Comparison

ShadowClip vs Melvil

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

Melvil

Features
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Melvil keeps your lists as plain markdown in iCloud Drive. Edit with a native UI — todos, bullets, nesting, and subtitles — then open the same files in Files or any markdown editor. Share a collection with others via iCloud. • Collections with icons and colors • Sort by progress, title, or subtitle • Nested items and optional subtitles • Share a collection via iCloud • No lock-in — your files stay yours

Screenshots

ShadowClip4 screens
Melvil4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Melvil at Free against ShadowClip's $2.99. ShadowClip's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases 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

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

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
ShadowClip versus Melvil: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShadowClipMelvil
Price$2.99Free — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlexander HepburnDaniel Marques

In-app purchases

None

ShadowClip

No in-app purchases

None

Melvil

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ShadowClip free?
ShadowClip costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Melvil free?
Melvil is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ShadowClip or Melvil have ads?
Neither ShadowClip nor Melvil shows ads.

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