About anonym.plus

Making offline privacy protection accessible, secure, and practical.

Mission

anonym.plus exists to make document anonymization accessible, secure, and practical. We believe that protecting personally identifiable information (PII) should not require trusting a cloud service with your most sensitive data.

Our desktop application processes everything locally on your machine — no uploads, no cloud APIs, no internet required. This isn't just a feature; it's a fundamental architectural decision that shapes every part of the product. Law firms, healthcare providers, HR departments, and researchers handle sensitive documents daily. They deserve a tool that gives them control without compromise.

Privacy is not a product feature. It is a design constraint that guides every technical decision — from choosing a local NLP engine over a cloud API, to storing encryption keys in an offline vault rather than a server database.

Founder

George Curta

Founder & Developer — EU-based security consultant, ISO 27001 / GDPR specialist

I have been building enterprise software since 1998. Over the past 28 years I have worked as a security consultant, system architect, and software developer — specialising in data protection, compliance automation, and secure document workflows for European businesses.

anonym.plus was born out of a recurring frustration: clients needed to anonymize sensitive documents for sharing, litigation discovery, or regulatory reporting — but every available solution required uploading data to a third-party cloud. I built anonym.plus to solve that problem in a way I would trust with my own clients' data.

Every line of code is written with the same standard I apply when advising clients on ISO 27001 certification and GDPR Article 25 (Privacy by Design) compliance.

Values

Privacy by design

Documents never leave your device. The PII detection engine runs locally. Encryption keys stay in your vault. We can't see your data even if we wanted to.

Zero knowledge

Your password never leaves your browser. Only cryptographic proofs are sent to our server. We use Argon2id key derivation and AES-256-GCM encryption.

Transparency

We publish our security architecture, threat model, encryption specifications, and a detailed changelog. No black boxes.

Offline-first

The entire anonymization pipeline works without internet. Account sync, updates, and model downloads are the only features that need connectivity.

Technology

anonym.plus uses a dual-engine architecture combining the strengths of two runtimes:

Tauri (Rust)Backend, vault encryption, anonymization operators, file I/O
Python sidecarMicrosoft Presidio + spaCy NLP for PII detection
React + TypeScriptFrontend with Zustand state management
AES-256-GCMVault encryption with Argon2id key derivation
BIP3924-word recovery phrase (256 bits of entropy)
Tesseract OCRImage text extraction in 38 languages

Product Ecosystem

anonym.plus is part of a family of eight specialized privacy platforms, each built around the same principle — your data, your control. Every platform below links to its own product site.

anonym.legal Legal & Compliance

Client-side encryption for legal, compliance, and data protection officers. Zero-knowledge architecture under GDPR, DSGVO, and NIS2.

  • Zero-knowledge architecture
  • Full audit trails
  • EU data residency
GDPR DSGVO NIS2
anonymize.today Freelancers & SMBs

Free PII anonymization for individuals and small teams. 260+ entity types, 48 languages, no installation required.

  • 260+ entity types
  • 48 languages
  • Free tier available
GDPR CCPA
cloak.business Enterprise Teams

Enterprise document anonymization with image redaction, bulk processing, and team workflow management.

  • Image & document redaction
  • Bulk batch processing
  • Team workflow management
HIPAA GDPR
anonymize.solutions Enterprise IT & DevOps

Custom entity types, on-premise deployment, and REST API integration for enterprise IT environments.

  • Custom entity types
  • On-premise deployment
  • REST API & webhooks
ISO 27001 GDPR
anonym.life Financial Sector

Real-time transaction and financial document anonymization for banks, FinTech, and payment processors.

  • Real-time anonymization
  • Transaction PII removal
  • Persistent audit trails
MiFID II GDPR
anonymize.education Education Sector

Student data protection with parental consent workflows and bulk record anonymization for schools and universities.

  • Student data protection
  • Parental consent workflows
  • Bulk record anonymization
FERPA COPPA GDPR
anonym.plus ★ This product

100% offline desktop anonymization for air-gapped environments. No cloud, no uploads — processes classified documents on device.

  • 100% offline processing
  • Air-gapped environments
  • AES-256-GCM vault encryption
GDPR HIPAA ISO 27001
anonymize.dev Developers & DevOps

REST API and SDK for integrating PII anonymization directly into CI/CD pipelines, data pipelines, and custom applications.

  • REST API & SDK
  • CI/CD pipeline integration
  • OpenAPI documentation
OpenAPI Webhooks

Jurisdiction

anonym.plus is developed and operated from the European Union (Germany). Our server infrastructure runs on ISO 27001-certified Hetzner data centers located in Germany. We are subject to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and committed to data minimization, purpose limitation, and privacy by default.

We implement GDPR Article 25 (Data Protection by Design and by Default) as a core engineering requirement — not as an afterthought or compliance checkbox.

For details on what data we collect and how we process it, see our Privacy Policy.

Legal & Imprint

For the legal notice (Impressum) required under § 5 TMG and Article 5 AVMSD, including full service provider details and dispute resolution information, see the Imprint page.

Contact

For support inquiries, feature requests, or security reports, reach us through our contact form. For responsible disclosure of security vulnerabilities, see our security page.