You need a plate gone, a face softened, or a line of text unreadable before you post. Load a picture, paint over what should disappear, pick blur or blocks, then save a PNG. Nothing uploads to our servers while you work.
Load a photo
Tap, press Enter, or drop a file. PNG, JPG, or WebP are fine.
People often smear a tiny brush across a wide face. The subject stays recognizable because edges stay sharp. Widen the brush until the whole region sits inside one stroke, or run a second pass with solid fill where recognition still leaks through.
Another slip is trusting light blur on high-contrast text. Thin letters survive soft filters. Pixel or solid modes exist for exactly those cases. If you only need a dreamy background, a whole-frame blur such as our image blur tool is a better fit than spot censoring.
We recommend PNG export here, then optional compression in a separate step you control.
The file you pick becomes a bitmap on an HTML canvas in your tab. Each drag samples coordinates, builds a square patch around the brush, keeps only pixels inside the circular brush, then writes blur, pixel blocks, mosaic averages, or black into those samples. Undo keeps a short stack of full-frame snapshots so you step backward without rereading the file from disk.
Screen coordinates map back through the displayed size of the canvas so a fat finger on a narrow phone still lands on the correct source pixels. That scaling is why the preview can scroll while the underlying resolution stays fixed until you load a different file.
When you tap Save PNG, the browser encodes the current canvas. No round trip to Toolexe is required for the edit itself.
After sensitive regions look right, you might still want presentation tweaks. The screenshot beautifier focuses on tidy borders and padding for sharing. Keep censoring and beautifying as separate passes so you never stack decorative filters on top of half-finished redaction.
| Mode | Best when | Trade-off |
|---|---|---|
| Blur | Skin tones, soft backgrounds, quick obscuring of non-text shapes | High-contrast glyphs sometimes remain readable |
| Pixel | Text, UI chrome, small logos you want unreadable | Chunky look; strength slider changes block size feel |
| Solid | Maximum opacity in one stroke | Obvious black rectangles; not subtle |
| Mosaic | Broadcast-style hiding with tile texture | Heavier look than blur; still not cryptographic redaction |
Practical questions about blur strength, files, and privacy.
The censor step runs in your browser. We do not upload the picture for this tool. Your export is a normal file save to the folder you choose on your device.
Blur averages neighboring colors. Thin dark letters on light backgrounds keep enough contrast to guess words. Switch to Pixel or Solid for alphanumeric content, or stack multiple passes.
The page keeps roughly two dozen full snapshots. Heavy undo on huge images uses more memory; if the tab feels heavy, reset the file or crop to a smaller working region.
Painting the canvas does not automatically strip camera metadata from the original encoding path. If GPS or serial fields matter, use a dedicated metadata tool or export pipeline you trust after download.
The canvas requests touch capture while you draw. If a mobile browser still scrolls, try a shorter drag starting on the photo, or zoom slightly so the canvas owns more of the viewport.
Mosaic averages colors per tile before filling the tile, which often feels grittier than pixel mode on photos. Neither replaces professional redaction software; both simply destroy local detail in the brush circle.
