Redactify
macOS/iOS app to redact sensitive data before using LLMs
Details
- External ID
- 47744106
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
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- Website domain
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- Launched
- April 12, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.11182519280205655
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
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 native Vision framework for OCR and CoreML for face detection.App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6760609039I'd love to hear your thoughts and wishes on the approach. Also, if you know of any nasty PDF edge cases (weird encodings, hidden layers) I should test against, please let me know!The possibility to clean your clipboard automatically for LLM Apps (Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude..) is currently in the Appstore review!
Enrichment
- Theme
- iOS and iPhone utility apps
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- data redaction before sending to llms
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Redactify wraps standard Apple Vision and NaturalLanguage frameworks or regex rules into a native Swift/macOS app to detect PII and faces and blur or redact them before export.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Regex, NER
Concerns raised: Edge cases in redaction (medical record numbers looking like dates, addresses in prose, varying account number formats), Detection method reliability for accurate redaction
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 41 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #40 of 42 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 124 days after the earliest competitor.
- ClipScrub · ph · 2026-09-11 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Tidyshot · ph · 2026-09-29 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- zeroNet Redact · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- BytePriva · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Cloak · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Local personal data redaction for any AI tools · hn · 2026-06-18 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- TrimyMac · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Fast, native Mac file manager (filters, fuzzy find, 9 MB, no Electron) · hn · 2026-07-07 · 98 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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- No other launches for this product.
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