Blur Part of a Video – Hide Faces, Number Plates & Dates in Your Own Videos

Hide faces, number plates, addresses or a date stamp in your own videos before you share them.

Free
Instant result
Private · on-device
No sign-up

How to use: Choose your video, drag a box over the area to hide, choose blur, pixelate, solid box or crop, then press Apply and download the MP4.

Runs on your device. When you press the button, a free open-source video engine (FFmpeg, about 31 MB) downloads once and is then cached. Your video is never uploaded.

For your own videos: hide private details like faces, number plates, house numbers or a camera date stamp. Please do not use it to remove other people’s logos or watermarks.

Choose your videoMP4, MOV, WebM, MKV · stays on your device

Move through the video to check the area

Choose a video, then drag on it to select an area.

How to hide it

Strength: 20

How to use the Blur Part of a Video

Before sharing a video publicly, it is smart to hide private details: a child’s face at a school event, your car’s number plate, your house number, a letter on the table or the date stamp burned in by an old camera. This tool hides one area of your video for its whole length.

Choose your video. A sample box appears in the top-right corner; drag on the video to draw your own box over the area to hide. Use the slider underneath to move through the video and check that the area stays covered the whole time; if the subject moves, draw a bigger box. Then choose how to hide it: Blur softens it, Pixelate turns it into large squares, Solid box covers it completely, and Crop keeps only the area inside the box, for example to cut the edges and a date stamp out of the frame.

Press Apply. The video is processed on your device and saved as an MP4 with the original sound.

Which method hides details best?

For anything truly sensitive, like an address, a document or a face that must not be recognised, a Solid box is the safest choice because nothing of the original remains. Strong Pixelate or Blur look nicer and are fine for things like background faces or a car plate, but use a high strength. Crop is the cleanest way to remove a date stamp or a messy edge: draw the box around the part you want to keep.

Only for your own videos

This tool is made for privacy in videos you filmed or have permission to edit. It is not a watermark remover, and covering another creator’s logo or watermark to repost their video is not allowed on most platforms and can break copyright law. If you want to protect your own videos, add your own mark with Add Watermark to Video.

More privacy tools

For photos, Face Blur hides faces automatically, and the EXIF Remover deletes the hidden GPS location from pictures before you share them. To fix a sideways clip first, use Rotate Video.

VSH take: privacy edits should never require uploading the very video you are trying to keep private. Here everything happens on your device, free and with no watermark.