Hide Face in Photo vs Continuous Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hide Face in Photo
Easily obscure faces in your photos with automatic detection and customizable sticker placement. All features are free, with options to control hiding for individual people. Face data is processed solely on your device for privacy.
- Automatic face detection
- Customizable sticker placement
- Individual person hiding control
- On-device processing
- Free to use features
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FaceHider is an easy-to-use app that automatically detects and hides faces in photos using emoji stickers, mosaic, or blur effects. It's perfect for hiding faces in group photos before posting them on social media, covering the faces of strangers in travel photos, and protecting the privacy of babies and children. The app is completely free except for the batch processing feature for users who want to edit multiple photos efficiently. No account or sign-in is required. — Face Hiding Options — • Emoji • Twemoji • Noto Emoji • Noto Emoji KitKat v1 • Noto Emoji KitKat v2 • OpenMoji • Mosaic • Blur — Example Use Cases — • Instagram posts • Sharing photos on social media • Hiding the faces of babies and children • Protecting the privacy of strangers • School events • Event photos • Family photos • Travel photos — About Privacy — Face detection is performed entirely on your device. Face data is used only to apply stickers or effects to your photos and is never uploaded or sent to our servers.
Continuous Player
This app automatically plays videos and photos from your selected album or custom playlist. It offers extensive playback customization, offline viewing, and a child-lock feature. Enjoy background playback and live captions with no ads or tracking.
- Automatic album playback
- Custom playlist creation
- Playback speed and timing control
- Offline viewing
- Child lock feature
- Background playback
- Live captions
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Pick an album in your Photos library. Everything inside plays, one after another, without stopping. No tapping every clip to start it again, no black screen the moment a video ends. Made for showing your kids only the videos in one folder, looking back at a trip with its photos and videos together, or leaving your footage running while you work. PICK AN ALBUM, THAT'S IT - Play an album from Photos as it is. No importing, no converting - Videos and photos mixed together play as one queue (photos stay on screen for as long as you set) - Or build a playlist of just the items you want, in the order you want TUNE THE PLAYBACK - Sort: date taken (oldest or newest first), duration (longest or shortest first), random - Filter: everything, videos only, or photos only - Filter by date taken: today, the last 3, 7 or 30 days, or an exact range you pick - Timing: how long a photo stays on screen (1-30 sec), and when to move on from a video (play in full, or 3-60 sec) - Repeat: off, the whole album or playlist, or just the video you're on - Speed: 0.5x to 2.0x in 0.25 steps, plus 3x, 5x and 10x PLAY IT OFFLINE - Copy videos and photos onto the device and they play where there's no signal - Filter to "downloaded only" to play just what you saved, back to back - Keep it running on the move or on a plane, without watching your data A LOCK FOR HANDING IT TO A CHILD - Lock the playback screen so taps and swipes no longer interrupt anything - Unlocking takes a long press, so it won't come undone by accident - To keep them from leaving the app entirely, pair it with Guided Access in iOS Settings FIND YOUR WAY BACK - Pin favorite albums to the top of the list - The last video or photo you played is marked, so you know where you left off - Show the date taken on thumbnails and during playback (optional) - Calendar view: thumbnails sit on the days they were taken. Tap a day to play from there, jump to any month, or tap Today to come back WHILE IT PLAYS - Press and hold either edge of the screen to fast-forward at twice your chosen speed, only while held - Double-tap the right or left side to skip 10 seconds forward or back - Background playback: sound keeps going with the screen off, with controls on the Lock Screen and in Control Center - Picture in Picture: keep it running in a small window while you use other apps LIVE CAPTIONS - The audio is recognized as it plays and shown as captions over the video - Switch the language it listens for without stopping playback - it doesn't have to match the app's language - Recognition happens entirely on your device. No audio is sent anywhere - When it can't make anything out, it tells you why NO ADS, NO IN-APP PURCHASES, NO TRACKING Buy it once and it's yours. No ads. No in-app purchases. Nothing about you is collected or sent anywhere. Your videos and photos are read and played on your device. LANGUAGES Japanese, English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Dutch, Polish. You can set the app's language separately from your device language. BEFORE YOU START - Access to your photo library is required. Limited access (selected photos only) works fine - Live captions need permission for speech recognition - Items kept in iCloud but not on your device are downloaded as they play, which uses data
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Hide Face in Photo at Free against Continuous Player's $4.99. Hide Face in Photo also leads on iOS requirement (15.5 vs 18.6). Continuous Player's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On 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
Hide Face in Photo is free to download; Continuous Player costs $4.99 up front. Hide Face in Photo sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Continuous Player asks for nothing beyond the download.
Continuous Player holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Hide Face in Photo ships an update monthly, Continuous Player weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hide Face in Photo | Continuous Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Motoki Takahashi | Suguru Yamada |
Customer experience
Hide Face in Photo
Continuous Player
In-app purchases
Hide Face in Photo
- Pro Plan - Monthly1 Month trial$1.991 Month
Continuous Player
No in-app purchases
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