Comparison

LitmusAI vs ShadowClip

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

Head to head
About

LitmusAI

Instantly determine if online content, including text, images, audio, and video, is AI-generated or real. This tool analyzes links from various social media platforms and websites, providing detailed reports and reshare recommendations. All analysis is performed locally on your device for complete privacy.

Highlights
  • AI content detection for links
  • Website and image scanning
  • Video deep analysis (visual, audio, text)
  • Share safety recommendations
  • AI text and voice detection
  • Counterfeit currency check
  • On-device processing for privacy
Features
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LitmusAI is the litmus test for AI. Paste any link — social media post, website, video — and instantly know if the content is AI-generated or real. All analysis runs on your device. Nothing is uploaded. Ever. PASTE ANY LINK — AI OR REAL Drop a URL from Instagram, TikTok, X (Twitter), YouTube, Facebook, Reddit, LinkedIn, Threads, Snapchat, Pinterest, Bluesky, or Mastodon. LitmusAI auto-detects the platform and content type, then tells you if it's AI-generated. AI WEBSITE TESTER Enter any website URL and LitmusAI crawls the page, scanning every image and text block for AI-generated content. Get a detailed element-by-element report with confidence scores, AI content percentage, and image thumbnails. VIDEO DEEP ANALYSIS Three layers of detection for every video file: • Visual frame-by-frame AI classification • Audio track analysis for AI-generated voice • Speech-to-text transcription with AI text pattern detection See individual results for each layer plus a combined verdict. SHARE SAFETY RECOMMENDATIONS Every scan includes a clear reshare recommendation — Safe to Share, Share with Caution, or Not Recommended — so you know before you spread it. IMAGE & PHOTO SCANNING • Paste, pick, or capture any image • Scan your entire photo library in bulk • C2PA watermark detection (DALL-E, Midjourney, Adobe Firefly) • Visual pattern analysis + metadata checks AI TEXT DETECTION Analyze any text for AI writing patterns: sentence uniformity, vocabulary diversity, AI-typical phrases, transition word density, contraction avoidance, and more. AI VOICE DETECTION Record or import audio to detect AI-generated speech using spectral analysis. COUNTERFEIT CURRENCY CHECK Point your camera at a bill to verify security features. 100% PRIVATE — NO CLOUD, NO SERVERS All AI detection runs entirely on your iPhone's Neural Engine using Core ML. Your links, images, audio, and transcripts never leave your device. Zero data collection. Zero tracking. No account required. LITMUSAI PRO Start with 20 free scans. Upgrade to Pro for unlimited access to all features. Privacy policy: https://litmusai.app/privacy Terms: https://litmusai.app/terms

About

ShadowClip

Features
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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 — 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 • Credentials: API keys and tokens in more than 20 formats • 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 • Identity: national ID numbers for 29 countries, each matched to its own format • Contact: email addresses, phone numbers, postal addresses • Network: IPv4, IPv6 and MAC addresses • Visual: faces, QR codes, barcodes • Names, organisations and locations • 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 — 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 — and numbers, email addresses and ID numbers inside it are still found. 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.

Screenshots

LitmusAI4 screens
ShadowClip4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ShadowClip at none against LitmusAI's 3. LitmusAI's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months) and price ($2.99 vs $3.99). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

LitmusAI costs $2.99 and ShadowClip $3.99 up front. LitmusAI sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. ShadowClip asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LitmusAI ships an update every 2 days, ShadowClip every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
LitmusAI versus ShadowClip: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLitmusAIShadowClip
Price$2.99 — better$3.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDan SolheimAlexander Hepburn

In-app purchases

3 purchases

LitmusAI

Subscriptions2
  • LitmusAI Pro$1.991 Month
  • LitmusAI Pro$17.991 Year
One-time1
  • LitmusAI Pro Lifetime$49.99
None

ShadowClip

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is LitmusAI free?
LitmusAI costs $2.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is ShadowClip free?
ShadowClip costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do LitmusAI or ShadowClip have ads?
Neither LitmusAI nor ShadowClip shows ads.
Which is updated more often, LitmusAI or ShadowClip?
LitmusAI ships an update every 2 days, and ShadowClip every 2 months. Most recently, LitmusAI was updated on October 11, 2026 and ShadowClip on October 25, 2026.

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