Editable File vs DeArrow for YouTube
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Editable File
Easily edit images and PDF files with a variety of tools. Redact sensitive information, add text, draw, or crop. Import and export files from cloud storage and your photo library.
- Redact sensitive information
- Add Bates numbering to PDFs
- Draw and add text overlays
- Crop images
- Import/export from cloud storage
- Undo/redo changes
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Editable File allows you effortlessly edit images and PDF files. You can import or export images and pdf files from different sources: - Dropbox - iCloud Drive - Google Drive - photo library - camera You can redact images in different ways: - add bates numbering to pdf files - draw content on top of your image - hide sensitive information by adding overlays - type text on top of your image - draw lines - crop part of an image - undo/redo changes
DeArrow for YouTube
This browser extension helps you avoid clickbait on YouTube by allowing users to submit and vote on better titles and thumbnails. It offers customizable title formatting and random thumbnail selection, ensuring a more accurate and less sensational viewing experience.
- Crowdsourced titles and thumbnails
- Customizable title formatting
- Random thumbnail selection
- Avoids clickbait and sensationalism
- Supports third-party YouTube front-ends
- Configurable options
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DeArrow is a browser extension for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube. The goal of DeArrow is to make titles accurate and reduce sensationalism. Titles can be any arbitrary text. Thumbnails are screenshots from specific timestamps in the video. These are user submitted and voted on. By default, if there are no submissions, it will format the original title to the user-specified format, and set a screenshot from a random timestamp as the thumbnail. This can be configured in the options to disable formatting, or show the original thumbnail by default. If the original thumbnail is actually good, you can still vote for it in the submission menu, and then it will act like a submission. No more dealing with clickbait, arrows, or annoying faces. Users can submit better titles and thumbnails for each video and vote on them. How does DeArrow differ from Clickbait Remover for YouTube? - Unlike Clickbait Remover, DeArrow's main purpose is for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails - When a crowdsourced title is not available, DeArrow will auto-format it according to your setting, but does it in a more sophisticated way than Clickbait Remover. Instead of only setting all words to lower case, or capitalizing every word, DeArrow supports casing systems such as "Title Case" and "Sentence case". These will still allow acronyms and proper names to remain capitalized. - When a crowdsourced thumbnail is not available, DeArrow by default shows a screenshot at a random timestamp in the video. Clickbait Remover's thumbnails use YouTube auto-generated thumbnails, and while they are seemingly random, they are chosen by a machine learning algorithm to favor faces with expressions, and other overstimulating features. DeArrow uses truly random timestamps generated by its own server. DeArrow will also check the SponsorBlock database to ensure the randomized thumbnail is not inside of a sponsor segment. --- Source code: https://github.com/ajayyy/DeArrow Permissions: Access your data for youtube.com, www.youtube-nocookie.com: - Used to modify the YouTube webpage This add-on may also **ask*" to access data for any website: - You can add your own instances of 3rd party YouTube front-ends, and it will ask for permission to modify each site you add - It will never ask for permission for all sites, only the sites you request - Invidious support is not finished at the moment
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: DeArrow for YouTube at 83% against Editable File's 13%. DeArrow for YouTube also leads on ratings volume (18 vs 1) and chart position (#107 vs unranked). Editable File's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.4) and price ($0.49 vs $1.99). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Editable File costs $0.49 and DeArrow for YouTube $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Editable File holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DeArrow for YouTube has 18 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 13% of Editable File's written reviews are positive against 83% of DeArrow for YouTube's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Editable File ships an update monthly, DeArrow for YouTube every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Editable File | DeArrow for YouTube |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.49 — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.4 (18 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 12.5% of reviews | 82.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 18 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #107 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexandr Peancovschi | Ajay Ramachandran |
Customer experience
Editable File
DeArrow for YouTube
In-app purchases
Editable File
No in-app purchases
DeArrow for YouTube
No in-app purchases
Questions
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