Comparison

ShadowClip vs YiKey

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

Head to head
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.

About

YiKey

Features
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YiKey is a Traditional Chinese Zhuyin keyboard built for people who switch between Chinese and English all day. Type in Zhuyin with fast local candidates, translate the text around your cursor, and use Voice Pad to dictate a sentence before sending it back to the keyboard. Key features: - Traditional Chinese Zhuyin input with phrase candidates - Chinese to English and English to Traditional Chinese translation suggestions - Voice Pad for speech-to-text handoff - Translation replacement flow for newly dictated or typed text - Privacy-aware release build that sends translation requests through a configured proxy and does not store a DeepL API key in the app Online translation requires enabling Allow Full Access for the keyboard so iOS permits network requests. You can still use the keyboard without online translation when Full Access is disabled.

Screenshots

ShadowClip4 screens
YiKey3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: YiKey at Free against ShadowClip's $2.99. YiKey also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months). On ads, in-app purchases, device support 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

YiKey is free to download; ShadowClip costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ShadowClip ships an update every 2 months, YiKey every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
ShadowClip versus YiKey: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShadowClipYiKey
Price$2.99Free — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB50 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlexander HepburnChiunluen Meng cao

In-app purchases

None

ShadowClip

No in-app purchases

None

YiKey

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ShadowClip free?
ShadowClip costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is YiKey free?
YiKey is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ShadowClip or YiKey have ads?
Neither ShadowClip nor YiKey shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ShadowClip or YiKey?
ShadowClip ships an update every 2 months, and YiKey every 3 days. Most recently, ShadowClip was updated on October 19, 2026 and YiKey on October 1, 2026.

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