ShadowClip
Redact images on-device
Free · In-App Purchases
Strip API keys, faces, addresses, and credit cards out of any screenshot before you share it. Everything happens on your Mac or iPhone. Nothing is uploaded.
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.
Ratings & Reviews
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Redact several images at once, open photos straight from Photos, and scan faster.
• New: Batch Redaction, with ShadowClip Pro (a one-time purchase). Review up to 20 images together, move between them, and save them all at once. Each image is checked exactly as a single one is. Redacting one image at a time stays free
• Drag photos straight from the Photos app. Portrait photos now open the right way up
• A file with several pages asks before only its first page is used, and a file that can't be opened says why
• Faster scans: each image is now read once instead of twice
• Suggestions to review are framed in orange, so they stand out from the text around them
• Fixes for pasting with ⌘V on the Mac, the image jumping while it is scanned, and retrying a failed scan
• The Regional IDs list is gone: ID numbers from every supported country are still found automatically
Everything still runs on your device. Nothing is uploaded.
The developer, Alexander Hepburn, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Provider
- Alexander Hepburn
- Size
- 5.5 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 16 more
- English, Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- ShadowClip Pro USD 4.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Alexander Hepburn

