Redactator
Share the file. Keep to yourself.
Drop photos, PDFs and screen recordings. Redactator finds names, emails, card numbers, faces and licence plates, and covers them with solid black boxes. It all runs on your own computer: nothing is uploaded.
Made for people who share client files all day
Video editors
Cut tutorials from a client's dashboard without leaking their customers' emails in the background.
Support teams
Send screenshots and screen recordings to a vendor with the account details already blacked out.
Freelancers
Forward invoices and contracts as portfolio samples without exposing who paid for what.
How it works
Three open models read every line, and their results are merged, so a miss by one is caught by another.
Drop and tick
Add as many files as you like and tick what to hide. Type anything only you know, like your car's plate.
Three detectors read it
Fixed patterns for emails, cards and IBANs. GLiNER2-PII for names and IDs. Gemma 4 for anything that needs judgement.
Review and export
Untick what should stay visible, draw extra boxes by hand, and export clean copies. Originals are never touched.
Private by design
- Nothing leaves your computer. The models run locally, so the file you want to clean is never sent to anyone.
- Real PDF redaction. The text under each box is deleted from the file, not just covered with a shape.
- Solid boxes, never blur. Blur and pixelation can be reversed. Black can't.
- Metadata stripped. GPS, camera details and document authors are removed on export.
- Works offline. On a train, on a plane, or inside a client's locked-down network.
- Open source. Read every line of the code that touches your files.
Price
There is no per-file bill, because there is no server to pay for.
Open source
The full app and command line, installed with Python and Ollama. Every feature, forever.
One-click installer
A signed app for Mac and Windows with the models bundled. No terminal, no setup. A one-time purchase.
Get Redactator
You need Python 3.10 or newer and Ollama. The models download once, then everything works offline.
ollama pull gemma4:e4b pip install git+https://github.com/crjstobal/redactator redactator-app