A while back I filmed an interview with someone who agreed to talk on one condition: nobody could recognise them. I had to stay visible in the same shot, it was my interview. Simple request. I couldn't find a single tool that did it without a fight.
That wasn't new. I'd been juggling apps for a while: one for faces in video, another for photos, nothing decent for a whole folder. And every good tool ran through the cloud. To blur someone's face, I first had to upload their video, unprotected, to servers I didn't know, in a country I didn't choose, for a length of time nobody told me. Those rushes had children in them, a witness who had trusted me, people who never asked to be there. The only way to protect them was to hand them over to a stranger.
Your footage never leaves your Mac. And nobody in it stays recognisable.
HideLens blurs every face automatically ā in a video, a photo, or a whole
folder at once, and live on your webcam in Zoom, Meet and OBS. It's a full
editor too: subtitles, silence cuts, 9:16 reframe, transitions.
No server, no account, no upload, no telemetry. Cut the Wi-Fi and it all
still works.
ā¬9.99 once ā ā¬1.99 for the first 100.
