Comparison

Obscure vs Sensitivity

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Obscure

Easily redact sensitive information from your photos before sharing. This app uses AI to automatically detect and obscure faces, text, and personal details, or allows for manual editing. Protect your privacy by blurring or blocking out private portions of images for safe social media sharing.

Highlights
  • Automatic face, text, and info detection
  • Manual redaction editor
  • One-touch email and phone number hiding
  • Batch editing for multiple images
  • Shortcuts integration for automation
  • Blur, pixelate, or block sensitive areas
Features
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Safely and securely share your photos! Obscure lets you quickly blur, pixellate or block out private portions of your images so that they are safe to share on any social platform. - Automatically detect & obscure faces, text, & personal info with advanced on-device AI - Redact all text from an image - Manually obfuscate any part of a picture with the easy to use editor - Find & hide email addresses and phone numbers with one touch - Edit multiple images in batches using the batch editor - Shortcuts action allows for easy redaction automation Just import an image, tap and drag over sensitive parts of the image then tap share. Use two fingers to pan and zoom to redact fine details. Works great for sharing screenshots! Obfuscate faces, license plates, and brand labels. Easily redact private parts of document images that you want to share. Redacted images can then be shared to any other app on your phone, or just save them back to your photo library. Obscure also works with Shortcuts, allowing you to easily setup an automated image processing pipeline. Long press the app icon to get quick shortcuts to your last taken image, the camera, or to paste an image you copied. Obscure is a one time purchase, no ads and no subscriptions! Privacy Policy: https://obscure.app/privacy Terms: https://obscure.app/terms

About

Sensitivity

This app helps you find and delete explicit or sensitive photos and videos from your device. It performs all scanning locally, ensuring your media never leaves your phone. Review results in a secure, locked gallery before deleting unwanted content.

Highlights
  • On-device explicit content scanning
  • Protected gallery for results
  • One-tap deletion of unwanted media
  • Offline operation
  • Privacy-focused design
  • No account required
Features
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Privately check your Photos library for explicit or sensitive photos and videos. Analysis runs on your iPhone or iPad, and your media is never uploaded. Review locked results and delete only what you select. Photo scanning is included; video scanning is a one-time purchase. No account is required. Detection is not perfect. Review every result before deleting.

Screenshots

Obscure4 screens
Sensitivity4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Sensitivity at Free against Obscure's $2.99. Sensitivity also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 80%). Obscure's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On rating, ratings volume, ads and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Sensitivity is free to download; Obscure costs $2.99 up front. Sensitivity sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Obscure asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Obscure against 4.8 for Sensitivity. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 30 and 12 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of Obscure's written reviews are positive against 100% of Sensitivity's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Obscure ships an update every 2 months, Sensitivity weekly. The most recent releases landed on August 31, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Obscure versus Sensitivity: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterObscureSensitivity
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (30 ratings)4.8 (12 ratings)
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings30 — better12
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB27 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperSwift Fox Software LLCDmytro Polianskyi

Customer experience

Obscure

All ratings30 ratings
Positive96.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.3%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative10.0%

Sensitivity

All ratings12 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral8.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Obscure

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Sensitivity

One-time1
  • Video Scanning Lifetime$9.99

Questions

Is Obscure free?
Obscure costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sensitivity free?
Sensitivity is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Obscure or Sensitivity?
Obscure and Sensitivity are both rated 4.8 out of 5 on the App Store, from 30 and 12 ratings respectively.
Do Obscure or Sensitivity have ads?
Neither Obscure nor Sensitivity shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Obscure or Sensitivity?
Obscure ships an update every 2 months, and Sensitivity weekly. Most recently, Obscure was updated on August 31, 2026 and Sensitivity on September 18, 2026.

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