Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Redactify – macOS/iOS app to redact sensitive data before using LLMs
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…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Redactable▲326Protect your sensitive data in documents before sharing them
2025 · redactable.com · its alternatives →
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Mass Delete Social Media Posts and Opt Out from Data brokers - Twitter/X, Facebook, Instagram and 35+ More. Get Redacted!
2021 · redact.dev · its alternatives →
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Redacto▲144Redact anything from PDFs and images the easy way
2024 · getredacto.com · its alternatives →
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Protect private files against ChatGPT with Redactify Mac/iOS
Apr 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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This is a project I've been working on since the start of Covid-19. I built an app so that I don't have to put data into online tools like JWT debugger, JSON formatter, URL decoder, etc... https://devutils.app The app works entirely offline and is open-source. I'm selling the pre-built version of the app to earn some revenue for my time. If you want to try the app but can't afford the price or don't have XCode to build the app, drop me an email (my profile), I'll be happy to provide you a free build. I would love to hear all the feedback/suggestions. Thanks!
2020 · its alternatives →
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Redact.dev▲120Mass delete your content on social networks and messengers
2021 · redact.dev · its alternatives →
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macOS HackerNews client that aims to be a Mac-assed Mac app. Written in Swift + AppKit. - goranmoomin/HackerNews
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Redact Photo▲161Free and private image redaction in the browser
2021 · redact.photo · its alternatives →
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BlankOut▲70Redact your docs on-device before sharing to AI
Apr 2026 · blankout-offline.com · its alternatives →
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Redact API▲87Secure application PII using a simple API call with Pangea
2023 · crowdstrike.com · its alternatives →
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Hi there! During last time we (me and my friend) were building an app to clean various stuff after Xcode. I was fed up as a developer that Apple related things load my drive and I need hundreds of gigabytes just to do my job. It's live now on Mac App Store and we'll be glad to hear your feedback: https://apps.apple.com/ua/app/cleano/id6469460523 Features - Simulators cleanup. It's a correct cleanup via 'simctl' so you even don't need to restart Xcode for it to take effect - SPM repos cache. Swift PM stores github repos for packages separately and never removes…
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hacker News client for macOS. Contribute to mattrighetti/HNReaderApp development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Whiteout▲89Auto-redact sensitive info from Mac screenshots
May 2026 · getwhiteout.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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ReadyRedact▲73Where AI, data privacy laws and redaction technology unite
2023 · readyredact.com · its alternatives →
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RedactScreen creates a virtual screen that hides your sensitive apps (Slack, Mail, Messages) from everyone else on the call. Your screen, minus the parts that aren't their business.
May 2026 · redactscreen.com · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone! I made a Mac app for exploring large language models. It’s fast, small, has a tiny memory footprint. It’s immutable by design with both immediate time travel and automatic versioning as foundational elements. The app is written in Swift and a bit of Rust for the tokenizer. I used SwiftUI for structure and animations and Cocoa for advanced behavior. All storage is SQLite and local-only. You can go through the database as needed and backup it as well. The app has support for variants, which is the `n` parameter in the OpenAI chat completion API—equivalent to the drafts feature in…
2023 · thellm.app · its alternatives →
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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 · its alternatives →
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100% client-side text redactor for law firms (No servers).
Jul 2026 · its alternatives →
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