Pages, Keynote and Numbers files from 2005–2009 — the ones today’s iWork flatly refuses to open. The thesis, the wedding slideshow, the old budget: out they come.
Correct, and it surprises everyone. iWork switched formats in 2013, and modern Pages, Keynote and Numbers dropped the ability to read the ’05–’09 era entirely — Apple’s official advice involves finding a Mac old enough to run iWork ’09. Or: drop the file here. The reader is libetonyek, the Document Liberation Project’s reverse-engineered filter.
Pages → Word, PDF, ODT or text. Keynote → PDF (faithful) or PowerPoint (editable, approximately). Numbers → Excel, CSV or PDF. Layout-heavy documents come through approximately — for a file nothing else opens, approximate beats gone.
If it was made in 2013 or later it’s a different, newer format — those open fine in current iWork or at iCloud.com, so you don’t need us. This tool is specifically for the orphaned generation.
It’s written to a private temporary folder for the few seconds the conversion engine needs, then deleted — nothing is retained, logged or shared. No account, no email, no “files kept for 24 hours” fine print. These are often someone’s letters, family records or old business files; we treat them accordingly.