Anonymizer vs DeFace Privacy
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.
DeFace Privacy
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DeFace Privacy lets you anonymize faces (and any other sensitive area) in a photo with a single tap — fully on your device. No upload, no account, no tracking. The app works offline. Highlights • Automatic face detection runs locally with YuNet (no internet required). • Refine with a soft pixelation brush: adjust block size, hardness, and the optional "secure scramble" that locally reshuffles tiles to defeat naive un-pixelation matching. • Editing happens at high resolution, the exported JPEG re-decodes the original at full quality. • Save back to Photos through the system share sheet, or send anywhere else. • Truly private by design — the image bytes never leave your iPhone. • Open source under the MIT License. The bundled face-detection model (YuNet, OpenCV Zoo) is also MIT.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: DeFace Privacy at Free against Anonymizer's $1.99. Anonymizer's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
DeFace Privacy is free to download; Anonymizer costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Anonymizer | DeFace Privacy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (68 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 68 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Digitalt Hjarta AB | ben pohl |
In-app purchases
Anonymizer
No in-app purchases
DeFace Privacy
No in-app purchases
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