Blur, pixelate or black out faces, text, IDs and plates in an image — free, in your browser. Black-out really replaces the pixels in the file. No upload, no sign-up.
Drag and drop an image, or pick one from your device. PNG, JPEG, WebP and anything your browser can decode are supported.
Draw a box over each face, name, address, ID or number plate. Choose how to hide it: black out (solid fill), pixelate (large blocks) or blur. Black out and strong pixelate destroy the pixels for good; a soft blur is weaker.
Apply — a brand-new image is built in your browser with the hidden areas already replaced, then downloaded. Nothing is uploaded, and the export carries no EXIF metadata.
No. Redaction happens entirely in your browser. Your image is decoded, edited and re-encoded locally — it never leaves your device, and nothing is sent anywhere.
Really removed. Unlike covering text with a black box on a PDF (where the text stays underneath), here we rebuild the image as a new raster. Under a black-out or a strong pixelation, the original pixels are gone from the exported file — there is nothing underneath to recover.
A strong blur or pixelation is not reversible in practice — the detail is destroyed. But a light, soft blur can sometimes be partially undone, because it only smears the pixels rather than replacing them. For anything sensitive (faces, IDs, plates) use black-out or a strong pixelation, not a gentle blur. We don't call a weak blur "secure".
No. Because the image is re-encoded from a canvas, the export does not carry the original EXIF, GPS or other metadata — that's a privacy bonus on top of the redaction.