Privacy-First Blur Tool

Original Utility Suite

Drag boxes over sensitive regions and export a redacted PNG.

What is Privacy-First Blur Tool?

Image Blur Tool lets you hide sensitive parts of an image by dragging boxes over them, then export a redacted PNG. Choose blur, pixelate, or a solid black box for each region, and stack as many as you need. Because the whole thing runs on a canvas in your browser, the picture is never uploaded — ideal for redacting anything private before you share it.

How to use Privacy-First Blur Tool

  1. Add your image

    Drag a PNG, JPEG, or WebP onto the drop zone, or click to browse. It loads onto the editing canvas at full resolution.

  2. Pick a redaction mode

    Choose Blur, Pixelate, or Black box. For blur and pixelate, set the strength with the radius or pixel-size slider. New boxes use the current settings, and each box keeps whatever settings it was drawn with.

  3. Drag boxes over what to hide

    Drag across the image to draw a box. The region is redacted the moment you release, so faces, names, addresses, and account numbers disappear instantly.

  4. Manage your regions

    Every box appears in the Regions list with its mode and size. Undo the last one, delete individual boxes, or clear them all if you want to start over.

  5. Download the redacted PNG

    Click Download PNG to export the flattened image with all redactions baked in. The blurred and pixelated pixels are permanently rewritten, not just visually covered.

Common uses

  • Hide faces or bystanders before posting a photo
  • Redact names, emails, and account numbers in a screenshot
  • Cover a home address or license plate in an image
  • Blur confidential figures in a chart or document capture
  • Mask API keys, tokens, or IDs in a shared screenshot
  • Pixelate a logo or signature you don't have rights to show

Why choose FreeTools

100% private

Your files are processed inside your browser and are never uploaded to a server.

Free, no account

No sign-up, no watermark, no paywalled “premium” tier. Just open a tool and use it.

Instant

No upload, no queue, no server round-trip — work starts the moment you drop a file.

Runs in your browser

Built on open web standards. Works on any modern desktop browser, nothing to install.

No upload size caps

Nothing leaves your device, so there’s no server file-size limit — only your machine’s memory.

Yours to keep

Results download straight to your device in clean, standard file formats.

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