Stay Social 💬

When you give a social media app permission to access one of your photos, you might be sharing more information than you intend to. Using Discretion puts you in control.

Discretion provides you with a host of photo privacy features to protect you from unjustified access to the information that belongs to you. Features like metadata removal, face masking, and layer flattening - enable you to share images on your terms not theirs.

You can use Discretion on iPhone, iPad. Mac or Vision Pro.

Metadata Removal

Data Deep Clean

Most images contain a secret store of data that can reveal private information that you might want to keep for yourself. The Discretion app doesn't just remove the metadata from your photos. It scrubs them clean for you. Which means you get to stop unwanted data leaking out into the World.

That's all tracking metadata gone including: Date, time, location information (GPS coordinates), camera settings, equipment, operating system, editing software and more.

You can see all the metadata that has been removed from your photos in the Discretion Privacy Report.

Professional Masking

Undercover

Discretion can perform security focused face masking like a pro. When detecting faces Discretion does better than average. Discretion uses two different face detection algorithms with combined results for better coverage. All that processing is done on-device, so that neither you or your images are ever compromised.

Double Inteligence

Original photo by Steffen Zahn.

Original photo by Nicki Mannix.

Each of these photos has been processed with two different AI face detection algorithms, Vision and Core Image. Each algorithm has different strengths and weaknesses depending on a number of factors. Discretion uses the output from both algorithms to detect more faces than just using one algorithm alone.

With the Discretion Mask Editor you can make precision edits to the mask size and position. You can zoom in and out of the image and use grab handles and selection guides to make pixel accurate adjustments. When selected in the Mask Editor, the mask becomes translucent so that you can see just what you are about to hide.

Optional Masking

To Mask or not to Mask

If you don't want masks, it's no problem, it's your choice. You don't have to mask faces to access all the other privacy features that Discretion offers. You can switch off automatic masking in settings. And automatic masking isn't fixed, you can always personally add, edit or delete any masks using the built in Mask Editor.

v1.1.2 Settings

v1.1.0 Settings

Hidden Layers & Files

Cut the Layers

Some photos have hidden depths, layers of hidden images that can reveal more than you expect when sharing. The Discretion app removes them all for you.

Filename Privacy

Name Unknown

The Discretion app changes the name of your image to a simple two digit number like "01.jpg". Using descriptive names can reveal too much, and using random names can be used as unique tracking codes back to the source.

Photo Privacy Report

For your eyes only

The Discretion Privacy Report summarizes all the privacy changes used to protect your image. You can drill down further and see the metadata report which displays both the required and removed metadata for each photo.

Complete Discretion

Complete Discretion

Complete Discretion is for those who want more. More images - batch process up to 10 images at a time. Access to more than 1,840 emoji. And your purchase will help support future development.

Emoji Masking

🥸 Guess who!

With Complete Discretion you can be more expressive with over 1,840 emoji to choose from. Use emoji to mask faces and much more, place them just where you want to add new meaning to an old photo.

Batch Processing

The whole batch

Some social media sites, like 𝕏 (Twitter), limit the number of images you can send in a single post to four. With Complete Discretion you can match that limit and batch process all four images at the same time. For more image centric social media like Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat, or even TikTok and Vimeo Complete Discretion enables you to automatically batch process up to ten photos in one go.

You are not limited to sharing your privacy enhanced photos to social media sites. The Discretion app uses the standard share sheet, so you can do anything you can normally do with an image file, or even ten.