SHIPPED · v1.5.0
On-device AI (read-aloud, audiobooks, voice cleanup), silence cutting, and true redaction
New
AI Tools — All On Your Device: Read Aloud turns a document or text file into natural speech (MP3), Document to Audiobook converts a PDF or Markdown file into a chaptered M4B or MP3 with chapters pulled from headings and bookmarks, and Voice Cleanup removes background noise, hum, and hiss from recordings. Everything runs offline, you pick from several natural voices downloaded once, and you can try each tool free with a short preview before unlocking full-length output and batch with Pro.
Silence Cut for Video and Audio: automatically remove silent gaps from screen recordings, lectures, sermons, and podcasts; review the cut plan and how much time you'll save before exporting; and tune silence sensitivity and the padding kept around speech.
Visual Duplicates: find near-duplicate photos rather than just exact copies, auto-pick the best version of each group (largest and sharpest) and send the rest to a review folder, running on thousands of photos entirely on your device.
True Redaction & PII Detection: Detect PII scans a PDF for emails, phone numbers, SSNs, and credit card numbers; Auto-Redact PII finds and permanently removes them in one click; and Verify Redaction confirms nothing sensitive is still hidden or recoverable.
Smart Folders: content-aware Folder Monitor rules that sort and route files by what's inside them — match on name, file type, or text content, rename matches with date/year/month tokens, move matching files into subfolders, preview changes with a dry run, and start from Invoices, Screenshots, and Bank-statement presets.
Improved
Background Tasks: long jobs now run in the background with a status bar in the corner, so you can keep using other tools, run several operations at once, watch each one's progress from any page, cancel a running task anytime, and reveal finished files in one click.
Faster batch processing: image, PDF, and video batches now process multiple files at the same time to finish sooner.
New AI Tools category appears at the top of the sidebar and shows up automatically for existing users.
Fixed
Redaction now permanently removes content instead of only covering it with a black box, so redacted text can no longer be copied out or recovered.
The 1FileTool AI Tools page with Read Aloud, Document to Audiobook, and Voice Cleanup, labeled as on-device tools where nothing is uploaded 
The Read Aloud voice picker offering Lessac, Amy, Alan, and Ryan voices with one-time download sizes and an MP3/M4B output toggle 
The Background Tasks status popover showing a completed image compression and a video compression running at 9 percent