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Blur faces in a photo

Drop a photo and every face is found and blurred for you — free, in your browser. The picture never leaves your device: 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 group shot, a street scene, a screenshot with people in it.

  2. Faces are found on your device in a few seconds and blurred straight away. Remove a box, or drag your own over anything it missed.

  3. Pick blur, pixelate or a solid box, adjust the strength, then download the result as a PNG.

When to blur faces

Most photos worth sharing have someone in them who never agreed to be online. The usual cases:

  • Children

    School, club and team photos, or your own kids' pictures in a public post.

  • Bystanders

    Strangers in street, travel and event photos before they go on social media or a blog.

  • Listings

    People caught in real-estate, rental or marketplace photos of a room, a car or an item for sale.

  • Work and evidence

    Colleagues in office or event shots, and bystanders in photos you send to an insurer, a landlord or a platform.

In the EU a photo in which someone can be identified counts as personal data under the GDPR, so blurring faces is often the simplest way to share it without asking everyone in the frame.

Is a blurred face really anonymous?

Not always. A light blur softens a face without hiding it: people who know the person can often still recognise them, and research on face recognition has shown that lightly blurred or pixelated faces can be matched automatically. The tool therefore scales the blur to the size of each face, and you can push the strength further.

For anything sensitive, use pixelate at a high strength or a solid box, and remember what identifies someone besides the face — hair, tattoos, a name tag, a school logo, the place itself.

Read our blur recovery study

License plates, name tags and screens

Auto-detect here finds faces only. For a house number, a badge or a phone screen in the shot, drag a box over it — the same effect is applied, and the result is flattened into one PNG. For text in screenshots, such as emails or card numbers, the image tool detects it for you.

Cars in the photo? The license plate blur tool finds every plate the same way.

Why nothing gets uploaded

Face blur sites that upload your photo keep, for however long, a copy of exactly the faces you want hidden. Here the detector runs in your browser: the model is downloaded once from this site, then the photo is analysed and blurred on your device and nothing about it is sent anywhere.

Hiding text instead? Use the image blur tool for screenshots, or redact a PDF for documents.

Blurring your screen instead of a photo?

If you share your screen or record demos, blur the live page before it is ever captured — a photo, a name or a whole panel, one click in the browser.

FAQ

No. Face detection, blurring and export all run in your browser. The detection model is fetched from this site once; after that the photo is processed entirely on your device and never sent anywhere.

It finds most frontal and slightly turned faces, including small ones in group shots — the photo is scanned in overlapping sections for that. Faces in profile, heavily shadowed or partly covered can be missed, so check the result and draw a box over any it skipped.

A lightly blurred face can sometimes be recognised or matched, so for anything sensitive use pixelate at a high strength or a solid box. The tool already scales the blur to each face's size, which is stronger than a fixed blur on large faces.

Not on this page — detection here is for faces. The license plate blur tool finds plates the same way; or drag a box over a plate, a house number or a name tag here and the same effect is applied.

Yes. It is a regular web page, so it runs in Safari or Chrome on your phone. On a large photo, detection 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.