One app, two names. Safe Little Faces is the website and brand. Blur Photo & Face Censor is the app's current App Store name (subtitle “Pixelate, Mosaic & Redact”). Earlier App Store listings called it Safe Little Faces: Face Blur. All three refer to the same iPhone and iPad app by David Balderston, App Store ID 6797679260.

At a glance

App name (App Store): Blur Photo & Face Censor
App Store subtitle: Pixelate, Mosaic & Redact
Website / brand: Safe Little Faces (safelittlefaces.com)
Earlier App Store name: Safe Little Faces: Face Blur
Developer: David Balderston (independent developer; App Store developer page)
App Store: apps.apple.com … id6797679260
Price (U.S.): $3.99 one-time purchase. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads.
Current version: 1.0.4 (released September 17, 2026)
First released: August 25, 2026
Requires: iPhone with iOS 17.0+, iPad with iPadOS 17.0+
Category: Photo & Video (also Lifestyle) · Age rating 4+
Size: 4.8 MB
Languages: English + 43 more
App privacy label: “Data Not Collected”
Input: Photos from your library via Apple's photo picker, 1–20 per batch. No video.
Cover styles: Privacy Cover (opaque), Mosaic, Emoji, Soft Blur; adjustable size
Manual tools: Hide and Restore brushes, Pan, Undo/Redo, Protect All, hold to compare with the original
Export: New JPEG or PNG; saved to Photos or shared. GPS, capture date, camera, lens, and device metadata are not copied.
Face detection: Apple Vision, on-device. No face recognition, no age or identity inference.

Photo processing stays on your device

The app uses Apple frameworks for face detection and image editing. It has no developer-operated photo server, upload queue, account system, advertising SDK, or analytics SDK. Your selected photos are not transmitted to the developer.

You decide who to protect

Face detection creates neutral rectangles around likely faces. The app does not infer age, identity, family relationship, or whether a person is a child. It does not recognize people or remember faces across photos. You tap each face you want to cover.

Exports are newly encoded files

The app flattens your edits into a new JPEG or PNG. It does not copy the source photo's GPS location, capture date, camera make and model, lens details, device identifiers, or similar source metadata. A valid image still needs ordinary technical fields such as pixel dimensions, color space, and format.

Your originals remain untouched

The app creates a new protected copy. It does not write the cover back into the original photo, so you keep the family original while sharing a separate version.

Face detection is helpful, not perfect

Profiles, low light, occlusion, unusual angles, reflections, and very small faces can be missed. That's why the app includes Hide and Restore brushes and asks you to review the whole image before export. License plates, names, and documents are never detected automatically; you brush over them.

What the app cannot promise

No exported image can prevent screenshots, re-sharing, or identification from visible context. Blur and mosaic can leave more recognizable structure than an opaque cover. The app gives you practical tools and a clear review step; it does not claim to make a photo anonymous or “AI-proof.”

The website and the app are different

The app contains no analytics. This public website uses Google Analytics (it respects Do Not Track) to understand aggregate visits. The website never receives the photos you edit in the app. See the privacy policy.

Machine-readable facts

The same facts are published as JSON and in a plain-text summary.

Cover the faces and details you choose.

Blur Photo & Face Censor works on your iPhone or iPad, exports a new copy without location data, and never uploads your photos. $3.99 once, no subscription.

View on the App Store

Blur Photo & Face Censor, in facts.