Finder selection
Native macOS privacy utility
Blur faces from Finder.
FaceBlur Quick Action redacts selected faces from one local video without opening a video editor, uploading footage, or changing the original file.
- Input
- one Finder-selected movie
- Processing
- local face candidate detection
- Output
- separate redacted copy
Source school-event.mov
Detected 4 face candidates Choose faces to redact
Candidate 1 9 observations, frame 128
Selected Candidate 2 5 observations, frame 214
Choose Candidate 3 7 observations, frame 302
Selected 2 selected
Finder to finished copy
A privacy pass in four concrete steps.
FaceBlur is not a timeline editor. It is a narrow handoff from Finder to a menu bar cockpit, built for choosing detected faces and exporting a safe copy.
Automatic analysis
Face candidates are detected for review.
The app samples frames locally, detects face candidates, and groups repeated observations.User choice
Select the people who should be blurred.
Candidate thumbnails make the decision visible before anything is exported.Redacted copy
Export a separate file next to the original.
The original video stays untouched. The finished copy can be revealed in Finder.Local-first by default
The selected video stays on the Mac.
FaceBlur is built around Vision, AVFoundation, Core Image, SwiftUI, and the Finder Action Extension. The workflow does not need accounts, sync, analytics, cloud processing, external machine learning models, or batch queues.
No cloud uploadNo accountNo analyticsNo external modelsOne selected videoSeparate redacted copy
Product evidence
The menu bar cockpit shows what will be redacted.
Candidate thumbnails are the trust surface. The user chooses which face candidates to blur, then exports only after a selection is made.
Visible before export Source file name, analysis state, candidate rows, observation counts, selected state, and export action.
Not part of V1 No account flow, media library, manual mask editor, timeline tools, or batch processing.
Finder finish Completion points back to the filesystem with a redacted output file and Reveal in Finder.
Made for clips people actually send
For fast redaction before sharing.
- Share school clips without exposing every student.
- Send workplace recordings after a fast privacy pass.
- Prepare research footage before review or archive.
- Clean up public-event video before posting.
- Blur family videos before forwarding a clip.
Native macOS integration
A small utility that fits the system.
Finder Quick Action to start, menu bar cockpit to review, system controls for action states, and Reveal in Finder when the redacted copy is ready.
Finder Quick Action Menu bar cockpit Candidate thumbnails Reveal in Finder macOS 14+
Preview build
Redact the people, keep the file local.
Join the preview for FaceBlur Quick Action. The current page avoids download claims until a public macOS build is available in this repo.