Secured transmission is an important concern in today's Internet world in the field of information technology. Recent technological developments in the computer networks have made digital data transmission a popular task and digital images are no exception. Visual Secret Sharing is a process of encrypting an image secret in "n" cipher images termed as shares, that can be transmitted or distributed over an unreliable channel of communication. Secret sharing has been used in various applications to perform a secure communication. This paper details a review of the secret sharing schemes presented by different researchers, its applications and the performance evaluation metrics. © 2020 by Advance Scientific Research. This is an open-access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)