ShadowClip vs Scrolly
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
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 ā 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 ā 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 ā 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.
Scrolly
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Scrolly turns your iPhone into a bright LED banner. Type a message, pick a look, and hold the screen up: at the airport, at a concert, in the stands, at a party. MAKE IT BIG ⢠Type anything and see it fill the screen at once ⢠Static or scrolling: left, right, up or down, at three speeds ⢠Max size fits the whole message to the screen ⢠Bold, blink, glow, border and mirror effects MAKE IT YOURS ⢠Six fonts, any text colour, a custom colour picker ⢠Backgrounds: solid colours, gradients or your own photo ⢠Patterns: dots, stars, hearts, stripes, checks ⢠Animated backgrounds: pulse, drift, twinkle, rainbow ⢠Frames: line, double, dashed or chasing lights ⢠Classic LED dot look, round or square READY-MADE TEMPLATES ⢠40+ banners for love, parties, concerts, sports and everyday ⢠Airport pickup, welcome home, happy birthday, encore, go team and more ⢠Tap to play, tap the pencil to make it your own LIGHT STICKS ⢠A Flash tab with 12 glowing light sticks in any colour ⢠Full brightness, screen stays awake, breathing glow SAVE AND SHARE ⢠Save banners and find them first in Templates ⢠Export as MP4 video or animated GIF and share anywhere ⢠Save clips straight to Photos MADE FOR THE MOMENT ⢠Portrait or landscape, or follow the phone ⢠Brightness boost during playback, restored after ⢠Reduce-flash setting and a 3 Hz blink cap for photosensitive safety ⢠20 languages, switchable inside the app PRIVATE BY DESIGN Scrolly works entirely on your iPhone. No account, no tracking, no network requests. Your messages stay on your device. Hold it up and say it big.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Scrolly at every 2 weeks against ShadowClip's every 2 months. ShadowClip's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ShadowClip ships an update every 2 months, Scrolly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ShadowClip | Scrolly |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks ā better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac ā better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexander Hepburn | ADELINA RAILEAN |
In-app purchases
ShadowClip
No in-app purchases
Scrolly
No in-app purchases
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