Why blur faces or text before sharing?
Whether you're posting a photo to a public forum, sharing a document with customer support, or sending a screenshot that happens to include an address, there are details in your images that don't need to be public. Redacting faces, license plates, and sensitive text before the file leaves your device ensures that information cannot be scraped, stored, or re-used.
How local redaction works
This tool doesn't send your photo to a server for an AI to process. Instead, it loads the image directly onto a canvas inside your own browser window. When you draw a box over a face or text, the browser's own graphics engine applies the blur or pixelation effect locally.
When you click download, the browser gives you the modified file straight from its own memory. There is no step in the process where the photo travels over the internet.
True redaction vs visually obscuring
Some quick markup tools on phones or basic image viewers apply a "blur" effect that can sometimes be reversed if the intensity is too low, or if it's saved as an overlay rather than permanently altering the image's pixels.
This tool performs a destructive pixel manipulation. When you download the redacted image, the original pixels in the selected areas have been irrevocably replaced by blurred or pixelated versions. The original data is physically gone from the new file.
What about hidden metadata?
A photo often carries hidden metadata — such as the GPS coordinates of where it was taken, or the exact make and model of the camera. The blur process preserves the image dimensions but may drop some of this metadata depending on your browser's export process. If you want to deliberately strip all location data from a photo, our free EXIF remover lets you inspect and scrub it completely, right in the same browser tab.
A safer way to share
Sharing a photo should not mean sharing everything in it. Blur out the details that matter here for free, without the file ever leaving your machine. This tool is built to let you enforce your own privacy boundaries. That philosophy is the same reason we build Vaultine, an encrypted vault for the files you want kept entirely to yourself.
