Whiteout sits in your Mac menu bar, watches your screenshots, and auto-detects sensitive info like phone numbers, SSNs, credit cards, and API keys. Clean copies saved automatically, originals tucked away. Fully offline. $9.99 once.
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I built Whiteout because I kept accidentally sharing screenshots with personal info visible -- emails in Slack, API keys in terminal output, once a client's SSN in a contract. I'd always catch it after the fact, which is the worst feeling.
So I made an app that handles it automatically. Take a screenshot, Whiteout scans it, and if it finds anything sensitive, a clean copy is saved with the info covered. Original goes to a backup folder. You never have to think about it.
Everything runs locally on your Mac. No cloud, no accounts, no data leaves your machine. $9.99 one-time after a 7-day free trial.
Would love feedback from the PH community! Use code HACKERNEWS for 30% off.
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This is the tool I keep wishing existed when posting screenshots of my fintech app. I either spend 5 minutes blurring everything in Preview or just give up and don't share the screenshot.
Does it pick up IBAN-style numbers? Most redactors I've tried only know US patterns (SSN, US phone).
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@ericlagarda Thanks! That's exactly the reason I built it, the "blur everything in Preview" setup was driving me crazy too.
Good news: IBAN detection is shipping in v1.1 today, along with UK phone numbers, UK National Insurance numbers, and Canadian SINs. So it's no longer US-only. If there are other international patterns you'd want covered, let me know, happy to keep expanding it.
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Clean execution- menu bar + offline + one-time price is exactly the right combo for a privacy tool. Subscription pricing would have killed the trust angle. How do you handle custom patterns? Internal employee IDs or proprietary formats that don't match standard regex- is that on the roadmap or intentionally out of scope?
I've shared screenshots in Slack with an API key in the corner I didn't notice for ten minutes. The "I'll just be careful" strategy fails the moment you're tired or rushed. Upvoted!
This is the tool I keep wishing existed when posting screenshots of my fintech app. I either spend 5 minutes blurring everything in Preview or just give up and don't share the screenshot.
Does it pick up IBAN-style numbers? Most redactors I've tried only know US patterns (SSN, US phone).
@ericlagarda
Thanks! That's exactly the reason I built it, the "blur everything in Preview" setup was driving me crazy too.
Good news: IBAN detection is shipping in v1.1 today, along with UK phone numbers, UK National Insurance numbers, and Canadian SINs. So it's no longer US-only. If there are other international patterns you'd want covered, let me know, happy to keep expanding it.
Clean execution- menu bar + offline + one-time price is exactly the right combo for a privacy tool. Subscription pricing would have killed the trust angle. How do you handle custom patterns? Internal employee IDs or proprietary formats that don't match standard regex- is that on the roadmap or intentionally out of scope?
HasData
I've shared screenshots in Slack with an API key in the corner I didn't notice for ten minutes. The "I'll just be careful" strategy fails the moment you're tired or rushed. Upvoted!
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Congrats on the launch man! it looks awesome. All the best