# BlurVault

> BlurVault blurs faces, license plates and other private details in photos and video entirely inside the web browser. Files are never uploaded to BlurVault or anyone else, and users can confirm this in their browser's DevTools Network tab.

BlurVault (https://blurvault.vercel.app) is a web app for redacting images and video before sharing them. When a user opens a file, the browser reads it into local memory; face detection, blurring and export all run on the user's device. The service has no endpoint that accepts images or video.

## How it works
- Face detection: Google MediaPipe face detector (BlazeFace short-range) running in WebAssembly in the browser. Large photos are also scanned in overlapping tiles to catch smaller faces.
- The detector runtime (about 11 MB) and model (230 kB) download once from blurvault.vercel.app, with jsDelivr and Google Cloud Storage as fallbacks. These are downloads to the device; no user data is sent with them.
- Manual boxes: users drag boxes over license plates, screens, documents, name badges or anything else. Boxes can be moved, resized, deleted and restored with undo.
- Effects: Gaussian blur (free), pixelate and solid black bar (Pro). The solid bar is recommended for text, because light blur or pixelation over large text can sometimes be read or reversed.
- Export: a new PNG or JPEG file built in the browser. The original file is not modified.
- Video (Pro): faces are detected on every frame and fixed boxes apply to the whole clip; the result is re-recorded in the browser at playback speed. Chrome, Edge and Firefox save WebM; Safari saves MP4. Processing pauses if the tab goes to the background.
- Batch (Pro): many photos are processed in a row and saved to downloads. Photos where no face is found are held back for manual review instead of being saved unblurred.
- Works offline after the first photo: once the detector has loaded, turning off the network does not stop the editor.

## Who uses it
- Journalists and researchers protecting sources and bystanders.
- Real-estate agents removing family photos, names and plates from listing photos.
- HR and compliance teams redacting incident footage and screenshots.
- Parents sharing class or party photos without other children's faces.
- Dashcam owners blurring plates and passers-by before sending clips to insurers or posting online.

## Pricing
- Free, no account: photo editor with face detection, hand-drawn boxes and Gaussian blur; export up to 1280 px on the long side with a small corner watermark.
- Pro: $15 per month. Video, batch folders, pixelate and solid bar, full-size export without watermark. Cancel any time.
- Lifetime: $99 one-time payment for everything in Pro.
- 14-day refund on Pro and Lifetime. Checkout by Stripe.

## Pages
- Home and live editor: https://blurvault.vercel.app/
- Tutorial (photo, batch and video guides, browser support, troubleshooting): https://blurvault.vercel.app/tutorial
- Privacy (every piece of data the service handles): https://blurvault.vercel.app/privacy