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2025.6 | Black Highlighter Black Highlighter 2025.6 cleans up a few things.

Black Highlighter 25.6 is out with a bug fix and some small interface updates:

https://blackhighlighter.app/releases/2025.6/

2025.5 | Black Highlighter Black Highlighter 2025.5 builds in support for Apple's September 2025 releases with a whole bunch of new features.

There's still a few more iOS 26 goodies to come, but that's what I have for today's release! See the official release notes at blackhighlighter.app/releases/202...

A screenshot displaying zoom out and zoom in controls.

and okay, maybe this last one's just a bit of a "finally…" feature, but you can now zoom in and out on macOS, even if you don't have a trackpad attached to your Mac. 😳

A screenshot of the iPad Home Screen. The Black Highlighter icon is selected, showing a context menu. In the Menu, under a "Recents" header, an item called "Corporate Report" is selected.

Black Highlighter on iPad now supports "Open Recent…" to open recently-imported files directly in Black Highlighter from the Home Screen.

A screenshot of Apple's Shortcuts app, showing a workflow in which text is recognized in an image, sent to an AI model, and then redacted from the image.

A new "Recognize text" Shortcuts action is designed to take advantage of the "Use Model" system Shortcuts action to allow you to use Apple's private AI models in your redaction workflow.

(and, to those for whom this is important: being in Shortcuts means you're free to *not* use AI models as well)

A cropped screenshot of an app with toolbar buttons using the iOS Liquid Glass appearance, displayed over text. The text is still visible beneath and between the buttons.

A new design embracing the Liquid Glass design aesthetic lets you always see more of your image; no more black bars!

A set of Apple devices (iPad, iPhone, and MacBook Air), all showing images of the app Black Highlighter, with various pieces of text redacted in each image.

Black Highlighter has a ton of new stuff for iOS 26 (and iPadOS 26, and macOS 26…)! Here's a short rundown of some of the cool new things in Black Highlighter 25.5:

(Go to the App Store at blackhighlighter.app/appstore to get the latest version)

Three platforms. One redesign. Black Highlighter 25.5 will be out alongside Apple's new operating systems on Monday, with a complete interface redesign across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. New navigation, immersive editing, enhanced iPad support, and a few other tricks. See you then!

Three platforms. One redesign.

Black Highlighter 25.5 will be out alongside Apple's new operating systems on Monday, with a complete interface redesign across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. New navigation, immersive editing, enhanced iPad support, and a few other tricks. See you then!

The next release of @blackhighlighter.app is shaping up to be one of the biggest ever even if you *don't* count iOS 26 features. It's just that the new design finally gave me the kick in the pants to figure out where all the cross-platform gaps are and fill them in.

2025.2 | Black Highlighter Black Highlighter 25.2 adds several ways to quickly get to the document scanner, expands Shortcuts integration, and improves the purchase experience.

Black Highlighter 25.2 is out with more integration with the rest of your system:

- Launch the document scanner from Control Center or Shortcuts actions.
- Redact images from Shortcut using your auto-hidden words list.

Learn more at https://blackhighlighter.app/releases/2025.2

Black Highlighter | 2025.1 Black Highlighter helps you hide text in photos and screenshots. Available on iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Black Highlighter 25.1 is out now with a bunch of improvements to Shortcuts, including the ability to choose an output file format.

Learn more at blackhighlighter.app/releases/202...

The Black Highlighter app icon, with a glass effect.

Been hard at work on some iOS 26 (and more!) updates today. I’m pretty excited about what’s going to be possible with Black Highlighter in a few months!

The pricing for Black Highlighter’s extra features (automatic redaction, Shortcuts, etc.) is going up soon. For those of you following here on Bluesky, heads up that now is the last time to get these features for just a one-time price of $4.99!

More details:
blackhighlighter.app/blog/price-i...

An image with a framed screenshot of the Black Highlighter iOS app, showing a lot of text redacted. Text says “Black Highlighter 25.0. Meet the Magic Lasso. Redact everything. Neatly. Immediately.”

Black Highlighter 25.0 is out now with a huge new feature: the Magic Lasso! 🤠

Lasso whole paragraphs, and they're neatly and completely redacted… instantly!

Check out the full release notes: blackhighlighter.app/releases/202...

An image of zoomed-in text, partially surrounded by a dashed line.

Black Highlighter has always been good at turning your scribbles into nice, neat redactions.

But what if you didn’t have to scribble?

A new tool. Faster redactions. Next week. 🤠

blackhighlighter.app/appstore

When all you have is a Black Highlighter, everything looks… the same. The next version, coming soon, is going to make it a bit easier to tell the eraser apart from the two highlighters.

Black Highlighter | 2024.5 Black Highlighter helps you hide text in photos and screenshots. Available on iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Black Highlighter 24.5 is out now with improvements to the photo picker, Shortcuts, and Ultra Highlighter info page.

blackhighlighter.app/releases/202...

Hello, Bluesky! Black Highlighter is an iPhone, iPad, and Mac app for hiding text in images. My Magic Highlighter tool smartly snaps to text, giving a neat, complete result instantly. Or, search for specific words to hide them everywhere.

Get it on the App Store: blackhighlighter.app/appstore