Comparison

Blur photo effect editor app vs Discretion

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Blur and pixelate image parts
  • Censor unwanted areas
  • Customizable blur intensity
  • Adjustable pixel square size
  • Shape selection (square, ellipse)
  • Add stickers for coverage
Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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/

Screenshots

Blur photo effect editor app3 screens
Discretion4 screens

Verdict

The call

Blur photo effect editor app and Discretion both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Discretion's written reviews are positive against 0% of Blur photo effect editor app's. Discretion also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 53 months). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Blur photo effect editor app sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Blur photo effect editor app against 5.0 for Discretion. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 0% of Blur photo effect editor app's written reviews are positive against 100% of Discretion's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Blur photo effect editor app ships an update every 53 months, Discretion every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Blur photo effect editor app versus Discretion: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBlur photo effect editor appDiscretion
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 53 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB97 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperTramboliko GamesDavid Kennedy

Customer experience

Blur photo effect editor app

Written reviews5 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Discretion

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Blur photo effect editor app

Subscriptions1
  • Weekly subscription$7.997 Days
One-time3
  • Remove logo$1.99
  • Remove Ads$3.99
  • Lifetime plan$29.99
4 purchases

Discretion

Subscriptions2
  • Yearly Complete7 Days trial$1.991 Year
  • Yearly Family Complete$2.991 Year
One-time2
  • Life-Time Complete$4.99
  • Life-Time Family Complete$7.99

Questions

Is Blur photo effect editor app free?
Blur photo effect editor app is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Discretion free?
Discretion is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Blur photo effect editor app or Discretion?
Blur photo effect editor app and Discretion are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Blur photo effect editor app or Discretion have ads?
Blur photo effect editor app shows ads; Discretion does not.
Which is updated more often, Blur photo effect editor app or Discretion?
Blur photo effect editor app ships an update every 53 months, and Discretion every 2 months. Most recently, Blur photo effect editor app was updated on November 6, 2026 and Discretion on November 3, 2026.

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