# ShadowClip: Redact Screenshots — Covers API keys, cards & faces

> Covers API keys, cards & faces (iPhone/iPad app by Alexander Hepburn.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/shadowclip-redact-screenshots/id6769406635 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Alexander Hepburn](https://appshunter.io/developer/1896655483)
- Category: Utilities, Developer Tools
- Price: Free with in-app purchases (on sale, was $3.99)
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 6 MB
- Languages: American English, Arabic, Dutch, French (France), German (Germany), Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay and 7 more
- Released: 2026-07-03
- Data updated: 2026-11-13

## What is ShadowClip?

You share screenshots with colleagues and paste them into AI tools every day. ShadowClip removes the personal data before you hit send.

Email addresses in a complaint. Names and faces. API keys. They end up in screenshots constantly, and then in places they shouldn't — AI assistants, emails to colleagues, or texts to friends. ShadowClip autodetects sensitive information in images, and lets you review and adjust before sharing.

WHAT IT DETECTS

• Credentials: API keys and tokens in more than 20 formats
• Financial: credit card numbers and IBANs, each checked against its own check digit, so a number that merely looks like a card isn't flagged
• Identity: national ID numbers for 29 countries, each matched to its own format
• Contact: email addresses, phone numbers, postal addresses
• Network: IPv4, IPv6 and MAC addresses
• Visual: faces, QR codes, barcodes
• Names, organisations and locations
• Dates of birth and handwritten signatures

BUILT INTO YOUR WORKFLOW

Pick a photo from your library and give ShadowClip a few seconds. Findings appear as a review list: accept, dismiss, or add your own. Then save the redacted copy back to Photos.

You can also select words by hand, or draw a region over anything else you want hidden.

Share Extension: from Photos, Safari, or any app with the system Share menu, choose ShadowClip. Redact and save without leaving what you're doing.

BUILT FOR EVERY LANGUAGE

Most redaction tools are built for English. ShadowClip's interface is available in 17 languages, and it checks text in 30 — including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Russian and Thai. National ID numbers are matched country by country, not with one generic pattern. Arabic and Hebrew get a fully right-to-left interface.

Apple's text recognition cannot read Hebrew, Greek or Hindi. Rather than pass over it silently, ShadowClip marks that text on the image so you can see exactly what went unchecked — and numbers, email addresses and ID numbers inside it are still found.

SHADOWCLIP PRO

One purchase for the Mac and iPhone apps, shared with your family. No subscription.

• Batch redaction: up to 20 images reviewed side by side and saved together
• Redact everywhere: redact something once and it's found in every image of the batch
• Always-redact list: names, clients and codenames you add are redacted in every image
• Shortcuts actions: redact images automatically from the Shortcuts app
• Export options: PNG, JPEG or HEIC, with or without "-redacted" in the name

Redacting one image at a time, with every detector and the review, stays free.

IRREVERSIBLE BY DESIGN

Redactions are opaque fills composited into a new image. The original pixels are discarded, not covered: there is nothing underneath to recover. Location data and camera metadata are stripped when you save.

PRIVACY BY DESIGN

ShadowClip contains no networking code and makes no network requests. Your images are processed on your device and never leave it. No accounts, no cloud, no telemetry.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| ShadowClip Pro | $7.99 | one-time |


## Is ShadowClip safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess ShadowClip.

## Is ShadowClip legit?

ShadowClip: Redact Screenshots has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for ShadowClip is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.4.1 — 2026-11-11

Card details are covered more completely, and form labels are no longer mistaken for values.

• A card's security code (CVC, CVV) is now covered along with the card number
• A card number printed in widely spaced digits is now found as one card, so its expiry date and security code are covered too
• A label beside a value, such as "Email" or "Address", is no longer covered with the value or taken for it
• In a row of labels such as Name, Expires and CVC, each label is now paired with the value under it
• QR codes and faces are still found when another part of image recognition fails to load

Everything still runs on your device. Nothing is uploaded.

### 1.4.0 — 2026-11-04

ShadowClip Pro grows: Redact everywhere, an always-redact list, export options and a Shortcuts action. Hebrew pages are marked more carefully.

• New in ShadowClip Pro: Redact everywhere. In a batch, redact something once and the same text is offered in the other images; one tap covers it in all of them
• New in ShadowClip Pro: an always-redact list (Settings > Detection). Names, clients and codenames you add are redacted wherever they appear: in the app, the share extension and Shortcuts
• New in ShadowClip Pro: export options (Settings > General). Save as PNG, JPEG or HEIC, and keep the original file name or add "-redacted"
• New in ShadowClip Pro: a "Redact Images" action for the Shortcuts app. It redacts what is certain, with no review
• ShadowClip Pro is one purchase for the Mac and iPhone apps, shared with your family. Redacting one image at a time stays free
• Hebrew text next to a number or email address is now marked as unread rather than passed over; the number or address beside it is still found
• A name is boxed as the name, not its whole line, and a form's "Token" label is no longer suggested as one
• Opening new files while a batch is under review asks before the review is discarded

Everything still runs on your device. Nothing is uploaded.

### 1.3.0 — 2026-11-02

Redact several images at once, open photos straight from Photos, and scan faster.

• New: Batch Redaction, with ShadowClip Pro (a one-time purchase). Review up to 20 images together, move between them, and save them all at once. Each image is checked exactly as a single one is. Redacting one image at a time stays free
• Drag photos straight from the Photos app. Portrait photos now open the right way up
• A file with several pages asks before only its first page is used, and a file that can't be opened says why
• Faster scans: each image is now read once instead of twice
• Suggestions to review are framed in orange, so they stand out from the text around them
• Fixes for pasting with ⌘V on the Mac, the image jumping while it is scanned, and retrying a failed scan
• The Regional IDs list is gone: ID numbers from every supported country are still found automatically

Everything still runs on your device. Nothing is uploaded.

### 1.2.0 — 2026-10-19

Simpler settings, a quieter look, and a fix for saving from the Share Extension on iPhone.

• Detection settings are now one switch for each kind of data. Anything uncertain is still flagged for you to review
• If you had switched off single items, the groups they belong to are switched back on. Check Settings › Detection
• A quieter look, with redactions previewed as the solid black they are saved as
• iPhone and iPad: saving from the Share Extension now opens the share sheet, so the image can go to Photos or Files. Before, it was not saved
• The Share Extension and Quick Action now follow your Regional IDs and language settings

Everything still runs on your device. Nothing is uploaded.

### 1.1.0 — 2026-09-21

ShadowClip now speaks your language, and knows what it can't read.

• The app is available in 17 languages, including Arabic and Hebrew with a fully right-to-left layout
• Text in 30 languages is checked, including national ID numbers for 29 countries, each matched to its own format and check digit where it has one
• Text in scripts Apple's recognition can't read, such as Hebrew, Greek and Hindi, is now marked on the image for you to check — numbers, emails and IDs inside it are still found
• A value you redact once is found everywhere else it appears in the image
• Blur and pixelate modes removed: solid fill is the only redaction style, and its output cannot be recovered
• Card expiry dates are redacted with their card; table columns are recognised by their headers (macOS 26)
• Many accuracy fixes for right-to-left text

Everything still runs on your device. Nothing is uploaded.

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