Comparison

Censor This vs Silhouette Editor

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

Head to head
About

Censor This

Easily obscure sensitive details in your photos before sharing. This tool lets you blur or pixelate specific areas with simple finger gestures. Preserve privacy in screenshots or group photos effortlessly.

Highlights
  • Blur or pixelate sensitive areas
  • Adjust censorship intensity
  • Zoom and pan for precision
  • Save censored images without overwriting originals
  • Remove ads and watermarks via in-app purchase
Features
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Censor This makes it easy to hide sensitive information in your photos and videos before you share them. Took a screenshot with private details, an address, an account number, a name? Censor it out. Sharing a group photo but want to protect someone's privacy? Blur their face. Posting a video? Now you can censor that, too. Just blur or pixelate anything you don't want seen. It's that simple. PHOTOS ------ Scrub over any area with your finger to blur or pixelate it, perfect for screenshots, documents, IDs, and faces. Zoom in for precision and adjust the strength to taste. VIDEO (NEW) ----------- Censoring now works on video. Draw a box over what you want to hide and let it follow the subject automatically as they move, or tap Detect Faces to blur everyone in the frame at once. Fine-tune anything by hand with keyframes. Your originals are never changed, and every censored photo and video is kept in the app so you can re-share it anytime. FEATURES -------- - Censor both photos and videos - Blur or pixelate - Adjustable censor strength and brush size - Auto-track a moving subject in video - Automatic face detection - Manual keyframes for precise control - Zoom and pan for accuracy - Non-destructive: your original is never overwritten - A private, in-app library of everything you've censored IN-APP PURCHASE --------------- A single one-time purchase, no subscription, unlocks everything: - Export your videos - Remove the watermark from exported photos - Remove all ads Hide what shouldn't be seen.

About

Silhouette Editor

Features
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■ Use two photos, one for the foreground and one for the background, to create a single photo. ■ Darken the foreground photo to easily create a "silhouette composite photo." ■ Background transparency is fully automatic. Enjoyable and quick photo compositing. ■ To fine-tune the automatic background transparency, you can enlarge the image and edit in detail. ● Foreground recognition function automatically makes only the background of the photo transparent. ● Adjust the brightness of the foreground and background using the brightness graph. ● Leave only the foreground you want to focus on, such as people, pets, cars, buildings, and flowers, and create a silhouette composite with another background. ● Zoom and scroll the image to correct foreground recognition errors and make detailed corrections to transparent parts. ● Zoom, rotate, and edit the position of the foreground and background. ● Copy, save, and share transparent images and composite images. ● Save transparent images to a collection (reusable) [Photo Selection] ・Launch the camera and take a photo. ・Select a photo from the photo album. ・Select a foreground image from a collection. ・Import shared files from other apps. ・Paste photos copied from web images, etc. [Outputs] ・Save to camera roll: Photos ・Share photos: AirDrop, LINE, Facebook, Dropbox, Instagram,...

Screenshots

Censor This4 screens
Silhouette Editor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Censor This at Free against Silhouette Editor's $2.99. Silhouette Editor's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). On update cadence, 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

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Censor This versus Silhouette Editor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCensor ThisSilhouette Editor
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating2.8 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews23.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChady KassoufMasanori Katsuta

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Censor This

One-time1
  • Unlock Full Version$3.99
None

Silhouette Editor

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Censor This free?
Censor This is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Silhouette Editor free?
Silhouette Editor costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Censor This or Silhouette Editor have ads?
Neither Censor This nor Silhouette Editor shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Censor This or Silhouette Editor?
Censor This ships an update every 4 months, and Silhouette Editor every 4 months. Most recently, Censor This was updated on September 22, 2026 and Silhouette Editor on September 14, 2026.

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