Hide license plates
You pick the plate and we cover it — solid, mosaic or blur. There is no detection step, so the photo opens straight away. Nothing is uploaded.
License plate editor
Sample photo
0 cover areas. Tap an area to adjust it.
Why cover a plate at all
A plate number points at exactly one vehicle. Put a plate and a recognisable background in the same frame and the photo now records where that car was, and roughly when. Used-car listings, crash and damage photos, parking disputes, dashcam stills and any car picture on a blog all run into this.
Selling privately adds a second reason. The same car usually gets listed in several places, and a visible plate is what lets somebody tie those listings together — including what you were asking for it on each one. That is why most dealer and private listings go up with the plate covered.
Why plates are not detected automatically
The only detection model on this site is the one for faces. Plates are a harder target: size, proportions and character layout differ by country and by state, and a plate photographed at an angle is a trapezoid rather than a rectangle. Faces converge on one general shape; plates do not.
There is an upside. The face tools download a detection model of roughly 12MB the first time you pick a photo. This tool downloads nothing extra, so the photo opens the moment you choose it. If several plates are visible, add an area over each one.
On a plate, solid is the safe choice
You get three ways to cover: mosaic, blur and solid. On a plate the first two do not work as well as they do on a face, and the reason is the shape.
Mosaic square size and blur radius are both derived from the short edge of the area you selected. A face is roughly as tall as it is wide. A plate is wide and short. There is no square-size slider here — it is fixed — so on an area 320px wide and 80px tall each square lands at about 10.5px, giving thirty squares across the width. Spread over seven characters that is four squares per character, which is enough for the digits to keep their outline.
So on plates, use solid. It fills the area with one flat colour and nothing underneath survives. If you would rather use the mosaic, draw the area generously taller than the plate itself — a longer short edge makes the squares coarser too.
What people leave uncovered
Only my own plate matters
Other cars are in the shot. Photograph a car in a car park and the plates in the neighbouring and facing bays come along, small. Small does not mean unreadable — zoom into the photo and they usually are. Enlarge the view and sweep across the frame before you save.
One plate per car
There are usually two. A photo that catches the front and the back needs both covered. So does a plate reflected in glass, and any parking permit, registration sticker or inspection tag sitting inside the windscreen — those carry the same information.
The plate is the only identifier
Lettering on the vehicle counts too. Work vehicles carry a company name and a phone number down the side, often in large type. Decide whether that should be public, and cover what should not be.
Photos are handled one at a time, so a batch means going through them one by one. Saving leaves your original untouched and gives you a new file with the covering baked in, and that new file does not carry the original's metadata — no capture location, no camera or phone model.