Comparison

NoFace vs Dossier

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

Head to head
About

NoFace

Features
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Hide a face in seconds โ€” on a photo you already have, or the moment you hit capture. NoFace works both ways. Bring in a photo or video from your library and hide every face in it. Or shoot with the NoFace camera, where faces are hidden live in the preview and only the anonymous version is ever saved. Everything runs on your iPhone โ€” nothing is uploaded, ever. โ€”โ€”โ€” HIDE FACES, 5 STYLES (free) โ€”โ€”โ€” โ€ข Blur, colour block, pixelate (mosaic), emoji, or a censor bar over the eyes โ€ข Works on what you bring in and on what you shoot โ€ข Finds and follows everyone in the frame โ€” with a coverage slider for hair and forehead โ€”โ€”โ€” BLUR WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE (free) โ€”โ€”โ€” โ€ข Pick a photo or video from your library and hide the faces in it โ€ข The same five styles and the same coverage control โ€ข The file never leaves your iPhone โ€”โ€”โ€” DISGUISE YOUR VOICE (PRO) โ€”โ€”โ€” โ€ข 6 voice presets for video โ€” Deep, Robot, Stranger, Phone and more โ€ข Stays perfectly in sync with your footage โ€”โ€”โ€” CONTROL YOUR METADATA โ€”โ€”โ€” โ€ข Remove all EXIF + GPS data before you share (free) โ€ข Or set a custom date, time and location (PRO) โ€ข Add an on-frame timestamp / location stamp (PRO) โ€”โ€”โ€” PRIVATE BY DESIGN โ€”โ€”โ€” โ€ข Encrypted vault locked with Face ID and a passcode (PRO) โ€ข Or shoot in "Don't save" mode and leave no trace at all โ€ข Record up to 4K / 60fps, front or back camera, HDR (PRO) โ€”โ€”โ€” ON YOUR DEVICE, ONLY YOURS โ€”โ€”โ€” Everything runs on your iPhone. No account. No tracking. No cloud upload. We can never see your media. โ€”โ€”โ€” FREE vs PRO โ€”โ€”โ€” FREE includes: hiding faces with all 5 styles โ€” on photos and videos you bring in from your library, and on photos you shoot โ€” plus removing EXIF/GPS metadata. NoFace PRO โ€” a paid auto-renewable subscription (weekly, monthly or yearly) โ€” is required to unlock: recording video with the NoFace camera, voice disguise, custom metadata stamps, and the encrypted vault. Payment is charged to your Apple ID and renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings. Terms of Use: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Moxqq1_bexs3sykF1ZD0Ny8M6H-5GkDM/view?usp=share_link Privacy Policy: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pM7zVFUbCH03yVFKZ6_Hrhu-KhigFanq/view?usp=share_link

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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 โ€” 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 โ€” 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 โ€” 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 โ€” a badge, a door number. The Safety Pass re-scans your finished clip for faces detected at frame edges. Everything happens locally โ€” no servers, no telemetry, no third-party SDKs. WHAT DOSSIER DOES โ€ข Real-time face blur โ€” baked into the file, no unredacted version is ever stored. โ€ข Voice change โ€” pitch-shifted before audio is written. โ€ข Live captions โ€” on-device speech recognition, burned into video. โ€ข Tamper-evident receipts โ€” SHA-256 fingerprint + audit PDF for every export. โ€ข Dual-aspect & dual-camera โ€” portrait + landscape in one take, or front + back simultaneously. โ€ข Mark Region โ€” manual blur box over anything missed. โ€ข Safety Pass โ€” second-look scan for missed faces. โ€ข Photos too โ€” stills get the same face-blur pipeline. โ€ข Import & redact existing footage from your Photos library. โ€ข Titles & tags โ€” built for libraries past a hundred clips. PRIVACY โ€ข No accounts. No sign-up. No analytics. No ads. โ€ข No network access of any kind. Dossier has no servers. โ€ข Face detection, voice change, captions, hashing โ€” all run on-device. โ€ข Face ID / passcode lock optional on the library. REQUIREMENTS โ€ข iPhone running iOS 17 or later. โ€ข 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 โ€” lawful use is your responsibility. The redaction features are a defense-in-depth tool, not a substitute for consent.

Screenshots

NoFace4 screens
Dossier4 screens

Verdict

The call

NoFace and Dossier are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. NoFace sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days and Dossier sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
NoFace versus Dossier: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNoFaceDossier
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyMonthlyโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size59 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMikhail AltuninWeihan Ding

In-app purchases

4 purchases

NoFace

Subscriptions4
  • NoFace PRO$3.997 Days
  • NoFace PRO$5.991 Month
  • NoFace PRO3 Days trial$14.991 Year
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  • NoFace PRO$14.991 Year
1 purchases

Dossier

One-time1
  • Dossier Pro$9.99

Questions

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

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