Protect a document, or take things out of it
Add a password, restrict printing and copying, redact what should not be seen, and strip hidden metadata. The work happens on your device, so a sensitive file never travels.
What you can do
Protect & redact, tool by tool
The plan that unlocks each tool is on its label; the chips show which platforms have it today.
Password-protect a PDFFree
- Mac
- iPhone & iPad
- Windows
- Android
Restrict printing and copyingPro
- Mac
- iPhone & iPad
- Windows
- Android
Redact content permanentlyPro
Mark text, an area or search hits, then apply; only marked pages become images.
- Mac
- iPhone & iPad
- Windows
- Android
Redact by area, or by searching for textPro
- Mac
- iPhone & iPad
- Windows
- Android
Smart redaction: find numbers and emails automaticallyPro
Finds SSNs, card numbers, emails and phone numbers; Mac, iPhone and iPad also find names where the device supports it.
- Mac
- iPhone & iPad
- Windows (partial)
- Android
Remove metadata, scripts and hidden dataPro
Mac and iPad clear the document info; Windows also removes XMP, scripts and embedded-file names.
- Mac (partial)
- iPhone & iPad (partial)
- Windows
- Android
Change or remove a passwordFree
- Mac
- iPhone & iPad
- Windows
- Android
Lock the app with Face ID, Touch ID, fingerprint or Windows HelloFree
- Mac
- iPhone & iPad
- Windows
- Android
Why Flourish
Private by architecture, not by promise
Most PDF apps quietly send your file to a server to run OCR, conversion, or AI. Flourish PDF has no document upload endpoint at all — which makes it a genuine fit for legal, medical, financial and other sensitive documents.
No upload endpoint
The service has no route that accepts a document. Your file cannot be sent to us because there is nowhere to send it.
OCR and scanning on the device
Apple Vision, Google ML Kit and Windows' own recognizer read the page on your hardware.
AI on the device
Summaries and questions run on Apple Intelligence, Google's on-device models or a Microsoft Phi model on your PC — no credits, no cloud fallback.
Only an account and a plan on our side
Your email, a user id, and which plan is active. Never a PDF, its text, or what you asked about it.
Try protect & redact free
Download Flourish PDF. Every tool is visible from the first launch; a paid plan unlocks the premium ones.