QuickRedact

Privacy-focused image redaction with on-device AI. It finds and hides faces, licence plates and sensitive text before you share a picture.

macOS Released
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Version 1.0.0. macOS 15.0 or later, Apple Silicon.

What it does

  • Face detection

    Finds and redacts faces with Apple's Vision framework. Detection runs on your Mac.

  • Licence plates

    Detects UK, US and EU plate formats with a dedicated YOLO model.

  • Email addresses

    OCR scans the image for email addresses and redacts them.

  • Financial data

    Detects and redacts credit card numbers, bank details and other financial information.

  • ID numbers

    Finds SSNs, National Insurance numbers and other government ID formats.

  • Launch at login

    Start QuickRedact when your Mac boots so it is ready in the menu bar.

Redaction styles

Solid black
Covers sensitive areas with solid black rectangles.
Blur
Applies a Gaussian blur. The content is obscured but the look of the image is kept.
Pixelate
Pixelates sensitive areas with a mosaic effect.

Privacy

Your images never leave your Mac. QuickRedact uses Apple's Vision framework and CoreML to run detection locally on your Apple Silicon chip. No internet connection is needed and nothing is uploaded.

Requirements

  • macOS 15.0 (Sequoia) or later
  • Apple Silicon (M1, M2, M3 or M4)
  • No internet required
  • No account needed

How it works

  1. Install and launch

    Download the DMG, run the installer and launch QuickRedact. It appears as an eye icon in your menu bar.

  2. Drop an image

    Click the menu bar icon and drag any PNG or JPG onto the drop zone. Processing takes 1 to 3 seconds.

  3. Get a redacted copy

    A redacted copy is saved to your Downloads folder. The original is never modified.

Support the project

QuickRedact is free to use. If you find it helpful, you can buy me a coffee. Payments are processed by Stripe.