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Image Blur & Pixelate Anonymizer
Blur, pixelate, or black out sensitive regions (faces, license plates, text) on images locally before sharing.
Image Blur & Pixelate Anonymizer: TOEA covers only the areas you drag. Pixelating averages each area down to a coarse grid and scales it back up, blurring samples the surrounding pixels, and a solid fill replaces them outright — all on the canvas, so the saved file contains the covered pixels and nothing else. Runs 100% locally in your browser with zero server file uploads.
- Category
- Image tools
- Runs
- In your browser
- Cost
- Free · no sign-up
- Availability
- Ready to use
Details that are easy to miss
Boarding passes and baggage tags carry a barcode that encodes the passenger's name and booking reference, often enough to open the booking online, so cover the barcode as well as the printed text. Also look for QR codes, shipping labels, house numbers, reflections in glasses, windows, and screens, notification previews at the top of a screenshot, and keys, since a sharp photo of a key can be enough to copy it.
Cover, do not highlight
The highlighter in many phone markup tools is partly transparent, so text under it can often be read again by raising the contrast; a quick scribble has the same weakness. When the sensitive part sits at an edge of the picture, crop it away entirely, and use a solid fill for the rest. Open the saved file, not the editor preview, and check it once more before sending.
How to use it
- Choose a photo or screenshot.
- Drag across each face, number plate, or line of text you want covered.
- Pick blur, pixelate, or solid black, then download the result.
Privacy & limitations
The image is read and redrawn entirely in your own browser and is never uploaded. Saving through the canvas also drops the EXIF block, so the camera model and any GPS coordinates do not travel with the copy you share.
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Frequently asked questions
Is the covered area permanent?
Yes. The pixels underneath are replaced before the file is saved, so the original detail is not hidden behind a layer someone can peel off — it is not in the downloaded file at all.
Which mode should I use?
Solid black, if it matters. Blur and pixelation are irreversible here, but both leave a trace of the original brightness, and for short predictable text like a number plate or a date of birth a determined attacker can sometimes narrow down what was there. A solid fill leaves nothing to work from.
Can I cover more than one thing?
Drag as many areas as you need; each is listed as you add it, and Undo removes the last one. Overlapping areas are fine, because every one is sampled from the untouched original rather than from the previous pass.
Free tool · runs in your browser · no account required