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Blur the background of a photo

Drop a photo: the people in it are found on your device and everything behind them is blurred, like a portrait lens. Set the strength, or flip it and blur the people instead. Free, no upload, no account, no watermark.

100% local — the photo never leaves your device.

How it works

  1. Drop, paste or pick a photo — a portrait, a selfie, a group shot, a still from a video call.

  2. The people are found on your device and everything behind them is blurred in a second or two.

  3. Adjust the strength, or switch to People to blur them and keep the scene. Then download a PNG.

Why blur a background

Two reasons: to make the subject stand out, and to hide what is behind them. The usual cases:

  • Portraits

    Profile pictures, headshots and team photos where a busy background pulls the eye away.

  • Your home

    The room, the shelves and the view from the window behind you in a selfie or a call screenshot.

  • Work

    Whiteboards, screens and documents behind someone in an office or event photo.

  • Places

    Street signs, house numbers and landmarks that tell people where a photo was taken.

Is a blurred background private enough?

For a messy room, yes. For writing, not always: a whiteboard or a screen behind you can sometimes be read back through a light blur. In our study of blurred text, small blur radii gave the exact text back in 92–100% of cases, so push the strength up when there is text in the background.

The mask follows people, not every strand of hair: check the outline, especially around hands and anything held. And blurring the people is not the same as hiding a face — for that, use the face blur tool.

Read our blur recovery study

Why nothing gets uploaded

Background blur sites usually upload your photo and run a model on their server. Here the person-segmentation model, MediaPipe's selfie segmenter of about 250 KB, is downloaded once from this site and runs in your browser. The photo is processed on your device, and the PNG you download carries none of its metadata.

Hiding faces rather than a background? Use the face blur tool, and remove the metadata of any original you send on.

Sharing your screen, not a photo?

Blur names, emails and whole panels on the live page before a screen share or a recording — one click in the browser.

FAQ

No. Finding the people, blurring and export all run in your browser. The segmentation model is fetched from this site the first time; the photo itself never leaves your device.

Yes. Everyone the model sees as a person stays sharp, group photos included. Very small people far in the background may be blurred with it.

Yes. Switch Blur to People: the same mask is used the other way round, which suits a photo of a place with strangers in it.

No. The model is trained on people, so a dog, a car or a product is treated as background and blurred.

Yes. It is a regular web page, so it runs in Safari or Chrome on your phone. On a large photo, finding the people can take a few seconds on older devices.

Free, with no sign-up and no watermark. JPG, PNG and WebP open directly; iPhone HEIC photos usually need converting first. The result downloads as a PNG at the photo's full size.