Comparison

FacelessCamera vs Simple Mosaic

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

Head to head
About

FacelessCamera

Record videos with enhanced privacy features. This app can automatically blur or mosaic faces using detection and also alter voice pitch. Add custom captions to your videos before saving them to your device.

Highlights
  • Face detection and blurring/mosaic
  • Voice pitch shifting
  • Add custom captions
  • Save videos to camera roll
Features
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FacelessCamera is an app for recording video that processed image and voice. Features - Apply mosaic and blur effects to your videos. - Use face detection to hide faces automatically. - Raise or lower the pitch of the audio with the pitch-shift feature. - You can also apply effects to videos you have already saved. Caution - If face-detection is not working, please unlock screen orientation. - Voice processing is a simple pitch-shift, so it can be restored to some extent. If you need to protect privacy strictly, please consider use of special software.

About

Simple Mosaic

Features
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An app for hiding the one part of a photo you did not mean to share. Open it, pick a photo, drag over what should be gone, save. No tutorial, no account, no sign-up. ■ Four ways to hide ・Pixel — the familiar square mosaic ・Blur — when it should blend into the photo ・Glass — like looking through frosted glass, not just a soft focus ・Black — when it has to be gone for certain A slider sets how strong it is, and the photo updates as you drag. ■ Five shapes ・Brush — hide whatever your finger covers, at any width ・Rectangle — names, addresses, email, QR codes ・Vertical bar — details stacked down the screen ・Horizontal bar — eyes, or a single line of text ・Circle — faces, without a hard edge Rectangles and circles can be moved, resized or deleted afterwards. ■ Hide every face at once Tap Hide Faces and the app finds the faces in the photo and covers them together. Detection runs entirely on your device. Anything it gets wrong, you can tap and delete. ■ Nothing is final Undo and redo are always there, and the eraser brings back anything you covered too much of. ■ What it costs Every tool is free to use. Saving and sending are free for your first five photos. If you want more, a single purchase removes the limit for good. There is no subscription. ■ Your photos stay on your phone ・Your photos are never sent to a server ・No account ・No uploads ・All editing happens on the device ■ Location data does not travel with it Masking a photo and then sharing the place it was taken defeats the point. Saved photos have their GPS tag and other metadata stripped by default — you can turn that off in Settings. Your original photo is never modified. The masked version is always saved as a new photo. ■ What this app does not do No filters, brightness, cropping, stickers, text, collage or beauty tools. It is not a photo editor. It is a tool for hiding things. For iPhone and iPad, iOS 18 or later.

Screenshots

FacelessCamera2 screens
Simple Mosaic4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Simple Mosaic at none against FacelessCamera's shown. Simple Mosaic also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 21 months). FacelessCamera's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FacelessCamera ships an update every 21 months, Simple Mosaic weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
FacelessCamera versus Simple Mosaic: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFacelessCameraSimple Mosaic
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.6 (8 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 21 monthsWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYU HASHIZUMESeiya.k

In-app purchases

None

FacelessCamera

No in-app purchases

None

Simple Mosaic

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FacelessCamera free?
FacelessCamera is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Simple Mosaic free?
Simple Mosaic is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do FacelessCamera or Simple Mosaic have ads?
FacelessCamera shows ads; Simple Mosaic does not.
Which is updated more often, FacelessCamera or Simple Mosaic?
FacelessCamera ships an update every 21 months, and Simple Mosaic weekly. Most recently, FacelessCamera was updated on September 30, 2026 and Simple Mosaic on September 27, 2026.

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