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• March 10, 2025 New Pricing Options for Ultra Highlighter

  With the release of Black Highlighter 25.0, you may notice a change to the pricing model. Let me start with the most important note up front: if you have ever paid a dime for Black Highlighter, nothing is changing. You’ll keep all the features you have today with no additional purchase.

• June 2, 2024 Legacy Support for iOS and macOS Versions

  Starting with Black Highlighter 24.1, some versions of Apple’s operating systems are considered to be under “legacy support”.

• March 1, 2022 Find and Redact Even Faster with Black Highlighter 22.1

  Black Highlighter 22.1 for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS introduces an incredibly fast new way to redact text.

• January 9, 2022 Redacting from the Clipboard with Black Highlighter 22.0

  Black Highlighter for macOS 22.0 is out now, with a new way to start redacting: “New from Clipboard”.

• February 8, 2021 Black Highlighter 2021.0 Released

  Black Highlighter version 2021.0 is out now, with a brand-new Mac app! Not only that, this version packs several new features on both iOS and macOS.

• September 8, 2019 Supporting PDFs Using Shortcuts

  I recently got a support request from someone looking to edit PDFs with Black Highlighter. Black Highlighter unfortunately doesn’t currently support redacting PDFs.

  However, that doesn’t mean that all hope is lost if you want to black out the information in PDFs… as long as you’re willing to export it as a different file format.

• September 2, 2019 Black Highlighter 2019.3 Released

  Version 2019.3 of Black Highlighter was released today, September 2nd, 2019. It’s a relatively minor release to get a few minor fixes out in advance of the big iOS 13 release I’ve been working on.