Blur & Pixelate
The EXIF Viewer & Remover strips the data hidden inside your photo; this tool hides the details visible in it. Paint over a face, a number plate, a screen in the background — whatever should not travel with the picture — and download a clean copy at full resolution. Nothing is uploaded; the editing happens on your device.
Drop your photo here, or click to choose
JPG, PNG or WebP · one photo at a time · nothing is uploaded
Strip the hidden data, hide the visible data
A photo carries two kinds of private information. The first is invisible: the metadata — camera, timestamps, GPS — that the EXIF Viewer & Remover shows you and the EXIF Editor lets you change. The second is right there in the picture, and no metadata tool can help with it: the faces of bystanders or children who never agreed to be in your shot, a licence plate, a house number, a document or screen open in the background, a client's address on a delivery label in a product shot. That is this tool's job. Run a photo through both before you share it and you have dealt with what the file says and what the image shows.
How it works: edits that re-draw at full resolution
Nothing here is painted permanently onto your photo as you work. Every brush stroke, rectangle and ellipse is stored as an instruction — a shape, an effect, a strength — and the picture you see is drawn fresh from those instructions each time something changes. The preview is a working copy, small enough to stay responsive; when you download, the same instructions are re-drawn from your original file at its full size, so nothing is lost by working on a smaller preview. Because the edits are just a list, Undo steps back through them, Reset clears the list, and the restore brush paints the original back wherever you overdid it. Nothing is baked in until the moment you download.
Blur or pixelate — and how strong?
The two effects read differently. Blur is gentler: a softened face in a crowd still looks like a photograph, which is why it suits editorial and family contexts where you are protecting someone's privacy, not making a point of it. Pixelate reads as deliberate redaction — the mosaic is the visual language of plates, documents and anything being formally withheld, and readers understand it instantly. On strength, err higher than feels necessary, especially over text. A light blur over small text can sometimes be partially guessed — the shapes of letters leak through — so when something really matters, cover it completely with high-strength pixelate, or remove it from the frame altogether with the Aspect Ratio Cropper.
Frequently asked questions
Is my photo uploaded?
No. The tool runs entirely in your browser using its built-in image engine — your photo never leaves your device. You can verify it: load this page, switch to airplane mode, and the tool still works.
Can someone undo the blur from my downloaded file?
No — the download is a flattened image, and the hidden pixels are simply not in the file, so there is nothing in it to un-hide. What no tool can protect against is the original: never share the unedited photo alongside the edited one, and be careful with cloud albums that may already hold a copy of it.
Does it lower my photo's resolution?
No. The export re-renders your edits from the original at its full size — the same width and height you loaded. JPEG saves at 92% quality, like our other tools, which is visually indistinguishable for photographs; choose PNG if you want a mathematically lossless file and do not mind the larger size.
Can I fix a mistake?
Yes, in three ways: Undo removes the last area you hid, Reset clears them all, and the restore brush paints the original back over any spot where you went too far. Nothing is permanent until you download, and even then your original file is never touched — the download is always a separate copy.