Cover passwords, emails, and account numbers before your screenshot leaves your machine.
Or click to browse · Paste with Ctrl+V also works
Drop your image in or paste from clipboard.
Black Box, Blur, or Pixelate.
Rectangle, oval, or freehand lasso — then hide what you selected.
Hit Download PNG. Done.
SquooshAfter redacting your screenshot, use Squoosh to compress the PNG before attaching it to email or Slack. Free and runs in your browser.
Visit Squoosh →When you redact screenshot captures with HideShot, you are performing targeted removal, not cropping away half the UI. Black Box mode paints opaque rectangles over API keys in a dev console, customer emails in a CRM, or invoice totals in accounting software while the surrounding interface stays intact for context.
Support engineers redact screenshots before posting to public GitHub issues. HR teams scrub employee IDs from onboarding walkthroughs. Founders hide revenue numbers in investor-update captures shared with advisors. Each box is independent — stack as many as the frame requires.
Ctrl+V paste works directly from Win+Shift+S or macOS screenshot tools, so you can go from capture to redacted export in under a minute. Undo fixes misaligned boxes without reloading the original.
Password fields, session tokens, email addresses, phone numbers, internal URLs, account balances, and any personally identifiable information visible in the frame. When in doubt, black box it.
Black Box permanently removes pixels and is the standard for compliance-sensitive captures. Blur is acceptable for casual posts where you only need to discourage reading.
Yes. Draw one box per region — a token in the header, a name in chat, a file path in the sidebar — then download once.
No. HideShot edits a browser copy. Your source PNG in Downloads or Photos stays unchanged until you save the new export.