Text Parser Pro vs Cloakshot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Text Parser Pro
This utility app quickly cleans up text from various sources. It allows you to paste or scan text, including from photos using OCR, and apply powerful transformations before copying it back.
- Fast text editing
- Text cleanup
- Paste text
- Scan text
- OCR from photos
- QR code scanning
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Text Parser is a fast, focused text editor designed for one thing: cleaning up text quickly. Paste or scan text from anywhere, clean it up with powerful transforms, and copy it back; all in seconds. Use your camera to extract text from photos, documents, and QR codes with OCR.
Cloakshot
Easily redact sensitive information from screenshots and photos before sharing. AI-powered suggestions help identify and mask private details like API keys, emails, and personal data. Export a clean copy while preserving the original image.
- AI-powered detection of sensitive data
- Manual redaction tools
- Multiple masking styles (blur, black, fill)
- Preserves original image
- Removes metadata
- Offline functionality
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Redact screenshots and photos before sharing with AI, support, or coworkers. Hide API keys, emails, phone numbers, and other private details while keeping useful context visible. Review suggested matches Cloakshot scans your image on your device and suggests areas to review: • API keys, tokens, JWTs, passwords, private keys, and database URLs • Names, emails, phone numbers, addresses, IDs, and payment details • IP addresses, hostnames, account IDs, project IDs, and local file paths • Faces, QR codes, and barcodes Choose what to hide Turn suggested masks on or off, select a word or individual characters, resize a mask, or add one manually. Choose Gaussian blur, solid black, or surrounding-color fill. Export a separate copy Cloakshot writes the selected masks into a new image file. Your original stays unchanged. You can also remove GPS and selected photo metadata from the exported copy. Before sharing, the main app checks the selected redactions and metadata settings in the exported copy. Automatic detection can miss or misclassify content, so always review the final copy. Images processed on your device • No image uploads • No account required • No ads • Image scanning and mask rendering work offline Use Cloakshot for bug reports, support tickets, AI chats, logs, dashboards, customer messages, social posts, and marketplace photos. 14-day iOS trial, one-time purchase Start a 14-day Safe Export trial after a one-time device check. No account, payment, subscription, or automatic renewal is required. Reinstalling does not restart the trial. When the trial ends, scanning and review remain available. Safe Export requires the separate one-time Cloakshot Pro Lifetime purchase. Starting a trial, purchasing, and restoring purchases require an internet connection. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Text Parser Pro at none against Cloakshot's 1. Cloakshot's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Cloakshot sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Text Parser Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Text Parser Pro against 5.0 for Cloakshot. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Text Parser Pro ships an update fortnightly, Cloakshot every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text Parser Pro | Cloakshot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 160 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kenny Truong | 晨龙 刘 |
Customer experience
Text Parser Pro
Cloakshot
In-app purchases
Text Parser Pro
No in-app purchases
Cloakshot
- Cloakshot Pro$9.99
