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Blur Faces in a Photo

Hide faces of children, bystanders or anyone who has not agreed to be in your post. Drag over each face and export a blurred copy. Your files never leave your device.

Common before posting school or sports photos, sharing street photography, or sending pictures of an incident where the people involved should not be identifiable.

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Car with its license plate covered using Image Redactor
ModesBlack boxBlurPixelate

Drop one image to redact

Draw boxes over sensitive areas, then export a flattened copy.

Tips for a face blur that actually hides identity

Cover the whole head, including hair and ears, not just the eyes. People are surprisingly recognisable from outline, hairstyle and context.

Check for other identifiers in the frame: name badges, school logos, team numbers, a reflection in a window. Cover those too.

If the face is large in the frame, use Pixelate or Black box; a light blur over a close-up can still leave a recognisable silhouette.

Why not use an online face-blur service?

Photos of children and bystanders are exactly the kind of file you should not upload to an unknown server. NoUpload processes the image in your browser, so the unblurred original never leaves your device.

Three steps, no upload.

Load

Add your image

JPEG, PNG, or WebP.

Mark

Draw over sensitive areas

Cover faces, names, addresses, plates, account numbers, or tokens with black box, blur, or pixelate.

Export

Download a flattened copy

Redactions are baked into the pixels of a new file, and metadata is stripped on export.

Most file tools send your files to someone else's server first. NoUpload doesn't.

For client work, ID scans, medical documents, unreleased product shots, or anything else you do not want sitting in a stranger's storage, the safer upload is the one that never happens.

File processing runs in your browser. Google Analytics records page views and anonymous tool-usage events, but NoUpload does not send filenames, metadata values, file sizes, image blobs, or other file details as analytics data.

  • Your files never leave your device
  • No account, sign-in, or email required
  • Analytics events record only which tool and page were used
  • No server-side file processing path

Don’t take our word for it. Check.

Anyone can claim files stay on your device. Here is how to confirm it yourself in under a minute, with tools already in your browser.

  1. Open the Network panel. Press F12 (Windows/Linux) or ⌥⌘I (Mac) and choose the Network tab.
  2. Process a file. Add an image and run any tool, then download the result.
  3. Read the requests. You will see page assets and small anonymous analytics pings. No request carries your image.

Or go further: load the page, switch off Wi-Fi, and use the tool. Processing still works, because it never needed a server.

Common questions

Not yet. You draw a box over each face, which also lets you decide exactly what to hide, including people automatic detectors often miss.