You’re about to paste a screenshot into the team channel. The error message is useful. The account number at the top is not.
The move here is redaction, and hypershot does it before the image ever leaves your computer. Press X for the Redact tool, drag across whatever you don’t want a stranger’s eyes on, and it’s obscured on the spot. There is no “upload it and let the server hide it” step, because hypershot has no server in the loop at all. The pixels you blur are never sent anywhere — they just stop being readable on your own screen.
Three ways to hide it
The tool gives you three effects, and the difference between them is a decision about how much you trust:
- Pixelate — the mosaic you’ve seen a thousand times. Familiar. Reads as “we censored this.”
- Blur — a soft Gaussian wash. Less harsh, good for de-emphasizing something rather than nuking it.
- Secure — a solid block of color. Nothing underneath survives. If the data is genuinely sensitive, this is the one.
Here’s the part most tools won’t tell you: blur and pixelation are obscuring, not destroying. A determined person with a determined afternoon can sometimes reconstruct content underneath a blur. If you would not want a forensic artist to read it, use Secure. We say this out loud on purpose, because a privacy tool that pretends a blur is a lock is doing you a disservice.
What actually needs to go
A short list, in the order it bites people:
- Account numbers and card numbers
- Names sitting in the corner of a dashboard
- Private URLs and internal hostnames
- Email addresses
- Anything with a person’s face, if you didn’t mean to capture them
Drag, drop the block, move on. You can dial the effect intensity from barely-there to fully buried, and you can lay down as many redaction blocks as the image has secrets.
Why the privacy part matters more than it looks
Because hypershot runs on-device and has no account, there is no “original” copy of that screenshot sitting on some cloud somewhere — unredacted, waiting for the right credentials to be guessed. The file you send is the file you edited. That’s the whole architecture: the image lives on your machine, you decide what gets hidden, and then it goes where you tell it to go. A message, a file, a paste.
Send it when you’re ready. The embarrassing number stays where it belongs. With you.