Blur Guard vs Discretion
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Blur Guard
Easily blur moving objects in your videos to protect privacy or censor sensitive information. The app automatically tracks movement, allowing you to hide faces, license plates, and more. Save and share your edited videos with confidence.
- Blur moving objects
- Automatic movement tracking
- Privacy protection
- Censor sensitive information
- Save and share videos
- Resize and reposition blur
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Control what stays visible in your videos. Import from Photos or Files, add blur regions and place them over the areas you want to hide. Adjust each region’s shape, size, strength and time range. Follow a subject with local tracking, then review the timeline and move or resize the blur to correct its path. Play the whole video to check the result. Projects save your edits automatically so you can return and refine them. Help and a six-step tutorial explain the real editor. Editing and preview are free. Pro is a one-time purchase that unlocks final video export, saving and sharing. Already purchased Pro? Use Restore Purchases with the Apple Account used for your purchase. Always review the full result before sharing.
Discretion
Securely share photos by masking sensitive information and removing hidden data. Protect identities with customizable masks and anonymize filenames. This app offers robust privacy controls for images before sharing.
- Automatic and manual face masking
- Metadata removal (GPS, camera settings)
- Anonymous filename simplification
- Layer flattening and TIFF removal
- Video removal from Live Photos
- Privacy Report
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Share photos without worrying about sensitive data being seen. Add masks to securely protect identities. These and other features like metadata removal, layer flattening, and anonymous filenames let you share images on your terms, not theirs. Face Masking Features • Optional: Automatic masking / Manual masking / No masking • Built in Mask Editor: • Add and remove masks • Precision edits to the mask size and position • Change each mask's shape and style Automatic face detection is done privately on-device using two different face detection algorithms with combined results for better coverage. Automatic privacy features • Removes tracking metadata - including date, time, location information (GPS coordinates), camera settings, equipment, operating system, editing software and more. • Simplifies the filename to a two digit number like "01.jpg" (to help prevent source tracing) • Flattens PSD files • Removes hidden TIFF files • Removes video from Live Photo These all help prevent unwarranted data mining and reduce the data available for digital fingerprinting. The results can be viewed in the Discretion photo Privacy Report within the app. Sharing Discretion is ideal for sharing privacy enhanced photos to social media. You are not limited to social media sites though! The Discretion app uses the standard share sheet, so you can do anything you can normally do with an image file. Other features • Supports Light / Dark mode • Dynamic text resizing • No watermark • Emoji Mask (standard smilie only! see Complete Discretion for more information) • iPad - split screen • iPad - hardware keyboard support • iPad - drag and drop support * Complete Discretion * Discretion is free to download and use. Complete Discretion is an enhanced version of Discretion available as an in-app purchase. With Complete Discretion you get all the features of Discretion plus: • Unlock access to every single system emoji for creating masks • Unlock access to Genmoji masks on Apple Intelligence supported devices • Unlock access to Memoji and sticker masks on iOS 18+ and iPadOS 18+ • Batch processing - up to ten images processed at a time • Support independent development Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Discretion at 100% against Blur Guard's 1%. Discretion also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.5). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Blur Guard sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Discretion sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Discretion 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 point the same way: 1% of Blur Guard's written reviews are positive against 100% of Discretion's.
Blur Guard ships an update every 3 months, Discretion every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and June 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Blur Guard | Discretion |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 1.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.5 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 97 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Carlos Chaparro | David Kennedy |
Customer experience
Blur Guard
Discretion
In-app purchases
Blur Guard
- Blur Guard Pro$5.99
Discretion
- Yearly Complete7 Days trial$1.991 Year
- Yearly Family Complete$2.991 Year
- Life-Time Complete$4.99
- Life-Time Family Complete$7.99









