Version history

0.16.4LatestJuly 15, 2026

Fixed some financial term over redactions.
Fixed a rare case on documents with a diagonal watermark where a redaction could be quietly undone.
The scrollbar on the PDF now behaves like a normal scrollbar. You get the arrow pointer over it and can grab and drag the scroll thumb.
Small polish to how the pointer behaves around the find bar.

0.16.3July 14, 2026

Undo (⌘Z) can now undo every change you've made, all the way back to the beginning of your session, even after saving.
Press ⌘F to find text in your PDF. Great for confirming something actually got redacted.
Fixed a bug where scrolling a redacted PDF could flicker.
Fixed a math bug in the magic auto-redacting feature.
If you saved a redaction report alongside a file, re-editing and saving now updates that report automatically so it always matches the file.
Quitting Cover in the middle of a batch now stops its background work cleanly instead of leaving it running.
After Cover moves itself into your Applications folder on first launch, it now tidies up the leftover copy in Downloads.
Added polish to the menus in Cover.

0.16.2July 12, 2026

Rotated and scanned pages now just work. Cover reads sideways, upside-down, and even mirror-image scans, redacts them correctly, and saves them right-side up.
Lift a redaction to peek and the original text shows correctly, at the right angle.
Cover keeps its automatic updates working even when it wasn't moved into your Applications folder, and offers a one-click fix if updating ever gets stuck.
Cleaner redaction on addresses, including the comma between street and city.
Fixed a flicker where boxes briefly appeared in the wrong spot when switching between documents.
The document list now fills the sidebar instead of stopping short with empty space below.
Sidebar search clears itself when you close it, so your files never stay hidden.
Starting the tour no longer clears the files you already loaded.
Dragging in a stack of PDFs at once now adds all of them.
Fixed a rare crash.

0.16.1July 11, 2026

New interactive tour: how to redact images.
Added crash log reporting to help keep things stable.
Fixed over-redaction on medical reports with labels like "Accession" and "Specimen."

0.16.0July 10, 2026

Cover now recognizes national ID numbers from five more countries: UK National Insurance numbers, France's social-security numbers (NIR), India's PAN, Italy's Codice Fiscale, and Mexico's RFC and CURP.
Enterprise: the redaction certificate now includes a verification summary, confirming the self-checks the file passed before it was saved.
Enterprise: after saving, Cover re-opens the finished file and double-checks the redaction, confirming no recoverable text and no leftover edit history. Acrobat paints the box and hopes; Cover checks its work.
Better name detection on crowded, form-style documents.
If redaction would have wiped out an entire page, Cover restores the original and asks you to review it before that page can be saved.

0.15.2July 7, 2026

Extends an expired build 30 more days.
Fixed over-redaction of dollar amounts on forms.
Fixed a redaction issue with mortgage account numbers.

0.15.1July 6, 2026

In the editor, hovering a redaction now highlights its matching row in the terms list on the right and scrolls it into view, so it's easy to see exactly what each box covers.
Cover now catches international bank account (IBAN) numbers, and reliably redacts government and immigration forms (like the I-485) that could previously refuse to finish.
Phone numbers written with a parenthesized area code, like (415) 555-0172, are now fully covered, and dates of birth get their own labeled entry in the terms list.
Cleaner redactions: stray brackets and punctuation no longer cling to the edge of a blacked-out value.
Polish to the guided tour and the empty editor canvas: the tour's pointer glides instead of jumping, always starts from a clean sample document, and lives under a tidier Help menu.

0.15.0July 5, 2026

New: a guided tour built into Cover. Click "Start the tour" in the left sidebar and Ava walks you through your first redaction in a couple of minutes: hide a word, bring one back, redact a paragraph, lasso a messy block.
The document list on the left is cleaner: your files at the top with a count, and the drop zone to add more PDFs right where you'd look for it.
The redacted-terms list on the right now groups related items, so a name and address fold into one entry and numbers are ordered by sensitivity, making it quicker to review what was removed and flip any of it on or off.

0.14.2July 2, 2026

Cover now finds private info in far more scanned and photographed PDFs, including watermarked scans, garbled-font scans, and pasted-in screenshots. It also reads more inside them, like all-caps names and the account numbers along the bottom of a check.
When you ask Claude Desktop to redact a file, you can now say which folder it's in ("the 1099 in Downloads") and Cover finds it right away.
Redaction covers only what's private: black-and-white scans no longer black out the whole page, sideways pages redact the right spot, and a box no longer stretches across a whole line.
Redaction bars are now fully solid, with no faint see-through on any file.
The redacted-terms list opens on the right by default, so you can review what was removed at a glance.
Clears private text a PDF can hide in its invisible screen-reader layer.

