Drop it privately
Paste a screenshot or choose an image or PDF. The file enters an isolated editor in your browser—not an upload queue.
Browser-local privacy
Share the file.
Not the secrets.
Redact sensitive information from screenshots, images, and PDFs with suggestions you control and exports that remove the underlying content.
Local processing Human review Flattened export
Customer escalation
Account owner
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jordan@example.com4 sensitive details foundAutomatically detects and highlights PII for fast review.
Files stay on your deviceNothing is uploaded or stored.
AI suggests. You decide.Review every redaction before export.
Source layers discardedSanitized exports are rebuilt from clean pages.
No signup requiredStart instantly in your browser.
A safer workflow
Three steps from exposed to ready.
Fast enough for a support screenshot. Careful enough for the PDF you are about to send outside your company.
Review smart findings
Local OCR, structured rules, and visual detection surface emails, IDs, tokens, addresses, and faces for your review.
Export what is actually gone
FreeRedact rebuilds a flattened file from sanitized pixels, leaving source objects and metadata behind.
Not just a black rectangle
Looking hidden is not the same as being gone.
Typical overlayText remains underneathCopy, search, or inspect the PDF and it may come back.
FreeRedact exportNew pixels. New file.Pages are rebuilt without source text, forms, attachments, or metadata.
Private sharing field notes
Understand the risk before you hit send.
Screenshots
How to redact a screenshot safely
A practical workflow for removing more than the obvious name or email.
Read guide Failure modesWhy blur and pixelation are not secure redaction
Visual obscuring can preserve patterns, pixels, and underlying document objects.
Read guide PDFsHow to remove hidden text from a PDF
What to inspect beyond the black rectangles on the page.
Read guide MetadataRemove EXIF and document metadata before sharing
A clean-looking file can still carry device, author, time, and location information.
Read guideNo account. No upload queue.