# Sumi - Redact & Blur Photos — Hide faces & private info

> Hide faces & private info (iPhone/iPad app by TOSHIYUKI HIRATA.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sumi-redact-and-blur-photos/id6792285248 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [TOSHIYUKI HIRATA](https://appshunter.io/developer/1711109354)
- Category: Photo & Video, Utilities
- Price: $2.99
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 26.2 · 2 MB
- Languages: American English, Danish, Dutch, French (France), German (Germany), Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål and 7 more
- Released: 2026-07-31
- Data updated: 2026-08-27
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sumi-redact-and-blur-photos/id6792285248/reviews.md

## What is Sumi?

Sumi finds and hides private information in your screenshots — automatically, before you share them.

Pick a photo and Sumi instantly detects what shouldn't be shared: faces, email addresses, phone numbers, URLs, street addresses, credit card numbers, prices, QR codes, and other sensitive numbers. Choose mosaic, blur, or ink blackout, then save or share. Done in seconds.

WHY SUMI

- AUTOMATIC DETECTION
Faces and personal info are found for you. Tap any box to toggle it, or tap a category chip to toggle a whole category at once.

- MY KEYWORDS
Register your own name, company, or ID once — Sumi finds and masks it in every screenshot, even when the text is spaced or slightly misread.

- REDACT MULTIPLE PHOTOS
Select up to 20 screenshots and mask them all in one go. Tap any photo to fine-tune it.

- SHARE EXTENSION
Redact directly from the share sheet of any app — no need to open Sumi first.

- PEN TOOL
Draw over anything the detector missed. Three mask styles: mosaic, blur, and sumi-ink blackout.

- 100% PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Everything runs on your device. No network connection, no ads, no analytics, no tracking. Saved images contain no EXIF or GPS metadata.

- PAY ONCE
No subscription. No watermark. No locked features. Buy once, use forever.

Sumi (墨) is Japanese ink — the app is named after "sumi-keshi," the traditional art of blacking out text.


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.1.0 — 2026-08-18

- Box tool: drag to mask a rectangular area. Much faster than the pen for notification banners, account rows, and chat bubbles.
- Remove location only: pick your photos and see exactly what is embedded in them — GPS coordinates, capture date, and camera model — then save copies with all of it stripped, without any blurring.
- Choose your app icon: four styles to pick from.
- Undo now steps back through pen strokes and boxes in the order you drew them.

### 1.0.0 — 2026-07-31

No release notes.

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