Both Privacy Keeper and Gallio PRO are desktop applications that blur faces and license plates locally. But they were built for different purposes — and the difference matters when you work with 360° panoramas.
Privacy Keeper was built from day one for equirectangular panoramas. It understands spherical projection, handles seams natively, and applies distortion-aware detection that doesn’t miss faces at the poles or plate fragments at image edges.
Gallio PRO is a general-purpose blurring tool — excellent for flat images and standard video, but not optimised for the geometric distortions of equirectangular 360° images. Seam stitching and edge detection can produce artefacts that require manual correction.
Privacy Keeper: Windows 10/11. Native .exe installer, no Docker, no terminal. Designed for non-technical operators.
Gallio PRO: Windows, macOS, Linux. Wider platform support — a clear advantage for mixed-environment teams. However, macOS and Linux still represent a small fraction of street view operator machines.
Privacy Keeper: Fully self-serve. €89/month, €890/year, €3,260 perpetual. No sales calls. No quote requests. Buy in 2 minutes.
Gallio PRO: €89/month Professional tier. Enterprise tier requires contact. No perpetual license option — recurring subscription only.
For teams that need a perpetual license or can’t justify recurring SaaS, Privacy Keeper is the only option.
Privacy Keeper: Multi-vehicle mask editor with per-vehicle profiles. GDPR audit trail per processing run. Multi-scale patch extraction that preserves edge fidelity at the 0° and 360° seam. Custom watermarking with full typographic control.
Gallio PRO: Strong manual correction editor. General-purpose masking. No 360°-specific features like seam-aware processing or equirectangular distortion compensation.
Both tools offer NVIDIA CUDA GPU acceleration with CPU fallback. Privacy Keeper publishes transparent benchmarks: 9s for Mosaic 51 12K, 4.3s for Insta360 X4. Gallio does not publish 360°-specific benchmarks.
Privacy Keeper: 7 days, all features, no credit card required. Only difference: output includes “© PanoHopper” watermark.
Gallio PRO: Free demo — output limited to 720p resolution with watermark. Not suitable for evaluating results on high-resolution panoramic imagery.
Choose Gallio PRO if you need macOS/Linux support, primarily work with flat images and standard video, and don’t need 360°-specific optimisations.
Choose Privacy Keeper if your workflow centres on 360° equirectangular panoramas, you need a perpetual license option, you require GDPR audit trails, or you want a tool that handles spherical imagery natively — not as an afterthought.
Start your 7-day free trial. No credit card. All features. Process real panoramas and decide for yourself.