Cloak
Redact IDs and shrink PDFs, entirely on your iPhone
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Cloak scans or imports your documents/photos, auto-detects text so you can redact sensitive info in a tap, then compresses and exports as JPEG or PDF. Built it after getting tired of manually blurring my own ID for visa/KYC paperwork. Everything processes on-device, nothing uploaded anywhere. Free. Would love feedback from this community.
PH · launched Sep 26, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: pdf editing software · 133 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▼ -43% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- iOS
- Productivity
- Privacy
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More like this: all 133 launches in pdf editing software →
Could you build this?
Yes Standard iOS app using Apple's Vision framework (VNRecognizeTextRequest) for on-device OCR, core graphics for bounding-box redaction overlays, and standard PDFKit compression routines.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 548 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #450 of 549 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 313 days after the earliest competitor.
- Pagefold: PDF Scanner OCR · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- zeroNet Redact · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Redact: Photo Privacy · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Every PDF: Scanner & Editor · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- ScanItFast · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- PDF Scanner: Scan & Convert AI · ph · 2026-09-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- ScanChat PDF · ph · 2026-10-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Cloakshot · ph · 2026-10-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
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