CoverTrace: Redact ID & SSN

A host, landlord, or app wants a photo of your ID? Cover everything they don't need — photo, address, even the barcode — and send a copy made for single one recipient.

A company is asking for a photo of your ID?

A host wants your passport before check-in. A landlord wants your license with the application. A finance app wants the front and the back. You'd rather say no — but you need the apartment, the booking, the account.

CoverTrace is the middle path: send the photo, but send only what they need.

COVER EVERY FIELD THEY DON'T NEED

• Auto-detect finds the sensitive fields for you: ID numbers, SSN, address, date of birth, portrait — and the barcode on the back of a license, which repeats the personal details printed on the front: name, address, date of birth, license number, physical description.
• Cover fields with a clean labeled box, or blur or pixelate them.
• Tap a suggestion to apply it; move, resize, or remove any box.

WHAT'S COVERED IS REALLY GONE

• Every export is re-rendered from scratch as a flat image. Covered data no longer exists in the file — there is nothing under the box to recover.
• Location data and other photo metadata never carry over.
• A small visible watermark names the recipient and date, so the copy is clearly made for one purpose — and every copy carries a quiet mark, so if a copy ever turns up somewhere it shouldn't, your log can show which copy it was.
• Sending by email or chat? Export a password-protected PDF instead — CoverTrace suggests a strong, easy-to-read passphrase and the safest way to hand it over.
• A private, on-device log remembers who received each copy and when.

KNOW WHAT EACH COMPANY ACTUALLY NEEDS Recipient templates reflect what different services commonly ask for — rental applications, host check-ins (including Italian and Spanish guest registrations), payment onboarding, and more — so you cover what you can and keep visible what they require. Over-covering gets copies rejected; templates help you get it right the first time. What's accepted is always up to the recipient.

YOUR PHONE, AND ONLY YOUR PHONE

• 100% on-device. No servers, no accounts, no analytics.
• Nothing is uploaded, ever. The app itself collects nothing — no accounts, no analytics. If you buy Pro, Apple processes the payment and our billing service sees only the receipt — never your documents or photos.
• Keep the originals and copies you want to hold onto in an encrypted, Face ID–protected vault — all on your phone.

FIND WHAT'S ALREADY EXPOSED The free library scanner checks your photo library — on your device — for ID photos, cards, and documents you may have forgotten, so you can clean them up before they travel.

FAIR PRICING The scanner and your first covered export are free. CoverTrace Pro unlocks unlimited exports, multi-page PDF export, the encrypted vault, password-protected PDFs, and leak decoding — as a simple subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase.

Send only what they need.

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