Frequently Asked Questions

No. All processing happens 100% offline on your machine. Your data never leaves your device, ensuring complete privacy and compliance with data protection regulations like GDPR and HIPAA.

Yes, on the Enterprise plan. anonym.plus Desktop includes a built-in Local API and MCP (Model Context Protocol) server so AI agents and MCP hosts can call its anonymization tools directly. By default it listens only on the machine itself (loopback), with bearer-token authentication — nothing is sent to the cloud, and it is activated only with a separate Enterprise licence, issued on request. Network-reachable deployments are available on request for Enterprise customers. It is not part of the Free, Basic, Pro or Expert plans and is not sold from the website: contact us and we will set it up with you.

Yes, with a separate Enterprise licence, issued on request. With that licence, anonym.plus exposes tools like analyze_text, anonymize_text, and deanonymize_text over MCP. We provide the ready-made MCP configuration for your MCP host (for example Claude Desktop or Cline), and the agent can anonymize PII on-device before it ever reaches an LLM.

anonym.plus supports text files, PDFs, Word documents (DOCX), Excel spreadsheets (XLSX), PowerPoint (PPTX), and images (JPG, PNG) depending on your plan. Free and Basic handle text files; Pro adds PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, CSV, JSON, XML and batch processing; Expert adds images (JPG, PNG, BMP, TIFF) with OCR.

Yes, you can upgrade to a higher tier at any time. Contact our support team, and we'll apply a pro-rated credit from your original purchase toward the higher-tier license.

We accept credit and debit cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Link, Amazon Pay, Revolut Pay and Klarna via Stripe, plus the local methods Wero (Germany, France, Belgium), Bancontact, EPS, Przelewy24, BLIK, MB WAY, Satispay and TWINT — the methods shown at checkout depend on your country. All prices are in EUR and payments are processed securely. We also offer invoicing for enterprise customers.

Each plan allows a certain number of simultaneous machine activations (1, 3, or 5 depending on your plan). You can manage your active machines from the account dashboard and deactivate machines to free up slots if you change hardware.

Within 14 days of purchase you can return a licence that has not been activated on any device, using the return form in your account (clause 4.3 of our Terms of Service). Consumers additionally have the statutory right of withdrawal set out in the Terms. Businesses have no statutory right of withdrawal.

Yes. Every plan is a one-time purchase — you own your license permanently and receive free updates within that major version, with no recurring fee. If you'd like priority support and access to any new major version released during a set term, you can add optional Version Access and Priority Support any time from your account — a one-time 12-month purchase with no automatic renewal, and it never affects the license you already own.

The voluntary 14-day return right for licences doesn't apply to this add-on. Consumers instead have the statutory right of withdrawal — 14 days from purchase, which does not expire early even if support has already started, with a full refund. Businesses have no return or withdrawal right for the add-on.

Yes. Because all processing is offline, no data leaves your machine, simplifying GDPR Art. 28 processor agreements. Replace and Redact remove the original values irreversibly and support erasure under Art. 17. Hash and Encrypt are pseudonymisation, not anonymisation: under GDPR Art. 4(5) those values remain personal data. anonym.plus supports your compliance work; the obligations themselves stay with you as controller.

Yes. anonym.plus runs natively on Windows 10/11, macOS 12+, and Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora). A single license covers all platforms—you can activate the same license on different operating systems, up to the machine limit of your plan.

Yes. Because the app processes data entirely locally, it meets the Safe Harbor and Expert Determination de-identification standards under 45 CFR §164.514. The Pro or Expert plan is recommended for healthcare use cases. Note: anonym.plus is a standalone desktop tool, not a cloud service, so no Business Associate Agreement (BAA) is required.

anonym.plus is built for exactly this case: AML and KYC files, lending and credit applications, audit workpapers, and payment records are anonymized entirely on your own machine. The detection engine is local and covers 340+ PII entity types including CREDIT_CARD, IBAN_CODE, SWIFT_CODE, US_SSN and US_BANK_NUMBER, so no document, page image, or extracted text is uploaded to a cloud service and there is no third-party processor to add to your vendor list. Built-in Financial and GDPR presets cover the usual review workflows, and reversible AES-256 encryption lets you hand a redacted file to an auditor or counterparty and restore the original later from your own encrypted vault.

anonym.plus removes PHI from clinical notes, telehealth transcripts, referral letters, claims, and clinical-trial documents on the device itself. Because the detection engine runs locally and no PHI is disclosed to a cloud vendor, there is no business associate agreement (BAA) to sign. It detects 340+ entity types including MEDICAL_LICENSE, ICD_CODE, US_SSN and UK_NHS, and ships a Healthcare Auto-Detect preset plus US and UK healthcare presets next to the GDPR-relevant European presets. Removing the 18 HIPAA Safe Harbor identifiers (45 CFR 164.514(b)(2)) is directly supported; health data is also special-category data under GDPR Art. 9, and properly anonymized files fall outside GDPR scope under Recital 26. Reversible AES-256 encryption keeps the re-identification path in your own vault for research follow-up.

anonym.plus redacts court filings, exhibits, deposition transcripts, production sets, and contracts locally on your own machine, so privileged and client-confidential material never transits a third-party server. It detects 340+ entity types — names, addresses, dates, US_SSN, taxpayer and financial-account numbers — which covers the personal identifiers FRCP 5.2 requires to be partially redacted in public filings, across PDF, DOCX, XLSX, TXT, CSV, JSON, XML and scanned images. Batch processing with parallel file handling works through whole production volumes, and reversible AES-256 encryption keeps the unredacted mapping in your encrypted vault so a production can be reversed for the record.

anonym.plus anonymizes CVs and job applications, personnel files, payroll and benefits exports, and grievance or investigation reports without sending anything to a cloud service — the detection engine runs locally, so employee data stays inside the employer's own systems. It detects 340+ entity types including names, addresses, US_SSN, IBAN_CODE and national identifiers, and batch processing anonymizes a whole folder of candidate files in one pass, which is what blind CV screening needs. Reversible AES-256 encryption means an incident report shared with outside counsel, or a payroll extract handed to an auditor, can still be restored from your own vault.

Yes, on the Pro plan and above. From the History panel, choose a date range and anonym.plus generates a PDF or CSV record entirely on-device: how many items of which entity types were found in each document, whether each job is reversible, and a verification value from the app's own tamper-evident audit log. The report never contains the detected values themselves — only counts and types — and it is explicitly not a compliance certificate: it documents what the software did, for you to use as supporting evidence for measures such as GDPR Art. 32.