# Black Highlighter: Redact Text

> Censor & secure screenshots

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1215283742](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1215283742)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1215283742`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Cocoatype, LLC
- **Category:** Photo & Video
- **Rating:** 4.40 / 5 (91 ratings)
- **Version:** 25.6
- **Last updated:** 2025-09-22
- **First published:** 2017-05-31
- **Size:** 13 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-22
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/black-highlighter-redact-text/id1215283742)
- **Website:** [https://blackhighlighter.app/](https://blackhighlighter.app/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://blackhighlighter.app/privacy/](https://blackhighlighter.app/privacy/)

## Description

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.

## Rankings

- #142,922 — Overall
- #4 — highlighter

## Review summary

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.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1215283742)