Black Highlighter User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience47.6% of reviews
Neutral28.6% of reviews
Negative experience23.8% of reviews

~ Based on 21 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Black Highlighter Safe?

Black Highlighter: Redact Text appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Black Highlighter is 85/100.

This assessment is based on 90 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.4/5.

Safety Analysis

80.0% of ratings point to a safe experience
11.1% of ratings suggest some concerns
8.9% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 90 App Store ratings for Black Highlighter.

Is Black Highlighter Legit?

Black Highlighter: Redact Text appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Black Highlighter is 90/100.

Based on 90 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

So handy, exactly what I need!

A nice simple tool that does the job perfectly. Thank you for simplifying hiding my [redacted].

This is SO COOL!

This is so intelligent. I used photos of text not even PDFs and it was able to detect the text in the IMAGE and black it out. Pure magic. It's also a beautiful app so I just enjoy using it. Love this

Fast and easy redaction

Great for quickly covering sensitive information and PII. Also good for focusing attention on what you want people to see.

Response from developer

Glad to hear you enjoy it! 🖤

Good app with some missing features

Apart from occasional crashes, the app works well. However, I’m missing the following features:

1) Import of PDF files
2) Automatic blackening of all automatically recognized text fields (even better: with an option to manually exclude some text fields) with one click

I hope, these features will come up one day :)
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Works perfectly

It picks up all text and really easy to use

Note for developers

It’s been great but I’m not able to report an issue, the app is crashing as soon as I select a photo

Black Screen

Screen turns into black when used inside the Photos app.

Response from developer

I'm sorry to hear that. I've been trying to track down this issue for quite a while, but haven't been able to run into it myself! Does this happen with every photo for you?

Abruptly quits

App abruptly quits for some photos or screenshots, please fix

Can only add 1 auto detect word - fixed

App is really neat, but after getting the extension, I am only able to add a single word. Would also love to see pdf support and would happily pay extra for it.

Edit: thanks for fixing the single word issue, and for fixing it so quickly. Found another one: the settings button doesn’t show up unless you grant access to photos, not sure if intentional, but nothing major. Bumped up to 5*.
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Response from developer

Bah! Looks like I accidentally deleted the “add new word” button when I redid the settings section a few releases ago. I’ll get that fixed up ASAP. Thanks for the heads up!

Rating

Pretty good

Response from developer

Hey, I’ll take “pretty good”! Anything I could do to make it “really good?” Feel free to email me at hello@cocoatype.com if you’ve got any ideas, bug reports, questions, etc.

Fantasic Privacy Utility

I often need to share redacted images of text with clients or employees, and Black Highlighter works like a dream for this - the snap to text feature makes everything clean and professional and I don't need to worry about exposing confidential information.

Doesn’t work

I can’t redact anything

Keeps blacking out the whole document.

It would be great if it would actually save my document. Go through all the effort to fix everything and then it just blacks out the whole page when it saves it.

Response from developer

Oh no! I've heard of this happening before, but I haven't been able to recreate it myself. Can you e-mail me at hello@cocoatype.com with any info you have to help track this down? Additionally, you can contact me using the "Contact the Developer" item in the Settings menu by tapping the gear icon.

Great and handy tool

Only used for the function of blackout/highlighting documents and seems quite effective as it can lock onto text keeping things very neat. Quick and easy to use! Nice work :)

Response from developer

Thanks for the compliment! Let me know if there’s anything I can do to make it even better. 🖤

Crashing

Trying to use it. Love it, but, it just keeps CRASHING

Crashes non-stop on iOS 13

UPDATE:
This appears to only happen with certain photos. On the photos where it works, it does a really good job. The app will show a shimmer animation over the text and will easily censor that text when you swipe over it. However, there are a couple photos which appear to cause the app to run out of memory and crash the app.

ORIGINAL REVIEW:
This app doesn’t work on iOS 13. It crashes if I invoke it from the photo album and it hangs when I use the app directly.

Do not buy until they fix it.
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Response from developer

Hey there! App developer here. I’m aware of the issue where the app crashes often when launched from the photo album. Unfortunately, it’s a technical issue I can’t do much to work around. I’m considering dropping the feature altogether since it’s a bad experience. The latest version introduced a different editing experience that should work more reliably, but it’s less straightforward to get to: 1. Select a photo in Photos 2. Tap “Edit” in the top right 3. Tap the three dots button in the top right 4. Select Highlighter in the list that appears As for the hanging issue, I’m not familiar with it. If you have more information about it, can you share it with me at hello@cocoatype.com? I can also add you to our beta program to check out possible fixes if you’re interested. Thanks! Geoff

Awesome!

It does what it claims to do. What differentiates it from just using “markup” in the photos app is the magic highlighter, which is awesome. Thanks!

Did not work as expected

Can only use in photos.. I thought is was usable in other apps.. did not work on pdf it email forwarding...

Response from developer

I'm sorry for the bad experience you had. While Black Highlighter does work from within other apps, it only supports images (such as photos and screenshots), not PDFs. I'd like to support PDFs in the future, but it's significantly more difficult to get right than simple images. However, I think I have a workaround for you that might work well enough for your needs, using the iOS Shortcuts support built into Black Highlighter. Can you contact me at hello@cocoatype.com, and I'll work with you to help figure out if there's a solution to not being able to work with PDFs directly. Thanks! —Geoff

Slight issue

The app is great but needs to refresh and recognize all photos.

Response from developer

Hello! I know it's been a few months since you left your review, but I'm happy to say that Black Highlighter now does what you've asked for and recognizes *all* images in your photo library, both screenshots and photos alike. I'd love it if you took the time to check it out again. Thanks! —Geoff

Garbage

App doesn’t give you access to all of your photos.

Response from developer

Hello! I know it's been a while since you left your review, but I'm happy to say that Black Highlighter now does what you've asked for and recognizes *all* images in your photo library, both screenshots and photos alike. I'd love it if you took the time to check it out again. Thanks! —Geoff