Black Highlighter vs Blur Text
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Black Highlighter
Easily hide sensitive information in photos and screenshots. The Magic Highlighter automatically detects text and covers it perfectly, ensuring no details are missed. Advanced features allow for automatic redaction of specific information and custom shortcuts for streamlined workflows.
- Magic Highlighter for automatic text detection
- Multiple color options for redaction
- Import images from Photos
- Ultra Highlighter for sensitive info detection
- Customizable word redaction
- Shortcut automation
- Document scanner
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Share your images, not your secrets. Black Highlighter makes it ridiculously easy to hide sensitive information in your photos and screenshots. Just swipe over text with the Magic Highlighter, and it automatically snaps to cover everything perfectly—no more frantic scribbling or worrying if you missed a spot. Make redaction feel like magic. The Magic Highlighter automatically detects and snaps to text, making it easy to hide exactly what you want—nothing more, nothing less. Use multiple colors to match different backgrounds or indicate multiple speakers. Easily import images from Photos and share them immediately when you're done. Available for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, so you can redact no matter where you are. Work smarter, not harder. Want even more power? Ultra Highlighter unlocks automatic detection of sensitive information like names, addresses, and phone numbers. You can also add your own set of words to always redact automatically. Create custom Shortcuts to automate your redactions by automatically hiding personal details in screenshots instead of doing each one by hand. Use the document scanner to import and redact paper files using the power of the Magic Highlighter. Black Highlighter is provided under a standard EULA. Learn more at https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Blur Text
Easily obscure sensitive information in photos, screenshots, and PDFs. Offers a variety of markup tools like blur, redaction, and highlighting for efficient privacy protection. Supports offline use and HD quality exports.
- Multiple markup tools (blur, redaction, mosaic)
- Supports images, photos, screenshots, PDFs
- Edit directly from photo library or Files app
- Scan documents within the app
- Customizable markup colors
- HD quality export and sharing
- Offline support
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FEATURES: - Multiple markup tools: Choose from a variety of editing options, including blur, redaction, mosaic, highlight, underline, strikethrough, blend, and pixelation. - Perfect for images, photos, screenshots, PDFs, and documents. - Open and edit documents directly from your photo library or Files app, or easily add new ones by scanning them in the app. - Obscure, censor, hide, or mask sensitive information in your files. - Automatically detects background colors for seamless text erasing. - Easily customize markup colors to match your style. - Export and share images in HD quality. - User-friendly and intuitive, making text editing simple and efficient. - Fast and effective tools for all your text markup needs. - Zoom in for precise annotation and editing. Blur text, redact and censor images, screenshots, and PDFs. Hide sensitive information, censor private data, and protect your privacy in seconds. 100% private, with no accounts, no tracking, and offline support. CONTACT: contact@blurtext.com Links for more info: - Terms of Use: https://www.blurtext.com/#terms-of-use - Privacy policy: https://www.blurtext.com/#privacy-policy - Link for more info: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT202039
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Black Highlighter at 54% against Blur Text's 20%. Black Highlighter also leads on ratings volume (93 vs 3). Blur Text's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months) and rating (4.7 vs 4.4). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Black Highlighter sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Blur Text sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Blur Text holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Black Highlighter has 93 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 54% of Black Highlighter's written reviews are positive against 20% of Blur Text's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Black Highlighter ships an update every 2 months, Blur Text every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Black Highlighter | Blur Text |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (93 ratings) | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.2% of reviews — better | 20.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 93 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cocoatype, LLC | Stanislav Cekunov |
Customer experience
Black Highlighter
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In-app purchases
Black Highlighter
- Monthly$0.991 Month
- Annual14 Days trial$4.991 Year
- One-Time$19.99
Blur Text
- Monthly$1.991 Month
- Yearly$4.991 Year
- Lifetime$7.99







