Clean up listing photos without uploading a single one.
Blur the bystander on the sidewalk, the neighbor's license plate and the house number, strip the GPS hiding in every phone photo, and lift a messy background — all in your browser. Free, unlimited, and the photo never leaves your device.
What your MLS — and the people in frame — expect.
Most MLS photo standards bar identifiable people and plates, and a recognizable face in a public listing is a privacy problem regardless of the rulebook.
Listing photographs shall depict only the property being marketed and shall not include identifiable persons, readable license plates, or other personal information of occupants or third parties.
Wording varies by MLS, but the pattern is consistent: many boards prohibit identifiable bystanders, readable plates, and personal details in listing media, and treat repeat violations as a fineable matter. Beyond the rulebook, a neighbor or passerby caught in a public listing — or a seller's address tied to a face — is a reputational and privacy risk you carry. A listing photo also embeds GPS coordinates and a camera serial in EXIF, which can quietly broadcast a shoot location or trace back to the photographer. keptimage blurs the faces and plates and strips the metadata in one local pass — and cleaning up a background or staging shot keeps the marketing sharp while staying private.
What a careless listing photo can cost.
A face you didn't have the right to publish
A bystander on the sidewalk, a child at a window, or a neighbor in the driveway ends up in a public listing seen by thousands — a privacy complaint and a reputational hit you don't want.
An MLS rule violation
Readable plates, identifiable people, or personal details in a photo can trigger a takedown request and a fine. Re-shooting or scrambling to edit at the deadline costs you the listing's momentum.
The location baked into the file
Every phone and camera photo embeds GPS coordinates, a timestamp and a device serial. Share the raw file and you may hand out the exact location of a vacant home — or your own.
Built for the way you shoot and publish.
Auto face-blur, plus manual brush
keptimage detects and blurs faces automatically. Plates, house numbers and unit signs you draw over yourself — and once exported, the pixels underneath are destroyed, so there's no liftable layer.
Strip GPS before it goes public
A listing photo carries GPS, a timestamp and a camera serial. Remove Metadata drops them on export — so the file you upload to the MLS doesn't also publish where it was shot.
Background cleanup & staging
Remove Background lifts a cluttered backdrop off a detail or twilight shot — AI that runs in your browser, no per-image fee — so your marketing stays crisp without sending the photo anywhere.
How it works.
Drop the photo, blur what shouldn't be public, export. Nothing is uploaded at any step.
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Open the photo in your browser
Drag a listing shot — JPG, PNG or WebP, straight off your phone or camera — into Redact. It loads locally; there is no upload endpoint that receives it.
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Blur faces automatically, then brush the rest
Faces are detected and blurred for you. Draw over license plates, house numbers, unit signs or a reflection in a window — anything that shouldn't be public.
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Export — pixels destroyed, metadata gone
On export keptimage overwrites the blurred pixels and re-encodes the file, dropping GPS and camera EXIF in the same pass. The result is yours to upload to the MLS.
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Resize, compress or clean up the background
Need a faster-loading gallery or a cleaner detail shot? Run the same photo through Resize, Compress or Remove Background — still entirely in your browser.
How we compare.
Same cleanup. Very different cost and exposure for high-volume listing work.
| Capability | keptimage | remove.bg / Photoroom | Online photo editor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Photo is processed in your browser — never uploaded | |||
| Free & unlimited — no per-image fee or monthly credit cap | |||
| Auto face-blur for bystanders in frame | |||
| Destroys the blurred pixels (no liftable layer) | |||
| Strips EXIF / GPS metadata in the same step | |||
| No vendor-side copy of your listing photos to retain or breach | |||
| You can verify zero uploads yourself — watch the network tab |
✓ yes · – partial, depends on workflow · ✗ no. Marks reflect typical default workflows as of May 2026. Dedicated background services produce excellent cutouts, but every image is uploaded, a copy is retained, and high-volume use is metered per image or per credit. General online editors vary and rarely auto-blur faces, strip metadata, or run locally. keptimage does all of it on your device, free and unlimited.
Pricing for high-volume listing work.
Pro
- Every image tool, unlimited use
- Auto face-blur + manual redaction
- EXIF / GPS metadata scrub
- In-browser background removal
- Resize & compress for fast galleries
- Images up to 500 MB
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