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Smart Blur vs OpenTabs

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Smart Blur compared with OpenTabs
DetailSmart Blur logo Smart BlurOpenTabs logo OpenTabs
What it doesBlur personal data before you share your screen Your open tabs, grouped, on every new tab
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Pricing modelFreemium Open source
PricingFree plan includes pattern-based blurring for emails, phone numbers and IDs, click/draw/text selection blurring, and keyword matching. Pro Annual is $14.99 per year with AI detection of names and addresses, screen share auto-activation, and screenshot blurring. Pro Lifetime is $49.99 one-time. Team Free, under the AGPL-3.0-or-later licence. No paid plans, trials or cards.
Key features
  • Automatic pattern detection for emails, phone numbers and card numbers
  • Click, draw or text selection to blur any element
  • Custom keyword matching to hide words and names across pages
  • Local AI detection of names and addresses in plain text (Pro)
  • Share Shield auto-activation during screen shares (Pro)
  • Screenshot capture with blur baked into the image (Pro)
  • Saved blurs persist per page on revisit (Pro)
  • Import and export settings (Pro)
  • Works offline with local AI using WebGPU (Pro)
  • Works with any browser-based screen sharing tool
  • Shows open tabs from every window grouped by site
  • Close all tabs from a site in one click
  • Close duplicate tabs in one press
  • Merge windows into one
  • Customizable briefing with news topics, markets, weather, calendar and to-do list
  • Optional end-to-end encrypted sync between browsers
  • No account required
  • Instantly loads with no network requests on tab open
  • Automatic stale new tab page closing
  • Works completely offline after initial configuration
What makes it different
  • Automatic screen share detection and activation (Pro)
  • Local AI with offline capability using WebGPU
  • Works across any website with no domain restrictions
  • Only tab manager that shows actual open tabs on the new tab page itself
  • Completely private by design with no account, no tracking and no server storage
  • Zero network delay when opening new tabs
  • Optional sync is end-to-end encrypted so the server never sees your data
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Public APINot given Not given
Community votes00
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)4 no change since last checkNot checked yet no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)50
Citation Flow (Majestic)2513
Referring domains (Majestic)483

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