Snapdraft vs HideCut
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Snapdraft
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About to post a screenshot? Snapdraft finds the private details in it โ phone numbers, emails, addresses, card and account numbers, API keys, faces and QR codes โ and blurs them before anyone else sees them. It all happens on your iPhone. Nothing is uploaded. Pick a screenshot, paste one, drop one in, or open one from Files. Apple's Vision framework reads it on the device, and a second later the sensitive parts are already blurred. Tap a blur to remove a false positive, drag across anything it missed, long-press a face to change its cover. Then Copy, Share or Save โ the redacted image comes out at its original size, ready to paste into Slack, Messages, Linear or an email. Want it to look like a designed post instead? Switch to Post mode, which wraps the screenshot in an iPhone frame on one of six backgrounds. ON IPAD The screenshot gets the screen and the controls sit in a column beside it, in any orientation, full screen, in Split View or in Stage Manager. Open images from Files, drag the redacted result straight into the app next to it, and use keyboard shortcuts for save, copy, new and undo. WHY NOT JUST USE MARKUP? Markup is fine for one obvious thing. The trouble is the second thing: the phone number in the signature, the email in the header, the face in the corner of the group chat. Snapdraft looks for all of them at once, so you are checking its work instead of hunting yourself. And its blur is a real Gaussian blur baked into the pixels of the saved image, not a shape on top. WHAT IT FINDS โข Phone numbers, emails, street addresses โข Card numbers and account numbers โข API keys and tokens โ Stripe, AWS, OpenAI, GitHub, Slack, Google, JWTs, private-key headers and Bearer tokens โข Names of people, places and companies, and links โข Faces, including small ones in group photos โข QR codes and barcodes WHAT YOU CAN DO โข Tap a blur to remove it; drag to add one; undo any change โข Cover faces with a blur circle or an emoji โ sunglasses, disguise, see-no-evil or dotted-line โ and change any single face with a long-press โข Pinch to zoom, and draw precise blurs while zoomed in โข Copy, Share or Save to Photos as a full-resolution PNG โข Post mode: iPhone frame, six backgrounds, three padding presets, status bar on or off, fit or fill SHORTCUTS The "Redact Image" action runs the same detection without opening the app and hands back the redacted image. Add it to a shortcut with "Show in Share Sheet" turned on and Snapdraft appears in every app's share sheet. FREE, WITH ONE OPTIONAL UNLOCK Every feature is free and unlimited: every detection, every face cover, every background, both save modes. Saved images carry a small "snapdraft.suprun.ca" mark in the corner. A one-time purchase removes it โ that is the only thing it does, and there is no subscription. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no ads, no tracking, no analytics SDKs, and no server for your screenshots to go to. Snapdraft is made by one developer, and the app works in airplane mode. GOOD FOR โข Developers posting screenshots with keys and customer data in them โข Support teams sharing a user's screen in a ticket โข Designers showing client work without the client's names โข Anyone about to send a group-chat screenshot to someone who wasn't in the chat Questions or a missed detection? support@suprun.ca
HideCut
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HideCut is a privacy editor made for chat screenshots. Import screenshots from your photo library or clipboard, hide the parts you do not want to share, then save or send a cleaner image. Main Features - Detect chat message areas to reduce manual selection - Tap or drag to select the conversation content you want to edit - Redact with pixelate, blur, solid color, or mosaic styles - Crop selected messages into a focused share image - Stitch multiple continuous chat screenshots into one long screenshot - Create collage-style exports with background, spacing, separators, and device frames - Remove EXIF and location metadata when exporting images Long Screenshots and Collages When a conversation is split across multiple screenshots, HideCut helps turn them into one more readable long image. You can hide sensitive details first, then stitch and arrange the screenshots for sharing. Privacy by Design HideCut does not require an account and does not upload your chat screenshots, recognition results, crop areas, redaction edits, collage layouts, or exported images to HideCut servers. Recognition, privacy scanning, redaction, cropping, stitching, and exporting happen on your device. Useful For - Hiding names, addresses, amounts, and other sensitive details before sharing chats - Cropping key parts of a conversation into a clean image - Turning multiple chat screenshots into a long screenshot or collage - Checking and covering private details before posting screenshots online Automatic detection and stitching can be affected by screenshot clarity, fonts, backgrounds, languages, and overlapping scroll areas. Please review your image before sharing and manually adjust selected areas when needed.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: HideCut at daily against Snapdraft's every 3 days. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Snapdraft sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and HideCut sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Snapdraft ships an update every 3 days, HideCut daily. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Snapdraft | HideCut |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Daily โ better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad โ better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Vadym Suprun | ้ผไธ ้ |
In-app purchases
Snapdraft
- Snapdraft Pro$1.99
HideCut
- HideCut Pro$1.99









