DAMA vs Snapdraft
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DAMA
Automatically detect and mask private information like faces, IDs, and text in your screenshots and photos. Offers various masking tools and a full-screen watermark for documents, all processed on your device for maximum privacy.
- Automatic detection of faces, IDs, and text
- Multiple masking tools (blur, pixelate, hide text)
- Full-screen watermark for documents
- On-device processing for privacy
- EXIF data stripping on share
- Manual text and rectangle masking
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DAMA hides the private information in your screenshots and photos — automatically, and without ever uploading them. All detection runs on your iPhone, even in airplane mode. Point it at a screenshot and it finds the faces, ID numbers, phone numbers, emails, QR codes and chat avatars on its own, then masks them in a single tap. Sending a copy of an ID or a contract? Lay a repeating watermark across the whole image so it can’t be reused anywhere else. # Detected Automatically - Phone numbers and email addresses - Faces, QR codes and barcodes - Chat avatars and nicknames - ID numbers, card numbers, tracking numbers and other long digits - License plates and IP addresses - Names, places and organizations (experimental) Tap any text in the image to mask that whole line. Or drag across the photo to mask any rectangle you like. # Masking Tools Color bar, pixelate, blur, marker and emoji — plus a unique “Hide Text” tool that erases text completely when the background is near-solid, so the result doesn’t even look redacted. # Full-Screen Watermark for Documents Sending a scan of your ID card, passport, driver’s license or diploma? A watermark tiled across the entire image makes the copy useless to anyone else. Type your own text — “For visa application only”, a name, a date — then adjust the size, color, opacity, angle and spacing until it reads clearly without covering what matters. Your settings are remembered for the next document. Like everything else in DAMA, this happens entirely on your iPhone — the scan never leaves the device. # EXIF Stripped on Share When you share from DAMA, the GPS coordinates, camera model and the rest of the EXIF/TIFF data are removed automatically. # Why We Built It We share screenshots and photos every day, and hiding the private parts by hand is slow and leaves the image ugly. DAMA does it in a tap and keeps the picture looking like a picture. # Privacy Policy Thanks to CoreML and the Vision framework, every detection runs on your device. DAMA never uploads your images, and works fully offline.
Snapdraft
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About to post a screenshot? Snapdraft finds the private details in it — phone numbers, emails, addresses, card and account numbers, API keys, faces and QR codes — and blurs them before anyone else sees them. It all happens on your iPhone, iPad or Mac. Nothing is uploaded. Pick a screenshot, paste one, drop one in, or open one from Files. Apple's Vision framework reads it on the device, and a second later the sensitive parts are already blurred. Tap a blur to remove a false positive, drag across anything it missed, long-press a face to change its cover. Then Copy, Share or Save — the redacted image comes out at its original size, ready to paste into Slack, Messages, Linear or an email. Want it to look like a designed post instead? Switch to Post mode, which wraps the screenshot in an iPhone frame on one of six backgrounds. ON IPAD The screenshot gets the screen and the controls sit in a column beside it, in any orientation, full screen, in Split View or in Stage Manager. Open images from Files, drag the redacted result straight into the app next to it, and use keyboard shortcuts for save, copy, new and undo. ON THE MAC A real Mac app, not a scaled-up iPhone screen. Paste a screenshot with ⌘V, open one from Finder or Photos, and save the redacted copy where you choose with ⌘S. The commands live in the menu bar, and you can drag the result straight into Slack or Mail. One purchase covers iPhone, iPad and Mac. WHY NOT JUST USE MARKUP? Markup is fine for one obvious thing. The trouble is the second thing: the phone number in the signature, the email in the header, the face in the corner of the group chat. Snapdraft looks for all of them at once, so you are checking its work instead of hunting yourself. And its blur is a real Gaussian blur baked into the pixels of the saved image, not a shape on top. WHAT IT FINDS • Phone numbers, emails, street addresses • Card numbers and account numbers • API keys and tokens — Stripe, AWS, OpenAI, GitHub, Slack, Google, JWTs, private-key headers and Bearer tokens • Names of people, places and companies, and links • Faces, including small ones in group photos • QR codes and barcodes WHAT YOU CAN DO • Tap a blur to remove it; drag to add one; undo any change • Cover faces with a blur circle or an emoji — sunglasses, disguise, see-no-evil or dotted-line — and change any single face with a long-press • Pinch to zoom, and draw precise blurs while zoomed in • Copy, Share or Save to Photos as a full-resolution PNG • Post mode: iPhone frame, six backgrounds, three padding presets, status bar on or off, fit or fill SHORTCUTS The "Redact Image" action runs the same detection without opening the app and hands back the redacted image. Add it to a shortcut with "Show in Share Sheet" turned on and Snapdraft appears in every app's share sheet. FREE, WITH ONE OPTIONAL UNLOCK Every feature is free and unlimited: every detection, every face cover, every background, both save modes. Saved images carry a small "snapdraft.suprun.ca" mark in the corner. A one-time purchase removes it — that is the only thing it does, and there is no subscription. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no ads, no tracking, no analytics SDKs, and no server for your screenshots to go to. Snapdraft is made by one developer, and the app works in airplane mode. GOOD FOR • Developers posting screenshots with keys and customer data in them • Support teams sharing a user's screen in a ticket • Designers showing client work without the client's names • Anyone about to send a group-chat screenshot to someone who wasn't in the chat Questions or a missed detection? support@suprun.ca
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Verdict
DAMA and Snapdraft are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. DAMA sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Snapdraft sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
DAMA ships an update every 5 days, Snapdraft every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DAMA | Snapdraft |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (183 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 79.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 183 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Early Moon, LLC | Vadym Suprun |
Bugs and requests
DAMA
Reported bugs
10 issues- Pro status frequently disappears
- Cannot access all photos on iOS 17
- Auto-redaction preview differs from final edited photo
- Redemption code purchase restore fails
- Sharing button unresponsive
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- Cannot exit editing page after sharing
- Watermark appears even after purchasing Pro/lifetime membership
- QR code detection failure
- Cannot redact non-AI detected text/QR codes
- Cannot precisely choose text to redact
Requested features
13 requests- Improve manual selection precision
- Add freehand/brush selection mode
- Implement undo/redo functionality
- Add image cropping feature
- Add multi-color option for redaction
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- Improve long image support
- Add watermark feature
- Add Mac version
- Improve automatic recognition for specific apps (e.g., WeChat screenshots)
- Add pixelate brush stroke feature
- Add rotate block function
- Add copyright symbol and various font types for watermarks
- Integrate with screenshot interface or share extension
Snapdraft
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
DAMA
- Pro Version$4.99
Snapdraft
- Snapdraft Pro$1.99









