Nitro Smart Redact alternative · no upload · no document quota
Redact on your own machine. Prove it, don’t promise it.
Nitro Smart Redact sends every document to Nitro’s cloud workspace and counts it against a yearly quota. Omitly redacts on your computer, checks that nothing survived, and signs the report. A$149 once for personal use, A$649 once for practice work. No account, no quota.
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Omitly vs Nitro Smart Redact
The short version: your document stays on your machine, there is no yearly document count, and every redaction comes with proof. Where Nitro is ahead, we say so.
| Omitly | Nitro Smart Redact | |
|---|---|---|
| Where your document is processed | On your computer. Nothing is uploaded. | Nitro Workspace in the cloud, in a “temporary session” |
| Documents per year | Unlimited | 250 (Standard), 500 (Plus), 5,000+ (Enterprise) |
| Price | A$149 once (Personal: certificate carries a personal-use mark) · A$649 once (Pro: unmarked certificate for client, court and regulator work) | Per user, per year. Contact sales for the number. |
| Licence | One-time perpetual. Keeps working offline, forever. | Annual subscription, on top of a Nitro PDF plan |
| Account required | No | Nitro account required |
| Proof of removal | Independent verification pass plus a signed audit report anyone can check | Preview and confidence scores. No independent check, no report. |
| Finds Australian identifiers automatically | TFN, ABN, ACN, Medicare, IHI, CRN, BSB, cards, emails, phone numbers | TFN, ABN, ACN, plus 30+ general categories |
| Finds names and addresses automatically | Not yet. You mark them up, and every removal is still verified. | Yes, with NLP. Nitro is ahead here. |
| OCR of scanned pages | Yes | Yes |
| Works offline or air-gapped | Yes, always | No |
| Platform | macOS & Windows | Web app (Nitro Workspace) |
Nitro facts are from Nitro’s Smart Redact product page, its launch press release and its release notes, checked 14 September 2026. Nitro does not publish a Smart Redact price; quotas are per user per year. Check Nitro’s current page.
Why people choose Omitly over Smart Redact
Your documents never leave your machine
Smart Redact processes every file in Nitro’s cloud workspace. Omitly has no upload path at all: no account, no server, no content telemetry. It works on an air-gapped machine.
No yearly document count
Smart Redact Standard includes 250 documents a year per user. Omitly has no quota. Redact one file or ten thousand; the licence does not care.
Proof, not a promise
Omitly removes the data from the file, runs an independent check that nothing survived, and signs the report. Your client, the court or the regulator can verify it without trusting us.
You own it
A$149 once for Personal, A$649 once for Pro. Both redact and verify the same way; Pro’s certificate is unmarked, so it is the one for client, court and regulator work. No per-seat renewal, no plan on top of a plan, no “contact sales” to learn the price.
Where Smart Redact is ahead
Nitro’s AI finds names, addresses and handwriting in 30-plus categories, in English and Spanish, and it is built for teams that batch thousands of files. If you need that, and you are comfortable with your documents being processed in Nitro’s cloud, Smart Redact is a capable tool. Omitly finds the identifiers that follow a pattern (tax file numbers, Medicare, cards, emails, phones) and leaves names to you, then verifies that whatever you marked is absent from the output.
Frequently asked questions
Is Omitly a Nitro Smart Redact alternative for a solo lawyer or a small firm?
Yes. Smart Redact is sold per user per year with a document quota and a sales conversation. Omitly is a one-time desktop licence with no quota and no account: A$149 for Personal, whose certificate carries a personal-use mark, or A$649 for Pro, whose certificate is unmarked and fit for court or regulatory filing. Both tiers redact and verify identically.
Does Omitly upload my documents like Smart Redact does?
No. Smart Redact processes files in Nitro’s cloud workspace. Omitly has no upload path: the document bytes never leave your computer, and it works on an air-gapped machine.
Does Omitly find names and addresses automatically?
Not today. Omitly automatically finds identifiers that follow a pattern, including Australian tax file numbers, ABN, ACN, Medicare, IHI, Centrelink CRN, BSB, payment cards, emails and phone numbers. Names and addresses you mark yourself. Everything you mark is removed and independently verified.
What does “verified” mean?
After the data is removed from the file, Omitly runs a separate check over every redacted region and confirms nothing survived, including hidden text and metadata. The result is a signed audit report that a third party can verify with Omitly’s free verifier, without trusting us or you.
Can I redact scanned PDFs?
Yes. Omitly includes OCR, so scanned pages are searchable and redactable, and the verification pass re-checks the scanned image after removal.
Does Omitly run on Windows?
Yes. Omitly ships for macOS and Windows, covered by one licence.
Keep your files. Keep the proof.
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