Redact

Overview

Redact is a desktop and mobile app for bulk editing or deleting activity across social, messaging, professional and productivity services. It suits people who want to clean up multiple accounts, with filters and previews to help control what gets selected. Its reach is broad, but deletions are irreversible and some services impose delays.

Key features

Choose what to remove

Keyword, hashtag, date-range and content-type filters narrow the material Redact finds, and previews let users inspect items before deleting them. That is useful when cleaning a long history, but supported content types vary by service, so coverage is not uniform. Redact supports more than 35 services, including Twitter/X, Facebook, Discord, Reddit, TikTok, Instagram, Bluesky, LinkedIn, Threads and Slack.

Recurring cleanup and platform limits

Scheduled Deletion can run every three or six months, yearly, or on a custom interval. It starts at Premium, making it a practical option for users who want ongoing cleanup rather than a one-off pass; Free users do not get it. Deletion speed depends on platform rate limits, and integrations may pause temporarily when a service changes.

Privacy and permanence

For social and messaging cleanup, account credentials and content move directly between the device and the service; Redact receives de-identified usage and diagnostic information. Redact says it encrypts data at rest and in transit. Broker removals and OSINT scans can require submitting identifying information to data brokers or breach-detection services, and scan results may pass through Redact servers temporarily. Data sent through those servers for these services is encrypted and destroyed after processing.

The optional local archive saves a copy to the device before deletion and is off by default. That can provide a personal reference, but it does not make deletion reversible: Redact cannot restore content after a platform removes it or erase copies others have made, such as screenshots or web archives.

Pricing

Redact has a free tier and two consumer paid tiers; no free trial is offered. Free is free and covers the last 30 days of Twitter/X, Discord and Facebook content, Reddit history anonymization at any date, and desktop and mobile apps. It is a narrow way to start, but it does not include unlimited deletion or scheduled cleanup.

Premium costs $7.99 a month (billed $95.88 billed yearly). It adds unlimited deletion, all major social platforms, scheduled deletions and two accounts per platform. This is the fit for broad personal social cleanup, though users managing more than two accounts on a platform need a higher tier.

Ultimate costs $14.99 a month (billed $179.88 billed yearly). It adds professional platforms including LinkedIn and Slack, advanced filtering, priority 1:1 support and five accounts per platform. It is the more suitable consumer plan for professional-account coverage or a larger account set; the higher price is harder to justify for social-only cleanup covered by Premium.

Enterprise Platform has custom pricing, billed yearly or monthly, for workforce privacy, compliance archiving, SSO/SAML, broker removal, scheduled deletions and exposed-data monitoring. Projects uses project-based pricing for social cleanup, executive reputation protection, incident response, privacy audits and content archiving. Redact Managed has custom pricing billed yearly for brand-page management, monitoring and reporting, custom retention policies and SLA guarantees. These offerings target organizational or project needs rather than an individual choosing a consumer cleanup plan.

Platforms

Redact runs on Android, iOS, Linux, macOS and Windows. The supported services include social, messaging, professional and productivity platforms, although the actions and content types available differ by service.

Who it's for

Redact is best for people who want to review and clear old activity across several accounts, especially when recurring deletion or professional-platform support matters. Its filtering and previews help make bulk selection more deliberate. It is a poor fit for anyone who needs guaranteed immediate deletion, uniform service coverage, or a way to recover removed posts.

Pros and cons

Pros: Filters and previews give users control over the material targeted for cleanup.

Pros: Premium includes unlimited deletion and scheduled runs, while Ultimate raises the per-platform account allowance to five.

Pros: Social and messaging credentials and content pass directly between device and service rather than through Redact.

Cons: Free coverage is limited to recent Twitter/X, Discord and Facebook content, plus Reddit anonymization.

Cons: Platform rate limits can slow work, integrations can pause after platform changes, and supported content types vary.

Cons: Deleted content cannot be restored, and outside copies remain beyond Redact's control.

Alternatives

For a service centered on data-broker removal rather than account-content cleanup, compare the Data Removal Services directory.

VALT Data Broker Removal is another freemium option with Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, extension and web platforms; its free plan focuses on dVPN protection, ad-supported secure browsing, a seven-day activity lookback, connected apps and data widgets.

Kanary has a free mobile app and automated removal tool, while its $9.99 a month Professional plan adds managed scans and more support. Choose it when those removal-service features matter more than Redact's bulk social-content controls.

Optery offers free quarterly exposure reports, self-service removal tools and standard email support on Free Basic, with Core starting at $3.99 a month. It is a relevant alternative for readers focused on exposure reports and removal tools.

DataRemoval.ca has a free tier with one user, three removals and one report per month; its Basic plan is $3.74 a year (billed $44.91 billed yearly) and covers one user, 150+ core sites and monthly re-scans. Consider it when those site-removal and re-scan terms suit the task.

DuckDuckGo Personal Information Removal has no free plan, but offers a free trial; its Plus monthly plan costs $9.99 a month for one person and one device, and is U.S.-only. It may fit a U.S. user seeking a single-person service rather than multi-account content cleanup.

OneRep offers an Individual plan at $8.33 a month for one person, 317 people-search sites, monthly scans and data-breach monitoring, as well as a Family plan. It is an alternative when people-search-site coverage and breach monitoring are the priority.

Privacy Bee is another option for readers comparing privacy services.

Soryx is another freemium alternative.

Verdict

Choose Redact if you want controlled bulk cleanup across social and other accounts, with previews and recurring deletion on paid plans. Its strongest case is the combination of broad service coverage and selection controls; look elsewhere if your main need is data-broker removal or if you expect deletion to be immediate, uniform or reversible.