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Products that do what HideMyData does

Native macOS PII removal with on device Vision OCR and AI

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   BlurData▲269

   Automatically protect sensitive data in screenshots and PDFs

   2025

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   CleanMy®Phone▲615

   Your careful cleaner for iPhone and iPad, crafted by MacPaw

   2024

3. 3
   CleanMyMac X▲427

   Keep your Mac clean, fast, and secure in two clicks.

   2018

4. 4
   Stealthly for macOS▲301

   Automated privacy for macOS screen sharing

   2025

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   Anonymous Camera▲170

   Anonymize photos and videos in real time, locally on device

   2020

6. 6
   Remover.app▲250

   Remove anything unwanted in seconds - 100% free

   2022

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   OwlOCR 4.0▲261

   Near instant text recognition for Mac!

   2020

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   MyDeviceAI▲140

   A private Perplexity that runs locally on your mobile device

   2025

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   Shhshot▲113

   A Mac app that auto-hides sensitive info in your screenshots

   2025

10. 10
    MacOS Desktop Declutter▲115

    Open-source Tinder for desktop files on MacOS. 100% Free.

    Jan 2026

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    Local personal data redaction for any AI tools▲12

    I built the desktop app that detects and redacts personal data (or PII) locally without sending any text to server. It supports rule-based filtering and AI model-based redaction (eg openai privacy filter). It's open source and free. Please check out the repo and https://pii-gui.vercel.app/

    Jun 2026 · github.com

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    txtninja.xyz▲70

    Hide your personal data inside images from those prying eyes

    2019

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    Snipit - Ultimate OCR app for Mac▲131

    Effortless image to text conversion for Mac

    2024

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    Whiteout▲89

    Auto-redact sensitive info from Mac screenshots

    May 2026 · getwhiteout.vercel.app

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    Mirowl▲96

    Search all your screenshots via a local OCR-powered AI

    Jun 2026 · mirowl.com

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    RemoveMyID▲4

    100% client-side PII scrubber for safe AI prompting

    Aug 2026 · removemyid.com

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    OwlOCR 1.0▲71

    Snappy, secure, on-device OCR for MacOS

    2020

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    OptiClear▲71

    Clean your Mac storage with duplicate file and photo cleanup

    Apr 2026 · apps.apple.com

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    Privacy Scanner▲6

    Find hidden personal data and AI markers, all on your Mac

    Aug 2026 · privacyscanner.app

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    MyMacCleaned▲5

    The native macOS cleaner that respects your privacy. No subs

    Feb 2026

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    StripPii▲2

    Redact PII from docs, images & PDFs. Offline. Private.

    Mar 2026

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    Redactify – macOS/iOS app to redact sensitive data before using LLMs▲5

    Hi HN, I built Redactify, a native macOS app that automatically scrubs sensitive personal and financial data, faces, and metadata from documents and images. The motivation: I frequently use Claude and ChatGPT to analyze invoices and contracts, but I hated the friction of sanitizing them first. I also didn't want to blindly trust the "we don't train on API data" promises of model providers when dealing with actual client data. How it works under the hood: Redactify flattens the document and permanently destroys the underlying text and EXIF metadata. It runs entirely on-device using Apple's…

    Apr 2026

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    Cloaksmith▲3

    Redact personal info from documents before AI sees them

    20d ago · cloaksmith.app

24. 24SA
    Shade. A Free Mac App to hide your messy desktop.▲16

    2012 · itunes.apple.com

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