Local AI that finds sensitive files on your Mac before attackers do
Guardian, a new feature in VaultSort 4.4.0, scans your Mac locally for sensitive files like identity documents, financial records, credentials, and medical files without any network calls. It provides a read-only, in-memory report, and integrates with Encrypt for one-click encryption. All processing happens on-device, ensuring your data never leaves your machine.
HomeGuardian
✦ Introduced in VaultSort 4.4.0🔒 On-device · Zero network calls
Find what should be locked. Lock it.
Guardian scans the folders you choose for identity documents, financial records, credentials, and medical files — entirely on your Mac.
Nothing is ever uploaded.
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Free update for existing users · New to VaultSort? $24.99 one-time, no subscription
Read-only
Never moves or changes files
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Network calls during a scan
In-memory
Report never touches disk
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Evidence shown, never in full
Every “AI file organizer” that wants to understand your files does it by uploading them.
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.
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Zero uploads, zero network calls
The analysis happens on-device, including reading text inside images. Nothing about your files leaves your Mac during a scan.
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Read-only by design
Guardian never moves, changes, or deletes anything on its own. It reports what it finds — you decide what happens next.
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Nothing is stored
The report lives only in memory. Guardian doesn’t create a persistent map of your sensitive files on disk.
✦ Knows what sensitive looks like
Four kinds of files Guardian watches for.
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.
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Identity documents
Passports, driver’s licenses, Social Security cards — scans and photos of the documents that prove who you are.
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Financial & payment details
Bank statements, tax returns, card numbers — anything that describes or accesses your money.
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Credentials & keys
Password exports, recovery codes, SSH and API keys — the files that unlock everything else.
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Medical & legal records
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.
From “I had no idea that was there” to locked, in about a minute.
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Choose folders
Point Guardian at Desktop, Downloads, Documents — any folders you want reviewed. You decide the scope.
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Scan on-device
Guardian reads file contents and metadata locally, ranks findings by severity, and flags any sitting in a cloud-synced folder.
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Encrypt in one click
Select the findings you care about and hand them straight to Encrypt. Confirm with Touch ID or your YubiKey — done.
🔒 Privacy architecture
Your files never leave your Mac.
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.
Read-onlyOn-device OCRNo API keyNo accountIn-memory report
Also shipped alongside Guardian
Guardian was the headline of VaultSort 4.4.0. Here's what else came with it.
Smart Categorize reads images now
Turn on OCR to sort screenshots and photos by the text inside them — recognition runs fully on-device.
Smarter photo handling
Images group by kind and get named from what’s actually in them, plus a new Videos group.
Redesigned Rule Builder
Cleaner panels, plain-language rule summaries, live validation, keyboard shortcuts.
Content search in scheduled jobs
Rules that match on file contents can now run automatically on a schedule or on watched folders.
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Frequently asked questions
Everything you need to know before running Guardian on your Mac.
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Find out what's sitting exposed on your Mac.
Read-only scan. Zero network calls. The report never touches disk. Your files never leave your Mac — that's the whole point.
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