ObscuraCam

ObscuraCam Free App

Rated 3.54/5 (2,313) —  Free Android application by The Guardian Project

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About ObscuraCam

In a world of viral videos and facial recognition, ObscuraCam helps you share photos and videos while protecting the privacy of you and those you care about. With ObscuraCam you can blur and disguise faces in your photos and videos. Information that could identify you as the cameraperson is removed from the files for added security.

★ PRIVACY FOR YOUR PICTURES: ObscuraCam can be used as a camera to take photos, or to anonymize photos and videos you’ve already taken.
★ DISGUISE YOURSELF: Cover faces with pixelate, redact (blackout) or funny nose and glasses
★ AUTOMATIC FACE DETECTION: ObscuraCam automatically detects faces in both photos and videos, so you can quickly and easily anonymize a crowd or a long video.
★ MULTIPLE PRIVACY MODES: Faces can be pixelated, removed completely, or disguised with funny nose and glasses. You can also blur everything except a small portion of an image.
★ SHARE SECURELY: We remove all identifying data stored in photos including GPS location data and phone make & model so you can save the protected photo back to the Gallery, or share it directly to Facebook, Twitter or any other "Share" enabled app.
★ PROTECTS THE IDENTITY OF THE PHOTOGRAPHER: Smartphones attach information to every photo they take, including where it was taken and by what type of camera. ObscuraCam removes all of this information.
★ AWARD-WINNING: ObscuraCam was a Winner of the 2013 Knight News Challenge

***Learn More***
★ PARTNERSHIP: ObscuraCam is a partnership between the security experts at the Guardian Project and WITNESS.org, a non-profit using the power of video and storytelling to open the eyes of the world to human rights abuses.
★ ABOUT US: Guardian Project is a group of developers that make secure mobile apps and open-source code for a better tomorrow.
★ OUR WEBSITE: GuardianProject.info.
★ ABOUT WITNESS: A non-profit using the power of video and storytelling to open the eyes of the world to human rights abuses.
★ WITNESS’ WEBSITE: http://witness.org
★ ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/guardianproject & https://twitter.com/witnessorg
★ OPEN-SOURCE: ObscuraCam is free software. You can take a look at our source code, or join the community to help make Orweb even better: https://github.com/guardianproject/ObscuraCam
★ MESSAGE US: Are we missing your favorite feature? Found an annoying bug? Please tell us! We’d love to hear from you. Send us an email: support@guardianproject.info.

How to Download / Install

Download and install ObscuraCam version 4.0.0-beta-1 on your Android device!
Downloaded 100,000+ times, content rating: Everyone
Android package: org.witness.sscphase1, download ObscuraCam.apk

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App History & Updates

What's Changed
Our first public beta release of our major overhaul of ObscuraCam. At its core, is the same core concept - remove metadata from photos and video, and through automatic or manual selection protect faces and other sensitive areas of a photo or video.
* Integrated gallery view for easy selection of photos or videos
* Updated to support latest Face detection APIs with our own improvements
* New approach to video obscuring (let us know what you think!)
* New face filter masks!
Version update ObscuraCam was updated to version 4.0.0-beta-1
Name changed  Name changed! ObscuraCam: The Privacy Camera now is known as ObscuraCam.
More downloads  ObscuraCam reached 100 000 - 500 000 downloads
Name changed  Name changed! ObscuraCam now is known as ObscuraCam: The Privacy Camera.

What are users saying about ObscuraCam

M70%
by M####:

No auto face detection, no tools in the editing area. Don't work as described

I70%
by I####:

So waist of time using it..taking decades to process or Appling settings

M70%
by M####:

Appears frozen on opening screen, which is a shame as I was looking forward to better face detection

M70%
by M####:

Perfect thank you so much for this app

J70%
by J####:

Better

D70%
by D####:

Face detection is all over the place and doesnt always follow the face in video mode and manual obscure mode seems impossible to figure out. Also, i can see right through that color pixelation, making it pretty much useless. This has potental though.

L70%
by L####:

I don't have trouble with videos, it just takes skill. Blur on photos are sometimes not aligned with where I originally blurred it. That can be combated by predicting where the blur will be though.

K70%
by K####:

I love the simple app here. I can blur and pixelate faces in pictures. But when working with a video when it comes time to save it, it will not play and therefore does not save the edited video. Any help with this ?!?!?!?!?!?

M70%
by M####:

wants you to edit pictures immediately. I was trying to capture nieces playing at the park, lost every single photo because I thought I could just go back and edit later. worthless waste of time

D70%
by D####:

The app works but after I get a video done I can't watch it due to format issues... I installed almost every video playing app and none of them can play the video... This needa to be fixed or I'm giving it a 1 star instead... I'm on a LG V20

D70%
by D####:

Not good. I tried to blur the face in the video but it doesnt preview the full frame. I also tried to use the auto face detect and it still didnt blur correctly. 1 star but keeping it installed for an update.

