Automatic face blur for Mac

Blur every face
in your video. Automatically.

VideoBlur finds every face in your footage — bystanders, crowds, kids in the background — and pixelates them automatically, on your Mac. No manual masking, no rotoscoping, no uploading a single frame.

Try it free on your own clipSee how it works

No account · No email · From $29 one-time if you keep it

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Illustrated scene — only faces pixelate. Drag anywhere on the image.

How it works

Drop a clip. Pick a preset. Export.

  1. 01

    Drop your video

    Drag any .mp4, .mov, or .m4v onto VideoBlur. It loads instantly — nothing is uploaded anywhere.

  2. 02

    Pick a preset

    Choose Faces, License Plates, Screens & sensitive info, or any combination. No manual masking, no per-frame selection, no timeline scrubbing.

  3. 03

    Export

    VideoBlur detects, tracks, and blurs automatically, then saves a new file next to the original as filename_blurred.mp4.

  4. 04

    Review before you share

    Play the exported file directly inside the app to confirm the blur before you upload or send it anywhere else.

Who it's for

If strangers end up in your footage, this is for you.

Street interviews & vox pops

Publish crowd and passer-by footage without a manual face-blur pass in your NLE first.

Wedding & event videographers

Guest lists change and releases don't always get signed — blur unrelated bystanders in ceremony and reception footage in one pass.

Real estate open-house walkthroughs

Neighbors, other agents, and buyers wandering into frame don't need to end up identifiable in the listing video.

Why pixelate, not blur

Blur can be undone. Try it.

Gaussian blur

Looks private.

Pixelate — our default

Also looks private.

Real sharpening filter, running live in your browser. Nothing is faked.

Scene-aware, hardware-accelerated

Detection runs per-scene and tracks between cuts instead of re-scanning every frame, using your Mac's GPU and Neural Engine.

Fully on-device

Your footage never touches a server. No account, no cloud processing, no upload step, ever.

Audio preserved

The original audio track passes through untouched — no re-encoding, no sync drift.

Privacy

Not a policy promise. A design decision.

There is no upload step in VideoBlur to remove, because there was never one to begin with. Everything runs on your Mac.

  • No internet connection required after purchase
  • No telemetry, no analytics, no crash reporting — opt-in only
  • Verifiable: block VideoBlur in Little Snitch and it still works
  • Pixelate is the default — Gaussian blur is reversible and carries a warning

The alternative

Most blur tools upload your footage.
We don't.

VideoBlurBrowser-upload tool
Where processing happensOn your MacUploaded to their cloud
Pricing modelFrom $29 once, foreverMonthly credits or subscription
Works offlineYesNo
Default blur stylePixelate (non-reversible)Usually Gaussian (reversible)
Account requiredNoUsually yes

Pricing

One price. Yours forever.

No subscription. No seats. No annual renewal. Buy once, use it as long as you want. Try any preset free on your own clip first — no email, no card.

Basic

Recommended for you
$29one time

Faces, plates, and everyday screen privacy

  • Automatic face & license plate blur
  • Kids identity-lock (blur everyone except people you register)
  • Generic phone & laptop screen blur
  • Pixelate & Gaussian styles
  • Scene-aware, hardware-accelerated export
  • Audio track preserved
  • Activate on 1 Mac
Buy Basic — $29

Pro

$59one time

Full sensitive-info redaction for screen recordings

  • Everything in Basic
  • Auto-detects & redacts passwords, API keys, credentials, tokens
  • Blurs desktop notifications & filenames on screen
  • Batch export & 4K support
  • Activate on 3 Macs
Buy Pro — $59
Download free trial

No email, no credit card to try. 30-day refund if you buy. macOS 13 Ventura or later.

Questions

Face-blur questions, answered.

Does it catch faces at an angle, partially hidden, or far from the camera?
Yes. The face detector is tuned for real-world footage — profile angles, partial occlusion, and crowd scenes — not just front-on close-ups.
Will it blur my own face too?
By default, yes — Faces blurs every face it finds. If you only want to blur bystanders and keep specific people (yourself, your kids, a co-host) unblurred, use the Identity-lock preset instead: register a few reference photos and everyone else gets blurred.
How is this different from Facepixelizer or other online face-blur tools?
Those tools work on still images and require uploading each photo to a server. VideoBlur processes full video, entirely on your Mac — nothing ever leaves your machine.
Does it work on GoPro, phone, or livestream-recorded footage?
Yes. VideoBlur accepts standard .mp4, .mov, and .m4v files regardless of source camera, and handles motion and varied lighting from action-cam and handheld footage.
Is VideoBlur a subscription?
No. It's a one-time purchase — $29 for Basic (includes Faces) or $59 for Pro — and you keep using it. No recurring credits, no monthly fee.
Does my video get uploaded anywhere for processing?
No. Face detection, tracking, and blurring all run locally on your Mac. You can verify this yourself by blocking VideoBlur in a firewall tool like Little Snitch and confirming exports still work.
Why is Pixelate the default instead of Gaussian blur?
Gaussian blur can be mathematically reversed with a sharpening filter — try it yourself in the demo above. Pixelation has no gradient left to recover, so VideoBlur defaults to it for real privacy.

Your next upload probably has a face in it.

Try VideoBlur's Faces preset free on one of your own clips. If it doesn't save you time, don't buy it.

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