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A complete, private, in-browser tool to blur faces, backgrounds, text and any region — with 14 real blur styles, auto detection, feathered regions and batch processing.
Detect faces with your browser’s built-in detector and blur them all instantly — or select individual faces. Manual selection works everywhere.
Draw rectangle, circle, polygon or freehand regions over anything — plates, screens, documents, tattoos — with feathered, natural edges.
Add, edit, duplicate, invert and delete as many blur regions as you need, each with its own type, strength and opacity.
Gaussian, box, motion, lens, radial, zoom, surface, tilt-shift, bokeh, frosted glass, pixelate, mosaic and irreversible censor.
Optionally read the image with on-device OCR to find usernames, emails and numbers, then censor them so they cannot be recovered.
See the blur update in real time and drag a slider to compare the original and blurred image side by side.
Blur a whole folder with shared settings and download everything as a single ZIP — perfect for galleries and case files.
Export blurred images as PNG, JPG, WebP or AVIF, with quality presets and automatic metadata stripping.
Images are processed in your browser with Canvas — never uploaded, stored or sent anywhere.
Image blur is the process of softening or obscuring part or all of a picture by averaging the colours of nearby pixels. A blur tool lets you reduce the detail in an image — either to protect privacy (hiding faces, license plates or confidential text), to create a creative focus effect (a blurred background behind a sharp subject), or to remove distractions.
This blur tool runs entirely in your browser. It decodes your image onto an HTML canvas and applies real pixel-level algorithms — Gaussian, box, motion, radial, pixelate and more — either to the whole image or to specific regions you draw. Because everything happens locally, your images are never uploaded, making it safe for sensitive photos, screenshots and documents.
You can blur a single photo, redact a screenshot, apply a portrait-style background blur, or batch-process an entire folder — all while previewing the result before you download.
Blurring is one of the most important tools for sharing images responsibly. Photos and screenshots often contain information you did not intend to publish — a bystander’s face, a car number plate, a home address on a delivery label, an email in a notification, or a password on a screen. Blurring removes that information before you post.
Beyond privacy, blur is a creative and professional tool: it isolates a subject, simulates the shallow depth of field of an expensive camera, hides clutter in a product shot, and directs the viewer’s eye exactly where you want it.
Blurring faces is the single most common privacy task. Whether you are publishing event photos, street photography, customer testimonials or footage that captured uninvolved bystanders, obscuring faces protects people who did not consent to appear.
This tool offers one-click face detection using your browser’s built-in Shape Detection API where available; it finds faces automatically and blurs them all. Where the browser does not provide a detector, you simply draw a circle or rectangle over each face — which works in every browser and gives you precise control. For true anonymity, use the pixelate or censor styles rather than a light Gaussian, because a gentle blur can sometimes be partially reversed.
Background blur — the portrait or “bokeh” effect — keeps your subject sharp while softening everything behind them. It mimics the shallow depth of field of a fast lens and instantly makes a snapshot look professional.
To blur a background here, draw a region around your subject and toggle the region to “blur outside”, or select the background area directly. Adjust the strength for a subtle or dramatic effect, increase feather for a natural falloff, and choose the lens or bokeh style for a creamy, optical look. For best results, keep the subject’s edge well defined and use a moderate strength so the effect looks believable.
Screenshots are a privacy minefield: they capture usernames, email addresses, phone numbers, account balances, API keys, chat histories and profile pictures. Before sharing a screenshot in a tutorial, bug report or social post, redact anything sensitive.
Draw censor regions over the details you want to hide, or use on-device OCR to automatically locate text you can blur in bulk. For screenshots, prefer the pixelate or censor style at high strength — a soft blur over crisp text can sometimes be read or reconstructed, while heavy pixelation and solid censoring are effectively irreversible.
Scanned documents, invoices, IDs, medical records and legal paperwork frequently need to be shared with specific fields hidden — a signature, an account number, a date of birth, a diagnosis. Blurring or censoring those fields lets you share the rest of the document safely.
Use rectangle regions over each confidential field and the censor style for a guaranteed, unrecoverable redaction. Because the tool never uploads your files, even highly sensitive documents stay entirely on your device. Always export a fresh copy rather than overwriting the original, and verify the redaction at full zoom before sharing.
These three privacy methods are related but not equally secure. A Gaussian blur softens detail and looks natural, but a light blur over text or a small face can sometimes be partially reversed by software. Pixelation (mosaic) replaces blocks of pixels with their average colour and is much harder to undo at high block sizes. Censoring uses very heavy pixelation or solid fills and is effectively irreversible.
