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Dev tools · March 19, 2026

anonym.legal Desktop

Batch PII anonymization with encrypted local vault

anonym.legal Desktop launched on March 19, 2026 with 3 votes, #3,303 of 23,380 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.

What it does

Process thousands of documents locally - data never leaves your machine. BIP39 encrypted vault (Argon2id + AES-256-GCM) manages personal encryption keys. Batch mode processes entire folders, exports anonymized results with template variables. 48 languages bundled. Offline-first. Built with Tauri 2.0 (Rust) - 55MB installer, native performance. Windows, macOS Universal (Intel+ARM), Linux. Free: 200 tokens/month. v7.4.13.

Access anonym.legal from any device. Web application, desktop app, mobile apps, and Office Add-in. — Access our platform from any — Use directly in your...

No installation required. Access all features directly from your web browser. Download our desktop application for secure document processing with local file handling. Install in Word, Excel & PowerPoint — download the manifest and add it in seconds. Anonymize documents directly in Microsoft Word, Excel & PowerPoint without leaving the application. Our company HQ is in Saarbrücken, Germany. Our servers run in Hetzner's Falkenstein datacenter. We test detection against sample documents before each release. Do you keep my files? No, the cloud build wipes after eachfrom anonym.legal

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