Quick Notes Board vs ShadowClip
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
Quick Notes Board
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Jot down a thought, record a voice memo, or save a link from another app. Quick Notes Board keeps them together in an offline notepad you can open right from your Home Screen. β’ Write it down. Start a text note from the Home Screen widget, make a checklist, or pick up an unfinished draft where you left off. β’ Talk it through. Pause and resume voice recordings as you think. When you listen back, skip 15 seconds in either direction or play a memo at up to 2Γ speed. β’ Save what you find. Use the share sheet to collect a passage or web link while youβre reading. You can also turn copied text into a note when you open the app. β’ Find it again. Search for a word you remember, filter by tag or category, or tap a date on the calendar to see what you wrote or recorded that day. Pin the notes you reach for most. Your notes and recordings are stored on your device. No account is required. Export a backup that includes your recordings and drafts, or recover a note from Recently Deleted. Save up to five notes for free. Upgrade to Unlimited Access to remove the note limit.
ShadowClip
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You share screenshots with colleagues and paste them into AI tools every day. ShadowClip removes the personal data before you hit send. Email addresses in a complaint. Names and faces. API keys. They end up in screenshots constantly, and then in places they shouldn't β AI assistants, emails to colleagues, or texts to friends. ShadowClip autodetects sensitive information in images, and lets you review and adjust before sharing. WHAT IT DETECTS β’ Credentials: API keys and tokens in more than 20 formats β’ Financial: credit card numbers and IBANs, each checked against its own check digit, so a number that merely looks like a card isn't flagged β’ Identity: national ID numbers for 29 countries, each matched to its own format β’ Contact: email addresses, phone numbers, postal addresses β’ Network: IPv4, IPv6 and MAC addresses β’ Visual: faces, QR codes, barcodes β’ Names, organisations and locations β’ Dates of birth and handwritten signatures BUILT INTO YOUR WORKFLOW Pick a photo from your library and give ShadowClip a few seconds. Findings appear as a review list: accept, dismiss, or add your own. Then save the redacted copy back to Photos. You can also select words by hand, or draw a region over anything else you want hidden. Share Extension: from Photos, Safari, or any app with the system Share menu, choose ShadowClip. Redact and save without leaving what you're doing. BUILT FOR EVERY LANGUAGE Most redaction tools are built for English. ShadowClip's interface is available in 17 languages, and it checks text in 30 β including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Russian and Thai. National ID numbers are matched country by country, not with one generic pattern. Arabic and Hebrew get a fully right-to-left interface. Apple's text recognition cannot read Hebrew, Greek or Hindi. Rather than pass over it silently, ShadowClip marks that text on the image so you can see exactly what went unchecked β and numbers, email addresses and ID numbers inside it are still found. SHADOWCLIP PRO One purchase for the Mac and iPhone apps, shared with your family. No subscription. β’ Batch redaction: up to 20 images reviewed side by side and saved together β’ Redact everywhere: redact something once and it's found in every image of the batch β’ Always-redact list: names, clients and codenames you add are redacted in every image β’ Shortcuts actions: redact images automatically from the Shortcuts app β’ Export options: PNG, JPEG or HEIC, with or without "-redacted" in the name Redacting one image at a time, with every detector and the review, stays free. IRREVERSIBLE BY DESIGN Redactions are opaque fills composited into a new image. The original pixels are discarded, not covered: there is nothing underneath to recover. Location data and camera metadata are stripped when you save. PRIVACY BY DESIGN ShadowClip contains no networking code and makes no network requests. Your images are processed on your device and never leave it. No accounts, no cloud, no telemetry.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: ShadowClip at none against Quick Notes Board's shown. ShadowClip also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Quick Notes Board sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and ShadowClip sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Quick Notes Board ships an update every 3 months, ShadowClip every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Quick Notes Board | ShadowClip |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks β better |
| Ads | Yes | No β better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Mac β better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 β better |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ζηΏ ζ | Alexander Hepburn |
In-app purchases
Quick Notes Board
- Unlimited Notes$0.99
ShadowClip
- ShadowClip Pro$4.99
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