Face Blur+ vs BlurFace
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Face Blur+
Easily obscure faces, license plates, or objects in your photos with various blur effects and stickers. This app allows for multiple blur applications, including inverse blur for backgrounds, and works offline.
- Face blurring
- Object blurring
- License plate blurring
- Multiple blur effects (standard, pixelated, radial, motion)
- Inverse blur for backgrounds
- Sticker overlays (emoticons, flags, censored labels)
- Offline functionality
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Face Blur+ makes it easy to blur out faces, license plates or objects in photos. The app features many types of blur effects as well as icons. No internet connection is required! To blur your photo, simply highlight the area that you would like blurred using the selection tool and tap blur. At this point you will be able to select the type of blur that you want applied. You can add a: Standard or pixelated blur effect. Radial/motion blur effect. You can place stickers over your photos such as emoticons, flags, censored labels, food, animals, sport balls and more. Face Blur+ is also capable of: Blurring out multiple areas/sections in a photo. Applying overlapping blur effects. Performing inverse blur effects. The inverse effect applies a blur around the selected area rather than inside the selected area. So if you're looking to blur out the background of an image and/or applying a radial blur to the background of an image, the inverse effect is capable of doing this. Once you've finished blurring out your photo(s), you can save it to your photos or share the photo(s).
BlurFace
Easily pixelate faces and blur sensitive information in your photos directly on your device. Offers automatic detection and manual editing tools for complete control over privacy. Protect identities for social media or personal use.
- Smart auto blur face detection
- Multiple blur filters (pixelate, mosaic)
- Adjustable manual editor brush
- 100% on-device processing
- Free with no watermarks
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BlurFace is a fast and easy way to automatically pixelate faces and blur sensitive content in your photos — directly on your device. Hide or reveal faces with a single tap. It’s that simple. Use the adjustable paint brush in the manual editor for full control. Anonymize people, license plates, backgrounds — you name it. Key Features: - Smart auto blur: Detects faces instantly. - Multiple filters: Pixelate, blur, mosaic, crystallize. - 100% on-device processing — no cloud etc. - Completely free: No subscriptions, no watermarks. Designed for creators, journalists, parents, and privacy-conscious users. Perfect for protecting identities on social media.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BlurFace at none against Face Blur+'s 1. Face Blur+'s advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (91% vs 57%). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Face Blur+ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. BlurFace asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Face Blur+ against 4.8 for BlurFace. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 326 and 115 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 91% of Face Blur+'s written reviews are positive against 57% of BlurFace's.
Face Blur+ ships an update every 3 months, BlurFace every 49 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Face Blur+ | BlurFace |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (326 ratings) | 4.8 (115 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 91.4% of reviews — better | 57.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 326 — better | 115 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 49 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 14.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Danny Pajevic | Lukas Lubbe |
Customer experience
Face Blur+
BlurFace
Bugs and requests
Face Blur+
Reported bugs
2 issues- Unable to save photos
- Incompatibility with older devices
Requested features
3 requests- Add rectangle/angle blur options
- Improve photo quality after export
- Expand to video blurring
BlurFace
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Face Blur+
- Remove Ads$1.99
BlurFace
No in-app purchases









