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Privacy Redaction & Face Blur

Detect and mask faces, IDs, or sensitive text in photos, videos, and documents before sharing.

30 on-device alternatives, ranked
Our picks
Top pickFree

DAMA - Auto Redact Privacy

Early Moon, LLC

The category leader for Privacy Redaction & Face Blur: it uses on-device Core ML and Vision to automatically detect and hide a wide spread of PII (phone, email, faces, QR codes, names, IDs, IPs) in screenshots. It is the most mature pick here, with a strong rating across 144 reviews and a clever 'Hide Text' tool that reconstructs solid backgrounds.

4.7 · 144on-device
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Overall mark
Capability4/5
Craft4/5
Privacy5/5
Value5/5
What's good
  • +Broadest auto-detection of PII types, fully on-device
  • +Best-rated and most-reviewed in the category (4.66, 144 ratings)
  • +Free with on-device CoreML/Vision, no uploads
Watch-outs
  • Focused on still images rather than video
  • Auto-detection rules can miss or over-redact and need review
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Runner-up

Blur ID - Hide Chat Screenshot

SmashMelon LLCFree

A polished pick for Privacy Redaction & Face Blur, tuned specifically for chat and social screenshots: it detects faces, usernames, and profile pictures and replaces them with clean avatars and emoji rather than ugly black bars. The natural-looking, share-ready output is what sets it apart from blunt redaction tools.

4.9 · 29on-device
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Also great

Sensitivity: NSFW Cleaner

Dmytro PolianskyiFree

A privacy-minded variant for the Privacy Redaction & Face Blur category: it uses on-device scanning to find and quietly remove explicit or sensitive photos and videos, reviewed behind Face ID. It is less about masking faces and more about purging sensitive media, all fully offline with no accounts.

4.7 · 7on-device
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blur video, blur face in video

Free
Sounak Sarkar

Auto-blurs faces, plates and objects in video using computer-vision tracking, with multi-object support and a real-time preview before export.

3.9 · 32·on-device
05

PrivacyRedactor: AI PDF Mask

Free
Guangzhou Hengruiyun Technology Co., Ltd

On-device PDF/image redactor that uses Apple's Neural Engine to detect and mask names, IDs, phone numbers, and addresses across multi-page documents.

new · unrated·on-deviceApple Neural Engine
06

PrivacyBlur : Face Blur

Free
NEURALFUL AI LTD

Auto-detects and blurs faces, plates, IDs, and documents in photos with batch processing before you share. Recognition appears to run in-app.

2.9 · 7·on-device
07

Privacy Scanner

Free
Matthias Stralman

Scans files for hidden PII, GPS, and C2PA AI-provenance markers, then strips/redacts them; 100% local processing for EU AI Act compliance.

new · unrated·on-device
08

FaceBlur AI

Free
Alexsander Khitev

Auto-detects and blurs faces in photos and videos for anonymization, with adjustable blur and 100% on-device processing. No accounts, tracking, or uploads.

4.5 · 2·on-device
09

Face Blur AI - Hide & Censor

Free
Igor Bidenko

One-tap face blurring with offline auto face detection, manual brush, full-person segmentation, and video face tracking; nothing leaves the device.

new · unrated·on-device
10

Redaktor - Redact PDFs

$9.99
Cagatay Uenlue

PDF redactor that rewrites the content stream to truly remove text, then double-verifies with text extraction and Apple Vision OCR; fully local.

new · unrated·on-device
11

Efface - Face Anonymization

Free
Reuben Thiessen

Drop a photo or video and instantly blur, pixelate, or mask every detected face, processed locally on the Neural Engine.

new · unrated·on-deviceApple Neural Engine
12

SecretScan: Screenshot Safe

Free
Dmytro Polianskyi

Scans screenshots and photos with on-device OCR to find forgotten passwords, 2FA codes, API keys and IDs, then lets you redact or delete them.

new · unrated·on-device
13

PrivacyVeil: Blur & Mosaic

Free
Tiger Ng

Privacy toolkit that hides faces and objects by label, blacks out detected text, removes backgrounds, and strips metadata, with on-device processing.

new · unrated·on-device
14

License Plate Blur AI

Free
Carlos Chaparro

ML tool that auto-detects and blurs license plates frame-by-frame in video with fully local processing; niche but low ratings so far.

