Edna
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Edna files your downloads, scans and screenshots by rules, like Hazel. Every rule starts as a dry run, every move is explained, and any move can be reverted.
Example: ~/Downloads with three rules
5 files would change. Nothing has moved yet. 5 files changed. Each one can be reverted.
Would rename toRenamed to 2026-10 Acme invoice.pdf and move to InvoicesD: let Claude draft a rule like this one
Would rename toRenamed to 2026-09 scan_0042.pdf and move to Invoices
Would rename toRenamed to 2026-11 INV-2291.pdf and move to Invoices
Would moveMoved to Screenshots
Disk image, added 9 days ago. Would moveDisk image, added 9 days ago. Moved to the TrashB: how to put it back
No rule matches. Left in place.A: why holiday.jpg didn’t match
Drop any file from a watched folder onto Edna to see each rule’s conditions, what they expected and what the file had. Activity shows the same for every file a rule acted on. The download includes an edna command that prints the same from Terminal.
| Rule | Condition | Found |
|---|---|---|
| Invoices | Kind is PDF | JPEG image |
| Screenshots | Name starts with “Screenshot” | holiday |
| Old installers | Kind is Disk image | JPEG image |
edna explain ~/Downloads/holiday.jpg
Moves, renames, tags and trips to the Trash can each be put back from Activity. Shell scripts are the one exception.
| Rev | Change | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Screenshot 2026-11-12 at 09.41.png moved to Screenshots | 09:41 |
| 2 | INV-2291.pdf renamed and moved to Invoices | 09:41 |
| 3 | Figma-126.dmg moved to the Trash | 09:42 |
| 4 | Reverted 3: Figma-126.dmg is back in Downloads | 09:50 |
When a watched folder goes missing or loses access, the menu bar icon turns into a warning that names the folder. Edna also rescans every ten minutes and after sleep or a drive mounting, so files that arrived while it wasn’t watching still get filed.
Edna includes an MCP server, so Claude or another AI client can read your folders and draft rules. A draft arrives as a dry run and can’t add shell scripts. You check the plan and switch it on.
File my Acme invoices by month, using the invoice date.
Acme invoicesDraft, dry run
If kind is PDF and contents contain “Acme”
Rename to {date@Invoice date:yyyy-MM} {name}, move to Invoices
3 files would move
| Hazel 6 | Edna | |
|---|---|---|
| Testing a rule | Shows whether conditions match, one file at a time | Shows the new name and folder for every file |
| A new rule | Acts on files as soon as it’s on | Starts as a dry run |
| History | A log file you open in Console | Each file, each condition, the value it saw |
| Your rules | A binary .hazelrules file | Plain JSON and a command line tool |
| AI | None | Drafts rules over MCP, as dry runs |
| Price | $42 | Free in beta, then $29 once |
A rule that uses something Edna can’t run yet comes in switched off, with a note that says why.
Once, for two Macs.
For comparison, Hazel 6 costs $42.
It runs the common ones: name, extension, kind, dates and contents, and move, copy, rename and Trash. A rule that needs something Edna doesn’t support yet is imported switched off, with the reason.
No. Edna has no account and no analytics, and it reads the text in PDFs and images on your Mac. Its only network request is a daily update check, which sends your Edna version and nothing about your files. You can turn it off.
Name, extension, kind, size, date added, created, modified and last opened, Finder tags, the address a file was downloaded from, and the text inside PDFs, scans, images and text files. Combine them with all, any or none, and nest groups.
Edna 1.0 will cost $29, once, for two Macs. Email us during the beta and you get it for $19.
A Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 15 Sequoia or later.