TopSecret — Redact & Blackout
Benjamin Dansby Productivity iPhoneiPadiPod touchMac
TopSecret — Redact & Blackout is a paid Productivity app for iPhone and iPad by Benjamin Dansby. Requires iOS 26.0. Updated November 9, 2026.
- Price
- 4.99 USD
- on the App Store
- Size
- 6 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Nov 9
- 2026 · v1.3.4
Screenshots
About TopSecret — Redact & Blackout
TopSecret blacks out anything sensitive in an image or PDF — then exports a flattened copy where the hidden data is genuinely gone, not just hidden behind a rectangle. Most "redaction" just draws a box on top. The text underneath is still there, still selectable, still recoverable. TopSecret rebuilds the pixels: the content under every bar is destroyed, so a redacted name, number, or face can't be selected, copied, or pulled back out of the exported file. REDACT BY HAND OR AUTOMATICALLY • Drag to draw a bar over anything. Move it, resize it, delete it, or undo it. • Auto-Detect finds emails, Social Security numbers, phone numbers, card numbers, IP addresses, and faces. Switch a kind on and every match in the document is blacked out; switch it off to bring them back. • Find & Redact keeps a list of words, numbers, or whole blocks of text — like an address — and blacks out every match, with an optional fuzzy match for close spellings and OCR slips. Remove a term and its matches come back. IMAGES AND MULTI-PAGE PDFS • Import a screenshot, a photo, or a long PDF from Photos or Files. • Step through every page — iPad adds a thumbnail rail alongside it. • Pinch to zoom in, and select text right on the page to copy it, redact it, or redact every copy of it. • Exported PDFs are rasterized, so nothing lingers underneath the bars. PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF • Save an editable session and come back to it later — your bars, exactly where you left them. • Export a flattened copy any time and share it straight from the app — Files, Mail, Messages, AirDrop, wherever it needs to go. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Everything happens on your device. All text and face detection uses Apple's on-device Vision framework. • No network, no accounts, no telemetry. TopSecret only ever touches the file you hand it. • One universal app for iPhone and iPad. Redact anything, for good.
What’s new
Version 1.3.4 · Updated November 9, 2026
A face near the edge of a photo is now covered by its full oval, which runs off the edge, instead of an oval squashed to fit inside the picture.
App privacy
The developer, Benjamin Dansby, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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