0.14.1June 28, 2026

This release is all engine improvements. Cover now catches more kinds of ID numbers: Medicare, Social Security claim, loan and mortgage, and account, member, invoice, employee, and medical-record numbers.
Now recognizes driver's license numbers even when a form labels them just "Lic." (like a second driver on an insurance page).
Better at catching names and Social Security numbers packed into form fields and tables, such as tax forms.
No longer redacts a company's own address in the letterhead (your bank, hospital, or utility), so your files stay readable.

0.14.0June 25, 2026

Click the arrow next to Save and pick "Save with report." Cover saves a clean redaction certificate beside your PDF (plus a spreadsheet log or court-style index if you want them) that lists what was removed, by type and page, without ever showing the private values. It's the proof a judge, client, or auditor needs that the file was properly redacted.
The right sidebar now lists every redacted term in your document (names, Social Security numbers, addresses, and more), grouped by value. Click any entry to turn its redaction on or off across the whole document at once, so it's quick to review and adjust exactly what's hidden.

0.13.8June 24, 2026

If you installed an earlier version (back when the app was called Bleep or Redact), Cover now fixes its own name in Finder and the Dock automatically, so you won't see the old name lingering after an update.

0.13.7June 23, 2026

The app is now called Cover. It's the same tool with the same one-drop redaction, just under a new name. Opening a file from Shortcuts, Siri, or Spotlight uses the Cover name now too.

0.13.6June 20, 2026

Cover now teams up with Claude Desktop. One click in Settings connects them, so you can hand Claude a document and it works only with a safely redacted copy. Cover does the redacting right here on your Mac, so Claude never sees the private parts.
On first launch, Cover now offers to move itself into your Applications folder. Keeping it there is what lets automatic updates install cleanly, so future updates won't get blocked.

0.13.5June 19, 2026

Image-only PDFs that contain nothing private now open straight into the editor instead of getting stuck on the loading screen.

0.13.4June 16, 2026

Cover now keeps itself up to date. When a new version is ready it arrives on its own, so you never have to download and swap out the app by hand again.
Undo and redo now work while you edit. Press ⌘Z to undo and ⇧⌘Z to redo, so a change you didn't mean to make is easy to take back.

0.13.3June 15, 2026

Catches dates of birth even when a form doesn't label them, including ones written out like "born on March 4, 1985." This strengthens coverage of the federal court-filing privacy rule (Fed. R. Civ. P. 5.2).
Now finds insurance and medical IDs, including policy, member, subscriber, and Medicare numbers.
Catches mailing addresses even when a document spaces the words in unusual ways.
More precise on bills: a placeholder account number no longer pulls unrelated list numbers or section references into a box.

0.13.2June 15, 2026

Fixes a case where documents carrying multilingual language-assistance notices (such as Medicare statements) could fail to produce a redacted copy.
Editor redactions are now verified before saving: the app confirms the text under each box is actually removed, not just covered, and refuses to save if anything survives underneath.
Redacted PDFs from forms open cleanly in strict PDF viewers and tools, instead of triggering missing-object errors.
Batches are sturdier: if one file hits a problem the rest keep going, and a file that fails partway is never left half-finished.

0.13.1June 12, 2026

Cleaner, simpler editor toolbar, and the redacted file's name now shows right at the top so it's always clear what you're saving.
Sharper on tax forms: better at picking the right address fields across different IRS forms (1099s vs. 1040s), so it covers what matters and leaves boilerplate alone.
Redacted PDFs are tidier on the inside, so they open cleanly in any PDF app, viewer, or tool.

0.13.0June 12, 2026

A major under-the-hood rebuild: Cover now runs on its own self-contained PDF engine. It starts faster, takes less space, and stands entirely on its own.

0.12.15June 12, 2026

More thorough on form-based documents: redacted information is fully removed rather than just covered.
Fewer unnecessary redactions over text that isn't actually private.

0.12.14June 11, 2026

Handles more document types well: rotated tables, password-protected and encrypted PDFs, and forms with unusual text layouts.
Now recognizes spelled-out U.S. state names as part of an address.
More reliable across a range of bank and brokerage statements.