Blur & Redact Image
Before a photo goes public, the sensitive parts have to go: faces of bystanders, number plates, house numbers, names on documents, data on screens. Draw a rectangle over each one and choose its treatment — blur for a soft cover, pixelate for the classic mosaic, or solid black for total redaction — with a strength control per region.
The treatments are baked into the exported pixels (not a layer that can be peeled off), and re-encoding strips the metadata too. Check the full image once before sharing: redaction only covers what you drew over.
Drop an image to blur or hide sensitive parts
JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, GIF, BMP, TIFF, HEIC or SVG — processed locally, never uploaded · You can also paste from the clipboard
How to blur & Redact Image
- Drop the image.
- Drag on empty space to draw each region; drag inside a region to move it.
- Set each region's treatment and strength, then apply and download.
Frequently asked questions
Blur or pixelate or black — which is safest?
Solid black is absolute: nothing remains. Heavy pixelation with large blocks is effectively irreversible. Light blur is the weakest — fine for aesthetics (e.g. softening a background face) but not for truly sensitive data like document numbers. When in doubt, go black or big-block pixelate.
Can someone undo the effect from my exported file?
No — the exported pixels are the treated pixels; the original data underneath is gone from that file. Keep your own original private, of course.
Does it detect faces automatically?
No — deliberately. Automatic detection that misses one face is worse than a tool that makes you look at the image yourself. Drawing regions takes seconds and you stay in control.