M70%
by M####:

If I could give 0 stars I would worst app ever want of time I hate it it deleted my whole gallery

E70%
by E####:

Updates to the app don't work the same as before. No more auto face detection in video. How to manually block out face and videos which is inconvenient sometimes. Please put the features back that made me find this app useful

M70%
by M####:

Novelty, though never really used. I'm glad Guardian is in to privacy, but Orbot is all they got. I've never had real world use of any of their other apps. Seems that alot of wasted talent is at Guardian. That's a shame. Well at least they have the look of privacy. Perhaps they put all the effort into Orbot, and the rest of their ideas are just afterthought kinda thrown out their for laughs. Haha.

M70%
by M####:

Adds it's own metadata! The concept is to remove all metadata, so why remove it and add more?! New UI does make it more user friendly. Hopefully won't have to wait so long for the next update. (Remove 'ALL' metadata)

M70%
by M####:

Works well, but not perfectly-- seems to have trouble detecting off-center faces, faces tilted, and partial faces.

M70%
by M####:

To bad I can't give it 0 stars or even negative stars. Not sure how good it is because it takes WAY too long to process the video you're trying to edit. Negative stars from me!

M70%
by M####:

The latest version makes the photo in less quality which make it not clear enough to be read

H70%
by H####:

Face detection is all over the place and doesnt always follow the face in video mode and manual obscure mode seems impossible to figure out. Also, i can see right through that color pixelation, making it pretty much useless. This has potental though.

D70%
by D####:

In the beginning I really believed that "The Guardian Project" had the right idea just like another familiar name... anyone want to guess? "GOOGLE" see both companies were our friends... at first.. but then corporate greed and new slime balls became C.E.Os and POOOF! All the promises they made were just lies! Don't believe me? Check out the permissions they ask on their other camera app! You'll see!

D70%
by D####:

So you want to capture a pic that may win you a pulitzer prize. But you notice your sister is the one laying naked on the couch of your political target. This is the app for you. Because after all, there are some things that cannot be unseen.

Y70%
by Y####:

I don't have trouble with videos, it just takes skill. Blur on photos are sometimes not aligned with where I originally blurred it. That can be combated by predicting where the blur will be though.

D70%
by D####:

Useless app. Uninstalled. Could find my face or the other face in the video despite spending nearly an hour trying to find faces. The only face it found was a portrait on the wall. Terrible.

D70%
by D####:

On my old phone it worked fine for photos, but on my new phone, it will blur an image, say it's been saved, but then I can't find it in the gallery or anywhere else.. Maybe it needs an update for Marshmallow?

F70%
by F####:

Glad your app can detect faces and obscure them, but before you jump down that rabbit hole maybe you should work on developing an app that can do this simple thing like save a file. Every time I've tried to use this app it crashes before saving the photo I just tried to edit. Once you fix that you might want to try and have the ability to use two fingers and drag to adjust the size of the box that you are using to obscure. It's kind of silly to have to zoom in and then tap to create a standard size box

P70%
by P####:

Downloaded this ap but the top part of the video I need to obscure is covered by the toolbar and as far as I can tell the automatic search isn't touching anything in that area

D70%
by D####:

The so called Guardian Project is not guarding us, they are another arm of the #USGOV aka Corporatocracy.

D70%
by D####:

If I could give 0 stars I would worst app ever want of time I hate it it deleted my whole gallery

K70%
by K####:

Low light images and ones with eyeglasses have problems with detection, and video failed detection on many frames, detecting portions of a beard as a face, but not the face. CarbonROM, android 4.2.2 on d2tmo

A70%
by A####:

I took a photo including a screen with confidential information and it obscured a box down and to the right when saved/shared! Buyer beware.

D70%
by D####:

Without instructions without a how-to video I was not able to use this one installed right away

M70%
by M####:

But it takes time when you blur a video. It is not quick

N70%
by N####:

Spent an hour blurring a face on a video went to save asked if I want to delete the original (why) wouldn't let me go any further so I tried to back the video up on my cloud went back said yes to just continue did the 4 times now I have 4 videos that won't play and my cloud failed to back up the original so this app deleted a priceless video. I hope the app burns down. Infuriated!

H70%
by H####:

I still found my photos where I didn't want them. On picasa and g+. Dishonest bullshit that doesn't solve the massive privacy intrusion that google has inflicted on our phones. Uninstalling with disgust and disappointment.

R70%
by R####:

Sorry but if you are clueless to what a GIF and its many great uses then dont negative rate an application that you hope will do what your default gallery is already configured to do . To think all these negative reviewers own computers and cant use an android is scary

R70%
by R####:

No matter what media location is used, "unable to load media" error, every time. nexus 6 - have to uninstall.

W70%
by W####:

Face detection is all over the place and doesnt always follow the face in video mode and manual obscure mode seems impossible to figure out. Also, i can see right through that color pixelation, making it pretty much useless. This has potental though.

R70%
by R####:

First time - said no to delete original (remove this - it's stupid; why would you even put this in the program!?); no copy was made with my edits. The second time, I said yes to delete original. No copy was made with my edits, the app says cannot play unsupported file type, and the original is gone. Thanks for nothing.

R70%
by R####:

I took a photo and looked at it in the gallery. It contained my phone model in the details.

R70%
by R####:

Nothing more, nothing less.


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