Pixelize pictures: The 3 best apps for Android and iOS

With the smartphone camera, you can now take pin-sharp photos. If you want to present your works of art on social media, make sure that no strangers are recognizable. In these cases you should pixelate the faces in the pictures. We'll show you three free apps for Android and iOS that make this quick and easy.

Other sensitive data such as car license plates should also be made unrecognizable before an upload. You do not need in-depth knowledge of Photoshop and Co. for this, but simply use a free app for your Android smartphone, iPhone or iPad.

Pixelator: the fast one

You can find a simple and free Android app for pixelating images in Pixelator . After you have opened your photo on the smartphone memory, you draw a square with your finger over the area that should be pixelated. You set the strength of the change yourself. For fine work, you select a small processing radius and can zoom into the image. If the area is larger, you don't have to set each pixel individually, but draw a box over the face or object.

Use the menu below to regulate the strength of the pixelation. So it is up to you how unrecognizable the image area is made. Unfortunately, the app is not available for iPhones and iPads. Here you can use the free alternative Privee - Photo Censor , which offers the same range of functions.

Advantages

• Very easy to use

• Concentrates on the essentials

Disadvantages

• only available for Android

Mosaic Pixelate Censor Photo: The Simple One

With Mosaic Pixelate Censor Photo, you can also easily make sections of images unrecognizable. Unlike Pixelator , Mosaic Pixelate Censor Photo offers various editing options. Simply load your picture into the app and then select an effect with which you can display or paint over a desired area either blurred or pixelated. Unlike with Pixelator, you don't draw a square over the image section. Instead, you run your finger over your picture in order to obscure the desired picture content. You set the strength of the effect using a controller.

Mosaic Pixelate Censor Photo also dispenses with additional functions . With the small app you can only pixelate pictures and make faces unrecognizable. Unfortunately, the app is no longer available for iOS. The alternative EZ Blur Focus Effects will help you for free.

Advantages

• Very easy to use

• Limited to the most important functions

Disadvantages

• Image quality deteriorates after saving

• It is not possible to zoom in on images

PicsArt: The extensive one

PicsArt delivers a full-fledged image editing app on your Android smartphone and iOS device. With this you not only pixelate selected image areas, but can also use the whole range of image processing tools. To obscure images in PicsArt , first open the image file from the smartphone memory and go to the Effects area below . Here you choose the option Pixelize . So the complete picture is made unrecognizable.

If you only want to edit a certain area, press the eraser symbol at the top. Then select the square in the menu below. Now you mark a desired place in the picture. This is initially displayed normally, while the outside of the photo is unrecognizable. To reverse the selection, press the black and white circle with the two arrows at the bottom. So now only your selection will be processed.