Blur the background, keep the subject sharp

Free · no account · no watermark · full resolution · auto-deleted in 1 hour

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Two people playing chess at a park table stay sharp while the trees and benches behind them are blurred — Blurify result
Two people playing chess at a park table stay sharp while the trees and benches behind them are blurred — original
Both players sharp, the park behind them no longer readablePhoto · Unsplash

Drop a photo and Blurify finds the subject — one mask, found for you — then blurs everything behind it: the room, the street, the desk, the people in the background. You choose how strong. It works for a portrait look and for hiding where a photo was taken, and the download keeps the original resolution. If you would rather cut the subject out than soften what is behind it, the same mask does that too.

What else you can hide

Anonymize people

faces

Blur faces in seconds. Auto-detected, manually adjustable.

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Every face, hidden in one pass

anonymous

Anonymize every face in a photo — found and hidden in one pass.

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Hide a plate, hide the vehicle

plates

Strip a license plate from a car photo before you post it.

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Car number, reg plate — covered

hidden

Hide a car number or reg plate before the photo goes public.

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Hide names, numbers, addresses

documents

Black out names, numbers, and signatures on a document photo or scan.

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Show the bug, hide the data

screens

Sanitize a screenshot before sharing the bug or the chat.

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Block it out

pixelate

Censor a face with hard pixel blocks instead of a soft blur.

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The metadata you can't see

exif

Strip GPS, camera model and timestamps from any photo.

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Names, numbers, anything written

text

Hide names, emails and numbers written anywhere in an image.

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Your home stays private

address

Blur a house number or street sign before a listing goes live.

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Blur, pixelate, black bar, or an emoji

censor

Censor a photo with blur, pixel blocks, a black bar, or an emoji.

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One spot, not the whole shot

region

Blur one region of a picture and keep the rest sharp.

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Blur nudity

nudity

Auto-detects nudity per body part. Blur only what needs hiding.

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Emoji face cover

emoji

Put an emoji or a sticker over any face — found automatically, covered completely.

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The room behind you talks

backdrop

Hide the room, the street, or the office standing behind you.

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Take the scene away entirely

Remove the background

Cut the subject out and download it as a transparent PNG at full resolution.

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Hide where the photo was taken

Hide the background

What to do when the wall behind you gives away more than the subject in front.

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How it works

  1. Drop your photo

    Add up to 20 images per batch — JPEG, PNG, WebP or HEIC/HEIF, 20 MB each. The subject is found automatically; it takes a few seconds per photo.

  2. Set the blur

    Drag the Background blur slider until nothing behind the subject is readable — no sign, no screen, no house number. Faces, plates and text inside the sharp area can be blurred separately on top.

  3. Download

    Export as JPG, PNG or WebP at the full original size with EXIF and GPS stripped. Switch to Remove for a transparent background instead, or to Color for a flat backdrop in any hex colour.

Questions, answered

Is it free?
Free for 5 images a month — no account, no watermark. Heavier use buys a one-time pack from $1.99, and each uploaded photo counts once however often you re-download it.
Will the background still be recognisable?
Not at the strong settings: a wide blur turns a room or a street into colour and light. Check the preview — if a sign or a screen is still readable, raise the slider.
Is this the same as portrait mode?
Visually, yes — a sharp subject over a soft background. The difference is that you set the strength afterwards, on any photo, and the original file is never touched.
Can I remove the background instead of blurring it?
Yes, from the same subject mask. Switch the Background panel to Remove and the photo comes back cut out on a transparent background, exported as PNG or lossless WebP — never JPEG, which cannot carry transparency.
Can I put a white background behind the subject instead?
Yes. Color fills everything behind the subject with any hex value you type — plain white for a product photo, a brand colour for a slide — and the subject keeps its own edges either way.
Does it keep the original resolution?
Yes. The subject is found on a working copy and the blur is applied to your original pixels, so nothing is downscaled.
What happens to my photo?
It is uploaded to private, encrypted storage, processed on Blurify's own servers — never a third-party background-removal service — and deleted within an hour. Nothing is used to train a model.