Privacy Redaction & Face Blur
Detect and mask faces, IDs, or sensitive text in photos, videos, and documents before sharing.
DAMA - Auto Redact Privacy
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.
- +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
- −Focused on still images rather than video
- −Auto-detection rules can miss or over-redact and need review
Blur ID - Hide Chat Screenshot
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.
Sensitivity: NSFW Cleaner
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.
blur video, blur face in video
FreeAuto-blurs faces, plates and objects in video using computer-vision tracking, with multi-object support and a real-time preview before export.
PrivacyRedactor: AI PDF Mask
FreeOn-device PDF/image redactor that uses Apple's Neural Engine to detect and mask names, IDs, phone numbers, and addresses across multi-page documents.
PrivacyBlur : Face Blur
FreeAuto-detects and blurs faces, plates, IDs, and documents in photos with batch processing before you share. Recognition appears to run in-app.
Privacy Scanner
FreeScans files for hidden PII, GPS, and C2PA AI-provenance markers, then strips/redacts them; 100% local processing for EU AI Act compliance.
FaceBlur AI
FreeAuto-detects and blurs faces in photos and videos for anonymization, with adjustable blur and 100% on-device processing. No accounts, tracking, or uploads.
Face Blur AI - Hide & Censor
FreeOne-tap face blurring with offline auto face detection, manual brush, full-person segmentation, and video face tracking; nothing leaves the device.
Redaktor - Redact PDFs
$9.99PDF redactor that rewrites the content stream to truly remove text, then double-verifies with text extraction and Apple Vision OCR; fully local.
Efface - Face Anonymization
FreeDrop a photo or video and instantly blur, pixelate, or mask every detected face, processed locally on the Neural Engine.
SecretScan: Screenshot Safe
FreeScans screenshots and photos with on-device OCR to find forgotten passwords, 2FA codes, API keys and IDs, then lets you redact or delete them.
PrivacyVeil: Blur & Mosaic
FreePrivacy toolkit that hides faces and objects by label, blacks out detected text, removes backgrounds, and strips metadata, with on-device processing.
License Plate Blur AI
FreeML tool that auto-detects and blurs license plates frame-by-frame in video with fully local processing; niche but low ratings so far.
Redact Shield
FreeLocal-first photo redaction that auto-detects faces and text with Apple Vision on-device, then masks them with blur, pixelation, or black bars.
Offline Redactor
FreeBurns redactions into screenshots, photos, and PDFs, auto-detecting faces and sensitive text with on-device Apple frameworks before export.
BackEyes: Screen Privacy Hider
$3.99Anti-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.
Anonym Fish
FreeAuto-finds names, addresses, and IDs in PDFs and applies layout-preserving redaction on-device, with OCR for scans; some detection uses Apple Intelligence.
Logo Blur
FreeOne-click video logo blurring: a trained detector locates brand logos frame-by-frame and tracks them with optical-flow smoothing for flicker-free pixelation.
LookAct: AI Camera scan QR doc
FreeCamera utility that auto-blurs faces in crowds, scans docs with angle correction, copies text from photos, and turns event posters into calendar entries.
ShareGuard: Blur & Redact
FreeDetects and masks faces, text, and codes in photos and screenshots, plus strips metadata, before you share — all processed on-device.
Garim - AI Video Mosaic & Blur
FreeAuto-detects faces in video and covers them with mosaic or blur entirely on-device; also hides plates and text, with manual touch-up.
MagicMirror Extension
FreeBrowser-extension safeguard that detects and masks PII before it reaches GenAI tools, doing all redaction processing locally without sending data to any internet service.
Easy Face Blur
FreeAutomatically detects and blurs faces in videos with Gaussian, pixelated, or grayscale styles, plus batch processing and selective blur regions.
Anonymisierer
$9.99Local anonymizer that detects names, addresses, and contact data in text plus faces and text in images, then blurs or replaces them before sharing.
Sanctuary Browser Guard
FreeReviews and redacts sensitive text (emails, SSNs, card/API-key-like values) before you paste prompts into AI tools; detection runs locally with no uploads.
RightClickMate
FreeFinder right-click toolkit whose Privacy Eraser uses OCR sensitive-text detection plus AI inpainting to mask private info in images.
Car Plate Blur AI
FreeBatch-detects and blurs license plates in car listing photos via AI, then adds logo watermarks; built for dealers and resellers.
PrivacyHide
$0.99Redacts faces, IDs and sensitive text from images and PDFs with permanent layer removal; all processing happens offline on-device.
Private Photo Move
$4.99Uses on-device AI to automatically detect and move sensitive photos out of your gallery into private offline storage with one tap.