Why pixelate faces or private details on your own device?

Blurring out a face, a license plate or an ID number is usually done because the image contains something sensitive — which makes uploading that same image to blur it a contradiction. NearIMG applies the pixelation locally and bakes it into the file you download, so the unblurred version never has to travel to get hidden.

How it works

1. Add an image and click it to open the redaction view.
2. Drag a box over each face, licence plate or ID detail. For every region choose solid black (the default) or mosaic.
3. Apply, then Save — the regions are painted over the full-resolution image on your device and the clean copy downloads.

The two modes differ in what survives. Solid black deletes the covered pixels outright — the area is cleared and repainted, so the download contains no trace of what was underneath. Mosaic averages pixels into blocks (sized automatically at roughly a tenth of the region's shorter side), which looks redacted but is mathematically reversible for short, guessable content like plate numbers — exactly why solid is the default. Use mosaic when it should stay visible that a face was there; use solid when the content must be gone.

Is the blur permanent?

A solid block is permanent: those pixels are deleted from the downloaded image, so there is nothing left to recover. Pixelation is different — it averages the pixels rather than removing them, and short, guessable details such as an ID number or a licence plate can sometimes be reconstructed from it. That's why a solid block is the default.

Can I blur several areas?

Yes — drag over each area you want to hide before applying.

Is the photo's metadata (EXIF, GPS location) removed too?

Yes, as a side effect of how the tool works: the download is written fresh from the edited pixels, so the camera metadata embedded in your original — including any GPS position — is not carried over.