BlurFace vs DualBlur
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
DualBlur
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Blur faces and bodies in photos and videos, automatically, on your iPhone. Nothing is uploaded. No account. No tracking. BLUR LIBRARY Your photos and videos, right inside the app. Open any of them and DualBlur finds every face and covers it. Turn on body cover and each person's whole outline is hidden too. Then touch up by hand: • Tap a face to leave it visible • Tap anything else — a plate, a sign, a bystander — to cover it • Brush or box over any detail, and pinch to zoom in on the smallest ones • Every edit is saved as a project, so you can come back to it later • Play the blurred video before you export it, and pick which people stay visible for the whole clip • Save a new copy to Photos in one tap, or share it straight from the app Video export checks every single frame. Audio stays untouched unless you turn on the voice changer. VOICE CHANGER Disguise voices while you record, or in any library video: Deep, Deeper, High, Squeaky, or Robot. Picture and sound stay in sync. DUAL CAMERA Record the front and back cameras at the same time, with a live composite preview. Drag the picture-in-picture anywhere, pinch to resize, swap which camera fills the screen with a double tap. COVER STYLES • Solid — opaque cover, nothing left to recover. Strongest. • Emoji — a bear, a cat, anything, on the same opaque plate. • Pixelate and Gaussian — re-anchored and dithered every frame so AI restoration tools can't undo them. Each style shows its privacy rating right in Settings. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Every detection and every cover happens on your device. The app makes no network calls of its own. Blurred copies carry no location or camera metadata from the original. FREE AND PRO Free: dual-camera recording at 1080p with automatic face cover in Solid, Pixelate, or Gaussian. DualBlur Pro adds Blur Library (photos and videos), full-body cover, Emoji, voice changer, 2K/4K recording, 60 fps, and face labels. • Monthly or yearly subscription, or • One-time lifetime purchase Bought DualBlur before it went free? Everything stays unlocked — nothing to do. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account. Manage or cancel any time in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://dualblur.pawels-apps.workers.dev/privacy Terms of Use: https://dualblur.pawels-apps.workers.dev/terms Requires an iPhone XS or newer, or iPad Pro (3rd generation) or newer, for dual-camera recording.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: DualBlur at none against BlurFace's shown. DualBlur also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 49 months). BlurFace's advantage is iOS requirement (14.1 vs 17.2). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BlurFace ships an update every 49 months, DualBlur every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BlurFace | DualBlur |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (115 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 115 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 49 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.1 — better | 17.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lukas Lubbe | Pawel Szydlowski |
In-app purchases
BlurFace
No in-app purchases
DualBlur
No in-app purchases
Questions
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