Comparison

ShadowClip vs minimo (video)

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. SHADOWCLIP PRO One purchase for the Mac and iPhone apps, shared with your family. No subscription. • Batch redaction: up to 20 images reviewed side by side and saved together • Redact everywhere: redact something once and it's found in every image of the batch • Always-redact list: names, clients and codenames you add are redacted in every image • Shortcuts actions: redact images automatically from the Shortcuts app • Export options: PNG, JPEG or HEIC, with or without "-redacted" in the name Redacting one image at a time, with every detector and the review, stays free. 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

minimo (video)

Reduce the size of large video files directly on your device. Choose from presets or customize resolution, bitrate, and frame rate. Preview compressed videos before saving or sharing.

Highlights
  • Compress single or batch videos
  • On-device processing
  • Customizable quality settings
  • Preview before saving
  • Save to Photos or share directly
  • Audio removal option
Features
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Make large videos smaller for sharing and saving space. minimo (video) compresses one video or a whole batch directly on your device, without uploading your videos to a server. CHOOSE YOUR BALANCE Use a simple quality preset or fine-tune resolution, bitrate, frame rate, and codec. Keep the audio or remove it. CHECK THE RESULT See estimated file sizes before compression, follow the progress, and compare the original with the compressed video before saving. SAVE AND SHARE Save smaller copies to Photos or share them straight away. Originals stay untouched unless you explicitly choose to delete them. NO CLOUD UPLOADS. NO SUBSCRIPTION. minimo is free and open source. Your videos are processed on your device. Lighter videos. Moments stay.

Screenshots

ShadowClip4 screens
minimo (video)4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: minimo (video) at none against ShadowClip's 1. minimo (video) also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and device support 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

Both are free to download. ShadowClip sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. minimo (video) asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ShadowClip ships an update every 3 weeks, minimo (video) every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
ShadowClip versus minimo (video): the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShadowClipminimo (video)
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.6 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—11 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlexander HepburnGleb Shalimov

In-app purchases

1 purchases

ShadowClip

One-time1
  • ShadowClip Pro$4.99
None

minimo (video)

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ShadowClip free?
ShadowClip is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is minimo (video) free?
minimo (video) is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ShadowClip or minimo (video) have ads?
Neither ShadowClip nor minimo (video) shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ShadowClip or minimo (video)?
ShadowClip ships an update every 3 weeks, and minimo (video) every 4 days. Most recently, ShadowClip was updated on November 5, 2026 and minimo (video) on November 10, 2026.

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