Local personal data redaction for any AI tools
Details
- External ID
- 48579589
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Local AI
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- June 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 12
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6509562841530054
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
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/
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI avatar and portrait tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Compliance & governance
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- personal data redaction for ai tools
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Desktop GUI wrappers for local PII redaction can be vibe-coded using Electron/Tauri with existing regex patterns and open-source ONNX or Transformers.js NER models.
Discussion
7 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode (coding agents), openai/privacy-filter (model used)
Concerns raised: Requires modification of coding agents to integrate, PII data hooks eventually pass to server, CPU latency performance unclear
Feature requests: Swap PII with placeholder instead of redaction, swap back after AI response, Integration with coding agents like Codex and Claude Code
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 24 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #10 of 25 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 191 days after the earliest competitor.
- A local-first, reversible PII scrubber for AI workflows · hn · 2025-12-24 · 38 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Boundary · ph · 2026-09-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- PrivaMask — 100% Offline PDF Redaction · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Anonimizer · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Redactify · hn · 2026-04-12 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- DataMask · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Local Privacy Firewall-blocks PII and secrets before ChatGPT sees them · hn · 2025-12-09 · 111 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Where's My Data? · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
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