---
name: "HideMyData"
subtitle: "Free, open-source, on-device redaction of personal data"
date: 2026-05-03
link: https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1t1i119/os_hidemydata_automated_redaction_of_personal/
linkText: "View on r/macapps"
source: "r/macapps"
topics: [macos-apps]
tags: [macos, privacy, redaction, open-source]
---

Uses a 1.5B-parameter local privacy-filter model from Hugging Face to detect and redact PII from documents and screenshots — names, addresses, IDs — with context awareness rather than naive regex. Fully local, no paywall, no B2B tier, no cloud component; the dev built it as their first macOS app explicitly for people who handle other people's data on a laptop. Not a chatbot — it just classifies, and it's fast.
