Comparison

Sortes vs ShadowClip

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

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About

Sortes

Features
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A utility for flipping coins, spinning wheels, and rolling dice. Built for the moments when overthinking is getting in the way. THREE TRUSTED TOOLS Coin. Wheel. Dice. No bloat, no gimmicks. FLIP Tap or shake to flip. Heads or tails. Fair every time. WHEEL Add your options, spin, and let chance pick. Perfect for what's for dinner, who drives, whose turn. DICE Roll up to six at once. D6 free. D4, D8, D10, D12, and D20 included with the one-time unlock. HISTORY Every flip, spin, and roll is logged. Scroll back to settle a game or see what chance has said this week. LIFETIME UNLOCK $6.99, once. Unlocks unlimited wheel options, custom dice, and CSV history export. No subscriptions, ever. MADE FOR SMALL DECISIONS Nothing Sortes decides will ever matter much. That's the point.

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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 — 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

Sortes4 screens
ShadowClip4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Sortes at Free against ShadowClip's $2.99. Sortes also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months). ShadowClip's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On ads and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sortes ships an update every 5 days, ShadowClip every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences Ā· 2 level
Sortes versus ShadowClip: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSortesShadowClip
PriceFree — better$2.99
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTheChosenVictor LLCAlexander Hepburn

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Sortes

One-time1
  • Lifetime Pro$6.99
None

ShadowClip

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sortes free?
Sortes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ShadowClip free?
ShadowClip costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sortes or ShadowClip have ads?
Neither Sortes nor ShadowClip shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sortes or ShadowClip?
Sortes ships an update every 5 days, and ShadowClip every 2 months. Most recently, Sortes was updated on October 5, 2026 and ShadowClip on October 19, 2026.

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