A privacy tool for people who make video

Share the video.
Not the people in it.

VideoBlur finds every face and license plate in your footage and pixelates them, automatically — on your Mac, without 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. 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.

YouTubers & travel vloggers

City walks, “day in my life,” house tours — publish street and public footage without a manual face-blur pass in your NLE first.

Shorts, Reels & IRL streamers

High volume, fast turnaround, real doxxing risk. Clear a bystander-heavy clip in the time it takes to export.

Dashcam & car-content channels

Compile submitted clips and rideshare footage without every plate and face in frame becoming a liability.

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

The short answers.

Is VideoBlur a subscription?
No. It's a one-time purchase — $29 for Basic or $59 for Pro — and you keep using it. No recurring credits, no monthly fee. One year of updates is included with either tier.
Does my video get uploaded anywhere for processing?
No. Detection, tracking, and blurring all run locally on your Mac. There's no upload step in the app at all — you can verify this yourself by blocking VideoBlur in a firewall tool like Little Snitch and confirming exports still work.
What's the refund policy?
30-day no-questions-asked refund. You can also try VideoBlur free on a sample clip before buying to confirm it works well on your footage.
Can it blur faces, plates, and screens in the same pass?
Yes. Faces, License Plates, and Screens are separate presets you can enable independently or together in a single export.
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 with average-color quantization has no gradient left to recover, so VideoBlur defaults to it for real privacy, not the appearance of it.
What macOS version do I need?
VideoBlur requires macOS 13 Ventura or later, and runs on both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs — Apple Silicon is significantly faster thanks to Neural Engine acceleration.
What video formats are supported?
VideoBlur accepts common formats including .mp4, .mov, and .m4v. Audio is preserved from the source track without re-encoding.
How fast is it?
VideoBlur detects faces or plates once per scene and tracks between cuts instead of re-running detection on every frame, so processing time scales with how many scene changes your footage has, not just its length.

Your next upload probably has a face or a plate in it.

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

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