Roadmap & non-goals
Orifold is in beta on the road to 1.0. Direction over dates — the list below is intent, not a schedule. The paper isn’t done folding.
Orifold is built part-time, so the order may shuffle and a fold or two may take the scenic route. The direction holds steady, though: more useful, more polished, more delightful — one crease at a time. Softly stated on purpose — “on the radar,” never “shipping Tuesday.”
🛠️ Now — on the bench
Section titled “🛠️ Now — on the bench”Steadying what already ships — signing, the qpdf engine, the companions, localization, and the documentation you’re reading. Chief among them: sturdier editing — text edits that are harder to surprise on rotated pages, in deep undo history, or when a file is quietly touched in another app between saves.
Move the furniture is live as of v0.8.8. Pick the Select tool, click a real graphic on the page — an image, a logo, a line, a shape — then move, resize, layer, or delete it. Edits go into the file’s actual content (no ghosts, no leftover copies), compose with inline text edits, and survive save, reopen, and export with full undo/redo. Still growing: duplicate, recolor, multi-select, and rotated-page support. See Move & edit objects.
🔭 Next — in the lab
Section titled “🔭 Next — in the lab”Being explored, high on the radar. Each is grounded in machinery Orifold already links — not a wish list.
✂️ Real redaction
Secrets that actually leave the file — not a polite black rectangle you can drag right off. Building on the same qpdf pass that already strips scripts and hidden metadata.
🗂️ Fold the whole stack
Compress, OCR, or watermark a whole folder in one pass — not open, save, repeat, fifty times over. The single-file engines already exist; this is teaching them to work a room.
🆚 Side-by-side compare
Two drafts, one screen. Spot the change without printing both and playing spot-the-difference.
🌫️ Later — quietly brewing
Section titled “🌫️ Later — quietly brewing”- Automated UI smoke tests to complement the unit suite.
- Broader OCR language coverage and export polish, as real use surfaces needs.
🚫 Non-goals
Section titled “🚫 Non-goals”Being explicit about scope is part of the trust. Orifold is not planning to add:
- Cloud sync or accounts. The local-only boundary is the product, not a limitation to fix.
- Telemetry or analytics. There’s no server to send it to, and there won’t be.
- Real-time collaborative review or co-editing. That requires a cloud Orifold won’t build.
- Windows or iPad versions. It’s a native macOS app; a rewrite for other platforms isn’t planned.
A non-goal isn’t a “no forever” so much as a “not without changing what Orifold is.” If a feature would require a server or an account, it’s out of scope by design.