PDWN means Personal Data Watch & Neutralize.
A local-first desktop app to detect personal data and technical secrets before they become incidents.
Personal data and secrets often leak through normal workflows: downloads, exports, attachments, and temporary files. PDWN helps you catch these files early by scanning locally, scoring risk clearly, and showing why a file is flagged.
- Local scanning of watched folders and downloaded files
- Detection for PII, IDs, financial data, and technical secrets
- Risk scoring with explainable findings
- Locale-aware and custom YAML detection types
- No mandatory cloud dependency for core usage
- Analysis runs on your machine
- Revealed sensitive values are not persisted in reports
- You keep control over what gets scanned and how findings are handled
- Desktop shell: Tauri 2 + Rust
- Frontend: Vite + TypeScript
- i18n: i18next
- Quality: Biome, cargo fmt, clippy, Rust tests
- Bun
- Rust toolchain (stable)
- Tauri system dependencies for your OS
bun install
bun tauri devbun tauri build# Full quality gate (TS + formatting + i18n + Rust)
bun run check
# Integration dataset consistency
bun run test:integration
# Refresh dataset then run integration test
bun run test:integration:refreshCI validates:
- Type checking, linting, and formatting
- Rust fmt, clippy, and test suite
- Security scans and dependency auditing
If you want to contribute, start here:
PDWN is licensed under AGPL-3.0-only.
- Full license text: LICENSE