№ 01 — Redact macOS · iPadOS · iOS

Faces off.

A native app for macOS and iOS that pixelates faces and licence plates in your photos and videos — automatically, locally, and entirely without the cloud.

Redact on two iPhones: a crowd photo with every face covered by an emoji, and a video with one anonymisation track per person
Detection
Faces · Plates
Runtime
Core ML · ANE
Platform
macOS 26 · iOS 18+
Price
Free · Pro
№ 02 — Manifesto A statement, not a feature.

The safest image is the one that never leaves your device.

01

No accounts.

No sign-in, no profile, no password to forget. The app opens to the work itself.

02

No analytics.

No telemetry. No crash reports. No third-party SDKs. Nothing about your usage is collected, anywhere.

03

No cloud.

Your photos never leave the device. The app never phones home — nothing leaves unless you write it and send it.

№ 03 — Features Six reasons, all verifiable.

Built around
a single principle.

Most "privacy-first" apps ask you to trust a privacy policy. Redact removes the need to trust at all — there's no telemetry to disable, no consent dialog to dismiss, nothing hidden behind a setting.

  1. № 01

    On-device intelligence

    The face detection model runs through Core ML on the Apple Neural Engine. Every detection happens on the chip in your hand. Works in airplane mode.

  2. № 02

    Photos and videos

    Anonymise a single shot or a whole clip. In videos, faces are tracked from frame to frame — detected once, followed everywhere, editable as tracks.

  3. № 03

    Faces and licence plates

    Two detectors, one pass. People and number plates are found automatically — and you can always add, resize or remove regions by hand.

  4. № 04

    Your kind of cover-up

    Mosaic, blur, solid bar, emoji or full sticker packs — rectangle or ellipse. Pick the effect that fits the photo, from serious to playful.

  5. № 05

    Zero tracking

    No analytics. No crash reports. No fingerprinting. No advertising IDs. There is nothing to opt out of, because nothing was opted in.

  6. № 06

    Native, end to end

    SwiftUI on macOS 26 and iOS 18+, drag-and-drop on the desktop, PhotosPicker on the phone. Optional EXIF clean-up on export. No Electron, no web wrappers.

№ 04 — Process Three steps. About twelve seconds.

From a folder of strangers
to a folder you can publish.

  1. 01

    Drop your photos or videos

    Drag a folder onto the Mac app or pick from PhotosPicker on iOS. Single image, a clip, or a batch of a thousand — same flow.

  2. 02

    The model finds faces and plates

    Core ML runs the detection models on the Neural Engine. Even small or partly occluded faces in crowds get caught — and in videos they're tracked across every frame.

  3. 03

    Pick an effect, export the result

    Mosaic, blur, bar or sticker over every region. Save back to the photo library or export as files. The originals are never touched.

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№ 05 — Effects Seven sticker packs. Twelve seconds.

A black bar says
“something happened here.”

A sticker says nothing at all. Mosaic and blur are there when you need the serious version — but for the photos you actually want to post, every face can get a lemon, a flower or a tiny sun instead.

  • Sunshine
  • Stars
  • Blossom
  • Ruby
  • Lemon
  • Lime
  • Citrus
№ 06 — Screens One app, three sizes of screen.

The same photo,
on whatever you're holding.

Redact on iPhone: Share the moment, not the identity
№ 01 Share the moment, not the identity
Redact on iPhone: Finds every face automatically
№ 02 Finds every face automatically
Redact on iPhone: Stickers, not black bars
№ 03 Stickers, not black bars
Redact on iPhone: Videos too — face by face
№ 04 Videos too — face by face
Redact on iPhone: Licence plates with one switch
№ 05 Licence plates with one switch
Redact on iPhone: Nothing leaves your iPhone
№ 06 Nothing leaves your iPhone
№ 07 — Pricing One purchase. Every device.

Mosaic & blur stay free.
Forever.

Detection, editing and photo export are free — no trial clock, no feature that suddenly locks. Redact Pro adds the playful effects and the polished video export, in one purchase across iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Free

€0
  • Automatic face & licence-plate detection
  • Mosaic & blur effects
  • Unlimited photo export
  • Video export up to 10 seconds, with a small badge

Redact Pro

from €2.08 / month
  • Every effect: solid bar, emoji & sticker packs
  • Badge-free export
  • Full-quality video export, no length cap
  • One purchase for iPhone, iPad & Mac
  1. Lifetime €49.99 once Founders' price · Family Sharing
  2. Monthly €4.99 / month Cancel anytime

Purchases run through the App Store — no account with us, and no server of ours that could ever see your payment. The privacy promise holds for paying and non-paying users alike.

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№ 08 — Privacy The shortest privacy policy you'll ever read.

Your photos never leave
your device.

  • No accounts, no sign-ins, no passwords.
  • No analytics, no crash reports, no telemetry.
  • No third-party SDKs, no advertising IDs.
  • No cloud sync, no uploads of your photos.
  • No location, contacts, microphone, camera.
  • The only thing Redact ever sends is feedback you write yourself.

The app never phones home. Nothing leaves unless you write it and send it. That isn't a privacy-policy claim — it's how the app is built.

Read the full policy