Black Highlighter: Redact Text

Name: Black Highlighter: Redact Text
Rating: 4.4 (88 reviews)
Author: Cocoatype, LLC

By: Cocoatype, LLC

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Features & Capabilities

Share your images, not your secrets. Black Highlighter makes it ridiculously easy to hide sensitive information in your photos and screenshots. Just swipe over text with the Magic Highlighter and it automatically snaps to cover everything perfectly—no more frantic scribbling or worrying if you missed a spot. Import from Photos and share instantly across iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

For more power, Ultra Highlighter adds automatic detection of sensitive details like names, addresses, and phone numbers, plus a customizable word list to redact automatically. Create Shortcuts to automate redactions and use the document scanner to redact paper files. Black Highlighter is offered under the standard EULA.

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By:

Cocoatype, LLC

Rating:

4.40

(88)

Version:

25.6 Last updated: 2025-09-22

Version code:

878295610

Creation date:

2017-05-31

Compatible devices:

Size:

13.07MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-11

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 159,893 ▼ 106

Other rankings

#4 in highlighter keyword 51 ▲ 1

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Developed by:

Cocoatype, LLC

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/black-highlighter-redact-text/id1215283742

Website:

https://blackhighlighter.app/

User Reviews

Users praise Black Highlighter for strong OCR that detects text in photos and a 'magic highlighter' that produces clean, professional redactions, plus an attractive, easy-to-use UI. It’s valued for quickly masking sensitive information and sharing redacted images with clients. Yet several reviews note crashes and memory problems with certain photos, and there are ongoing photo-library recognition limitations and limited cross-app use (not all photos visible or usable outside the Photos app, and PDFs are not supported).

Pros

Accurate OCR that detects text in photos/images and allows redaction (not limited to PDFs).
Snap-to-text / magic highlighter delivers clean, professional redactions.
User-friendly, visually appealing UI that makes redaction quick and pleasant.
Useful for sharing redacted images with clients while protecting confidential information.

Cons

Frequent crashes and instability when selecting photos or with certain images, including memory-related issues (affecting multiple devices/iOS versions).
Photo library access and recognition limitations: only a subset of photos are detected or accessible, and cross-app use (e.g., PDFs) is limited.

Recent reviews

This is so intelligent. I used photos of text not even PDFs and it was able to detect the text in the IMAGE and black it out. Pure magic. It's also a beautiful app so I just enjoy using it. Love this