Scanning and cloaking are on-device and always free — you only ever pay the (markup-only) cost of relaying the cloaked text to an AI model, and only if you ask a question. No free-relay games, no reselling your scans. Start free; upgrade when the scanner becomes a habit.
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Scan, redact and preview for free — pay only if you ask AI about it.
For anyone who photographs paperwork that names real people every day.
For HR, legal, clinical and finance teams under a data-handling mandate.
The upstream AI model's tokens, plus a small markup that keeps the gateway and this scanner running. The on-device OCR, the cloaking engine, the detection model and the receipts cost you nothing.
Yes. Unlimited on-device OCR + cloaking + preview with no account, 10 scans a day, and 25 AI "ask" actions a month once you connect a free CloakAPI wallet — drawn from the shared suite pool. It's the same detector and the same receipts as the paid tiers.
No. This OCR path does not upload the file, and only cloaked text reaches the gateway — and only when you press "Ask AI". Detected values are replaced on this device before sending — the receipt records what this path sent.
Those send the raw image (or the raw extracted text) to a server. cloak-scan reads the page entirely on your device and only ever offers an AI the cloaked, surrogate-bearing text — for the letters, forms and IDs where that's not optional.