Comparison

ShadowClip vs LoungeFeed Host

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

LoungeFeed Host

Features
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LoungeFeed Host brings your chosen social feeds to LoungeFeed Viewer on the big screen. LoungeFeed Viewer runs on Apple TV and pairs with LoungeFeed Host over your local network. Authorize the content sources you choose on your iPhone, then pair LoungeFeed Host with LoungeFeed Viewer on the same Wi-Fi network. Browse read-only feeds, posts, replies, images, and video while your iPhone provides the local connection. With LoungeFeed Host you can: • Choose which supported sources to connect • Pair securely with LoungeFeed Viewer using a six-digit code • Manage local feed and playback cache • Review source status and renew an authorization when needed • Create a privacy-safe diagnostic report only when you choose to send one LoungeFeed Host is a companion app, not a standalone feed viewer. Keep it open in the foreground while watching; iOS may pause local serving when the phone is locked or backgrounded. LoungeFeed is read-only. It does not create posts, replies, likes, follows, messages, or other actions on your connected accounts.

Screenshots

ShadowClip4 screens
LoungeFeed Host4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: LoungeFeed Host at Free against ShadowClip's $3.99. ShadowClip's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On update cadence, 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

LoungeFeed Host is free to download; ShadowClip costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ShadowClip ships an update every 2 months, LoungeFeed Host monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
ShadowClip versus LoungeFeed Host: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShadowClipLoungeFeed Host
Price$3.99Free — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB46 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperAlexander HepburnGAOXIANG ZHANG

In-app purchases

None

ShadowClip

No in-app purchases

None

LoungeFeed Host

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ShadowClip free?
ShadowClip costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is LoungeFeed Host free?
LoungeFeed Host is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ShadowClip or LoungeFeed Host have ads?
Neither ShadowClip nor LoungeFeed Host shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ShadowClip or LoungeFeed Host?
ShadowClip ships an update every 2 months, and LoungeFeed Host monthly. Most recently, ShadowClip was updated on October 25, 2026 and LoungeFeed Host on October 24, 2026.

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