Privacy Guard vs Blur photo effect editor app
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Privacy Guard
Control what is visible in your photos and videos by blurring or pixelating sensitive information. Offers free basic editing with limitations and a Pro upgrade for advanced features and watermark-free exports.
- Blur, pixelate, or cover sensitive areas
- Manual and automatic tracking of blur regions
- Edit photos individually or in batches
- Save video projects for later refinement
- Watermark-free export with Pro upgrade
- Custom branding options
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Choose what stays visible in your photos and videos. Free features and limits Photos: edit and export one photo at a time without a product watermark. Manual video: edit, track and export with a watermark. Faces: clips up to 10 seconds, blurred and exported with a watermark; one Keep Area Visible region. Longer face videos require Privacy Blur Pro. Plates: one video up to 60 seconds, with free automatic export. Corrected exports, longer videos and batches need Privacy Blur Pro. One Pro upgrade Privacy Blur Pro — Adds watermark-free manual and face video exports, batch photos, custom branding and advanced privacy controls. Place and adjust blur regions, follow movement, review automatic suggestions and correct the result. Use blur, pixelation or solid covers. Edit photos individually or review a batch. Save video projects to keep refining your edits. Some features require an in-app purchase. Existing Privacy Blur Pro ownership is preserved. Use Restore Purchases with the Apple Account used for your purchase.
Blur photo effect editor app
Easily obscure sensitive details in your photos with customizable blur and pixelation effects. This tool is perfect for censoring faces or backgrounds in social media content, offering various shapes and intensity levels for precise control.
- Blur and pixelate image parts
- Censor unwanted areas
- Customizable blur intensity
- Adjustable pixel square size
- Shape selection (square, ellipse)
- Add stickers for coverage
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With this app, you can blur, pixelate, or censor parts of an image, as well as add stickers to cover up unwanted areas. This app is especially useful for hiding faces and blurring background images in your social media photos. You can choose the shape (square, ellipse), the censorship mode (pixelation, blur), and the intensity. Hide faces in your images by either blurring or automatically pixelating them. The blur level and pixel square size are customizable. If you like our app, please rate and review it to help us improve! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Blur photo effect editor app at 5.0 against Privacy Guard's 3.0. Blur photo effect editor app also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.5). Privacy Guard's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 53 months). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Privacy Guard sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Blur photo effect editor app sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Blur photo effect editor app holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 1% of Privacy Guard's written reviews are positive against 0% of Blur photo effect editor app's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Privacy Guard ships an update every 2 months, Blur photo effect editor app every 53 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Privacy Guard | Blur photo effect editor app |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 1.2% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 53 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.5 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 109 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Carlos Chaparro | Tramboliko Games |
Customer experience
Privacy Guard
Blur photo effect editor app
In-app purchases
Privacy Guard
- Blur Guard Pro$14.99
Blur photo effect editor app
- Weekly subscription$7.997 Days
- Remove logo$1.99
- Remove Ads$3.99
- Lifetime plan$29.99
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