FacelessCamera vs Simple Mosaic
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Face detection and blurring/mosaic
- Voice pitch shifting
- Add custom captions
- Save videos to camera roll
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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.
Simple Mosaic
Easily obscure sensitive information in your photos. Select an image, draw over unwanted areas with various tools, and save the result. It offers multiple ways to hide content, including automatic face detection, with all editing done locally on your device.
- Pixelate, blur, glass, or black out areas
- Multiple shapes: brush, rectangle, bar, circle
- Automatic face detection
- Undo/redo functionality
- Metadata stripping (GPS, etc.)
- On-device editing
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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. ■ Straight from the Share button Open a photo from the Share button in Photos or on a screenshot and mask it right there — no need to find the app first. ■ 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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Simple Mosaic at 100% against FacelessCamera's 50%. Simple Mosaic also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 21 months). FacelessCamera's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price 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. Simple Mosaic sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. FacelessCamera asks for nothing beyond the download.
FacelessCamera ships an update every 21 months, Simple Mosaic every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FacelessCamera | Simple Mosaic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 21 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | YU HASHIZUME | Seiya.k |
Customer experience
FacelessCamera
Simple Mosaic
In-app purchases
FacelessCamera
No in-app purchases
Simple Mosaic
- Unlimited saving$2.99









