Obscure vs Instarchive
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
Instarchive
Easily archive all your photos and videos in one place. This app prioritizes your privacy with on-device processing and offline functionality, ensuring your memories are secure and accessible without an internet connection.
- Archive all photos and videos
- On-device processing
- Offline functionality
- Privacy focused
- Secure storage
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With the Instarchive app, you can archive all photos and videos. Photo & Video Archive • Archive all types of photos and videos. Privacy & Security • All features are processed on-device. • Everything is designed to work offline.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Instarchive at Free against Obscure's $2.99. Instarchive also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). Obscure's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 3.8) and ads (none vs shown). On ratings volume, in-app purchases 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
Instarchive is free to download; Obscure costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Obscure holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 30 and 21 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Obscure's written reviews are positive against 47% of Instarchive's.
Obscure ships an update every 2 months, Instarchive fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Obscure | Instarchive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (30 ratings) — better | 3.8 (21 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better | 47.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 30 — better | 21 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Best chart rank | #197 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 93 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Swift Fox Software LLC | GI JUNG MOON |
Customer experience
Obscure
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In-app purchases
Obscure
No in-app purchases
Instarchive
No in-app purchases
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