1. License. CensorBox is free to download and use. You may use it on any of your own devices. You may not resell, redistribute, or share the software file with others.

2. Permitted use. CensorBox is intended for lawful, personal use. You may censor and decode images that you own or otherwise have the right to use. You agree not to use it to obtain content that you do not have rights to view.

3. No warranty. The software is provided "as is," without warranty of any kind. The author is not liable for any loss or damage arising from its use, including incorrect decoding or loss of image data.

4. Intellectual property. CensorBox, its name, and branding are the author's property. Images produced remain the property of their respective owners.

5. Acceptable use. You agree that decode may reveal all parts of an embedded original image or video. Only decode content you are lawfully entitled to retrieve. Censored files retain the original's date/time in their metadata but carry no GPS data; the original file, when decoded back, keeps its own GPS and other metadata unchanged. Censored files also carry identifying metadata (Make: CensorBox, Model: PNG, JPEG, or MP4), so the file can be recognised as a CensorBox file. By uploading or downloading such files you confirm you have the right to handle that information.

6. Third-party software. CensorBox includes third-party open-source libraries to power automatic face detection:
• face-api.js by Vincent Mühler; released under the MIT License (Copyright © 2017-present Vincent Mühler).
• TensorFlow.js by the TensorFlow.js authors; released under the Apache License 2.0.
These licenses permit redistribution and use, and the full license texts are available at their respective repositories.

Hide part of an image

1. Drag your image onto the app, or click Upload Image.
2. Click and drag on the image to draw black boxes over what you want to hide.
3. Click the download button and save the file.
It looks like a normal censored picture — but the original is hidden inside it.

Find faces automatically

Click the Censor faces button and boxes appear over the faces it finds. Adjust or delete any box by hand afterward — right-click a black box to remove it.

Crop the face away

Click the Crop out face button to trim the top of the image away, removing the highest face and a little extra below it. To keep the image's original aspect ratio, the excess width is trimmed from the left edge only. The cut-off region is still hidden inside the file, so decoding brings the full original back. Use Undo to restore the image.

Bring the original back

1. Open CensorBox.
2. Load a protected file.
3. The uncensored original appears right away.
Made a mistake? Use the Undo button or press Ctrl+Z (Cmd+Z on Mac).

What's new: Decoded videos now play automatically in the app — what you loaded plays live, so hiding, censoring, and re-downloading reflect the moving picture, not a frozen frame. The download button decides what it gives you: loading a file that already hides an original and leaving it untouched downloads the decoded original (image or video); everything else — plain files with or without censoring — downloads a hidden copy (a JPEG that hides the full original, with your censoring applied on top). The on-image CensorBox watermark has been removed, censored files no longer carry GPS data, and the EXIF Model field records the type of the embedded file (PNG, JPEG, or MP4). Cropping a face keeps the image's original aspect ratio by trimming only the left edge. Face detection is faster and runs in the background so images load quickly.

Earlier: PNG originals are censored to JPEG and decode back to the original PNG, decensored originals keep their original filename, censored files save as DCS nnnnn.jpg, and original date/time is preserved in the censored file's metadata.

Bug fixes: faces that fill most of the frame are now detected, face buttons go dim correctly once the face is cropped away, boxes stop at the image edges when you drag outside, undo always works, and censored date/time now displays correctly in Windows.