Censor your photos and screenshots with Redacted for iPhone, iPad and Mac
Apple provides iOS users with a handy Markup tool that makes it easy to annotate their photos and attachments, sign documents, cover up sensitive information and so forth.
If you have images on your iPhone and iPad that contains sensitive information, you’ll probably want to censor the secret bits before sharing it with other people or the web at large.
That’s where Redacted for iPhone, iPad and Mac comes in.
But why don’t just use Markup, you ask…
Yes, Markup offers features like a marker pen that you can use to paint over a photo in order to obscure text and other stuff you want to keep secret. Still, Markup is no replacement for a true redaction tool because the censored parts can be often reverted in Photoshop.
iOS’s in-built Markup feature is not a true redaction tool
While you can censor sensitive information by drawing a black solid rectangle, that doesn’t change the fact that Markup lacks advanced redaction capabilities, like the Pixelate or Blur tool.
The Redacted app by Nothing Magical Inc. makes it easy to censor images in a way that cannot be reverted easily to reveal what’s underneath. The app greets you with a simple screen offering with some options to choose an image from the Camera roll, use the last photo taken, paste the photo from the system clipboard or take a quick snap.
You can redact parts of an image that you’d like to obfuscate in three different ways.
Obscure personal information from photos and screenshots with Redacted
You can pixelate sensitive details on the image, blur out parts you’d like to make ineligible or cover up sensitive information with a solid black rectangle. Simply tap the Pixelate, Blur or the Black Bar tool at the bottom, then drag with your finger to redact.
When you’re done, use iOS’s multi-purpose Share sheet to send your redacted image to Facebook, Twitter and more. Or, copy the image out of Redacted for easy pasting in other apps. Redacted doesn’t pester you with any kind of onboarding process. You can use the app without an account and there are no settings to adjust.
Redacted for Mac is a carbon-copy of the iOS counterpart in terms of features
In its current form, Redacted doesn’t support PDFs yet. Some people are complaining about the lack of a dedicated Undo option although you can just shake your device to undo any action (provided Shake to Undo is turned on in Settings).
Redacted is available for macOS and iOS 10.0 or later.
Redacted for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch is $1.99 on App Store.
Redacted for Mac is $6.99 in Mac App Store.
Which apps do you use to hide your private sensitive information from images?
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Source link: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2018/03/14/review-redacted/
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