Protect privacy by blurring faces, pixelating sensitive information, blurring backgrounds, or adding black bars to your photos. Features automatic face detection, batch processing with ZIP export, background censor mode, before/after preview and more. Every image is processed entirely in your browser - nothing is ever uploaded. Need to prepare an image first? Try our Image Cropper or Image Resizer.
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Applies a Gaussian-style blur that smoothly obscures detail while keeping colour tones. Ideal for faces and backgrounds. Afterward, run the result through our image compressor to shrink file size.
Creates a mosaic effect by enlarging pixels - the classic censoring style used for sensitive content across media and social platforms.
Covers areas with solid black rectangles for maximum privacy. Commonly used for redacting text in documents and screenshots.
A custom coloured overlay for artistic censoring or brand-matching. Pick any colour to cover sensitive areas with a uniform fill.
Photo censoring is essential for protecting personal information before sharing images online. Whether you need to hide faces in group photos, redact personal data from screenshots, or obscure license plates before posting to social media, this tool handles it all right in your browser. You can also enable Background Censor mode to blur everything except your subject. Need to crop your image before censoring, resize it after processing, or convert PNG to JPG for smaller files? ConvertICO offers a full suite of free image tools.
For the best censoring results, zoom in with the scroll wheel to precisely target the areas you want to hide. Use the ellipse shape for faces and the rectangle for text blocks or license plates. Automatic face detection works best on clear, front-facing photos; for group shots it can detect and censor every face at once, and you can raise the Face Sensitivity slider if some faces are missed. Try our Image Cropper to trim unwanted areas first, or the Image Annotation tool to add labels before censoring. Once finished, you can convert PNG to JPG for smaller file sizes or add a watermark to protect your edited image.
No, our censoring is permanent and irreversible. When you blur or pixelate an area, the original pixel data is destroyed and replaced. Unlike overlay methods, this tool actually modifies the image data, making it impossible to recover the censored content.
No. All processing happens directly in your browser using JavaScript. Your images never leave your device, and metadata such as GPS location is stripped when the image is re-encoded on export, ensuring complete privacy.
Face detection uses face-api.js, an AI library that runs entirely in your browser. It loads lightweight neural network models on first use and scans your image locally for faces, automatically creating censor regions over each one. Adjust the Face Sensitivity slider if faces are missed or false positives appear.
Yes. Upload multiple images, switch between them with the thumbnail strip, and use "Faces in All" to detect and censor faces across every image. When you are done, "Download All (ZIP)" saves every censored image in one ZIP archive with a README inside.
Toggle "Censor background instead" and the area you draw stays sharp while everything outside it is blurred or pixelated. It is perfect for blurring a messy or private background while keeping your subject in focus, similar to a portrait effect.
We support JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, and BMP for input. For output, choose PNG (best quality), JPEG (smaller files), or WebP (modern compression). Need to convert? Try our PNG to JPG or JPG to WebP converter.
Yes. Press Ctrl+V (or Cmd+V on Mac) anywhere on the page to paste an image from your clipboard, or click "Paste from Clipboard". This is perfect for quickly censoring screenshots without saving them as files first.