What’s New

Version 4.0.0

Version 4.0.0 is here, now with support for iPhone and iPad. Inspect files in depth and remove sensitive metadata directly on your mobile device.

New Features

Enhanced inspection of legacy Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents to detect more hidden text, tracked changes, hidden text boxes, and obscured content.

Expanded archive inspection and embedded file extraction, with broader support for RAR and 7z files.

Expanded privacy cleanup for PDF, Office, and image metadata, as well as source URLs and Finder comments.

Improvements

Improved file format identification to detect mismatches between a file’s actual format and its extension more accurately.

Improved cleanup compatibility with complex PDFs and legacy Office documents.

Streamlined the cleanup and export workflow, showing inspection results for the cleaned copy while always preserving the original file.

Refined selective metadata cleanup to preserve unselected metadata, document content, images, and formatting.

Improved inspection results, detail views, and the multilingual experience.

Fixes

Fixed issues that prevented metadata cleanup in some PDFs.

Addressed incomplete inspections, false positives, and missed hidden content in some Office documents.

Fixed issues with file format identification, image location metadata, and sensitive metadata detection.

Improved stability when processing damaged or incomplete files.

Version 3.6.0

This update improves Excel hidden content detection and makes it easier to review findings and details.

Added sorting to the findings list. Click column headers to sort by check name, detection count, or risk level.

Improved detection of hidden rows, columns, text matching cell backgrounds, and cells with hidden formatting in Excel. Corrected hidden column counts.

Expanded hidden content details to show formulas and cell locations for easier review.

Fixed issues affecting analysis and embedded spreadsheet previews for some Excel files in the App Store version.

Improved reading of file sources, Finder comments, and system metadata on macOS.

Added direct navigation from embedded objects and document properties to their details.

Refined detection status and pass indicators, prevented document properties from being counted again as hidden content risks, and clearly marked incomplete checks.

Improved privacy field summaries and translations. Fixed clipped metadata text and incorrect display of special characters in details.

Version 3.5.2

Improved file format detection for more app packages and developer archives.

Clearer, more consistent analysis results.

Bug fixes and usability improvements.

Version 3.5.0

This update improves hidden content detection and makes inspection results clearer.

Detection & Analysis

Improved detection of hidden and background-matching text in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint—including concealed AI prompts—with fewer false positives and missed findings caused by themes, backgrounds, and text styles.

Enhanced detection of transparent, zero-size, and background-matching text in PDFs, with improved attachment and annotation detection.

Improved actual file format recognition for files with incorrect or disguised extensions, plus better detection of nested archives and executables inside archives.

Expanded image privacy checks to cover PNG text metadata, such as author and description fields, alongside trailing data and EXIF and GPS metadata.

Experience & Improvements

Aligned counts and risk assessments across the overview, file list, and details, with clearer explanations when analysis is limited.

Refined translations and tooltips, and fixed display issues after switching languages.

Fixed an issue where the Hex preview could show results from a previously selected file when switching files quickly, improving stability.

Version 3.3.9

This update focuses on faster multi-file inspection, more accurate privacy risk assessment, and improved embedded object handling.

New Features

Automatically analyze multiple imported files in the background and view each file’s risk status, hidden content, embedded object, and metadata counts directly in the file list.

Added clear risk indicators for Format Spoofing, Hidden Content Exposure, Embedded Object Exposure, and Metadata Privacy Exposure.

Added a dedicated control for collapsing and expanding the file properties panel.

Privacy and Risk Detection

Refined metadata privacy detection to identify fields that may expose identity, organization, location, time, or tracking information.

Files containing privacy-sensitive metadata are no longer simply marked as Safe and now receive an appropriate low-risk notice.

Separated privacy-sensitive fields from removable metadata, reducing false warnings for technical information such as application names and camera models while retaining cleanup support.

Optimizations and Improvements

Improved embedded Excel workbook handling by automatically restoring hidden workbook windows, increasing the reliability of previewing, opening, and exporting XLSX and legacy XLS files.

Enhanced legacy Excel object detection and ensured exported workbooks use the correct .xls extension.

Improved risk label layouts across different window sizes and languages to reduce unnecessary text truncation.

Refined file list icons, status presentation, multi-file switching, and background analysis responsiveness.

Improved interface text across English, French, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.

Version 3.3.5

Fixed permission errors that could occur when saving cleaned copies of PDFs and other files to certain folders.

Fixed an issue where some embedded Excel files could not be opened after export. Both modern and legacy Excel formats are supported.

Improved the cleanup and export process for better reliability and compatibility.

Recent Updates

Added PDF privacy cleanup to remove document properties and other private information while safely exporting a new copy without modifying the original file.

Improved metadata detection, privacy cleanup, and embedded content recognition for legacy Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files.

Enhanced embedded content previews with support for Office documents, PDFs, images, archives, and more.

Improved detection accuracy for encrypted archives, encrypted documents, and many common file formats, reducing false positives.

Added one-click rechecking after cleanup and export to confirm that private information was successfully removed.

Improved tab layouts, file path and source information, dark mode, full-screen display, and prompts.

Fixed multiple stability issues and known bugs.

Version 3.3.0

This major update adds embedded object detection and privacy cleanup for PDFs and legacy Office documents, while improving file format detection and the overall user experience:

Added privacy cleanup for PDFs, allowing you to remove document properties and other private information while safely exporting a new copy without modifying the original file.

Improved metadata detection, privacy cleanup, and embedded content identification for legacy Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files.

Enhanced embedded content previews with support for Office documents, PDFs, images, archives, and more.

Improved detection accuracy for encrypted archives, protected documents, and many common file formats, reducing false positives.

Added one-click reinspection after exporting a cleaned copy, making it easy to confirm that private information has been removed.

Refined tab layouts, file path and source information, Dark Mode, full-screen display, and tooltip presentation.

Fixed several stability issues and known problems.

Version 3.2.1

Added detection for hidden data fields in Office documents: identify risks stemming from hidden fonts, white-colored text, and Excel cells with content matching background color across Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Fully display all hidden text contents extracted from Word files.

Optimized multilingual support for detection items and descriptions under hidden data analysis module.

Fixed default application scanning error triggered by language switching.

Version 3.2.0

This major update adds a one-click function to remove sensitive metadata from Office documents and images, and enhances the capabilities for detecting and exporting the actual formats of embedded objects in documents.

New Features

One-click removal of private and sensitive metadata from Office documents and images, with cleaned files saved as new copies. It deletes privacy fields such as author, company, edit history, shooting time, GPS location and camera parameters, ideal for external sharing, submission and compliance archiving.

Greatly improved in-depth format detection for hidden embedded objects in documents. For multi-layered nested content including OLE objects and archives, the program can accurately identify the actual format level by level and export the corresponding embedded files.

Added format recognition for certificate files (PEM/CER/CRT). It also detects and recovers certificates accidentally embedded within files.

Optimizations & Improvements

Optimized the UI logic of risk tabs and quantity statistics for a cleaner and more consistent interface.

Fixed known issues and improved overall performance.

Version 3.1.5

Optimized file extended attributes and source information

Fixed format detection logic for PRC files

Fixed known bugs

Version 3.1.0

Added support for media attributes of audio, video, images, and other system extended attributes. You can now view more file system and extended attributes in the Metadata tab.

Adjusted the mapping logic for real file format extensions of database files. The app now validates the actual file format without enforcing specific extensions, avoiding confusion.

Fixed other minor known issues and improved performance.

Version 3.0.1

Initial release.