Share the moment.
Not everyone's face.
The stranger behind you, the kid at the next table, a colleague who never agreed to be in your feed — Redact finds them, tracks them through the whole clip, and covers them in a few taps. Nothing leaves your phone.
iPhone · iOS 17+ · No account, no ads, no tracking.
Automatic first. Yours to fine-tune.
Redact does the tedious part, then hands you the controls.
Finds every face, frame by frame
One scan tracks each person through the whole clip and gives them a stable identity — even when they turn away or walk back into frame.
Five ways to disappear
Blur, Pixelate, Mosaic, Bloom, or an emoji sticker from the Redact Kits. On export the pixels underneath are destroyed, not hidden.
Soft feathered edges
No ugly hard-edged black squares. A radial gradient mask fades the cover into the frame, so the result still looks like a photo.
Zoom in to 5× on the canvas
Pinch and pan to reach a tiny face in a crowd, then nudge the mask into place with real precision. Double-tap to reset.
Per person, per second
Cover one person for the whole video and another only from the moment they walk in. Split and delete segments without losing the tracking layer.
A whole camera roll at once
Batch mode protects a pile of photos in a single pass, with per-image skip toggles and one-tap Save All.
Detector missed something? Drop a custom box on it — a screen, a licence plate, a name badge.
Scan, pick who,
then post it.
Most blur apps make you sit through a full render of every face in the clip before you can touch anything. Redact scans fast, shows you who it found, and lets you choose — so you're only ever waiting on the people you actually care about.
Made for people who believe consent matters.
Three groups keep asking for exactly this.
Post the school play, the birthday, the beach trip — without handing your kid's face, or their friends' faces, to the internet.
Film in public without worrying about bystanders, licence plates, shop staff, or a document that wandered into frame.
Anonymise a source before the file ever touches a network. No server, no upload log, nothing to subpoena.
Everything unlocked. No paywall.
Redact is free while it's in early access — no trial countdown, no card, nothing to cancel. There are no in-app purchases in the app today.
- ✓ Videos of any length
- ✓ Batch photo protection
- ✓ All five cover styles + emoji kits
- ✓ Custom boxes & per-person timeline
- ✓ Full-quality export, no watermark
- ✓ No account, no ads, no tracking
- ✓ No networking code in the app at all
- ✓ Detection runs on the Neural Engine
- ✓ Rendering runs on Metal, locally
- ✓ Works fully in airplane mode
- ✓ Originals stay untouched on your phone
- ✓ Nothing is shared unless you tap share
Questions
The ones we get asked most.
Anything to redact today?
Blur a face in a few taps — nothing leaves your phone.