Redactify vs Redactly
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Redactify
Safeguard your privacy by automatically removing sensitive information from documents. This tool can redact names, faces, and financial data from PDFs, images, and text files, all while working offline. Keep your confidential data secure before sharing or using AI tools.
- Automatic information removal
- Offline functionality
- Redacts names, faces, emails, bank data
- Supports PDFs, images, and text files
- Privacy protection for AI uploads
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Protect your privacy with Redactify! Automatically and offline remove confidential information like names, faces, email addresses, bank account data, and more from PDFs, images, and text files. Keep your data safe before uploading to AI tools.
Redactly
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Need to black out an account number, address or signature in a PDF before you share it? Redactly lets you draw redaction boxes and exports a new PDF where that content is actually removed — not just covered up. Open a PDF, drag to draw black boxes over anything private, page by page, and tap Apply Redaction. Then share the redacted copy or save it to Files. • TRUE REMOVAL — every page with a redaction box is flattened into an image with solid black over your boxes, so the hidden text can't be selected, copied, searched or uncovered by deleting a shape. • DRAW WITH A FINGER — drag to draw a box over text, numbers, photos or signatures; touch and hold a box to remove it, or clear a whole page and start again. • ALL YOUR PAGES — move between pages with the page strip and redact as many pages as you need, up to 300 pages per PDF. • OTHER PAGES STAY SHARP — pages without boxes are copied as they are, so their text stays crisp and selectable, and their links and bookmarks are kept. • NO HIDDEN LEFTOVERS — comments and form annotations are not copied back onto redacted pages — a redacted page carries only what you see on it. • SHARE OR SAVE — send the redacted PDF by Mail or Messages, or save it to Files. Your original file isn't changed. Honest scope: you choose what to redact — Redactly doesn't search for or detect sensitive text automatically, so check every page. Redacted pages become images, so their remaining text is no longer selectable. Password-protected PDFs need to be unlocked first. Everything happens on your iPhone. Your documents are not uploaded and no account is needed. Redacting and previewing are free: check every redacted page before you pay. A one-time $4.99 purchase unlocks saving and sharing the redacted PDF. No subscription, no ads. Questions: overlapmarr@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Redactify at none against Redactly's 1. Redactify also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 4 days) and device support (3 vs 1). Redactly's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.6). On price and ads 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. Redactly sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Redactify asks for nothing beyond the download.
Redactify ships an update daily, Redactly every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Redactify | Redactly |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | estivo GmbH | Jhomar Maravillas |
In-app purchases
Redactify
No in-app purchases
Redactly
- Unlock Unlimited$4.99
