Text Redaction Tool

Black out or replace sensitive words in text before you share it.

Removing what shouldn't be shared

Before pasting a log, a message or a document somewhere public, there is often something that has to go — a name, an email, a token, an address. This lets you redact those parts, replacing them with blocks or placeholder markers so the sensitive words are gone while the surrounding text stays intact and readable.

Mark the words to remove, and they are redacted from the text.

Redacting text is cleaner than redacting an image

Redacting plain text has a real advantage over blacking out a PDF or a screenshot: when you replace a word with a block or a placeholder, it is genuinely gone from the text — there is no hidden layer underneath to recover, the way there is behind a black box drawn over a document. That makes text redaction reliable for sharing logs and snippets, provided you catch every instance of the thing you are hiding, including the ones further down.

Frequently asked questions

How does text redaction remove the words?

It replaces the sensitive words with blocks or placeholders, so they are genuinely gone from the text with nothing hidden underneath.

Is this safer than blacking out a PDF?

For text, yes — there is no underlying layer to recover, unlike a black box drawn over a document.

Is my text uploaded?

No. The redaction happens in your browser.

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