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Halal Camera

A camera that blurs faces the moment you shoot.

Halal Camera: A camera that blurs faces the moment you shoot.
Role
Solo: both platforms
Year
2025
Status
Shipped
Category
AI

A camera app that automatically detects and blurs faces immediately after capture, for people who want to photograph a place or an event without photographing the people in it. Built natively for both Android and iOS.

Overview

Photographing a wedding hall, a classroom or a family gathering means capturing faces that should not be captured. Editing them out afterwards means the unblurred original existed, was stored, and possibly synced to a cloud backup before you got to it.

Halal Camera closes that window: detection and blurring happen right after capture, on the device, so the file that reaches storage is already filtered.

Built with

  • Kotlin
  • Swift
  • On-device face detection
  • CameraX
  • AVFoundation

Where to find it

Challenges

The unfiltered original must never be written

Problem

The natural implementation saves the photo, then processes it. That leaves the original on disk, where a gallery scanner or a cloud backup can pick it up before it is replaced.

Solution

Processing happens on the in-memory frame before anything is persisted, so the only file that ever exists on disk is the filtered one.

Results

  • Published on Google Play, with a native iOS counterpart.
  • Blurring applied before the file is written to storage.