Rule of thumb: use Gaussian or lens blur for creative and mild-privacy work, pixelate for everyday face and plate hiding, and censor for anything truly confidential — passwords, ID numbers, medical and legal details.
Photographers and content creators use blur to control attention. A tilt-shift effect turns a cityscape into a miniature; a radial or zoom blur adds energy and motion; a soft lens blur on the background flatters a portrait; and motion blur conveys speed.
This tool gives you all of these as real, adjustable effects. Apply them to the whole image or to a region, combine a sharp subject with a blurred surrounding, and fine-tune strength and direction until the look is exactly right — then export at full quality.
Effective, safe blurring comes down to a few habits. Choose a method strong enough for the content: censor or heavy pixelate for genuinely sensitive data, not a faint blur. Always work on a copy and keep your original elsewhere. Verify the result at full zoom — a region that looks blurred at thumbnail size may still be readable when enlarged.
Flatten and re-export the image so the blur is baked into the pixels (this tool does that automatically), and strip metadata so nothing leaks through the file. Finally, remember that cropping can be better than blurring when the sensitive area is at the edge of the frame — removing it entirely is the most secure option of all.
Drag in one image, many images or a whole folder — or click to browse. JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, BMP, GIF and SVG are read instantly. Nothing is uploaded to a server; everything is processed in your browser.
Turn on whole-image blur, or draw a region (rectangle, circle, polygon or freehand) over a face, license plate, screen or any sensitive area. Use Detect & blur faces for one-click privacy, or OCR text detection to find words to redact.
Select Gaussian, pixelate, censor, motion, tilt-shift, bokeh and more, then dial in strength, feather and opacity. Toggle a region to blur its background instead of its inside for a portrait effect. Everything updates live.
Export a single blurred image as PNG, JPG, WebP or AVIF, or batch-process everything and download a ZIP. EXIF/GPS metadata is stripped by default for privacy.
| Method | Reversible? | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Gaussian / lens | Sometimes (if light) | Creative softening, mild privacy, backgrounds |
| Pixelate / mosaic | Hard at high block size | Faces, license plates, everyday privacy |
| Censor (heavy) | Effectively no | Passwords, IDs, medical & legal redaction |
| Motion / radial / zoom | N/A (creative) | Energy, speed, artistic effects |
Blur faces, plates and personal details before publishing photos of events, streets or customers.
Hide usernames, emails, balances and tokens in tutorials, bug reports and support tickets.
Add background blur, hide clutter and remove location data before posting to Instagram, X or TikTok.
Blur distracting backgrounds so your product is the clear hero of the shot.
Blur neighbours’ windows, plates and family photos when listing a property.
Redact signatures, account numbers and confidential clauses with irreversible censoring.
Hide patient identifiers and diagnoses for teaching and research while keeping the rest visible.
Anonymise student work, examples and case studies before sharing in class or online.
Your images never leave your device. Decoding, blurring, redaction and detection all run in your browser — nothing is uploaded or stored.
Images are decoded and blurred on a canvas in your browser. They never touch a server.
Personal photos, screenshots and documents are processed locally and never transmitted.
Re-encoding removes EXIF location, camera and timestamp data automatically.
With nothing leaving the device, there is no data to store, leak or comply over.
For passwords, IDs and account numbers, choose censor or heavy pixelate — a light blur can sometimes be reversed.
Increase the feather on a region so the blur fades smoothly instead of showing a hard rectangle.
Toggle a region to “blur outside” to keep your subject sharp and soften everything around it.
Glasses, mirrors and monitors in the frame often reveal details you meant to hide.
A region that looks safe at thumbnail size can still be readable enlarged — always double-check.
Apply the same blur to a whole folder and export a single ZIP for galleries and case files.
Automate privacy at scale with a REST API: server-side face, object and license-plate detection, region blur and redaction, batch jobs, webhooks, API keys, team accounts and usage analytics.
Social Media Privacy Tips
Before you post, scan the whole frame, not just the subject. Reflections in windows and glasses, screens in the background, name tags, house numbers, vehicle plates, and documents on a desk all leak information. Blur or crop them out.
Strip metadata on export so your photos do not carry GPS coordinates and camera details — this tool removes EXIF data by default. For stories and reels, a quick background blur also keeps the focus on you and hides a messy room. When in doubt, over-redact: it is far easier to share less than to un-share something private.