Feature

Remove sensitive information from screenshots permanently

Use Captorify's paid cloud editor to redact synced captures and review suggested regions. For an existing image, open the free screenshot redactor.

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Example billing dashboard with an invented email address, a fake API key and a disabled Export button — Reproducible example input. The name, email, invoices and key are invented for this demonstration.

Step 01

What permanent redaction means

Permanent redaction means the sensitive pixels are overwritten in the exported image, not hidden behind a shape someone can move or delete. Captorify composites the redaction into the output, so once exported the covered content is gone from the file.

Redactions are baked into the exported pixels, not layered on top.
The downloaded file carries no removable cover to peel back.
Cloud-editor redaction requires a paid plan. The public manual redactor creates flattened PNGs for free.

If you share an editable project, covering shapes may remain removable. Export a flattened image and inspect the saved file.

Step 02

Redaction workflow

Open a capture in the editor and draw over each sensitive area: names, account numbers, email addresses, tokens, and internal URLs. Captorify also offers suggested redactions that auto-detect common patterns for you to review before applying.

Draw blackout redactions over each sensitive area.
Review suggested sensitive areas and add anything the detector missed.
Export a flattened PNG, JPG, or PDF.

Work across the whole image, including headers, sidebars, and the page background, then export a flattened file that carries the redactions baked in.

Step 03

Check the exported blackout

A redacted export looks the same as the original except the sensitive values are solid blocks instead of readable text. Because the pixels are overwritten, zooming in or opening the file in another tool reveals nothing underneath.

Open the final exported file on its own and confirm every covered area is solid before you send it.

Step 04

Blur, pixelation, and redaction

Captorify offers blackout, blur, and pixelate, and bakes all three permanently into the export. The difference is in how much they truly hide.

Blackout: overwrites pixels, the safe choice for real secrets.
Blur and pixelate: baked in, but not guaranteed irreversible.

Blackout overwrites the content completely. Blur and pixelate are image transforms that can in principle be reversed or guessed, especially for short text in a known font, so use blackout for anything truly sensitive and keep blur or pixelate for cosmetic cases.

Step 05

Sensitive data examples

Suggested redactions look for common sensitive patterns so you do not have to spot every one by hand. Detected patterns include email addresses, URLs, IP addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, and API keys such as Stripe, GitHub, and AWS tokens.

Emails, URLs, IP addresses, and phone numbers.
Credit card numbers and high-entropy API keys.
Always reviewed before they are applied.

Suggestions are a starting point you review before applying, not an automatic guarantee, so confirm each one and add any redactions the detector missed.

Step 06

Limits

Redaction protects what you cover. Suggested detection finds common patterns but will not catch every sensitive value, so review the suggestions and add manual redactions where the detector cannot help.

For true secrets, use blackout rather than blur or pixelate, and verify the redaction in the exported file rather than the editor preview.

Step 07

Use cases

Redaction fits anywhere a screenshot leaves your team. Support agents redact customer data before attaching a capture to a reply, and security reviewers remove credentials and internal URLs before sharing evidence.

Send the exported file after checking the whole image for remaining private details. Keep the original and any separately copied text under separate review.

Step 08

Redact a saved image without an extension

The free public redactor opens a PNG, JPG or WebP in your browser. Draw areas yourself or use Find suggestions and review each result. Select Black for opaque coverage, then export a flattened PNG. The paid cloud editor offers redaction for captures already synced to your account.

Practice on the fictional account details below, then reopen the saved file and check for missed information. Suggestions can miss sensitive details.

Open the free screenshot redactor

Verify the exported image

See why weak concealment can retain clues

Step 09

Inspect the actual downloaded redaction

We loaded the example dashboard into the public redactor and covered the invented name, email and complete fake key. The image below is the newly exported PNG, not a screenshot of editing rectangles.

Download it, zoom into the covered edges and compare with the original practice input. This verifies the demonstrated regions only. It does not establish that any arbitrary screenshot has no remaining private information.

Exported example dashboard with the invented name, email and complete fake API key covered by opaque black pixels — Actual PNG exported from the public redactor in Chrome 154. The original uses invented data. The final downloaded file was reopened and visually reviewed.

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Download the actual redacted PNG

FAQ

Common questions.

Short answers about capture, privacy, sharing, and billing.

Can redacted areas be recovered from the export?

A blackout redaction overwrites the pixels, so the covered content is gone from the exported file and cannot be recovered. Blur and pixelate are also baked in permanently, but as image transforms they can in principle be partly reversed, so use blackout for true secrets.

Do I need a paid plan to redact screenshots?

The free public redactor opens a local image, provides manual controls and suggestions, and exports a flattened PNG. Redaction in the cloud editor requires a paid plan and operates on already-synced captures.