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Privacy Blur
Blur, pixelate, or black-bar faces, plates, screens, and documents — in your browser. Draw regions directly on the preview, resize with handles, and download with EXIF stripped.
Everything runs in your browser. Your photo never leaves your device.
① Drop a photo② Drag on the preview to draw a region③ Pick a mode & download
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Drop a photo — then drag on the preview to draw blur regions.
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Quality
92%GPS, camera, and EXIF data are removed on export. The blur is baked into the pixels — keep a copy of the original.
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Blur, Pixelate, And Black-Bar Sensitive Areas
Privacy Blur runs three redaction modes locally on a Canvas: Gaussian blur via the CSS-style filter property, pixelation via downscale-then-upscale with image smoothing disabled, and a solid colour fill. Each region is a rectangle or ellipse path used as a Canvas clip, so only pixels inside the region are touched — the rest of the image stays pixel-identical to the original.
Regions are stored as relative coordinates (0 to 1 in each axis), not pixel positions. This means they scale perfectly when the source image is rendered at its native resolution for export. A region drawn on a 1920-pixel preview ends up in exactly the right place on a 24-megapixel original because the coordinates are resolution-independent.
Each region has its own mode and strength. Blur is right for faces in casual photos. Pixelate is right for licence plates and any text you want to make unreadable by OCR — the block size determines how coarse the mosaic is. Black bar (or any solid colour) is the right choice for genuinely sensitive content like passwords, full home addresses, signatures, or API keys, because solid fill cannot be reversed by any algorithm, whereas blur is theoretically partially recoverable through deconvolution.
Editing is non-destructive until you hit Download. The full history is kept as a stack so undo and redo step backwards and forwards through every edit you've made. Backspace deletes the selected region. Arrow keys nudge the region in small steps (larger with Shift). On touch screens, drag to move, pinch to resize, and use the floating toolbar that appears next to the selected region.
Up to sixteen regions can stack on a single image, each independently positioned, sized, shaped, and tuned. Resize handles appear at the eight cardinal points of the selected region for pixel-accurate adjustment.
Important: EXIF metadata is stripped on export. The Canvas re-encode pipeline produces a fresh image bitstream that contains no EXIF, no GPS, no camera serial, no original timestamps, and no orientation tag. Photos taken on a phone are also automatically rotated upright on load so blur regions land where you expect them, even on portrait-orientation captures.
Everything happens locally. The image is loaded as an object URL, all redaction is drawn into a Canvas in your tab, and the exported Blob is downloaded directly. There is no upload step, which is critical for the kind of content this tool is built for — photos with bystanders, documents with personal data, screenshots with credentials.
Common Use Cases
01
Faces of bystanders in photos
Blur faces of people who did not consent to appearing in a public post before sharing on social media or a blog.
02
Children's faces in family photos
Hide kids' identities in photos shared on community platforms while keeping the rest of the scene visible.
03
Licence plates
Pixelate plates in driveway, parking lot, or street photos where vehicle ownership could be traced. Pixelation defeats OCR better than blur.
04
Document redaction
Black-bar account numbers, addresses, or signatures on scans of bank statements, leases, or government forms.
Frequently Asked Questions
Click or tap on an empty part of the preview and drag — a rectangle is drawn from the start point to your finger or cursor. Hold Shift while drawing on desktop to make an ellipse instead. The new region becomes the selected one.
Click or tap to select the region, then drag any of the eight handles on its border. On touch screens you can also pinch the region with two fingers to resize it proportionally from its centre.
Blur applies a Gaussian softening — good for faces. Pixelate replaces the region with coarse blocks — better for plates and any text, because it defeats OCR more reliably. Black bar fills the region with a solid colour — the only truly irreversible option for high-stakes content like passwords, addresses, and signatures.
Theoretically, yes — moderate blurs on text or numbers can sometimes be partially recovered through deconvolution. Pixelation is harder to reverse but still possible with enough constraint. For genuinely sensitive content, use the black bar mode, which cannot be undone.
No. The export re-encodes the image through a Canvas, which produces a fresh bitstream with no EXIF, GPS, camera serial, or original timestamps. Photos taken on a phone are also auto-rotated upright on load.
No. Everything runs locally in your browser using the Canvas API. The image, the regions, and the export all stay inside your tab.
Yes — undo and redo are stack-based and instant. Use Cmd/Ctrl+Z to undo and Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Z to redo. The buttons are also in the preview toolbar and the mobile action bar.
Up to 16 per image. Each has its own mode, shape, and strength, so a single photo can have a blurred face, a pixelated plate, and a black bar over a sensitive document — all at once.
Select it and press Delete or Backspace, or use the trash icon in the floating toolbar that appears next to the region, or the Delete button in the side panel.
WebP (smallest), JPEG (compatible), and PNG (lossless). All three are written without any embedded metadata. PNG is the safest choice if you'll re-edit the result; WebP gives the smallest file for sharing.
Yes. Press Cmd/Ctrl+V anywhere on the page with a copied image in the clipboard — useful for screenshots.
Yes. Tap to select a region, drag to move it, pinch to resize, and use the floating toolbar to change mode or delete. There's also a sticky action bar at the bottom of the screen for one-tap undo, redo, and download.
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