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MetaVeils
Sanitize documents before pasting into AI chatbots
Every time you paste a document into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, you're sending more than you think. Client names. Addresses. Credit cards. SSNs. GPS coordinates hidden in photos. Author metadata buried in PDFs. π AI-POWERED PII DETECTION π€ IMAGE OCR SCANNING π‘οΈ METADATA STRIPPING Redact sensitive data before sharing with ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. β100% offline on your Mac.
Hey Product Hunt! π
I'm Harry, and I built MetaVeils because I accidentally leaked client data to ChatGPT.
THE BACKSTORY
A few months ago, I was rushing through a client invoice review. Pasted the whole thing into ChatGPT for a quick summary. Got my answer. Moved on.
Five minutes later, I realized what I'd just sent:
β Client's full legal name
β Business address
β Tax ID number
β Payment details
β Confidential project scope
All sitting on OpenAI's servers. Permanently. I couldn't take it back.
That moment made me realize: **we've normalized pasting documents into AI without checking what's actually in them.**
THE PROBLEM
AI is incredible for productivity. I use ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor daily. But every document you upload to a cloud-based AI tool gets processed on someone else's server.
Most documents contain:
β’ Personal names, emails, phone numbers
β’ Financial information (credit cards, bank details, SSNs)
β’ GPS coordinates embedded in photos
β’ Author metadata in PDFs revealing who created the file
β’ Confidential business information
Your AI prompt gets the answer. But so does the server processing it.
THE SOLUTION
MetaVeils is a native macOS app that sits between your documents and your AI prompts.
**The workflow:**
1. Drop your file into MetaVeils (drag & drop or click to browse)
2. AI scans for sensitive data automatically (names, emails, phones, cards, SSNs, addresses, GPS)
3. Review what was found β remove false positives if needed
4. Redact with one click (black bars, blur, or pixelation)
5. Export the sanitized version
6. Paste THAT into ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini
Everything runs 100% offline on your Mac using Apple's Vision framework. No cloud. No uploads. No telemetry.
**Free Edition** includes basic PII detection for text documents.
**Pro Edition ($39.99 lifetime)** adds:
β’ Image OCR scanning (detect PII in screenshots and scanned docs)
β’ Full metadata stripping (EXIF, GPS, author, software traces)
β’ Batch processing for multiple files
β’ Deep metadata forensics
WHY I'M LAUNCHING HERE
Product Hunt has the most privacy-conscious, AI-savvy community on the internet. You're the exact people who will:
1. Understand why this matters
2. Actually use it
3. Give brutally honest feedback
I want to know:
β’ What sensitive data have YOU accidentally shared with AI?
β’ What features would make this more useful for your workflow?
β’ What's your biggest hesitation about using a tool like this?
Thanks for checking out MetaVeils. Genuinely excited to hear what you think.
β Harry
About MetaVeils on Product Hunt
βSanitize documents before pasting into AI chatbotsβ
MetaVeils was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 10 upvotes and 3 comments, placing #32 on the daily leaderboard. Every time you paste a document into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, you're sending more than you think. Client names. Addresses. Credit cards. SSNs. GPS coordinates hidden in photos. Author metadata buried in PDFs. π AI-POWERED PII DETECTION π€ IMAGE OCR SCANNING π‘οΈ METADATA STRIPPING Redact sensitive data before sharing with ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. β100% offline on your Mac.
On the analytics side, MetaVeils competes within Mac, Productivity and Privacy β topics that collectively have 765.2k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how MetaVeils performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted MetaVeils?
MetaVeils was hunted by Harry Andriyan. A βhunterβ on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform β 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.
For a complete overview of MetaVeils including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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