Pixelate Image
Pixelate a photo where it matters — a face, a name, a number plate — or censor it with a blur or a black bar instead. Full resolution, no upload, no watermark.
How it works
How to pixelate an image?
Open the picture
Drag in a JPG, PNG or WebP, or pick one. The image pixelator reads it straight off your device — which, for a tool whose whole job is hiding personal details, is the only sensible arrangement.
Mark what to hide
Drag a box or an oval over a face, a name, an address or a number plate, or paint over it with the brush. Mark as many areas as the picture needs.
Pixelate it
Pixelate is the default and the strength is counted in blocks. Blur and a solid censor bar are one tap away, per area. The tool tells you when a mosaic is still fine enough to give the face away.
Download it
Save the pixelated image as JPG, PNG or WebP. The covers are burned into the pixels at the picture’s own resolution, and the copy comes out with no EXIF or GPS data attached.
Spec sheet
Features
Pixelation counted in blocks
The strength slider says “8 blocks”, not “62%”, because blocks-across is what decides whether a face survives the mosaic. Blur and a solid censor bar sit beside it when the picture wants them.
Box, oval and brush
A rectangle for a line of text, an oval for a face, a freehand brush for a tattoo or a logo. Every mark stays editable until you download.
As many areas as you need
Six faces in one photo is six marks, each with its own cover and strength — not six passes through a tool that only handles one selection at a time.
Or cover everything else
Flip it around and the marks become windows: one person stays visible and the rest of the frame is blurred or pixelated. Useful for a screenshot where only one line should be readable.
Full resolution out
A 4000 px photo comes back 4000 px wide with the mosaic averaged from the real pixels — not a preview-sized cover scaled back up.
No EXIF, no GPS
The download is a fresh encode, so the camera model, the timestamp and the coordinates the original carried do not travel with it.
Where it fits
What people usually pixelate
Faces that did not consent
A stranger in the background of a holiday photo, a colleague in a team shot, a child in a school picture. One oval each and the post is publishable.
Names, numbers and addresses
An order confirmation, a bank statement, a piece of ID. A black bar is the only cover that certainly removes what is under it, which is why it is the preset for these.
Number plates and door numbers
Anything that points at where a picture was taken or who owns what is in it. Six characters are easy to reconstruct from a soft blur; a coarse mosaic leaves nothing to reconstruct.
Screenshots you want to share
Chat handles, email addresses, invoice totals. Cover the parts that identify people and keep the part that makes the point.
Questions