Hide a face, a number plate, a username or a screen you should not have shown.
Draw a box over each thing to hide and choose pixelate, blur or a solid bar for it. The rest of the picture is left exactly as it was, and the download is the full resolution you started with. Hiding text? Use the solid bar: it is the one that cannot be undone.
Drop or click to upload
Drag & drop or paste a screenshot
JPG, PNG, WebP, 25MB max
Made for screenshots and frames before they go in a thumbnail or a post: bystanders' faces, car plates, DMs, email addresses, notification banners, an unreleased product on a screen. To soften a whole background instead, use Blur Background.
Drag on the picture to draw a box. Drag a box to move it, drag a corner dot to resize it.
Draw a box on the picture, or press Add box. Tap a box to change how it hides what is under it.
Drop a photo, a video frame or a screenshot, or paste one straight from the clipboard. It is read into your browser and never sent anywhere.
Drag a box over each face, plate or line of text. Pick pixelate, blur or solid bar for each one and set its strength; the preview updates as you go.
Save a PNG or JPG at the same width and height as your original, or open it in the editor to add your title.
All three hide what is under the box. They differ in how they look and in how much of the original survives in the pixels.
| Mode | What it does to the pixels | Use it for |
|---|---|---|
| Pixelate | Splits the box into square blocks and paints each block the average colour of its pixels. Block size is in pixels of your original image. | Faces and plates in photos, where the classic mosaic look is what viewers expect. Use big blocks: a block should be larger than the eye or the character it covers. |
| Blur | Averages every pixel with its neighbours, three passes of a box blur at the radius you set. Pixels just outside the box feed the average, so the edge of the box blends in. | Backgrounds, screens and crowds where a mosaic would look loud. Softer on the eye in a thumbnail. |
| Solid bar | Replaces every pixel in the box with one flat colour. Nothing of the original is left inside it. | Text of any kind: names, handles, emails, phone numbers, addresses, card numbers, passwords, chat messages. |
Blur and pixelate do not delete information, they mix it. Each output pixel is still an average of the pixels that were there. For a face that is usually enough, because there are millions of possible faces. Text is different: a screenshot uses a known font at a known size, and the set of possible words is small. Someone who wants to read it can draw candidate words in the same font, blur or pixelate them the same way, and see which one matches. That has been done to pixelated passwords and blurred document numbers in public, with free software. Small blocks and small radii make it easier.
A solid bar has nothing to match against. Every pixel in the box becomes the same colour, so the download carries no trace of what was under it. If what you are hiding is text that matters, use the bar. If you want the look of a mosaic for style, put a bar over the text first and pixelate around it.
The download is a new, flat image drawn from a canvas: there are no layers, no undo history and no hidden copy of the original pixels under your boxes. Camera metadata such as GPS position is not carried over either. The original file you started with is untouched on your device, so share the new one, and remember that anything you posted before the edit is still out there in its first form.
The work happens in your browser. The line under the upload box counts the bytes of request body that leave the page while you work, which is the right thing to check when the picture is something you are trying to keep private in the first place.
For a thumbnail, a blurred box behind your title often looks better than a mosaic and draws less attention. For a screenshot in a video, the bar is the honest choice for anything personal. If the same frame needs more work, send it on to the editor; to pull the frame out of a video first, use Video to JPG.
Keep going: your result carries over to the next tool with no re-upload.