the time, it is now in that image, where other apps you have allowed can read it. The app neither stops you nor comments on it; delete the screenshot if you did not mean to keep it.
Will you ever be able to read my documents?
No. The key never leaves your devices, and there is nowhere of ours for a document to go. If we could read them we would have to say so here — and we have written the app so that we cannot.
Versions and devices
Which devices does it run on?
iPhone with iOS 17 or later, and iPad with iPadOS 17 or later. It is not available on the Mac. Asking a document a question needs either Apple Intelligence — iOS 26 or iPadOS 26 on a device that supports it — or the app’s own downloaded reader, which runs on any supported device with enough free space.
How do I find which version I have?
In the app, open Settings › About. The version and build are written under the name, and the same page lists the open source software the app is built on.
Which languages does it read?
Documents are read in whatever language is printed on them, as well as iOS’s own text recognition reads it. The details it reads off cards and IDs are for credit and debit cards, passports, driving licences, Aadhaar, PAN and a number of US documents; everything else is stored and searchable, just not filled in for you.