Black Highlighter: Censor Text 4+
Share pictures, not secrets
Cocoatype, LLC
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Black Highlighter is an app that makes it easy to hide secret information you don't want to share in images you're going to share anyway.
Hide people's names, e-mail addresses, embarrassing music choices, and more with just the click of your mouse.
Using the Magic Highlighter, get beautiful, even, complete hiding of text in screenshots and photos. Or switch the magic off to hide anything behind your own scribbles.
What’s New
Version 24.0
This release of Black Highlighter comes with a bunch of bug fixes!
- Significantly sped up presentation of detected text, which fixes a crash that could happen in an image with *lots* of separate text boxes.
- Fixed a slight transparent "gap" on the edge of a redaction.
- Re-added the "Save" and "Save As…" menu items, which had gone missing.
Ratings and Reviews
Note for developers
It’s been great but I’m not able to report an issue, the app is crashing as soon as I select a photo
Needs something
I think this would be a great app, but it won’t acknowledge all my photos. I can have 100 photos in my camera roll, but when I get ready to upload one to edit, it only recognizes like...20 of them...and one of the ones it doesn’t recognize is the one I want to edit, which is most always a text shot. Which is counterproductive bc text is what it’s made to black out. If this problem is addressed I will be glad to change my review.
Developer Response ,
Hello! I know it's been a long time since you left your review, but I'm happy to say that Black Highlighter now does what you've asked for and recognizes *all* images in your photo library, both screenshots and photos alike. I'd love it if you took the time to check it out again.
Thanks!
—Geoff
Crashes non-stop on iOS 13
UPDATE:
This appears to only happen with certain photos. On the photos where it works, it does a really good job. The app will show a shimmer animation over the text and will easily censor that text when you swipe over it. However, there are a couple photos which appear to cause the app to run out of memory and crash the app.
ORIGINAL REVIEW:
This app doesn’t work on iOS 13. It crashes if I invoke it from the photo album and it hangs when I use the app directly.
Do not buy until they fix it.
Developer Response ,
Hey there! App developer here.
I’m aware of the issue where the app crashes often when launched from the photo album. Unfortunately, it’s a technical issue I can’t do much to work around. I’m considering dropping the feature altogether since it’s a bad experience. The latest version introduced a different editing experience that should work more reliably, but it’s less straightforward to get to:
1. Select a photo in Photos
2. Tap “Edit” in the top right
3. Tap the three dots button in the top right
4. Select Highlighter in the list that appears
As for the hanging issue, I’m not familiar with it. If you have more information about it, can you share it with me at hello@cocoatype.com? I can also add you to our beta program to check out possible fixes if you’re interested.
Thanks!
Geoff
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Information
- Seller
- Cocoatype, LLC
- Size
- 5 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2023 Cocoatype, LLC
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Ultra Highlighter $2.99