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✦ Introduced in VaultSort 4.4.0🔒 On-device · Zero network calls<br>Find what should be locked. Lock it.<br>Guardian scans the folders you choose for identity documents, financial records, credentials, and medical files — entirely on your Mac.<br>Nothing is ever uploaded.<br>Loading...See how it works ↓<br>Free update for existing users · New to VaultSort? $24.99 one-time, no subscription
Read-only<br>Never moves or changes files
Network calls during a scan
In-memory<br>Report never touches disk
Redacted<br>Evidence shown, never in full
Every “AI file organizer” that wants to understand your files does it by uploading them.<br>For exactly the files Guardian looks for, that's self-defeating — you'd be handing your tax returns to a cloud API to find out they're exposed. Guardian runs entirely on your Mac instead.
🚫<br>Zero uploads, zero network calls<br>The analysis happens on-device, including reading text inside images. Nothing about your files leaves your Mac during a scan.
👁️<br>Read-only by design<br>Guardian never moves, changes, or deletes anything on its own. It reports what it finds — you decide what happens next.
🧠<br>Nothing is stored<br>The report lives only in memory. Guardian doesn’t create a persistent map of your sensitive files on disk.
✦ Knows what sensitive looks likeFour kinds of files Guardian watches for.<br>A detected number pattern, a filename that says what it is, or on-device AI reading the content — Guardian looks for the files that shouldn't be sitting out in the open.
🛂<br>Identity documents<br>Passports, driver’s licenses, Social Security cards — scans and photos of the documents that prove who you are.
💳<br>Financial & payment details<br>Bank statements, tax returns, card numbers — anything that describes or accesses your money.
🔑<br>Credentials & keys<br>Password exports, recovery codes, SSH and API keys — the files that unlock everything else.
🩺<br>Medical & legal records<br>Medical records, prescriptions, contracts, legal filings — documents that are nobody else’s business.
Copy we stand behind: Guardian flags files that likely hold sensitive information — never “finds all sensitive files.” A strong first pass, not a guarantee.
Find it. Review it. Lock it.<br>From “I had no idea that was there” to locked, in about a minute.
01<br>Choose folders<br>Point Guardian at Desktop, Downloads, Documents — any folders you want reviewed. You decide the scope.
02<br>Scan on-device<br>Guardian reads file contents and metadata locally, ranks findings by severity, and flags any sitting in a cloud-synced folder.
03<br>Encrypt in one click<br>Select the findings you care about and hand them straight to Encrypt. Confirm with Touch ID or your YubiKey — done.
🔒 Privacy architectureYour files never leave your Mac.<br>An app that finds your most sensitive files must never be a way for them to leak. There is no Guardian backend — we couldn't hand over what it finds even if asked, because it never leaves your machine to begin with.<br>Read-onlyOn-device OCRNo API keyNo accountIn-memory report
Also shipped alongside Guardian<br>Guardian was the headline of VaultSort 4.4.0. Here's what else came with it.
Smart Categorize reads images now<br>Turn on OCR to sort screenshots and photos by the text inside them — recognition runs fully on-device.
Smarter photo handling<br>Images group by kind and get named from what’s actually in them, plus a new Videos group.
Redesigned Rule Builder<br>Cleaner panels, plain-language rule summaries, live validation, keyboard shortcuts.
Content search in scheduled jobs<br>Rules that match on file contents can now run automatically on a schedule or on watched folders.
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Frequently asked questions<br>Everything you need to know before running Guardian on your Mac.
Does Guardian upload my files anywhere?+<br>Does Guardian move, change, or delete my files?+<br>Where is the scan report stored?+<br>How does Guardian decide what’s sensitive?+<br>What does "redacted evidence" mean?+<br>What’s the cloud-sync warning about?+<br>What happens when I click Encrypt on a finding?+<br>Will Guardian find every sensitive file on my Mac?+<br>Is Guardian a separate purchase?+
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Find out what's sitting exposed on your Mac.<br>Read-only scan. Zero network calls. The report never touches disk. Your files never leave your Mac — that's the whole point.<br>Loading...Read the announcement →
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