Patch — Your Security Center

Patch scans the email addresses and passwords already on your device against known breach data. It then sorts the results by how much they matter. On the free tier you get one email check and one password check a month. Paid plans remove that limit. Nothing about your passwords is uploaded, which matters because it means a leak on your end can't expose the very credentials you're trying to protect.

The "Is this real?" tool lets you paste a message, email, or photo and get a read on whether it's a scam. It checks the sender domain, the wording, and the links. Then it tells you not to click and to go to the site directly instead. This is the feature most people reach for when something feels off but they aren't sure why, and it's the one you'll probably open more than any other.

Data brokers collect your name, address, and phone number and sell them on. Patch finds the sites listing your details and walks you through getting removed. That's the tedious part most people never finish on their own, because each broker wants a different form, a different email, and sometimes a mailed request. Paid plans include this guidance.

A credit freeze is one of the strongest ways to block someone from opening accounts in your name. Doing it across all four bureaus is fiddly. Patch walks you through each bureau step by step so you can lock your credit without hunting through four separate websites.

Patch helps you turn on stronger sign-in, including passkeys and two-factor authentication, account by account. It gives you the steps for each service rather than a generic "enable 2FA" nudge. That's where a lot of people give up, since every bank, email provider, and store seems to bury the toggle in a slightly different menu.

The advisor runs on Claude, Anthropic's AI assistant, and answers questions like whether a password really needs changing or what a credit freeze actually does. It sees only the tab you're on and the question you ask, not your passwords or account list. According to Patch, anything you send isn't used to train an AI model, and that promise comes from Anthropic's terms rather than Patch's own wording. Your plan sets how many questions you get each month.

One subscription covers both apps and keeps them in sync. What you fix on your Mac shows up on your phone. It's meant to cover your desk and your pocket without you managing two separate setups, which is the kind of thing you stop noticing only when it's missing.