Hide faces before you post — protect bystanders, children, or anyone who didn't agree to be shared. Draw a box over each face and download.
Your files never leave this deviceJPEG, PNG, WebP · one image at a time · up to 50 MB
Four steps, a few seconds, zero uploads.
Drag your image onto the editor, or click Browse. JPEG, PNG, and WebP are all accepted.
Drag a box over every face you want to hide. Add as many as you like; move or resize any box afterwards.
Raise the strength until no facial features remain — use the strongest setting for small or distant faces.
Save the result. The blur is rendered into the pixels, so the hidden face can't be recovered.
Blurring a face is usually about privacy — a stranger in the background, a child, a colleague, or a witness who shouldn't be identifiable. It makes little sense to hand that same photo to a remote server just to hide it. Latch does the whole job in your browser: the image is decoded, edited, and re-encoded on your own device, and no copy is ever sent anywhere.
The result matters too. Some tools draw a blur as a separate layer that can be peeled back from the file. Here the blur is composited straight into the exported pixels at full resolution, so once you share the image there's no sharp original hiding underneath. For anything sensitive, turn the strength up until the face is completely unreadable.
No. The photo is decoded and edited entirely in your browser using the Canvas API. Nothing is sent to a server, and the tool keeps working even if you go offline after loading the page.
No. The blur is rendered into the actual pixels of the exported image at full resolution — it is not a layer sitting on top. Once you download and share the result there is no original detail underneath to reverse. For sensitive cases, use a high strength so no facial features remain.
Turn the strength up until no facial features are recognisable — for a small or low-resolution face, use the strongest setting. Prefer mosaic blocks or a solid bar instead of a soft blur? The pixelate and redact tools do the same job with a different look.
Yes. Draw a separate box over each face — there is no limit. You can move, resize, or delete any box before you export.
Yes. The editor supports touch, so you can draw and adjust boxes with your finger on a phone or tablet just as you would with a mouse.
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