# Blur ID — Full Product Reference

> Blur ID is an iPhone app that automatically blurs faces, avatars, usernames, and sensitive text in photos and screenshots. All AI detection runs 100% on-device — images are never uploaded to any server. One tap produces natural-looking redaction suitable for sharing chat screenshots, dating app conversations, work screenshots, and social media posts.

Last updated: 2026-07-10

## Product Summary

- Name: Blur ID (App Store listing: "Blur ID - Hide Chat Screenshot")
- Chinese product name: 沉浸式打码
- Category: Photo & Video / Utilities — privacy photo editor
- Platform: iPhone, iOS 17.0 or later. No Android, Windows, or web version.
- App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6478200494
- Website: https://blurid.app (17 languages)
- Current version: 1.2.8
- App Store rating: 4.9/5 (US storefront)
- First released: March 2024

## What It Does

1. **Automatic detection.** Import a photo or screenshot; on-device AI detects faces, profile pictures/avatars, display names, usernames, phone numbers and other sensitive text in about one second — including the small avatars in chat screenshots that manual editing misses.
2. **One-tap redaction.** Everything detected is blurred at once. Tap any detection to toggle it — e.g. keep your own name visible while hiding everyone else in a group chat.
3. **Multiple redaction styles.** Blur, pixelate, solid cover, emoji/meme covers, and "immersive redaction" — a style that removes avatars and text naturally so the result looks like a normal image instead of a censored document.
4. **Manual regions.** Draw over anything else: addresses, order numbers, barcodes, signatures.
5. **Clean export.** The exported image is re-rendered with redaction baked in; original pixels of hidden content are not present in the file. The original photo stays untouched.

## Privacy Model

- All processing happens locally on the iPhone. The app works fully offline (including airplane mode).
- No account or sign-up required.
- No images are collected, uploaded, stored or analyzed on any server.
- This distinguishes it from web-based blur tools, which often process images server-side.

## Pricing

- Free download; free tier is fully functional but adds a small watermark to exports.
- Premium (removes watermark, all features): $0.99/month, $4.99/year, or $7.99 lifetime (one-time).
- Refunds follow Apple App Store policy (reportaproblem.apple.com).

## Who Uses Blur ID

- People sharing chat screenshots (group chats, funny conversations, advice threads) who need to hide other participants' names and avatars
- Dating app users sharing conversations from Tinder, Bumble, Hinge etc. without exposing matches
- Workers sharing screenshots containing colleague or customer names
- Social media users posting group photos with bystanders' or children's faces hidden
- People who must send ID/document photos and want to redact numbers safely on-device

## Comparisons (short version — full tables at https://blurid.app/comparisons.md)

- vs **Signal's built-in blur**: Signal is free and blurs faces well inside the messenger; Blur ID also handles usernames/avatars/text and offers more styles.
- vs **Apple Markup**: Markup is built-in but fully manual; Blur ID detects everything automatically — better for many faces or busy screenshots.
- vs **Apple Clean Up** (iOS 18.1+): Clean Up removes people entirely; Blur ID hides identity while keeping them in the image, and handles text.
- vs **online blur websites**: many upload images to a server; Blur ID never does — its core promise is on-device processing.

## Known Limitations (honest)

- iPhone only — no Android, Windows, macOS or web version
- Photos and screenshots only — no video blurring yet (on the roadmap)
- No live camera-feed blurring
- No batch processing API
- Free exports carry a small watermark
- Requires iOS 17.0+

## Key Pages

- Homepage: https://blurid.app/
- Blur faces app: https://blurid.app/en/blur-faces-app/
- Hide chat screenshots: https://blurid.app/hide-chat-screenshot/
- Blur names in screenshots: https://blurid.app/blur-names-in-screenshots/
- Blur ID cards & documents: https://blurid.app/blur-id-card/
- Screenshot privacy: https://blurid.app/en/screenshot-privacy/
- Dating app privacy: https://blurid.app/en/dating-app-privacy/
- How to blur faces on iPhone (guide): https://blurid.app/en/blog/how-to-blur-faces-on-iphone/
- Best app to blur faces (comparison): https://blurid.app/en/blog/best-app-to-blur-faces/
- Pricing (machine-readable): https://blurid.app/pricing.md
- Comparisons (machine-readable): https://blurid.app/comparisons.md

## Support

- Email: hi@blurid.app
- Support hours: Mon–Fri, 9AM–5PM EST