Comparison

ShadowClip vs DNSimple

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

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About

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 โ€” 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 โ€ข Credentials: API keys and tokens in more than 20 formats โ€ข 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 โ€ข Identity: national ID numbers for 29 countries, each matched to its own format โ€ข Contact: email addresses, phone numbers, postal addresses โ€ข Network: IPv4, IPv6 and MAC addresses โ€ข Visual: faces, QR codes, barcodes โ€ข Names, organisations and locations โ€ข 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 โ€” 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 โ€” 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. โ€ข Batch redaction: up to 20 images reviewed side by side and saved together โ€ข Redact everywhere: redact something once and it's found in every image of the batch โ€ข Always-redact list: names, clients and codenames you add are redacted in every image โ€ข Shortcuts actions: redact images automatically from the Shortcuts app โ€ข 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.

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DNSimple

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DNSimple gives you control over DNS on iPhone and iPad through a local DNS tunnel. Use encrypted DNS-over-HTTPS by default, choose from Cloudflare, Google, Quad9 and AdGuard presets, or enter your own resolver. The dashboard shows the active configuration, resolver health and the last responding resolver. PRIVATE HISTORY, YOUR CHOICE Recording is optional and off by default. Keep records on your device with iOS file protection and backup exclusion, or choose memory-only history that disappears when recording stops or the tunnel ends. Choose a retention period of 1 hour, 24 hours, 7 days or 30 days. Expired records are removed while running or when you next open the app. Switching storage clears existing history. UNDERSTAND YOUR DNS Search and filter requests by domain, resolver, query type, errors, local overrides or unencrypted transport. Inspect DNS response codes, response times and the actual responding resolver. Statistics show the retained history window, with up to 20,000 on-device records or 2,000 memory-only records. CONTROL YOUR RESOLVER - DNS-over-HTTPS with HTTPS certificate validation - Standard DNS with UDP and TCP support - Custom IPv4 and IPv6 DNS servers - Custom hosts overrides - Live recording controls and resolver health checks - Plaintext fallback disabled unless you explicitly enable it DNSimple does not require an account and has no advertising or analytics. DNS history stays on your device. Selected bootstrap servers resolve the DoH endpoint hostname; website DNS queries use HTTPS unless you enable plaintext fallback. Your selected resolver can see the queries it handles. DNSimple changes system DNS. It does not hide your IP address or encrypt other app traffic. Apps using their own DNS can bypass the tunnel and will not appear in history. When disconnected, iOS uses its normal DNS settings.

Screenshots

ShadowClip4 screens
DNSimple4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DNSimple at none against ShadowClip's 1. ShadowClip's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ShadowClip ships an update every 3 weeks, DNSimple every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
ShadowClip versus DNSimple: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShadowClipDNSimple
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks โ€” betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size6 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlexander HepburnKitta Co.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

ShadowClip

One-time1
  • ShadowClip Pro$4.99
None

DNSimple

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ShadowClip free?
ShadowClip is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DNSimple free?
DNSimple is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ShadowClip or DNSimple have ads?
Neither ShadowClip nor DNSimple shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ShadowClip or DNSimple?
ShadowClip ships an update every 3 weeks, and DNSimple every 2 months. Most recently, ShadowClip was updated on November 9, 2026 and DNSimple on October 25, 2026.

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