Comparison

mosaiccy vs Blurify Faces

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

Head to head
About

mosaiccy

Features
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mosaiccy is a local-only photo mosaic app for anonymizing people before you share a photo. It is built for group photos, event photos, street photos, and field photos where several faces may appear in one image. The app detects face and eye candidates on device, shows them for review, and lets you mosaic only the selected faces or manually drawn areas. • On-device face and eye detection • Per-face selection, select all, invert, and small-face selection • Select every face except the people you want to keep clear • Full-face, eye-only, and circular face mosaic regions • Manual rectangle, circle, and brush regions • Pixel mosaic, blur, solid mask, and emoji effects • Adjustable intensity, per-face range, and edge softness • JPEG, PNG, and HEIC edited-copy export • The original photo is never overwritten Everything runs on your device. No account, no ads, no tracking, no analytics SDK, no server upload, no cloud sync, no subscription, and no in-app purchase. Video mosaic is not supported in this version.

About

Blurify Faces

Features
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Some photos are worth sharing — but not everyone in them wants to be seen. Blurify Faces detects faces in your photos and blurs the ones you choose, right on your iPhone. Your photos come out clean — no watermark, no logo, no corner badge. Pick a photo, and the app scans it there on your device. Each face it detects shows up as a thumbnail you can toggle: blur this one, leave that one visible. Blur all of them at once when you're in a hurry. Then save the result to your gallery, or share it straight from the app. NO INTERNET CONNECTION REQUIRED Face detection runs on your device with a local model, so the app has everything it needs to work offline. Airplane mode, a basement with no signal, a mountain trail — it makes no difference. There's no account to create and no sign-in either; open the app and start. YOU DECIDE WHICH FACES Detected faces appear as a row of thumbnails. Tap one to blur it, tap again to bring it back. Blur all the detected faces with a single button, or keep your friends visible and blur the strangers behind them. BUILT FOR MORE THAN ONE PHOTO Add several photos at once and swipe between them. Each one is scanned in the background while you work on the others, so a batch of holiday pictures is ready in seconds. Export the one you're looking at, or all of them together. ABOUT DETECTION Detection is automatic, and like any face detector it can miss someone — a face turned away, half in shadow, or far back in a crowd. The result is always shown to you before anything is saved, so take a look, and use Scan again if you'd like another pass. Please check the preview before you share. ALSO INSIDE • Scan again to run detection over a photo a second time • Save to Photos or share to any app • Multiple languages — the app follows your system language, or you can pick one in Settings Blurify Faces is for parents posting a school event, teachers sharing a class trip, anyone putting a crowded street photo online, and everyone who'd rather do this on their phone than in a browser tab.

Screenshots

mosaiccy3 screens
Blurify Faces4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Blurify Faces at 16.4 against mosaiccy's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

mosaiccy ships an update every 3 weeks, Blurify Faces every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
mosaiccy versus Blurify Faces: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametermosaiccyBlurify Faces
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB64 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperLim SangjinDavid Stepanov

In-app purchases

None

mosaiccy

No in-app purchases

None

Blurify Faces

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is mosaiccy free?
mosaiccy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Blurify Faces free?
Blurify Faces is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do mosaiccy or Blurify Faces have ads?
Neither mosaiccy nor Blurify Faces shows ads.
Which is updated more often, mosaiccy or Blurify Faces?
mosaiccy ships an update every 3 weeks, and Blurify Faces every 2 weeks. Most recently, mosaiccy was updated on October 24, 2026 and Blurify Faces on October 18, 2026.

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