Auto face blur that respects everyone in the frame
Group photos are a consent problem. You want to post the beach picture, but your friend's kid is in the corner, a stranger walked through the background, and someone's car number plate is readable in the parking shot. Manually painting over faces in a photo editor is tedious — and most free "blur face" apps either upload your photo to a server or watermark the result.
This tool takes the other route: an AI face detector (BlazeFace, the same class of model phones use for camera focus) scans your photo on your own device and blurs every face it finds. The model file is tiny — about 230KB, downloaded once and cached — so the whole thing works in seconds, even on a mid-range phone. Your photo never leaves your browser tab; after the model download, the network goes quiet.
The control that makes it genuinely useful: tap any face to toggle it. Faces start blurred, and one tap keeps yours (or your child's, or your client's) sharp while everyone else stays anonymized. It's the difference between "blur the photo" and "blur the right people" — and it's the workflow newsrooms, landlords, sellers, and parents actually need.
Blur or pixelate — pick the look
Two styles, same faces. Blur softens each face with an adjustable gaussian blur — it looks natural in lifestyle shots, travel photos, and social posts. Pixelate (the mosaic look) reads as a deliberate privacy edit; it's the classic choice for screenshots, dashcam stills, and anything where you want the edit to be visibly intentional. A slider tunes the strength either way, and switching styles never loses your face selections.
Sometimes the thing you need to hide isn't a face at all. That's what Add area is for: drag a box over a license plate, a house number, a name badge, a parcel label, or a face the AI missed (profile views and tiny distant faces are the hardest cases for any detector), and it gets the same treatment. You can add as many manual areas as you like, and Blur all / Keep all sharp reset the board in one tap.
How it works
- Choose a photo. Tap the big button or drop an image in. JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC (iPhone), AVIF, BMP, GIF, SVG and TIFF all work — read locally, never uploaded.
- The AI scans for faces. First visit downloads a ~230KB detection model (cached after); the scan itself takes about a second on-device.
- Review and tap to toggle. Every face is boxed and blurred. Tap any face to keep it sharp; use Add area for anything the AI missed or anything that isn't a face.
- Download PNG or JPG. Full resolution, no watermark, ready to post.
Where face blurring actually matters
Posting photos with other people's kids. The single most common use. School events, birthday parties, playground shots — blur the children who aren't yours before the photo goes anywhere public. It takes ten seconds and it's the respectful default.
Screenshots and screen recordings. Profile pictures in chat threads, names in notification banners, faces in video-call grids. One pass through this tool and the screenshot is safe to share in a bug report, a tutorial, or a tweet.
Selling and renting. Car listings with a visible number plate, rental photos with the previous tenant's family pictures on the wall, marketplace photos where a mirror caught your face. Blurring these details is basic listing hygiene.
Dashcam and CCTV stills. If you're sharing footage of an incident, blur bystanders and plates first. It keeps the focus on what happened and keeps you out of privacy complaints.
Honest limits
No detector catches 100% of faces, and this one is no exception. Faces in full profile, faces behind dark sunglasses, heavily shadowed faces, and faces smaller than roughly 30 pixels are the cases most likely to be missed — the tool tells you to check the result, and Add area exists precisely for the misses. If a photo has a crowd of dozens of tiny faces, zoom in and review the edges before posting.
One more honest note: blur and pixelate hide identity from casual viewers, but they are not forensic-grade anonymization against a determined analyst with enhancement tools. For everyday sharing — social posts, listings, screenshots — they're exactly the right level. For genuinely sensitive material, the safest edit is still a solid black bar or a full crop.
Bottom line: upload nothing, install nothing, pay nothing. Pick a photo, let the AI find the faces, tap the ones you want to keep, download. Privacy edits shouldn't require a photo editor — or a privacy trade-off to get them.