For lawyers, immigration consultants and accountants
PiBye swaps names, IDs and addresses for tokens on your Mac. You approve the copy, your AI works on it, and PiBye puts the real names back.
See it work on your own documents before you pay.
Free to try: your first 10 documents · then $99 CAD once, with 12 months of updates
1.0.2 · macOS 14.8.5 or later · Apple Silicon · 1.1 GB
Signed and notarized by Apple · Install steps
The problem
AI can summarize, draft and cross-check in minutes. But pasting a client file into an assistant hands a cloud provider your client’s name, address and ID numbers.
So you either skip the speed-up or take a risk you would rather not. PiBye gives you the speed-up without the exposure: the AI gets a reviewed copy with identities swapped out, and you get the real names back in the finished work.
1 · Your original, on your Mac
Prepare a project summary for Amelia Rousseau.
2 · The copy your AI sees
Prepare a project summary for [PERSON_001].
3 · The finished work, names restored
Project summary for Amelia Rousseau.
How it works
Redact locally
Drop in a PDF, Word file, scan or text file. PiBye finds names, ID numbers, addresses and more, and swaps them for tokens like [PERSON_001], all on your Mac.
Review and approve
See every replacement in context. Approve, edit or keep each one. Nothing is shared until you approve the copy.
Work with your AI, names restored
Your assistant works on the approved copy. When its draft comes back, PiBye puts the real names back in, in a separate file.
Real PiBye screens with fictional sample data.
Who it’s for
Summarize a file, draft a letter or review a contract with AI, without client names in the chat.
Work through applications and narratives with UCI, passport and IRCC file numbers replaced.
Draft client letters and check statements with names, SINs and addresses swapped out.
Anyone else who handles confidential client documents will find it useful too.
What you get
PDF, Word (DOCX), text files and scanned PDFs, read with on-device OCR.
Claude Desktop and the ChatGPT desktop app read the approved copies you choose through a local connection. Or paste the copy into any assistant.
Bring the AI’s finished document home and PiBye restores the real names into a separate file.
Approve, edit or keep every replacement. Nothing is shared until you say so.
Turn completed forms into static copies you can send clients to check.
Detection and OCR are built in. No account, no page limits, no PiBye cloud.
Also included · Lock PDF
Lock PDF prints every answer into the page and removes the fillable fields, so clients can check their answers without changing or clearing anything. Drop in one form or a whole file; your fillable originals stay untouched.
It works on forms that only show “Please wait…” outside Adobe Reader, including many Canadian immigration forms, and it all runs on your Mac.
How Lock PDF worksProof
We measure PiBye in the open, including what it misses.
These are tests on public documents and synthetic forms, not on yours, so you review every copy before it is shared. Read the full test record
Pricing
See it work on your own documents before you pay. No account, no subscription.
Free to try
$0first 10 documents
Requires a Mac with Apple Silicon.
PiBye licence
$99CAD, one-time
The licence arrives by email. How the free trial works
A document counts once, when PiBye first prepares it. Already-prepared documents, saved matters, Restore and Lock PDF are never blocked. The count stays on your Mac.
Plain and honest
FAQ
Straight answers on where files go, what you approve, and how names come back.
Download PiBye and use it. Your first 10 documents are free, with everything switched on: redact, review, restore, Lock PDF and the Claude Desktop and ChatGPT desktop app connections. A document counts once, when PiBye first prepares it. There is no account, no card and no time limit, and free users still receive updates.
When you go to prepare an 11th document, PiBye asks you to buy a licence: $99 CAD one-time, which unlocks unlimited documents and includes twelve months of updates. Nothing you already have is taken away: documents you have already prepared, your saved matters, Restore and Lock PDF are never blocked.
No. Your original documents never leave your Mac: PiBye prepares and restores them locally and has no cloud relay. Anything you choose to share with an assistant has already been redacted and reviewed by you. When you enable the optional local connection to Claude Desktop or the ChatGPT desktop app, that assistant can read the approved Markdown Documents you select and submit generated Markdown for review. Your AI provider processes whatever you share with it, remotely.
Yes. Each item can be approved, edited or kept. Required items must be resolved before you explicitly approve the final copy. A document with no detected items still needs your approval.
Against real documents and planted identifiers, and the results are published. The first battery ran 50,119 real public documents; independent checks found 84,037 identifiers and 24 were still readable after redaction; all 24 are counted and published, and they are number-shaped values from court filings. A second battery on harder material (completed forms, handwriting, French and Spanish) is still running and is not finished. Neither battery proves your document is clean: review every approved copy before sharing it.
Two ways. Copy the approved text into any AI chat, or connect Claude Desktop or the ChatGPT desktop app locally so they can read the approved copies you select. The connection runs on your Mac with no PiBye cloud relay, and the key to the real names never leaves your Mac. Your AI provider still processes what you share, which is the case with names and identifiers already replaced.
Open the same Document, choose the approved copy you shared, and drop the returned file into Restore. Review found and missing stand-ins, resolve any differences, then approve the final restoration. PiBye saves a separate restored file in the private Vault and preserves supported new text.
Yes. Lock PDF is built for sending completed forms to clients for review. It saves a static copy of each filled-in PDF form with every answer printed into the page and the fillable fields removed, so the client can check the answers but cannot retype, clear or reset them. The copy is saved beside the original as “(static).pdf”, and the original is not changed.
No. PiBye's local processing and review controls are product behavior, not a certification or a guarantee that a particular use meets your professional obligations.
Nothing breaks. PiBye keeps working, with unlimited documents, exactly as before. You simply stop receiving new versions until you choose to renew for $39 CAD, which adds another twelve months of updates.
