SpreadSplit

One scan. Two pages. Properly.

Scanned books, manga and exam papers arrive as double-page spreads. SpreadSplit cuts each one down the middle into clean single portrait pages, in the right order, at full quality.

Get SpreadSplit Mac, iPhone and iPad
One-time purchase, no subscription
1st 2nd

Drop it. Check the line. Export.

SpreadSplit finds the spine by analysing the page content, so most documents need no adjustment at all. When one does, the line is yours to drag.

OpenA landscape spread — two pages on one sheet
DetectContent analysis finds the spine and places the cut
ExportTwo portrait pages, correctly ordered, full vector quality
1st page 2nd page

The actual app

SpreadSplit on macOS showing the thumbnail sidebar, the split preview with a draggable red line, and the controls panel
On the Mac: page thumbnails down the side, the split line over the original, both output pages underneath, and every control in one panel.
SpreadSplit running on an iPhone, with the original spread above and the two output pages below
On iPhone, the output preview sits under the original.
SpreadSplit running on an iPad, with the page list alongside the editor
On iPad, with the page list alongside.

Small tool, careful about the details

Auto, manual, or apply to all

You keep control

Drag the cut line anywhere, reset to an exact 50/50, or apply one position across every page. Portrait pages are skipped automatically, and you can override any page.

Left→right or right→left

Manga order too

Choose which half comes first, so right-to-left books come out in reading order rather than reversed.

Vector, via PDFKit

No quality loss

Pages are re-rendered as vector PDF, not re-photographed. Text stays sharp and selectable, and file size stays sensible.

Tall pages too

Long-page splitting

Beyond side-by-side spreads, SpreadSplit detects unusually tall pages and splits them horizontally into readable portions.

Live output preview

See it before you export

Both resulting pages are shown as you adjust, so the first time you find a mistake isn't after exporting 300 pages.

No network entitlement

Entirely offline

No accounts, no analytics, no telemetry, no server. The app cannot make a network connection — your documents never leave the device.

Two apps, bought separately

The Mac and iOS versions are separate native apps on separate App Store listings, so buying one doesn't include the other. Both do the same job, in the way that suits the platform.

SpreadSplit for Mac

A three-panel window — thumbnails, interactive split preview, controls. Open from Finder, the Dock, or several PDFs at once in their own windows. Built with SwiftUI and AppKit.

View on the Mac App Store →

SpreadSplit for iPhone and iPad

Opens PDFs from the Files app, iCloud Drive or any file provider, and exports through the standard share sheet to Files, AirDrop, Books or anywhere else.

View on the App Store →

Made for scanned
books that fight back.

One-time purchase, no subscription. For textbooks, manga, exam papers, archives — anything that came off a flatbed two pages at a time.

Requires
Mac — macOS 13 Ventura or later
Universal: Apple silicon and Intel
iPhone and iPad — see the App Store listing
Privacy
No data collected, on either platform
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Support
support@jimmylstudio.com
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