Blur a face, a background, a logo, or a line of text — anything you draw a box over. The rest of the image stays sharp, and it all happens in your browser.
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 each area you want to blur. Add as many as you like; move or resize any box afterwards.
Raise the strength until the area is soft enough — use the strongest setting to be certain it's unreadable.
Save the result. The blur is baked into the pixels, so it stays blurred wherever you share it.
People blur an image to keep something out of view — a face in the background, a house number, an email address in a screenshot, a logo you don't have the rights to show. Sending that picture to a remote server just to hide part of it works against the whole point. Latch does it on your own device: the image is decoded, blurred, and re-encoded in the browser, and no copy is ever uploaded.
The blur is also permanent. Rather than sitting on top as a layer that can be peeled back, it's composited straight into the exported pixels at full resolution — so once you share the file, there's no sharp original hiding underneath. For anything sensitive, turn the strength up until the area is completely unreadable.
This tool blurs any area. For a specific job, these are tuned for it — all private, all in your browser.
Protect identities before you share — blur any number of faces at once.
Hide a number plate before selling a car or posting a photo online.
Censor names, faces and details in screenshots with blocks or blur.
Black out names and numbers on documents — the strongest, permanent option.
No. The image is decoded, blurred, and re-saved entirely in your browser with the Canvas API. Nothing is sent to a server, and the tool keeps working offline once the page has loaded.
Yes. Draw a box over each area you want to blur — a face, a sign, a window, a logo — and the rest of the image stays perfectly sharp. There is no limit on how many areas you blur.
Yes — anything you draw a box over is blurred, whether that's a busy background, a brand logo, or a line of text. For text you want to be certain is unreadable, use a higher strength, or use the redact tool to cover it with a solid bar.
The blur is rendered into the exported pixels at full resolution, not added as a removable layer, so there's no sharp original underneath. A very light blur over predictable content can sometimes be reconstructed — for anything sensitive, use a strong blur or the redact tool, which removes the pixels entirely.
Blur softens an area so it reads as out of focus. Pixelate replaces it with large blocks. Blackout covers it with a solid bar and is the most thorough — the pixels are replaced outright. This page blurs; the pixelate and redact tools handle the other two.
Related privacy tools: Blur a face · Blur a license plate · Pixelate an image · Redact an image