2025.0 — March 4, 2025

Black Highlighter 25.0 adds a whole new tool, the Magic Lasso, along with a number of other changes and fixes.

2024.5 — December 9, 2024

Black Highlighter 24.5 makes a few minor improvements.

2024.4 — October 31, 2024

Black Highlighter 24.4 fixes a bug when running on iOS 18 or newer where using the Magic Highlighter didn’t line up with where you placed your finger.

2024.3 — August 12, 2024

Black Highlighter 24.3 brings major updates when using the Apple Pencil with Black Highlighter.

2024.2 — June 26, 2024

Black Highlighter 24.2 brings a lot of small improvements to your redacting experience!

2024.1 — June 2, 2024

Black Highlighter 24.1 is focused on improving the Ultra Highlighter auto-redaction features.

2024.0 — April 16, 2024

This release of Black Highlighter comes with a bunch of bug fixes!

2023.3 — August 25, 2023

This release fixes an issue that caused Black Highlighter to crash on launch on iOS 15. Special thanks to Black Highlighter user “mononz” for assisting with tracking down this issue!

2023.2 — May 18, 2023

Black Highlighter 23.2 fixes an issue where the initial “preview” of detected text would not appear.

2023.1 — May 8, 2023

Black Highlighter 23.1 comes with a new set of bug fixes.

2023.0 — March 14, 2023

Black Highlighter 23.0 introduces support for redacting text at any angle.

2022.8 — October 31, 2022

This version fixes a common bug with exporting. It also includes several other bug fixes and an update to the toolbar on iPad.

2022.7 — August 8, 2022

Black Highlighter 22.7 improves the Magic Highlighter’s accuracy, especially when redacting small words such as “it” or “as”.

2022.6 — August 4, 2022

This release fixes a bug with Shortcuts where the “Redact Image” action would not use the set of words you had entered.

2022.5 — July 22, 2022

This release improves many parts of Black Highlighter for users of accessibility technologies such as VoiceOver and Switch Control.

2022.4 — May 30, 2022

The last version of the Mac app that went out had an app icon with square corners instead of the standard squircular corners. My apologies. The icon has now been resquircularized. Thank you for your patience and understanding in these trying times.

2022.3 — May 19, 2022

Black Highlighter 22.3 comes with a small dose of AutoMAYtion goodies.

2022.2 — April 4, 2022

Black Highlighter 22.2 brings you a whole lot of bug fixes and polish.

2022.1 — March 1, 2022

Black Highlighter 22.1 includes a new feature: Find mode. With Find mode, you can type in a word you’d like to redact (such as a person’s name) and with a single tap, Black Highlighter automatically finds and hides every occurrence of that word.

2022.0 — January 9, 2022

On iOS and iPadOS, this release fixes a few cosmetic issues.

2021.8 — December 13, 2021

Fixed the color picker button not working on iPad. oops

2021.7 — October 8, 2021

Just a minor bug fix here. This version fixes an issue that prevented saving in the Mac app. You should now be free to save away!

2021.6 — September 4, 2021

It’s the iPad update! A lot of work has gone into making this version the best iPad app it can be.

2021.5 — June 18, 2021

This is the “make life a little nicer” update. We’ve gone and fixed a ton of the little papercuts in Black Highlighter to make using it a better experience.

2021.4 — April 17, 2021

This update introduces a new tool to the Black Highlighter toolset: the Magic Era… er, the eraser. The totally normal eraser.

2021.3 — March 22, 2021

More bug fixes to make your redacting experience even better.

2021.2 — February 26, 2021

Bug fixes! One for you and one for me.

2021.1 — February 15, 2021

Just cleaning up a few of the “initial version” hiccups for the Mac version of Black Highlighter.

2021.0 — February 8, 2021

This is a fairly major update to Black Highlighter with several new features to check out.

2020.1 — July 7, 2020

Potentially fixed a bug where photo exports were only a solid black rectangle. Please contact support if this continues to be an issue.

2020.0 — February 3, 2020

This release improves the performance and stability of Black Highlighter when editing large photos, such as those taken by newer iPhones.

2019.4 — September 24, 2019

We’ve made a new tool available to you: the Ultra Highlighter.

2019.3 — September 2, 2019

Just cleaning up a few things before a major release coming Real Soon Now™.

2019.2 — July 9, 2019

You can now use Black Highlighter’s editing tools from inside other apps as an action. Try it out in the Photos app!

2019.1 — June 26, 2019

Black Highlighter now supports hiding text in ALL photos, not just screenshots.

1.1 — November 26, 2018

Includes a number of basic bug fixes.

1.0.1 — May 28, 2018

Support for the Super Retina screen of iPhone X. Fixed a crash when highlighting large images.

1.0 — May 31, 2017

Initial app release.