Blur a face. Hide a plate.
Tap the canvas where something should go away. Blur, mosaic or a solid bar, per patch, at a strength measured against the patch rather than in pixels — so it holds up on a phone snapshot and on a 40-megapixel raw. The export is written from the pixels at full resolution, which also means it carries no Exif and no GPS. For multi-photo edits, grab a proper app.
Blur a face or pixelate part of a photo
Cover a face, a licence plate or an address with a blur, a mosaic or a solid black bar, at a strength measured against the patch rather than the photo.
What you can change
- Blur
- Mosaic
- Bar
- Strength
- Width
- Height
- Add patch
How it works
- 01Drop in a photo, or open one of the samples.
- 02Tap the photo where you want something gone, pick Blur, Mosaic or Bar, and set the strength from 1 to 5. Drag the patch to move it, pull a corner to resize it, and add as many as you need.
- 03Download it at full resolution. Nothing is uploaded — the work happens in this browser tab.
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Blur a face or pixelate part of a photo
Cover a face, a licence plate or an address with a blur, a mosaic or a solid black bar, at a strength measured against the patch rather than the photo.
What you can change
- Blur
- Mosaic
- Bar
- Strength
- Width
- Height
- Add patch
How it works
- 01Drop in a photo, or open one of the samples.
- 02Tap the photo where you want something gone, pick Blur, Mosaic or Bar, and set the strength from 1 to 5. Drag the patch to move it, pull a corner to resize it, and add as many as you need.
- 03Download it at full resolution. Nothing is uploaded — the work happens in this browser tab.
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Six everyday hide-this moments
- 01 for faces
Blur a face you don't have permission to share
Posting a photo from a party, an event, or a school spread? Anyone in the background hasn't consented to being in your post. Drop a blur patch over each face. Soft Gaussian — feels designed, not censored — and the rest of the photo stays sharp.
- 02 for plates
Pixelate a license plate before you post
Selling a car on Marketplace, sharing a road-trip photo, posting your driveway? License plates are a privacy weak point — pixelate the patch over the plate so the photo reads natural but the digits don't.
- 03 for screenshots
Hide names, addresses, account numbers
Sharing a Google Maps screenshot, an email thread, a banking confirmation? A solid black bar is the legal-ese standard for redaction. Drop bars over names, addresses, account numbers — the structure is preserved, the data is not.
- 04 for kids
Pixelate kids' faces before posting publicly
Many parents prefer to keep kids' faces off the public internet. Pixelate mode at a chunky block size (40–60px) reads as deliberate stylization — same kid in every photo, but no facial features. Easier than cropping them out of the frame.
- 05 for crime
Hide a license plate or witness in a documentary still
Documentary photographers blur identifiable elements as a matter of editorial standard. Two strong blur patches — one on the plate, one on the bystander's face — and the photo stays publishable. Drag-to-resize lets you tighten the patch to the subject.
- 06 for screens
Cover a passcode on a screen recording still
Sharing a how-to screenshot that includes a phone unlock pattern, a 2FA code, an email preview? Solid black bar over the sensitive area, save, post. Faster than reshooting with the area covered.
Frequently asked
Does the photo upload anywhere? +
No. Every patch is rendered on a canvas in your browser. Your photo never touches our servers — we don't run an image pipeline at all. Open DevTools → Network and watch: nothing leaves your device.
Blur, pixelate, or bar — which to pick? +
Blur looks softest and most editorial; works for faces in casual photos. Pixelate reads as deliberate stylization; popular for kids' faces and license plates. Solid bar is the strongest visual signal that something is being redacted; use it for legal/forensic contexts.
Can the blur be reversed? +
Not at the default strength. The redaction is written into the exported pixels — no hidden layer, no original underneath — and the blur works by repeatedly averaging the region down before scaling it back up, so the detail is discarded rather than merely spread around. What is left to attack is the handful of average values you can see.
How strong should the blur or pixelate be? +
Strength runs 1 to 5 and is measured against the patch rather than in pixels, so level 3 removes the same proportion of detail whether the patch is 80px or 800px across. Level 3 is the default and already unrecoverable: on our test crop it takes a face from 10,402 distinct colours down to 1,462 for blur and 62 for mosaic. Level 1 is deliberately light for stylistic use, and the tool says so on screen when a patch is set that low.
Can I add multiple patches? +
Yes. Click any empty area on the canvas to drop a new patch. Each patch has its own type, strength, position, and size. The side panel lists every patch — click to switch which one you're editing.
What's the export format? +
JPG at 92% or PNG, your choice, always at full source resolution — a 4000×3000 phone photo exports at 4000×3000 with every patch re-applied at that size rather than upscaled from the preview. Because the file is written from the canvas, it also carries no Exif, no XMP and no GPS: redacting a face does not leave the location behind.
Will artifacts give away what was redacted? +
A light mosaic can be attacked: if the block grid is fine enough, the pattern of block averages still carries the shape of a face or the digits of a plate. That is why strength is expressed as blocks across the patch and why the panel calls out a setting that leaves more than about fourteen blocks across. For anything you would not want reconstructed at all, use the bar — it writes one flat colour and there is nothing to attack.
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