Anonymize photos for a marketplace listing
Listing photos are taken at home, in a hurry, and seen by thousands of strangers — a combination that leaks more than people expect. Drop each listing photo below: faces (yours, in a mirror, in a frame on the wall) are auto-detected, and mosaic boxes take two seconds to drag over labels, screens and plates. The photo never uploads; metadata including GPS is stripped on download.
A working rule for what to hide: anything that identifies a person or the address survives; anything that describes the item stays. Buyers need honest photos of the couch — they don’t need your family calendar behind it.
Preset: mosaic. Faces auto-detected; drag boxes over labels, screens and reflections.
Drop a photo here — or click to browse, or paste with Ctrl+V
JPG · PNG · WebP — faces found and hidden on your device, never uploaded
How it works
- Open this page — the tool is already set up for “Anonymize photos for a marketplace listing”.
- Drop your photo in, click to browse, or paste it with Ctrl+V.
- Faces are detected on your device; drag boxes over anything else to hide.
- Check the preview (hold “compare”), then download the flattened, metadata-free copy.
The leaks that actually show up in listings
Mirror and glass reflections — selling a wardrobe or a TV means photographing a mirror-adjacent object, and your face rides along more often than not. Mail and packages on counters carry your full name and address in sharp focus. Family photos on walls put faces of people who never consented into a public listing. Laptop and TV screens leak emails and accounts. Kids wander through backgrounds. Windows frame the house across the street, which a local can place. None of this requires paranoia to fix — it requires one deliberate look at each photo, which the boxes here make cheap.
On metadata: major marketplaces strip EXIF from the copies buyers see, but don’t lean on that — policies differ, forums and messengers often don’t strip, and the same photo tends to get reused across platforms. The copy you export here is clean wherever it ends up.
Tips that save a re-edit
- Photograph items against a plain wall when you can — less to redact beats redacting well.
- Check every reflective surface at 2× zoom: mirrors, TVs, oven doors, framed art, car paint.
- Box mail, prescription bottles and documents entirely — a corner of a label can carry the whole address.
- Reuse the cleaned exports everywhere; don’t re-shoot “just one more” from the camera roll with GPS intact.
Before you post: zoom in and check every face, plate and label yourself. Auto-detection is a head start, not a guarantee — a missed face in a shared photo can’t be un-shared.
Frequently asked questions
Do Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist remove photo metadata?
The big platforms strip EXIF (including GPS) from what buyers see, and Craigslist historically has too — but the behavior isn’t contractual, differs by platform, and doesn’t cover the copies you send by email or messenger when a buyer asks for “more photos”. Exporting a clean copy once, from here, removes the dependency.
Won’t heavily redacted photos make my listing look sketchy?
Redact around the item, not on it. A crisp, well-lit item photo with a mosaic over a background mirror reads as careful, not suspicious. What genuinely hurts listings is blurring the item itself — never necessary with per-box effects.
Someone wants more photos over text message. Same treatment?
Yes, more so — messaging apps and email usually preserve metadata exactly as sent. Run any extra photos through the same pass; it’s thirty seconds, and texted photos are the ones that most often go out raw.