PasteGuard for Mac
Keep secrets and personal data out of AI chats
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PasteGuard masks API keys, passwords, emails, card numbers and more on your Mac's clipboard the moment you copy, so every paste into ChatGPT, Claude, Slack or a terminal is safe. An optional Apple Intelligence check on your Mac catches what rules miss. For what only you know, add custom rules, import CSV word lists or keep an Ignore list. Restore puts the real values back. No permissions, no account, nothing leaves your Mac.
PH · launched Nov 4, 2026 · 71 upvotes (top 2%) · 0 views
Niche: clipboard managers · 146 launches, 11 in the last 7 days ▼ -8% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Compliance & governance
- Prosumer
- AI feature
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Menu Bar Apps
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Could you build this?
Yes A macOS clipboard monitor that applies regex and pattern rules to mask secrets is a well-scoped native app. An optional on-device check via Apple Intelligence is an API call, and the rest is rules and UI.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 576 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #37 of 577 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 355 days after the earliest competitor.
- Data Sanitizer · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Safe8bit · ph · 2026-11-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- PasteGuard · ph · 2026-10-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- BCD · ph · 2026-10-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- SafetyClip · ph · 2026-11-05 · 61 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- ChatDrop · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Usage for Claude + ChatGPT 4.0 · ph · 2026-11-01 · 75 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- chat-recall · ph · 2026-09-11 · 95 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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