What's the best way to hide a car number in a picture?

Depends on how final you want it to look. Solid fill covers the plate with flat color and leaves nothing underneath to recover — the safest choice. Pixelation is the style everyone recognizes as deliberate censoring. Blur is the softest-looking of the three. All of them are baked into the pixels at export, so the difference is appearance, not security.

Is hiding a plate the same as blurring it?

Blurring is one way to hide it. Blurify gives you three: blur, pixelate, and a solid block, plus a color overlay if you want the patch to match the photo. Whichever you pick, the plate characters are unreadable in the exported file.

Can someone un-hide the plate in my exported photo?

No. The covered region is rewritten when the file is re-encoded — it's not a layer or a reversible filter sitting over the original. There is no version of the export that still contains the plate.

Does it understand UK reg plates and Indian car numbers?

Yes. The detector has one idea of a vehicle registration plate and it covers US, UK, EU, Indian and Australian plates alike. Square and stacked two-line plates are the hard case — when the box misses, drag your own rectangle over the plate instead.

Should I hide the plate when selling my car?

It's the single most common reason people do this. A marketplace listing keeps your plate on public display for weeks next to your rough location. Hide it in every photo of the listing — and if you shot the whole car, Bulk blur covers the full set in one pass.

Can I hide the plates in a whole folder of photos?

Yes — bulk mode takes up to 20 photos at once, finds the plate in each one separately, and returns everything as a single ZIP, each image exported with its metadata stripped.

Hide a number plate in a photo — car number & reg plate too

Open the editor How it works

Car listing photo with the number plate hidden behind a pixel mosaic — Blurify result — The plate is found automatically — you choose whether it's blocked, pixelated, or blurred.Photo · Unsplash

Car listing photo with the number plate hidden behind a pixel mosaic — original — The plate is found automatically — you choose whether it's blocked, pixelated, or blurred.Photo · Unsplash

How it works for hidden.

Drop the car photo
Straight from the phone's camera roll or a proper camera — JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC/HEIF up to 20 MB. Nothing to install and no account to make.
The plate is found for you
Google Cloud Vision picks out the registration plate wherever it sits in the frame and outlines it. If the angle is oblique or the plate is half-covered, draw the rectangle yourself — it takes two seconds.
Cover it and download
A solid block hides it completely; pixelate and blur are one tap away. The export rewrites the pixels — the plate isn't under a filter, it's out of the file — and EXIF/GPS metadata comes off too.

Questions, honestly answered.

What's the best way to hide a car number in a picture?: Depends on how final you want it to look. Solid fill covers the plate with flat color and leaves nothing underneath to recover — the safest choice. Pixelation is the style everyone recognizes as deliberate censoring. Blur is the softest-looking of the three. All of them are baked into the pixels at export, so the difference is appearance, not security.
Is hiding a plate the same as blurring it?: Blurring is one way to hide it. Blurify gives you three: blur, pixelate, and a solid block, plus a color overlay if you want the patch to match the photo. Whichever you pick, the plate characters are unreadable in the exported file.
Can someone un-hide the plate in my exported photo?: No. The covered region is rewritten when the file is re-encoded — it's not a layer or a reversible filter sitting over the original. There is no version of the export that still contains the plate.
Does it understand UK reg plates and Indian car numbers?: Yes. The detector has one idea of a vehicle registration plate and it covers US, UK, EU, Indian and Australian plates alike. Square and stacked two-line plates are the hard case — when the box misses, drag your own rectangle over the plate instead.
Should I hide the plate when selling my car?: It's the single most common reason people do this. A marketplace listing keeps your plate on public display for weeks next to your rough location. Hide it in every photo of the listing — and if you shot the whole car, Bulk blur covers the full set in one pass.
Can I hide the plates in a whole folder of photos?: Yes — bulk mode takes up to 20 photos at once, finds the plate in each one separately, and returns everything as a single ZIP, each image exported with its metadata stripped.