About ScrubLocally

ScrubLocally removes personal data from text before you paste it into an AI tool, and puts the real values back into the model’s answer afterwards. It is a single static web page with no backend, no accounts and no database.

Why local-only is the whole design

A tool that redacts your text has to see your text. If it runs on a server, you have solved one disclosure by creating another — and this time to a company you have never heard of, with no agreement, no audit and no way to check. The only version of this tool that makes sense is one where the text never leaves the machine you typed it on.

That is an architectural claim, not a policy claim: there is no upload endpoint anywhere on this site, so there is nothing to switch on later. Here is how to verify it yourself — the tool also shows a live counter of the network requests it makes while you type, measured by your own browser.

What it deliberately does not do

• No AI model. Detection is deterministic pattern matching plus checksums. An on-device model would catch more unusual names at the cost of a multi-megabyte download and a slower first load; the custom-terms box covers that gap at zero cost.
• No accounts, no history, no sync. Nothing you type is stored. The only thing kept between visits is which detectors you switched on.
• No compliance claims. The tool removes identifiers it recognises. Whether a document is “de-identified”, “anonymised” or safe to share is a judgement under rules that belong to you, not to a web page.

How it is paid for

It costs almost nothing to run, because your device does the work and the site is static files. There are no ads today. If ads are ever added they will sit outside the tool, will never see your text, and cannot change the architecture: the page has no mechanism to send your input anywhere.

Accuracy and corrections

Facts on this site — provider data policies, HIPAA identifiers, checksum rules — were compiled on 29 July 2026 with sources noted in the page copy and in the source data files. Provider policies in particular change fast, and two major ones changed in the last two years. If you find something out of date or wrong, tell us; corrections get made, dated, and are worth more than a polite email saying the site is nice.