Image redaction
Cover faces, names or messages in a photo or screenshot with solid shapes, crop away the rest, and save a copy that hides them for good.
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You can also paste a screenshot or drop a file here.
Drag on the image to cover an area. Tap a covered area to select it, then drag it to move it or drag its handles to resize it. Use two fingers to move around a zoomed image. With a keyboard: focus the image, press Enter to add an area, move it with the arrow keys, resize it with Shift and the arrow keys, remove it with Delete, and switch between areas with Page Up and Page Down.
Check before you share
This is exactly the picture that will be saved. Look for anything that can still be read or recognised.
Runs in your browser. Nothing is sent or saved.
Good to know
Covered areas are solid and painted into the picture itself. In the saved copy the pixels underneath no longer exist, so nobody can uncover them. This tool doesn't blur on purpose: blurred text and faces can sometimes be recovered.
The saved copy is a new picture, so it carries none of the original's hidden data such as location, date and device. Parts you crop away are not in the copy at all.
The image is opened in your browser only. It is not uploaded, and this site can't see it.
Look at the result before you share it. Cover reflections, name tags, tattoos, street signs and screens too, and remember that the original is still on your device.
A word about AI
AI image editors can now hide a face or erase a name too, often more neatly than a black box. The catch is how they do it: to change the picture, the service has to receive the original, with everything you wanted hidden still in it.
Most AI services keep what you upload for some time, and some let staff look at it or use it to train future models, depending on your settings and plan. For a picture you are covering precisely because it is sensitive, that defeats the purpose. An AI that “removes” something also fills the gap with invented detail, which someone may later take for the real thing. A plain black shape drawn on your own device is less elegant, but nothing leaves the device and nobody can mistake it for the original.