Real Redaction — the Black Bar Actually Deletes What's Underneath

Most redaction tools just draw a box over your secret. Redactor destroys the pixels underneath, right in your browser, so what's meant to stay hidden actually does.

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The problem

You paint a black rectangle over an address, save the file, and feel safe — but in a lot of editors that box is just a layer sitting on top. Anyone can drag it away, or pull the original text straight out of the PDF. Blur can be undone too, and photos quietly carry the GPS coordinates of where they were taken. Covering something on screen isn't the same as removing it from the file.

How Redactor (Black Out Private Info) works

• Open an image or PDF — it never leaves your device.
• Drag a box over anything that needs to disappear, and pick a solid black bar or a pixelate effect.
• Export a clean copy with the pixels under your mark destroyed and EXIF/GPS metadata removed.

What you get

• The pixels are actually goneRedactor doesn't drop a shape on top — it rewrites the covered area so nothing is left underneath that could later be restored, undone or copied out.
• Metadata stripped automaticallyEvery export removes EXIF and GPS data, so a shared photo doesn't quietly reveal where and when it was taken.
• Black bars or pixelatePick a clean, solid block for a serious document, or pixelate a face or logo when you want the shape to stay but not the detail.
• Multi-page PDF + batch (Pro)Free already flattens page 1 of a PDF so hidden text is destroyed. Pro removes the page limit and batch-processes several documents at once. $1 once, for life.

Private by design

Redactor runs entirely in your browser. Your images and PDFs are never uploaded to a server, so there's no account, no cloud copy and no waiting on a connection — it works offline. Covered areas are permanently destroyed instead of just hidden, EXIF and GPS metadata is removed on export, and PDF flattening deletes the text under your boxes too — free covers page 1, Pro removes the page limit — so the finished file can't give anything away.

Free vs Pro