MaskerAid2025.1 - App Store

MaskerAid allows you to quickly and easily add emoji to images.

Add emoji for jokes, to call attention to things, hide faces, and more!

When you load an image with MaskerAid, it will AUTOMATICALLY detect all the faces in that photo, and obscure them with an emoji. Using MaskerAid, it's quick and easy to obscure the faces of children, shy friends, coworkers, or randos that are in your photos.

Additionally, any images you share will automatically have ALL METADATA REMOVED. Privacy is your right, and MaskerAid helps protect it. MaskerAid removes hidden information like where the photo was taken, what device it was taken on, etc.

Using the intuitive gestures you'd expect, you can move/resize/rotate emoji to get them centered *just right* over faces and objects.

Plus, if you pay for the one-time in-app purchase, you can select from *thousands* of different emoji!

Once you've gotten your image just right, you can quickly and easily save it to your Camera Roll, or share it using other apps.

MaskerAid is written by one person, Casey Liss, who you may know from the Accidental Tech Podcast (ATP) or Analog(ue) on Relay FM.

MaskerAid does not collect your images, and does not collect unnecessary data.

Version History Critical update to support iOS 26. 2025.1 10/16/2025 - Fixes for the watermark being forced when creating images using the share sheet
- Log viewer at maskeraid://logs 2024.1 05/09/2024 Added more robust logging to help me track down a couple of squiggly bugs.

These logs are not sent off your device unless you choose to submit feedback within the app. 2022.7 11/04/2022 - Fixes for the new version of iOS
- Improved logging in the case of issues (your logs are not shared unless you share them; basic analytics are collected)
- General tidying up 2022.6 09/13/2022 - Refined and fancier In-App Purchase view
- Better error messaging if an unavailable photo is selected
- Fixed the icon shown on the landing view on iPad
- QuickHelp improvements/refinements
- Lots of copy changes (thanks, MA) 2022.5 04/25/2022 - Share extension! You can now send images to MaskerAid from other apps, using the share sheet.
Remember you may need to go allllll the way to the right, tap •••, and add MaskerAid as an option.
- Prevents a second emoji from becoming active if you're in the midst of a drag operation
- Can now specify a multiplier/size offset for emoji on matched faces in Settings
- Revised the default emoji button interaction so changes are saved immediately
- Add haptics to the main editing view; thanks, MJ
- Reset button state upon failed purchase; thanks, JH
- Rotations should no longer reset after first rotation
- Fix hang when using swipe-to-dismiss on photo picker; thanks, SC
- Only prompts "Are you sure?" before you open a new image if you have emoji on the image; thanks, SC
- Icon on the landing screen is properly retina now; thanks, ZB
- Now using curly quotes in about screen; thanks, DGJ 2022.4 03/31/2022 - using the search bar when picking a photo should work now; Apple people, please see FB9738098
- some fixes to the occasionally wonky placement of images
- fix main button occasionally losing its text if "Show Button Borders" is enabled
- fix wonky caps; thanks, D. B.
- shrank the size of the pictures of my kids in About
- adjust the description of the watermark for free users
- output runtime information to log upon startup
- use superellipse for icon on welcome screen; thanks J. W.
- change "annotations" → "emojI" for clarity
- expand touch targets for some cells in Settings; thanks, G. L.
- fix default emoji showing in split view on iPad; thanks, J. P.
- tweak Quick Help for clarity; thanks, D. J.
- change quick help icon/glyph; thanks, M. R. 2022.3 03/09/2022 Initial release! 2022.2 03/01/2022 2022.1 02/22/2022