Anonymize a photo

Pixelate, blur or black out faces, text and license plates. Your photo never leaves your device.

Or just tap anywhere to edit these faces

Privacy Image Editor with Face Detection

Facepixelizer is a specialized image editor for anonymizing images — now on mobile.

What is Facepixelizer?

Facepixelizer is a specialized image editor for anonymizing images. Use Facepixelizer to quickly hide information in images that you don't want to become public. For example, you can blur out text and pixelate faces that appear in your images.

Even though Facepixelizer runs in the browser, your images are secure because they never leave your browser and are never sent over the network. All the processing happens in your browser.

Woman in the Blue Lagoon in Iceland with pixelated chest.

A group of people with their faces pixelated holding bowling balls.

Group of people where all faces have been automatically pixelated.

Who is it for?

Authors of tutorials who need to hide email addresses etc. in screenshots.
Bloggers that want to use personal photos in their blogs.
Photographers that don't want to get sued.
Journalists that want to protect the identity of people in photos.
People sharing photos on social media who don't want to reveal others' identities.
People that want to blur out car license plates.
Parents that want to share photos of their children.
Anyone needing to redact documents, e.g. to obscure private information on statements or receipts.

How do you use it?

Easy as 1 - 2 - 3:

Tap Open to take a photo or choose one from your library.
Drag your finger over any regions that need to be blurred or pixelated.
Tap Save to store your image or share it.

Fast workflow

The workflow in Facepixelizer is optimized for anonymizing images with the fewest taps possible. It requires only one drag per anonymization. Unlike many other editors, you don't need to first select an area and then apply an effect, and you don't need to adjust the settings of the effect — Facepixelizer figures it out for you.

Face detection

Facepixelizer has face detection built in. Tap Faces and it finds the faces in your photo and hides them all at once. It runs entirely on your device, so your photos stay private. It works well but may not catch every face — for example faces that are strongly tilted or turned to the side. Those are easy to touch up by dragging over them.

Group photo where all faces have been automatically pixelated.

Anonymization (selection) tool

Drag a rectangle over anything you want to hide. In Auto mode Facepixelizer "knows" whether you are anonymizing text or a face — text is blurred while faces are pixelated.

The amount of the effect depends on the size of the area. If the area is large, the effect is scaled up appropriately, so the amount of blurring or pixelation looks the same no matter the size. In other words, the effect is scale-independent — large faces are pixelated more than small faces, and text in a large font is blurred more than text in a small font.

If you're not happy with what Auto mode gives you, switch to Pixelate, Blur or Black and use the Strength slider to fine-tune the effect.

Crop

Facepixelizer includes a convenient cropping function. Tap Crop, drag to select the area to keep, then tap Apply crop.

For advanced cropping we recommend CropToFit.com, also created by us with the same focus on simplicity — great when you need to crop and scale an image to specific dimensions for web or app development.

Undo

To undo, drag from the bottom right to the top left — i.e. in the opposite direction of when applying an effect. This restores the original image in that spot and is very efficient once you get used to it. You can also tap the Undo button at the top.

Undo can be used to get interesting effects, such as revealing one area of the image. In the image below, the whole image was first pixelated, and then the undo gesture was used to reveal the eyes.

Save

Once you're happy with your image, tap Save. On a phone you can save it to your photo library or share it directly; on a computer it downloads with _censored added to the filename. When you save, all EXIF data — including date and location — is removed.

Q & A

Is Facepixelizer free?

Yes, Facepixelizer is completely free to use. If you publish images processed by Facepixelizer on the web, we would appreciate a link to this page (facepixelizer.com).

Does it work on iPhone and Android?

Yes. This version runs right in your mobile browser on both iOS and Android — no app install required. You can even add it to your home screen for a full-screen, app-like experience. Prefer a mouse and a big screen? Open the full desktop version.

What is EXIF data?

JPG images include EXIF data that can contain the time and location a photo was taken, plus camera details. PNG images do not include EXIF data.

Is EXIF data removed by Facepixelizer?

Yes. When you save a file with Facepixelizer, all EXIF data is removed. Date information is removed. Location information is removed.