Overwrites or resets everything the user can reach, through the device's own controls. Stops simple recovery.
For every computer, phone and drive that leaves your hands
Retire it right.
Keep the proof.
Selling the old laptop, returning leased PCs, recycling the office copier? Answer five questions and get the erase method to aim for, from the U.S. federal guideline NIST SP 800-88r2, with a checklist for that exact device. Then keep a signed Certificate of Sanitization for each one.
- Planner, guide and blank certificate: free
- Ledger Pass: $1.95 a month or $19.50 a year
- No account, no email
The routine
Four stages, the same every time
Whatever the device, retiring it well is the same four moves. The planner fills each one in for your device.
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01
Save
Keep what you need. Copy what you need and prove the copy opens.
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02
Release
Untie accounts and locks. Sign out, turn off Find My and activation locks, release licences and management.
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03
Erase
Run the method. The maker's documented erase, labelled Clear, Purge or Destroy.
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04
Prove
Check it and write it down. Check the result, fill in the certificate, sign it, peel the labels.
Start here
What are you retiring?
Pick one to open the planner with it chosen. Servers and NAS boxes are planned one drive at a time.
The three methods
Clear, Purge, Destroy
NIST SP 800-88r2 (September 2025) sorts every sanitization into three methods, and decides between them by how sensitive the data is and where the device is going, not by what the device is.
Makes recovery infeasible even in a lab, and the device can still be used afterwards.
Recovery is infeasible even in a lab, and the storage can never hold data again.
One overwrite pass is enough where overwriting applies; the old seven-pass "DoD" wipe is obsolete. Drilling a hole is not Destroy. Read the methods, with NIST's own words
The Disposal Ledger
A record for every device, ready when someone asks
NIST says a certificate of sanitization should be completed for each piece of media sanitized. The ledger keeps one record per device or drive with every field of the NIST sample certificate, ticks off the checklist, and prints a one-page certificate to sign.
- Private link, no account, no email address
- Free: 3 records with a printable certificate each
- Ledger Pass: 250 records, batch print, CSV, duplicate a record for a batch of identical laptops
Pricing
Free to plan. Ledger Pass to keep the records.
Prices are final. During the preview nothing is charged and every Pass feature is open to everyone.
Free
$0
- Retirement Planner for every device
- Methods guide and blank certificate
- Disposal Ledger with 3 records
- A printable certificate for each record
Free during preview
Ledger Pass
$1.95 a month
or $19.50 a year (two months free)
- 250 records in one ledger
- Print many certificates at once
- CSV export of the whole ledger
- Duplicate a record for identical devices
- Saved organisation details on new records
Checkout opens when payments are connected. Until then nothing is charged and every Pass feature is open to everyone. Cancel any time; a cancelled Pass runs to the end of the period paid for.
What this site is not
- Not an erasure service. It never touches your device; you run the erase with the maker's own tools.
- Not a certifier. A certificate here is your own record, filled in and signed by you or your staff.
- Not NIST, Microsoft, Apple or Google. It quotes their published guidance and links to it on Sources.
- Not a recycler directory. It does not recommend or take money from any recycler or destruction service.