School photos stay on the device throughout the normal review and generation workflow.
Safer school storytelling
Genuine moments, Protected identities.
Anonemo helps schools keep the real life of the school visible while reducing avoidable risk around pupil identity, privacy and misuse before anything is published publicly.
No online image-processing service is required during normal use after local model install.
Buy the school licence once and keep using the version you have purchased.
Optional support and updates can be added later, but normal use is not tied to a subscription.
Please note: synthetic faces reduce identification risk dramatically, but schools should still review names, uniforms and context before publishing.
Now rolling out with pilot schools
Anonemo is now being used with pilot schools. This site shows how it works, why schools are interested in it, and how the 100% offline, school-run model fits public photo sharing.
Interested in Anonemo for your school? Get in touch.Local publishing review
100% offline
Reduced risk
Faces anonymised before publish
Processing
100% on site. Nothing sent out.
Image review
Nothing exported without approval
A school choice
4 public photo choices
Business as usual
Higher public image risk
Feels real, but leaves real children's faces in public view.
No or obscured photos
Lower image risk
More cautious, but can feel faceless or generic.
Fully AI-generated imagery
Low pupil-photo risk
Avoids real pupil photos, but can feel artificial or false.
Anonemo
Lower face-based risk
Real school moments, with protected identities.
Built for schools
Keep real school life visible, with a more careful workflow.
The goal is not sterile communications or invented imagery. It is a practical middle ground between business as usual and removing pupil images completely.
Design principle
Real moments can stay real, even when identities are protected.
Anonemo sits between clear-face publishing and fully synthetic marketing imagery: the event, setting and atmosphere remain genuine, while identifiable features are replaced before publication.
Audience guides
Different questions need different answers
Schools, parents and safeguarding or governance teams often worry about different parts of the same problem. These pages turn the discussion into clearer, audience-specific guidance.
For schools
Compare the publication options and trade-offs
A practical overview for heads, marketing teams and trust leaders weighing warmth, privacy and ease of use.
Open school guideFor parents and carers
Explain the approach in calm, plain English
A parent-facing page focused on transparency, what changes in a photo, and what safeguards still matter after faces are protected.
Open parent guideTrust and guidance
See how the product is being shaped for schools
A clearer view for leaders, governors and DPOs who want reassurance around privacy, human review, the dedicated DPO summary, and the fully offline school-run model.
Open trust guideHow it works
A simple review flow for busy school staff
The process is built to feel clear and practical: import, review, approve, export, then clean up.
Import locally
Bring in a single image or a whole folder from a school-owned device.
Review detections
Staff check the suggested faces, remove false positives, and add any face the model missed.
Generate safer versions
Synthetic replacement faces are created offline on the school device, while the original scene and story stay intact.
Approve and export
Only reviewed images are exported. Temporary working data can then be deleted straight away.
Why schools choose it
Made for schools that want to show real school life responsibly
Protect children in public spaces
Reduce the chance of faces being scraped, reused or recognised by strangers online.
Keep everything in-house
No handing pupil images to a remote AI service just to prepare a marketing photo.
Support staff review
The app helps people review carefully instead of pretending automation alone is enough.
Fit existing workflows
Use it before uploading to your website, prospectus, newsletter or social media channel.
Reduce metadata risk
Export options can strip EXIF and other image metadata before anything goes public.
Keep the story, not the exposure
The classroom, event or achievement still comes through, without publishing real children's faces.
Trust and guidance
Built around the questions schools already ask
Anonemo has been shaped around the things schools care about most: no cloud processing of pupil photos, human review, privacy-aware design, and clear accountability.
Already built in
- 100% offline, on-premises processing during normal use
- Human review stays central before anything is approved for publication
- Designed to reduce the chance of children being identified from public images
- Privacy and data minimisation are part of the product design, not an afterthought
What schools still decide
- Consent and lawful basis
- Final judgement on names, uniforms and context
- Safeguarding decisions and platform privacy settings
- Reviewing and removing older public images when needed
If you want the fuller picture, including governance notes, school-side responsibilities, and what is still being refined during rollout, the trust page explains that in plain English.
Read the trust and guidance overviewWhat Anonemo is
A privacy-first publishing tool
Anonemo is not a social platform, not a cloud image service, and not a hidden AI pipeline. It is a school-run, 100% offline publishing review tool built for public school photo workflows.
What Anonemo is not
Not a replacement for judgement
Staff should still check visible name labels, uniforms, event context and other identifying details. The goal is safer publishing, not careless publishing.
FAQ
Clear answers for school leaders, safeguarding teams and comms staff
What is Anonemo?
Anonemo is a desktop app that helps schools prepare photos for public sharing by replacing real faces with synthetic alternatives while keeping the image review process under staff control.
Does it upload our images to the cloud?
No. Anonemo is designed to work 100% offline on the school device. Photos are not sent to a remote AI image service for processing.
Do schools still need normal image permission or consent?
Yes. Anonemo helps protect faces in public-facing images, but the image is still of the child and normal school image permissions, consent arrangements, or lawful-basis decisions still apply in the usual way.
Does it make every image anonymous?
No. Anonemo is designed to make identification much harder by replacing visible faces, but schools should still review names, uniforms, context, and other identifying details before publishing. The aim is to make image searching, facial matching, and bad-faith reuse much harder, not to pretend no risk remains.
Is it really processed in-house?
Yes. The workflow is built for school staff to run entirely on site on a school-managed device, with local review, local generation and local export.
What happens to temporary files?
Temporary previews, masks and working files are kept in local app storage during review and can be deleted after export so the app does not keep unnecessary leftovers.
Can staff correct mistakes?
Yes. Staff can review detected faces, remove anything that is not a face, add missed faces, and reroll replacements if something does not look right.
Who is this for?
It is especially suited to schools, trusts, safeguarding leads, admissions teams and marketing teams who want to show everyday school life more responsibly.
Does this remove the need for human review?
No. Human review remains essential. Anonemo is there to reduce risk and support a safer workflow, not to replace school judgement.
Will schools be able to set their own default privacy approach?
Yes. Schools can set defaults once, then let reviewers override those settings only when a particular image needs different treatment.
What kinds of defaults can schools control?
Schools can set different defaults for individual photos and group photos, including whether the app replaces the face only or the whole head, and whether the protected face stays broadly similar or looks more clearly different from the original.
What is the trade-off between stronger privacy settings and image quality?
Stronger privacy settings can reduce identification risk further, but they may also increase the risk of visual artifacts around hair, hats, ears, backgrounds or edge blending. The product direction is to keep these choices understandable rather than pretending one setting is always best.
A safer way to publish
Genuine moments, Protected identities.
Anonemo gives schools a calmer, more careful way to keep showing real school life while reducing unnecessary exposure of identifiable pupils.
Current pilot rollout
Anonemo is currently being used with pilot schools, with wider rollout shaped by school conversations and feedback.