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.
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.
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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).
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.
Whiteout was featured in Mac (103.5k followers), Productivity (651.7k followers) and Privacy (11.1k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 147.5k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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.
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