Anonymizer vs Background Eraser
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Anonymizer
Automatically blur or hide faces in photos using facial recognition. Manually adjust blur regions, shapes, and effects. Safely share your anonymized images online.
- Automatic face detection and blurring
- Manual blur region adjustment
- Customizable blur effects and shapes
- Emoji overlay for hiding faces
- Direct sharing to photo library and other apps
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The fastest app to blur and hide faces automatically using facial recognition. Add, resize and manipulate manually with really simple to use tools. Safely publish anonymized pictures on the Internet. This app let's you: - Find faces automatically using face detection and add blur, a solid color or any emoji to hide them - Draw with your finger to add more regions to blur - Resize regions - Change shape, effect or color of regions - Share image to your photo library and other apps This app does not contain any ads or in app purchases.
Background Eraser
Effortlessly remove and replace photo backgrounds using advanced AI. Easily adjust foreground images and share your creations directly.
- AI background removal
- Replace with new backgrounds
- Use photos or colors
- Move, scale, and rotate foreground
- Save and share creations
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Remove the background from any photo in one tap, then make it transparent, white, any color or a whole new scene. Background Eraser uses on-device AI to find the subject — people, pets, products, plants — and lift it cleanly off the background. No masking, no brushes, no upload. REMOVE THE BACKGROUND • Automatic AI background removal, no marking needed • Transparent background: save a clear PNG for logos, product shots, slides and collages CHANGE THE BACKGROUND • White or solid color: pick a quick color or any shade from the full color picker • New photo background: choose a picture from your library or take one with the camera • Add up to 4 more cutouts to build a collage • Drag, pinch and rotate each cutout into place, double-tap to reset SAVE AND SHARE • Save to Photos, copy to the clipboard or share in one tap GREAT FOR • Product photos for online stores and marketplaces • Profile pictures and portraits on a clean background • Collages, school projects, posters and memes PRIVATE BY DESIGN All AI runs on your iPhone. Your photos are never uploaded, and there is no account to create.
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Verdict
Anonymizer and Background Eraser both sit at 4.4 stars, but that hides the real split: 57% of Anonymizer's written reviews are positive against 0% of Background Eraser's. Anonymizer also leads on ratings volume (68 vs 13) and device support (3 vs 1). Background Eraser's advantage is price (Free vs $1.99) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 10 months). On rating, ads 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
Background Eraser is free to download; Anonymizer costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Anonymizer against 4.4 for Background Eraser. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Anonymizer has 68 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 57% of Anonymizer's written reviews are positive against 0% of Background Eraser's.
Anonymizer ships an update every 10 months, Background Eraser every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Anonymizer | Background Eraser |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (68 ratings) | 4.4 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 68 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 86 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Digitalt Hjarta AB | Yajing Qian |
Customer experience
Anonymizer
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In-app purchases
Anonymizer
No in-app purchases
Background Eraser
No in-app purchases
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