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Free number plate blur tool

Put a car photo in and the cover lands on the plate by itself. Nudge the corners if you need to, then download it. No account, no watermark, and your photo is never kept.

Your photo is never kept

A copy is sent to our plate model to find the plate, then discarded — never stored. The picture you download is edited in your own browser.

No sign-up, no watermark

No email, no account, no trial. What you download is the full-size picture you put in, with the plate dealt with.

Blur it, or cover it properly

A blur hides a plate. A solid cover replaces it — and can carry your dealership's name instead of a blank rectangle.

Your photo is sent only to find the plate, and is never kept.

Choose a car photo

JPEG, PNG, WebP or HEIC, up to 25 MB.

How it works

  1. 1

    Choose a photo

    Anything your browser can open as an image — JPEG, PNG, WebP, or HEIC straight off an iPhone. Up to 25 MB.

  2. 2

    Check the box on the plate

    Our plate model finds the plate and puts the four corners on it. Drag any corner to adjust it — all four move independently, because a plate in a three-quarter shot is a slanted shape rather than a rectangle. If no plate is found, place the cover on the plate yourself and drag its corners into place.

  3. 3

    Download it

    The picture comes back at the size you put in, named so you can tell it apart from the original in your downloads folder.

A blur hides a plate. A cover removes it.

Blur and pixelation are lossy, not destructive

They rearrange the plate's pixels rather than deleting them. On a high-resolution listing photo a light blur can still be legible at a glance, and a heavy one looks like a botched edit in the middle of an otherwise sharp picture. They are fine for a photo you are showing a colleague.

A cover replaces the pixels

Nothing of the registration mark survives into the downloaded file. That is what this tool does by default, and it is what Motuva does on a dealer's stock — except that Motuva puts the dealership's own name on the plate, so the result still reads as a photograph of a car rather than a car with a sticker on it.

Do you have to cover a plate?

Not always, and anyone who tells you otherwise is overstating it. A registration mark can be personal data under the UK GDPR — the ICO's guidance gives a plate as an example of information that can indirectly identify someone, through the DVLA. A plate on a car held purely as trade stock is much less likely to. What is true either way is that a listing sells the car just as well with the plate covered, which is why most organised dealers cover them by default.

This is general information, not legal advice.

Read the full position on plates and GDPR

Questions about this tool

Doing this for a whole forecourt?

One photo at a time is fine for one car. Motuva finds the plate on every photo in an advert by itself and replaces it with your dealership's name — white, yellow or black — as part of processing the shot. Nothing to drag, nothing to line up.

See licence plates in Motuva