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Whiteout
Auto-redact sensitive info from Mac screenshots
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.
Top comment
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.
About Whiteout on Product Hunt
“Auto-redact sensitive info from Mac screenshots”
Whiteout launched on Product Hunt on May 15th, 2026 and earned 87 upvotes and 5 comments, placing #21 on the daily leaderboard. 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.
On the analytics side, Whiteout competes within Mac, Productivity and Privacy — topics that collectively have 766.2k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Whiteout performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Whiteout?
Whiteout was hunted by Andrew Khalil. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Whiteout including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.