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 commercial work) | Per user, per year. Contact sales for the number. |
| Licence | One-time perpetual. Your installed version keeps working offline. Pro needs a renewal for its paid features on versions released after 12 months. | Annual subscription, on top of a Nitro PDF plan |
| Account required | No | Nitro account required |
| Proof of removal | Separate re-check of the saved output, plus a sealed report a recipient can check in the free Omitly desktop app | Preview and confidence thresholds. No such report found on Nitro’s pages. |
| 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 on Standard and Plus, and the Enterprise tier lists 5,000+ documents with unlimited seats. Check Nitro’s current page.
Compare Omitly with 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 document quota on either tier.
Proof, not a promise
Omitly removes the data from the file, runs a separate check by its own engine and records what that check could confirm, then seals the report, except on Password-protect. A recipient with the free Omitly desktop app can confirm the file is unchanged since it was sealed and read the recorded result, without having to take your word for it. The seal shows integrity, not who sealed the file, and Omitly’s verifier is not yet published for independent review.
Pay once
A$149 once for Personal, A$649 once for Pro. Both tiers use the same removal and verification engine; Pro’s certificate carries no personal-use mark and may be used in commercial 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 account. For a lawyer's or firm's work, Omitly Pro is A$649 once per person, and its certificate carries no personal-use mark. A firm buys one seat per person. Personal is A$149 once for personal, non-commercial use only, and its certificate carries a personal-use mark. Whether Pro's certificate is suitable for a particular court or regulator is for you and your lawyer. Both tiers use the same removal and verification engine; folder batch, Bates and signing are Pro. No document quota on either tier.
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, unless you connect your own AI to propose them. Everything you mark is removed and re-checked by Omitly's engine.
What does “verified” mean?
After the data is removed from the file, Omitly runs a separate check over each redacted region and records the result and its limits. DocInfo and XMP metadata are removed by default. The result is a sealed report, unless you choose Password-protect. A recipient can use the free Verify in the Omitly desktop app to confirm the file is unchanged since it was sealed and read the recorded result, without having to take your word for it. The seal shows integrity, not who sealed the file, and Omitly’s verifier is not yet published for independent review.
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.
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