Cloaksmith: Redact Documents
Redact PDFs, Word docs & scans
Only for Mac
Free · In‑App Purchases
Mac
Your tax return, medical results, and bank statements shouldn't be an AI company's training data. Cloaksmith removes the personal details first — entirely on your Mac.
Cloaksmith removes personal information from your documents before you share them — with an AI assistant, an accountant, a landlord, or anyone else.
Drop in a PDF, Word document, or scan. A small AI model running entirely on your Mac finds names, addresses, account numbers, tax file numbers, dates of birth, phone numbers, emails and more. You review everything it found, un-hide anything that should stay visible, add anything it missed — then save a clean copy.
THE REDACTION IS REAL
Most tools draw a black rectangle over the page and leave the text underneath, where anyone can select and copy it. Cloaksmith deletes the underlying text and image pixels. What's gone is gone.
SCANS AND PHOTOS WORK TOO
Built-in text recognition reads scanned and photographed documents, redacts the pixels themselves, and rebuilds a text layer from the already-redacted image — so your safe copy is still searchable and still useful to an AI, without carrying the original text.
YOU DECIDE WHAT'S HIDDEN
Nothing is hidden behind your back. Every detected item is listed by category, and one click un-hides it. Choose which categories to hide by default, per document or overall.
TWO WAYS TO HIDE
Black out: details are replaced with a solid mark.
Stand-ins: details are swapped for realistic fake ones, so the document still reads naturally and an AI can still reason about it — "Sarah Chen" instead of a black box.
NOTHING LEAVES YOUR MAC
No account. No subscription. No cloud processing. No telemetry. Your documents are never uploaded — the AI model runs on your Mac, and it's included in the app, so it works with the network switched off entirely.
TRY IT FIRST
The first 5 documents are free, with no sign-up and no card. After that, a one-time purchase unlocks unlimited documents, forever — no subscription.
WORKS WITH
PDF, Word (.docx), plain text and Markdown. Redacted PDFs stay selectable, so you can upload them to an AI chat and get useful answers back.
REQUIREMENTS
macOS 15 or later, on Apple Silicon (M1 or newer).
Made in Sydney by a solo developer. Questions or trouble: hello@cloaksmith.app
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Protect many documents at once: drop a folder or several files, review them one by one, then save all the protected copies together.
Cloaksmith can now tell you when a document is done, if you've switched to another app while it works.
A name spelled differently on different pages is matched as one name, so it's hidden everywhere it appears.
If Cloaksmith ever quits unexpectedly, it offers to email a crash report the next time it opens. You see the whole report first, and it never contains document names, paths or contents.
Plus dozens of smaller fixes from a full review of the app.
The developer, Barton Hall Software Pty Ltd, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Barton Hall Software Pty Ltd
- Size
- 1.6 GB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Mac
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Lifetime Unlock $24.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Barton Hall Software Pty Ltd