2.3 · 3·on-device
15

Redact Shield

Free
Robert Corbin

Local-first photo redaction that auto-detects faces and text with Apple Vision on-device, then masks them with blur, pixelation, or black bars.

new · unrated·on-device
16

Offline Redactor

Free
KRISHNA PINNAMANENI

Burns redactions into screenshots, photos, and PDFs, auto-detecting faces and sensitive text with on-device Apple frameworks before export.

new · unrated·on-device
17

BackEyes: Screen Privacy Hider

$3.99
炳亮 杨

Anti-shoulder-surfing tool using the front camera and an offline AI face model to auto-hide chosen apps when someone peeks—no internet, no facial data stored.

new · unrated·on-device
18

Anonym Fish

Free
Anderson Santos Silva

Auto-finds names, addresses, and IDs in PDFs and applies layout-preserving redaction on-device, with OCR for scans; some detection uses Apple Intelligence.

new · unrated·on-deviceApple Foundation Models
19

Logo Blur

Free
Carlos Chaparro

One-click video logo blurring: a trained detector locates brand logos frame-by-frame and tracks them with optical-flow smoothing for flicker-free pixelation.

new · unrated·on-device
20

LookAct: AI Camera scan QR doc

Free
Unlypt

Camera utility that auto-blurs faces in crowds, scans docs with angle correction, copies text from photos, and turns event posters into calendar entries.

new · unrated·on-device+ cloud
21

ShareGuard: Blur & Redact

Free
维 艾

Detects and masks faces, text, and codes in photos and screenshots, plus strips metadata, before you share — all processed on-device.

4.0 · 1·on-device
22

Garim - AI Video Mosaic & Blur

Free
HAEDUN KIM

Auto-detects faces in video and covers them with mosaic or blur entirely on-device; also hides plates and text, with manual touch-up.

new · unrated·on-device
23

MagicMirror Extension

Free
MM Security inc

Browser-extension safeguard that detects and masks PII before it reaches GenAI tools, doing all redaction processing locally without sending data to any internet service.

new · unrated·on-device
24

Easy Face Blur

Free
Carlos Chaparro

Automatically detects and blurs faces in videos with Gaussian, pixelated, or grayscale styles, plus batch processing and selective blur regions.

new · unrated·on-device
25

Anonymisierer

$9.99
Robert Meyer

Local anonymizer that detects names, addresses, and contact data in text plus faces and text in images, then blurs or replaces them before sharing.

new · unrated·on-device
26

Sanctuary Browser Guard

Free
KRISHNA PINNAMANENI

Reviews and redacts sensitive text (emails, SSNs, card/API-key-like values) before you paste prompts into AI tools; detection runs locally with no uploads.

new · unrated·on-device
27

RightClickMate

Free
学辉 杨

Finder right-click toolkit whose Privacy Eraser uses OCR sensitive-text detection plus AI inpainting to mask private info in images.

new · unrated·on-device
28

Car Plate Blur AI

Free
Carlos Chaparro

Batch-detects and blurs license plates in car listing photos via AI, then adds logo watermarks; built for dealers and resellers.

new · unrated·on-device
29

PrivacyHide

$0.99
芳茂 蔡

Redacts faces, IDs and sensitive text from images and PDFs with permanent layer removal; all processing happens offline on-device.

new · unrated·on-device
30

Private Photo Move

$4.99
颖祺 高

Uses on-device AI to automatically detect and move sensitive photos out of your gallery into private offline storage with one tap.

new · unrated·on-device