Beyond Faces: Blur License Plates, Screens, and Anything Else
Most people come to BlurFaces for the faces — but a photo you're about to post usually has more than faces worth hiding. A car plate. A laptop screen with an email open. A street sign that reveals where you live. Here's how to redact all of it in a single pass.
License plates — automatic detection
BlurFaces detects license plates alongside faces. Upload a car photo and both get flagged automatically. Review the boxes, adjust coverage if one is too tight, and export — no manual drawing required. If a plate is partly occluded or at a sharp angle, add a manual rectangle over it and re-export.
Screens, documents, and sensitive text
Automatic detection handles humans and their identifying features well, but it won't catch a laptop screen showing an email thread or a paper document on the table. For those, use manual masks:
- Click "Add rectangle" after uploading.
- Drag over the region you want to hide.
- Repeat for every screen, paper, or sign in the frame.
- Export — manual masks are applied at the same time as automatic ones.
Batch processing
Protecting a whole folder of listing photos or event pictures? On paid plans, drop a batch — we process every image with the same settings and hand back a zip. Plates, faces, and any manual masks you applied to one are reused across the set.
Video: draw a mask that moves
In video mode, the same manual rectangle tool lets you mask a non-face region across time. Set a start and end frame; we interpolate the mask between them. Perfect for blurring a logo that's visible for only part of the clip, or a whiteboard behind a speaker.
What we don't blur (on purpose)
We don't automatically blur text that isn't a plate — which means context like captions, timestamps, and non-sensitive signage stays readable. This is intentional. If you want the automatic system to be more aggressive, try a custom preset with higher coverage.