Check a Video for Location, Faces and Number Plates Before You Share It
Phone videos carry more than the picture: the place they were filmed, accurate to a few metres, the phone model and the exact time. Drop a video and Toolula shows what is in the file, then looks through the picture for faces and number plates. One click makes a copy without the tags, with the faces and plates blurred and, if you like, without the sound — and reads that copy back to show it is clean. Everything happens on your device.
How to use it
- Drop a video.
- Read the report: location, device, time, names, faces and number plates.
- Choose what to remove and click Make a safe copy.
- Check the confirmation and download the safe copy.
Frequently asked questions
Do phone videos really contain my location?
Usually, yes. iPhones write it as com.apple.quicktime.location.ISO6709, Android and Samsung phones in a ©xyz entry, whenever location access is on for the camera. Many sites remove it when you upload, but messengers, cloud links and email pass the file on as it is.
Does the safe copy lose quality?
Not if only the tags or the sound are removed: picture and sound are copied as they are. Blurring faces and plates needs the picture re-encoded once.
Will it find every face?
It finds most clearly visible faces and plates, five times a second, and follows them as they move. Small, turned-away or covered faces and distant plates can be missed, so watch the preview; Blur video areas lets you add areas by hand.
Is there a file size limit?
No fixed limit. The video is read in small slices and the result is streamed to your disk, so even multi-gigabyte files work without filling up memory.
Is my video uploaded to a server?
No. The file is read and written inside your browser tab using WebCodecs — nothing is uploaded, there is no account and no watermark. Once loaded, the page also works offline.