Face Blur for Video vs Blur Faces
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Face Blur for Video
Easily obscure faces in your videos and photos with blur, pixelation, or emojis. This app processes all content locally on your device, ensuring your privacy. Choose which individuals remain visible while anonymizing everyone else.
- Selective face blurring, pixelation, or emoji covers
- On-device processing for privacy
- Supports photos and videos
- Export in original resolution (up to 4K)
- Works offline
- Multiple hiding options
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Blur everyone in your video except the people you pick. Anonimo finds the faces on your iPhone, groups them by person, and hides everyone else with blur, pixelation, or emoji — fully offline, so nothing ever leaves your phone. HOW IT WORKS 1. Pick a video or photo from your library 2. Anonimo finds every face and groups the faces by person 3. Tap the people who stay visible — everyone else is hidden in every frame 4. Save the result to Photos or share it FEATURES • Blur everyone except the people you choose — one tap per person, across the whole video • Three ways to hide faces: pixelation, soft Gaussian blur, or emoji covers that follow each face • Works offline, even in Airplane Mode — no uploading, no waiting • Saves as HEVC at your original resolution, up to 4K • Works on photos too: JPEG, PNG, and HEIC • Available in 13 languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Ukrainian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, and Swedish PERFECT FOR • Parents sharing the school play, a soccer game, or a birthday party without showing other people’s kids • Schools, daycares, and youth sports teams posting videos when not every family has signed a photo release • YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram creators protecting bystanders • Vloggers filming in public — cafés, streets, concerts, and events • Journalists keeping sources anonymous • Anyone sharing security camera or doorbell footage who needs to hide the people in it • HR and legal teams redacting interview recordings FREE VS. PRO Free: • Photos, with no limits • Videos up to 30 seconds, saved at 720p • Pixelation and a smiley emoji cover • Small Anonimo watermark in the corner Pro: • Videos of any length • Full original resolution (up to 4K) • Gaussian blur with soft, natural edges • The full emoji set • No watermark • One-time Lifetime purchase or a yearly subscription PRIVACY BY DESIGN Anonimo is built around one rule: your photos and videos never leave your device. • Face detection and grouping run on your iPhone, using Apple Vision and SFace • No servers, no cloud storage, no uploads • No analytics or tracking SDKs — App Store privacy label: Data Not Collected • No account required • No internet connection needed SUPPORT Questions, feedback, or bug reports: anonimo@nakolini.com Privacy Policy: https://anonimo.nakolini.com/privacy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ SUBSCRIPTION TERMS The yearly subscription is charged to your Apple Account at purchase and renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings.
Blur Faces
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Blurshot is a face blur app that lets you blur faces, license plates, screens and anything else private in a photo, right on your iPhone. Censor, pixelate or redact any part of the picture and the change is baked permanently into the copy you export — no watermark, nothing uploaded. Everything runs on device. Your photos never leave your iPhone, the app works in airplane mode, and the original picture is never modified — Blurshot always saves a new copy. Most blur apps leave the private part recoverable, stamp a logo on the export, or drop your image to a lower resolution on save. Blurshot works the other way around. The mosaic is written into the pixels, your full resolution and color are preserved exactly, and you can strip the location and EXIF data on the way out. Tap a face to hide it, drag a box over a document, or let automatic detection find every face, license plate and block of text in one pass. Adjust the strength, switch between mosaic, pixelate, Gaussian blur or a solid bar, and save straight to your camera roll at full quality. FEATURES - Blur faces in photos: find every face in one tap, or pick only the ones you want hidden - Mosaic, pixelate, Gaussian blur or a black bar, each with a live strength slider - Redact screenshots: hide names, addresses, chat messages, order numbers and account details - Blur documents and ID cards before you send them on - Hide license plates and house numbers in photos of cars and homes - Permanent by design — the blur is written into the exported image, not layered over it - Strip EXIF and location data on export - No watermark on any export - Everything runs on your iPhone — nothing is uploaded, nothing leaves the device - Undo, redo and autosave PERFECT FOR - Hiding faces before posting to Instagram, TikTok, X or Reddit - Censoring a screenshot before you share it in a group chat - Redacting a document, invoice, ticket or ID before emailing it - Protecting a child's privacy in family photos - Blurring a license plate or address in a listing photo HOW IT WORKS 1. Pick a photo from your library — nothing is uploaded to do it. 2. Drag a box over what you want gone, paint over it with the brush, or tap Find Faces and let Blurshot detect every face, license plate and block of text in one pass. 3. Choose the cover: Gaussian blur, mosaic, pixelate, or a solid black bar for anything that must be unreadable. 4. Save. You get a new photo at full resolution with the redaction written into the pixels. WHY THE COVER HAS TO BE PERMANENT A blur that sits in a layer can be peeled off. A screenshot that is merely cropped can often be recovered. Blurshot rewrites the pixels themselves, so what you send is what the other person gets — there is no hidden original inside the file, and the EXIF and GPS data are stripped on the way out. For text specifically, Blurshot defaults to a solid bar rather than a blur. Blurred and pixelated text can sometimes be reconstructed; an opaque bar cannot. If you switch a text area to a softer style, the app says so rather than letting you find out later. Blurshot is free to use. Privacy Policy: https://enginesstudio.tech/privacy Terms & Conditions: https://enginesstudio.tech/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Blur Faces at none against Face Blur for Video's 2. Face Blur for Video's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads 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. Face Blur for Video sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Blur Faces asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Face Blur for Video | Blur Faces |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vitalii Kikot | ENGINES STUDIO LAB |
In-app purchases
Face Blur for Video
- Anonimo Pro · Yearly$9.991 Year
- Anonimo Pro · Lifetime$14.99
Blur Faces
No in-app purchases
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