Which image formats and sizes are supported?

You can open JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF (first frame), BMP and AVIF, up to 40 MB per file. You can save as PNG, JPG or WebP. Very large photos are scaled to about 40 megapixels on computers and 16 on phones so the editor stays fast.

Censor Photo Online - Auto Blur Faces, Pixelate & Redact Text

Drop photos or screenshots here or browse - drop several to censor a whole batch JPGPNGWebPGIFBMPAVIF

Paste with Ctrl+V Auto face detection Finds emails, phones, cards

Private by design. Your images are processed on your device and never uploaded. Detection models load from our server only when you press a detect button, and saved files carry no EXIF or GPS data.

Drag on the image to hide an area. Ctrl + scroll or pinch to zoom, Space + drag to pan.

Censor style

Strength60

Draw

Hidden areas 0

Nothing hidden yet. Drag on the photo or press Detect - your secrets are safe with your browser.

How to censor a photo online

Add your photo or screenshot. Drop images into the box, browse for them or paste with Ctrl+V. Add several to censor a whole batch.

Detect what to hide. Press Detect faces, Find sensitive text (emails, phone numbers, card numbers, links and your own words), or both.

Review the boxes. Untick false alarms, drag or resize boxes and set padding. Draw extra areas yourself with the rectangle, oval or brush.

Choose a style. Pick Blur, Pixelate, Black box or Colour box, or blur the entire image or just its background.

Download. Save as PNG, JPG or WebP with metadata removed, copy to the clipboard, or download a batch as one ZIP.

Automatic detection: faces and sensitive text

Two detectors do the tedious part for you.

Each one marks what it finds with a box you can check, move or untick before anything is hidden.

Blur faces in photos

A small face model finds front-facing faces in about a second. Switch to Thorough for crowds, small faces and side profiles.

Hide personal info in screenshots

OCR reads the text, then pattern checks find emails, phone numbers, links, card numbers, IBANs and IP addresses. Add your own words to hide a name everywhere it appears.

Category	Example it catches	Check used
Emails	jane.doe@example.com	Address pattern
Phone numbers	+40 721 555 019, (555) 010-4477	7 to 15 digits with separators
Card numbers	4111 1111 1111 1111	Luhn checksum
IBANs	RO49 AAAA 1B31 0075 9384 0000	Mod-97 checksum
Links and IPs	www.example.com, 192.168.1.20	Domain and IP patterns
Optional	Dates, long ID numbers, all text	Off by default

No detector is perfect. Small, blurry, rotated or handwritten text can slip through, so always look over the result before you share it.

Blur an image online - all of it or just the background

Sometimes the whole picture needs softening, not one spot.

Use Entire image for spoilers, thumbnails or a frosted backdrop behind text. Use Background to keep a person or product sharp and blur a messy room or a crowd behind them.

Want a portrait-style result with automatic subject detection? Remove the backdrop first with the PNG Background Remover, then resize or compress the final image.

Censoring styles explained

Blur

Soft and natural, ideal for faces and backgrounds. The area is shrunk to coarse blocks before smoothing, so it cannot be sharpened back.

Pixelate

The classic mosaic. Block size grows with the area, so a small face still turns into a handful of tiles.

Black box

The safest choice for passwords, card numbers and documents. Nothing of the original survives.

Colour box

Same safety as a black box in your brand colour. Pair it with a watermark for a polished look.

When to censor a photo

Social media

Blur faces of children, friends or passers-by before you post a group photo.

Support tickets

Hide emails, order numbers and IPs in screenshots. Capture them first with Screen Capture.

Selling online

Cover licence plates, house numbers and serial numbers in listing photos.

Documents

Black out card numbers and IBANs on scans, then bundle pages with Screenshot to PDF.

Frequently Asked Questions

Add your photo and press Detect faces. Every face found gets a box you can review - untick false alarms, drag or resize a box, add padding, then press Apply.

Fast mode uses a small 190 KB model. Thorough mode downloads a larger 5.6 MB model that finds smaller and side-on faces.

Yes. Find sensitive text reads the image with OCR inside your browser and marks email addresses, phone numbers, links, card numbers (Luhn-checked), IBANs, IP addresses and any custom words, such as a name. Dates and long ID numbers are optional.

OCR can miss blurry or stylised text, so always check the result before sharing. Need the text itself? Use Image to Text.

No. The downloaded file contains only the censored pixels - there are no hidden layers. Blur and pixelate first shrink the area to a few coarse blocks, so the original detail is thrown away, and the strength scales with the size of each area.

For text such as passwords or card numbers, a solid Black box is the safest choice.

No. Detection, censoring and export all run in your browser, so your images never reach our server.

Saved images are re-encoded from scratch, which removes EXIF data such as GPS location, camera model and date taken. To strip metadata without editing, try the EXIF Data Remover.

Open Whole image in the settings. Blur entire image softens the full picture, while Blur background keeps a rectangle or oval sharp and blurs everything around it.

Drag the focus area or its handles to frame your subject, then set the strength.

A solid black or colour box is the safest, because no trace of the original remains. Strong pixelate and blur are also irreversible here and look nicer on faces and backgrounds.

Avoid very light blur on short text such as PINs.

Yes. Drop several images, switch on All images and run face or text detection on the whole batch, then apply in every image with one click.

Download all saves them together - more than two images come as one ZIP file.

You can open JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF (first frame), BMP and AVIF, up to 40 MB per file, and save as PNG, JPG or WebP. iPhone HEIC photos may need HEIC to JPG first.

Very large photos are scaled to about 40 megapixels on computers and 16 on phones so the editor stays fast.