Everything it finds.
Everything it removes.
SnapHide does two jobs. It finds the things in an image that identify a person, and it removes them in a way that cannot be undone. Every model runs on your machine. There is no API, no account, and no upload.
It reads the image the way a person would.
SnapHide reads the text inside your photo, then checks each number against the rules that actually govern it. That validation step is what separates a useful tool from one that flags every number it sees.
Aadhaar, PAN, passport
Aadhaar numbers are checked against the Verhoeff checksum. If the number isn't a real Aadhaar, it isn't flagged — so your invoice numbers survive.
Bank accounts, cards, GSTIN, IFSC, UPI
Payment card numbers are checked with the Luhn algorithm. GSTIN and IFSC are matched against their official formats.
Phone numbers, emails, OTP codes
Indian mobile numbers with or without the country code. One-time passcodes sitting in a screenshot you were about to share.
Faces — every angle
Front, profile, tilted, partially covered, in poor light, or small in a crowd. The older tools only ever saw faces looking straight at the camera.
Number plates
Indian registration plates across all states, in the standard formats.
Screens and documents in shot
A laptop, monitor or phone visible behind you, with something on it you never meant to publish.
Not all redaction is real redaction.
SnapHide is the only tool we know of that labels its own effects honestly. Two of these are permanent. Two of them are not, and we say so.
| Effect | Status | What actually happens |
|---|---|---|
| Black box | Permanent | The pixels are overwritten. There is nothing left to recover. |
| Noise | Permanent | Replaced with cryptographic random noise. Visibly marks that something was here. |
| Pixelate | Reversible | Can be brute-forced back to the original. Use it for looks, not for privacy. |
| Blur | Reversible | Can be undone by deconvolution if the radius is known. Same warning. |
The part of the photo you cannot see.
Every photo your phone takes carries a hidden record: where it was taken, when, on what device. It travels with the file wherever you send it.
See it before you send it
A risk score out of 100 and a plain list of what's hidden inside — including a button that opens the exact GPS coordinates on a map.
All of it is stripped
Location, device, serial number, timestamps and colour profile are removed from every file SnapHide saves.
The embedded thumbnail
Some editors leave the original, un-redacted image inside the file's thumbnail. SnapHide removes it. Every time.
The tools around the tool.
Redaction is the reason you open SnapHide. These are the reasons you keep it open instead of switching to something else halfway through the job.
Batch processing
Drop in a folder. Every image gets the same treatment, processed in the background so the app stays usable. Built for property listings and case files.
Templates
Save a redaction setup once and reuse it on every photo of the same document type. The fields on an Aadhaar card are always in the same place.
Screenshot hotkey
Capture anywhere on screen with a global shortcut, redact it, paste it. You never have to save a file you did not want to exist.
Rectangle, circle, brush
For everything the detector cannot know is private — a face in a photo frame on the wall, a name written by hand, a company logo.
PDF in and out
Open a PDF, redact the pages, export it back. The original text layer does not survive the round trip — which is the whole point, and something a black rectangle drawn in a PDF reader never achieves.
Undo
Full history while you work. Redaction is permanent once saved, so the undo stack matters more here than in an ordinary editor.
Paste in, copy out
Paste an image straight from the clipboard, clean it, and copy the result back. Nothing ever touches the disk.
Runs in the system tray
Sits quietly out of the way. Drag any image file onto the window to open it.
Eight of them
JPG, PNG, WEBP, BMP, TIFF, GIF and ICO in and out, plus PDF. Convert between any of them.
And the everyday jobs, so you don't need a second app.
Most people redacting a property photo also need to shrink it to fit a portal's upload limit. Both jobs live in the same window.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Compress to size | Give it a target in KB and it hits it. For portals that reject anything over 200 KB. |
| Resize | By pixels or by percentage, with the aspect ratio locked if you want it. |
| Convert format | Between all eight supported formats, with quality control on the way out. |
| Crop | Cut the frame down — often the fastest way to remove something private. |
| Rotate & flip | Ninety degrees at a time, or mirror horizontally and vertically. |
| Watermark | Text or image, with position and opacity. Mark a listing photo as yours. |
| Strip metadata | Remove location, device and timestamp without touching the picture itself. |
SnapHide vs the alternatives.
Three ways people redact an image today. Only one of them reads Indian ID documents, only one keeps the file on your machine, and only one tells you when its own effects can be undone.
| What matters | SnapHide | Free online tools | Built-in editors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finds Aadhaar, PAN, phone numbers for you | Yes automatic | No | No |
| Validates a real Aadhaar vs a random number | Yes Verhoeff | No | No |
| Image stays on your computer | Always | Uploaded to a server | Local |
| Warns when a redaction can be reversed | Yes | No | No |
| Removes hidden GPS & the embedded thumbnail | Yes | Sometimes | Rarely |
| Redact hundreds of photos at once | Yes batch | One at a time | One at a time |
| Blur, pixelate, black box, noise | All four | Some | Blur only |
| Works with no internet | Yes | No | Yes |
| Cost | ₹499/yr or ₹4,999 once | Free, with limits | Free with the OS |