Blackout vs Hikkoshi Moving Box Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Blackout
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Share documents, not your details. Sooner or later someone asks for a bank statement, a pay stub, a passport, a medical record. They need the document; they do not need everything on it. Blackout finds the details a stranger shouldn't get, removes them from a copy, strips the data hiding inside the file, labels every page with who it's for — and never sends it anywhere. FINDS WHAT YOU'D MISS Open a PDF, a photo or a scan. Blackout reads it on your device and flags Social Security and account numbers, routing and card numbers, IBANs, phone numbers, email and postal addresses, dates of birth, passport and ID numbers, faces, barcodes and QR codes. Names are found too and left in by default, because they are usually the point. REMOVES, DOESN'T COVER Drawing a black box over a number is not redaction — the number is still in the file, one copy-and-paste away. Blackout deletes the characters from the page itself, erases the pixels from scanned images, and drops any note that overlapped. The box you see is the last step, not the whole job, and a test suite reopens every prepared copy with two independent extractors to prove it. STRIPS THE HIDDEN DATA — AND SHOWS YOU WHERE IT WAS A PDF carries more than what it shows: author, creation tool and dates, the editing history some apps tuck inside, every comment's author, attached files, scripts, and the camera model and GPS position inside embedded photos. Blackout removes all of it and, with Pro, lists it by where it was hiding — your name in the document properties, a colleague's in a comment on page 2, your home address in a photo's GPS tag on page 3. LABELS THE COPY Every page gets a watermark — "For Landlord · September 2026" — so a copy that turns up elsewhere says where it came from. Stamp it COPY or CONFIDENTIAL, add a header, number the pages, sign it. SEAL IT, AND KNOW IF IT COMES BACK CHANGED Seal a copy before you send it. The seal is invisible — nothing on the page. If that copy comes back, open it in Blackout and it tells you whether the content still matches, and which pages do not. It compares what the pages say, not the file's bytes, so an innocent re-save does not cry wolf. A PDF carries no identity that cannot be forged, so a name or date in a changed file is shown as a claim the file makes, never as proof of who changed it. KEEPS A LOG Who got which document, when, with what hidden. The log lives on your device and never holds the file. Or skip sending altogether: put the prepared copy on your screen for the person in the room, or have it read back to you first. PREPARE IT PROPERLY Send only some pages. Combine three pay stubs, or split one apart. Shrink it for email. Make a photographed page searchable. Correct a typo, replace a photo, remove tracking links, fill in the form. Send as PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint or images — conversions run after the details are gone, never before. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR DEVICE There is no server, no account and no code that uploads anything. Detection, text recognition and face detection all run on the device using Apple's own frameworks. Native on iPhone, iPad and Mac, with Dark Mode, Dynamic Type and VoiceOver throughout. FREE AND PRO The whole job — find, review, remove, strip, watermark, share — is free for your first copy, and the built-in sample is always free to try. Blackout Pro removes the limit and adds password protection, the itemised hidden-data report and every optional preparation step, for a single payment of $19.99. ONE PAYMENT, NOT A SUBSCRIPTION Blackout Pro is a one-time purchase of $19.99, charged once. It does not renew, there is nothing to cancel, and you will not be charged again. It stays unlocked on every device signed in to the same Apple Account, and Restore Purchase brings it back after a reinstall. Terms of Use: https://markbullock111.github.io/pdf_editor_privacy/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://markbullock111.github.io/pdf_editor_privacy/privacy.html
Hikkoshi Moving Box Notes
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Which box did the mugs go in? Hikkoshi helps you record what is in each moving box and where it belongs in your new home. Keep packing organized and find what you need when it is time to unpack. Start with one box 1. Enter where you are moving from, where you are going and your moving date. 2. Name a box and choose its room. 3. Add the items inside, then search by name when you need them. Box numbers are assigned automatically. Write the same number on the actual box to match it to your record. RECORD AS YOU PACK Tap common item names to fill them in quickly. Add quantities, units and notes, then use Save & add another to keep going. Attach a photo to a box by taking one or choosing from your photo library. ORGANIZE BY ROOM Browse boxes for the kitchen, bedroom or another room. Add, rename and reorder rooms to match your new home. Mark fragile boxes and choose which ones to open first. FIND THINGS WITHOUT OPENING EVERY BOX Search box numbers and contents. Print A4 QR labels, attach them to your boxes and scan them inside the app to view each box. Choose 3, 4 or 6 labels per page. SEE WHAT IS LEFT TO UNPACK Record each box as Packing, Packed, In transit, Arrived or Unpacked. Check room totals and see which boxes still need unpacking. EXPORT LISTS AND KEEP A BACKUP Export a box list PDF, a CSV of boxes and items, or a ZIP backup that includes photos. Choose where to save your backup and restore it when needed. No account required. Recording and searching work offline. Built for iPhone and iPad, with Japanese, English and Chinese interface options. No in-app purchases or subscriptions. Before you begin • QR codes identify boxes; they do not contain the contents of your inventory. Restore the matching backup before scanning on another device. Automatic sync and shared editing are not included. • Photos are attachments. Item names are entered manually, not recognized automatically from photos. • Printing requires a compatible printer or printing setup. Print labels at 100% on A4 paper. • Save a backup before changing devices or deleting the app. PDF and CSV exports cannot replace a restorable ZIP backup. email:CnhookWuaizhen@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Hikkoshi Moving Box Notes at 15.0 against Blackout's 18.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Blackout sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year and Hikkoshi Moving Box Notes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Blackout ships an update every 2 weeks, Hikkoshi Moving Box Notes every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Blackout | Hikkoshi Moving Box Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 96 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mark Bullock | 福州市鼓楼区荣荣森网络科技有限公司 |
In-app purchases
Blackout
- Blackout Pro$9.991 Year
- Blackout — Share Safely Pro$19.99
Hikkoshi Moving Box Notes
- Permanent PRO$3.99
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