Comparison

Privio Face Blur vs Dossier

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

Head to head
About

Privio Face Blur

Features
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Privio helps you protect your privacy by automatically blurring faces in your photos and videos directly on your device. No uploads. No tracking. No compromises. PRIVACY FIRST All processing happens 100% locally on your iPhone using Apple Vision AI. Your photos and videos never leave your device. WHAT'S NEW IN PRIVIO 2.0: • Smart Face Profiles: Teach Privio who to never blur (friends, family, team members) or who to always blur. Face biometric prints are computed and stored 100% on-device. • All-New Privio Studio: A sleek, unified workspace with instant photo & video selection above the fold. • Dual Blur Styles: Choose between classic Gaussian Blur and retro Pixelate. • Side-by-Side Results & Quick Reset: Compare before and after results instantly, inspect full-screen, or reset your batch in one tap. KEY FEATURES: • Automatic Face Detection Privio detects faces and applies blur instantly, whether it's a single portrait, a large group photo, or a moving video. • Smart Face Profiles (Never Blur / Always Blur) Save face profiles in seconds directly from your photos or manual editor. Privio remembers them and automatically respects your privacy rules across future batches. • Video Support & Real-Time Tracking Protect identities in motion! Our on-device AI smoothly tracks faces throughout videos, keeping the blur perfectly positioned even when subjects move or turn. • Manual Editing & Interactive 5x Zoom Full vertical scrolling editor with enlarged 44pt touch targets. Pinch-to-zoom (up to 5x) and pan freely across large crowds to fine-tune or add custom blur regions with pixel-perfect precision. • Flexible Blur Styles & Intensity Switch between Gaussian and Pixelate effects. Use quick presets (Soft, Balanced, Strong) or fine-tune radius, feathering, and face coverage. • Full-Screen Inspection Safely inspect your blurred media in high resolution before saving. • Fast Batch Export Export your processed photos and videos directly to your camera roll in original quality, 100% clean and watermark-free. PRIVIO IS PERFECT FOR: • Group and event photos (classrooms, sports teams, choirs, public events) • Parents protecting their children's privacy online • Social media creators and journalists • Street and documentary photographers • Anyone who values privacy without sending personal media to remote clouds Your privacy matters. Privio keeps it that way. SUBSCRIPTION Privio Premium is available as an auto-renewable subscription: • Duration: 6 months • Price: €0.99 per 6 months • Subscription automatically renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period • Manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your Apple ID Account Settings TERMS & PRIVACY • Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ • Privacy Policy: https://alessiobianchini.github.io/privio-privacy/privacy/

About

Dossier

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Dossier is a privacy-first iPhone camera for the three jobs where pointing an unredacted lens at a person is a real problem: real estate, legal, and journalism. Faces blur in real time. Voices pitch-shift before the audio is even written to the file. Nothing ever leaves your phone. FOR REAL ESTATE AGENTS Walk a listing without filming the seller, their kids, or the family photos on the wall. Every face in frame is mosaiced as you record — including the buyer who just walked into your shot. Drop a manual blur box over a license plate or personal mail. Name each clip in your library ("412 Maple — kitchen") and sort by listing, client, or date. FOR PARALEGALS AND INVESTIGATORS Capture a witness statement with the speaker's voice pitch-shifted from the moment of capture, so no unredacted audio is ever stored. Every export carries a SHA-256 fingerprint you can prove later in court — show months from now that a copy is bit-for-bit identical to the original, or prove it isn't. Live captions burn into the recording for transcription. Lock the library behind Face ID. FOR JOURNALISTS Bystanders auto-blur so a source isn't compromised by being in your B-roll. Mark Region covers anything the auto-pass missed — a badge, a door number. The Safety Pass re-scans your finished clip for faces detected at frame edges. Everything happens locally — no servers, no telemetry, no third-party SDKs. WHAT DOSSIER DOES • Real-time face blur — baked into the file, no unredacted version is ever stored. • Voice change — pitch-shifted before audio is written. • Live captions — on-device speech recognition, burned into video. • Tamper-evident receipts — SHA-256 fingerprint + audit PDF for every export. • Dual-aspect & dual-camera — portrait + landscape in one take, or front + back simultaneously. • Mark Region — manual blur box over anything missed. • Safety Pass — second-look scan for missed faces. • Photos too — stills get the same face-blur pipeline. • Import & redact existing footage from your Photos library. • Titles & tags — built for libraries past a hundred clips. PRIVACY • No accounts. No sign-up. No analytics. No ads. • No network access of any kind. Dossier has no servers. • Face detection, voice change, captions, hashing — all run on-device. • Face ID / passcode lock optional on the library. REQUIREMENTS • iPhone running iOS 17 or later. • Multi-camera and dual-aspect need iPhone 11 or later. A NOTE ON LAWFUL USE Recording laws vary by jurisdiction. Many places require all-party consent for private conversations. Dossier shows a one-time disclaimer on first launch — lawful use is your responsibility. The redaction features are a defense-in-depth tool, not a substitute for consent.

Screenshots

Privio Face Blur3 screens
Dossier4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Dossier at 17.0 against Privio Face Blur's 26.0. On price, ads, 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. Privio Face Blur sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 6 months and Dossier sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Privio Face Blur versus Dossier: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPrivio Face BlurDossier
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlessio BianchiniWeihan Ding

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Privio Face Blur

Subscriptions1
  • Privio Premium 6 Months$0.996 Months
One-time2
  • Privio Premium – Lifetime$3.99
  • Video blur$8.99
1 purchases

Dossier

One-time1
  • Dossier Pro$9.99

Questions

Is Privio Face Blur free?
Privio Face Blur is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dossier free?
Dossier is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Privio Face Blur or Dossier have ads?
Neither Privio Face Blur nor Dossier shows ads.

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