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Blur or pixelate sensitive areas

Drag boxes over faces, license plates, addresses or screen contents and the pixels underneath are genuinely destroyed, not just hidden. The redacted image is safe to post. Nothing is uploaded.

Runs in your browser Real pixel destruction Up to 20 regions

Drop an image to redact

JPG, PNG, WEBP, then drag to draw boxes over sensitive areas

How to use it

Drag over anything private, and it is gone

Drop a photo, drag a box over a face, plate or document, and pick blur or pixelate. Below is a real redaction: a face pixelated into an unrecognizable mosaic.

1

Drop the photo and drag a box

Drag a rectangle over the part you want hidden: a face, a licence plate, an address, an ID number. Drag again for more areas, up to twenty per image.

A portrait with a box dragged over the eyes and forehead, that region pixelated into an unrecognizable mosaic
A real redaction: the selected region pixelated so the detail is genuinely gone.
2

Choose blur or pixelate, and how strong

Pixelate at a large block size for real privacy. Set the strength high enough that the detail is unrecognizable, not just softened.

3

Download the redacted image

The tool rewrites the actual pixels in that region, so the original detail is not recoverable from the downloaded file. Nothing was uploaded to do it.

Do it right

Why solid pixelation beats a soft blur

This matters more than people think, because a redaction that can be undone is worse than none, since it looks safe while leaking. Two honest points:

A light blur is not safe. Gentle blur keeps a lot of the underlying structure, and AI deblurring tools can partly reconstruct a face or text from it. If you are hiding something real, use pixelate at a large block size, or blur so heavily the area is a featureless smear.

The pixels are actually replaced. Unlike a CSS blur or a sticker in a phone app that only covers the pixels visually, this tool rewrites the region in the image data. The original is gone from the file you download, not just hidden from view.

Honest limits

What this tool will not do

It does not find faces for you

You draw the box over what to hide. There is no automatic face or plate detection, which also means it never redacts the wrong thing.

A weak setting is not real privacy

Too light a blur or too small a block can leave enough to reconstruct. When something genuinely sensitive is at stake, go stronger than feels necessary.

It does not strip the rest of the metadata

Redacting a face does not remove the GPS or camera data in the file. Run the result through the compressor or check it with the metadata viewer if that matters.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between blur and pixelate?

Blur smooths pixels together so features become fuzzy. Pixelate replaces blocks with their average colour, a hard mosaic. For privacy, pixelate at a large block size is the safer choice, because a strong blur can sometimes be partly reconstructed by AI tools while a coarse mosaic genuinely throws the detail away.

Is the original really gone inside the redacted area?

Yes. The tool rewrites the actual pixels in that region, so the original detail is not recoverable from the file. That is different from a CSS or app blur that only hides the pixels visually while leaving them in the data.

Can I redact more than one area?

Yes. Drag to draw a box, then drag again for the next one, up to 20 regions per image.

How strong should I make it for a face?

Enough that the face is an unrecognizable mosaic, not just soft. For a face filling roughly 200 pixels, a block size around 16 to 24 is a safe starting point. When in doubt, go stronger.

Are my images uploaded anywhere?

No. Everything runs in your browser. The original photo never leaves your device, and the redacted version is generated locally too.

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