Blur faces and plates in your browser.
Your files never upload.
BlurVault finds the faces in your photos and video and blurs them inside this browser tab. You drag boxes over plates, screens and names. The file is never sent to a server, ours included, and the Network tab in your browser will show you so.
Photos are free with no account. Video and batch folders are Pro.
Open, check, export
Faces are boxed for you. Anything else you want gone, like a plate or a name badge, gets a box you drag. Choose blur, pixelate or a solid bar and save a new copy. The original on your disk is left alone.
Read the full tutorialTry it on a photo of your own
This is the real editor, running in this page. If you'd rather not open a personal file yet, load the sample street scene.
Drop a photo here
Or paste one with Ctrl V. It opens in this tab and is never sent anywhere.
JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF or GIF. iPhone HEIC files open in Safari.
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Video and batch folders live in the full editor, which needs a free account to open and Pro to export.
Check the no-upload claim yourself
Many online blur tools send your file to their server before they touch it, which is the exposure you were trying to avoid. BlurVault has no upload step at all, and you can confirm that with tools already in your browser.
- 1Open DevTools with F12, or ⌥ ⌘ I on a Mac, and pick the Network tab.
- 2Drop a photo into the editor below, adjust the boxes and export it.
- 3Read the list. Sort by size, or filter for your file name. No request carries your photo or anything made from it.
- 4Still unsure? After the first photo, turn off Wi-Fi and blur another one. The editor keeps working because it never needed the connection for your files.
| Name | Type | Size | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| blurvault.vercel.app | document | ≈ 25 kB | This page |
| _next/static/… | script, css, font | ≈ 400 kB | The editor's code |
| vision_wasm_internal.wasm | fetch | 11.2 MB | Face detector runtime, first visit only |
| vision_wasm_internal.js | script | 320 kB | Its loader |
| blaze_face_short_range.tflite | fetch | 230 kB | Face model, first visit only |
| view | fetch | < 1 kB | Anonymous page view (Vercel Analytics) |
Who uses it, and what they hide
- Journalists and researchers
- Protesters in a crowd shot, a source's face reflected in a shop window, the street sign that gives away where a photo was taken.
- Faces, signs
- Real-estate agents
- Family photos on the fridge, the neighbour's car in the driveway, a name on the mailbox before the listing goes live.
- Plates, photos, names
- HR and compliance teams
- Bystanders in incident footage and names on screenshots that end up in an investigation file or a training deck.
- Faces, text
- Parents
- Other people's children in the class photo, before it goes to the family group chat.
- Faces
- Dashcam owners
- Plates and passers-by in the clip you send to your insurer or post online.
- Plates, faces
Free for photos. Pro for video and volume.
Every plan runs the same code in your browser. Paying changes what you can export, never where your files go.
Free
$0no account
For the occasional photo.
- Photo editor with face detection
- Boxes you draw over plates and screens
- Gaussian blur
- Exports up to 1280 px, small watermark
Pro
$15per month
For regular work. Cancel any time.
- Everything in Free
- Video, blurred frame by frame
- Batch folders of photos
- Pixelate and solid-bar styles
- Full-size exports, no watermark
Lifetime
Best value$99once
Costs the same as 7 months of Pro, then nothing more.
- Everything in Pro, for good
- One payment, no renewal
- Same in-browser processing
Checkout is handled by Stripe. Pro and Lifetime have a 14-day refund.
Questions people ask before paying
The tutorial covers browsers, video limits and what to do when a face gets missed.
Does BlurVault upload my photos or videos?
No. The editor is code that runs in your browser tab. When you open a file, the browser reads it into memory on your device, and detection, blurring and export all happen there. BlurVault's servers have no endpoint that accepts images or video, so a file has nowhere to go.
How can I check that myself?
Open DevTools (F12, or Option+Command+I on a Mac), switch to the Network tab and blur a photo. You'll see the page's own files, a one-time download of the face detector (about 11 MB, cached afterwards) and an anonymous page-view ping from Vercel Analytics. None of those requests carries your photo. For a blunter test, blur one photo, turn off Wi-Fi, then blur another. It still works.
How does the quality compare with cloud blur tools?
The blur is the same pixel operation any editor performs, and Pro exports keep your photo's full resolution. Detection is where tools differ. BlurVault uses Google's MediaPipe face detector, which is fast and reliable on faces that are reasonably large and turned toward the camera. On big photos it also scans overlapping tiles to catch smaller faces. It can still miss tiny faces in a crowd or heads turned away, so look over every photo and draw a box over anything it skipped. Plates, screens and documents are always marked by hand.
Can someone reverse the blur?
The export is a new file. The pixels inside each box are replaced and the originals aren't kept anywhere in it. A light blur over large text can sometimes still be read, though, and tools such as Depix have recovered text from pixelated screenshots. For names, numbers and documents, use the solid bar (Pro), which paints over the area completely.
What are the limits on video?
Video is processed at playback speed, so a five-minute clip takes about five minutes. The tab has to stay in front; if you switch away, BlurVault pauses and picks up again when you return. Chrome, Edge and Firefox save WebM and Safari saves MP4. The finished video sits in memory until it downloads, so very long or 4K clips can run out of memory on phones and older laptops. Faces are tracked on every frame, and boxes you draw stay fixed for the whole clip.
Which browsers work?
Photos work in current Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari on desktop and mobile. For video, Chrome, Edge and Firefox are the most dependable. Recent Safari records MP4 and usually works; if a Safari export stutters, switch to Chrome. The tutorial has the full table.
What's free, and what does Pro add?
Free needs no account. You get the photo editor, automatic face detection, boxes you draw yourself and Gaussian blur, exported up to 1280 pixels on the long side with a small corner watermark. Pro adds video, batch folders, the pixelate and solid-bar styles, and full-size exports without the watermark. Pro is $15 a month. Lifetime is $99 once for the same features.
What if it doesn't work for me?
Pro and Lifetime both come with a 14-day refund, no questions asked. Monthly Pro can be cancelled whenever you like and stays active until the end of the period you paid for.