Black Highlighter makes it easy to hide text in images you want to share. Black Highlighter’s “Magic Highlighting” feature automatically detects text in images and helps you make nice, even redactions in your photos and screenshots.

App Integrations

Black Highlighter works with your favorite apps to hide text from anywhere.

Shortcuts

Black Highlighter supports the X-Callback-URL scheme to perform actions from within shortcuts built in the Shortcuts app.

Highlight Last Screenshot is an example shortcut that finds the last screenshot that was taken on your iPhone or iPad and opens it in Black Highlighter.

Check our our page on Shortcuts integration for more in-depth integration help.

Privacy Policy

Black Highlighter keeps your private information private. More information is available in our privacy policy.

Latest Release

2025.5 — September 15, 2025

Black Highlighter 2025.5 builds in support for Apple’s September 2025 releases with a whole bunch of new features:

Liquid Glass Design

Black Highlighter fully embraces the Liquid Glass design aesthetic of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS 26. Liquid Glass has been fully baked into all parts of Black Highlighter, with many design improvements throughout the app.

Recognize Text Shortcuts Action

A new Shortcuts action, “Recognize Text”, finds and returns all text in an image. Use this action alongside the new system “Use Model” action to safely use AI models to help with redaction.

Open Recent on iPad

The iPad version of Black Highlighter supports opening recent files and images, directly from the home screen.

Better macOS Zoom Controls

Zoom in and out of your image on macOS, even without a trackpad, using new zoom controls.