Free Background Remover
This tool removes the background from a photo and gives you a transparent PNG. It is free, has no sign-up and no watermark, and you can run it as many times as you like. The part that makes it unusual: the AI model runs inside your browser, on your own machine, so your photo is never uploaded to a server. Drop an image below and you will have a cutout in a few seconds.
The first run loads the AI model into your browser and stashes it away like an acorn. One-time setup: every later visit starts instantly, even offline.
How to use it
Drop in your image
Drag a photo onto the box above, paste from your clipboard, or click to browse. PNG, JPEG and WebP all work. The file is read straight into the page and never sent anywhere.
One-time setup
The first time you use this tool, your browser loads the AI model itself. That takes a moment on a slow connection and it is the only real wait. Your browser keeps it afterwards, so every later visit starts instantly and works even with the network off.
Cutout appears, download it
The model produces a mask, we apply it as the alpha channel, and you get a transparent PNG at the original resolution. You can also drop a solid color behind it before you download.
How this runs without a server
Every other tool in this category works the same way: you upload your image, a GPU in a data centre somewhere runs the model, and the result comes back. That architecture is why they all have credits, watermarks and sign-up walls. Someone has to pay for that GPU, and it is metered by the second.
This page does it differently. When you drop in an image, your browser loads the AI model itself and runs it locally. If your browser supports WebGPU, the model runs on your own graphics hardware, which is typically five to sixty times faster than the CPU fallback. If it does not, we fall back to WebAssembly, which is slower but works everywhere.
Two things follow from that, and they are the entire reason this site exists. First, your photo never goes anywhere: it is read into a canvas in your tab and stays in your device's memory until you close it. There is no upload endpoint on this domain to send it to. Second, our cost per image is zero, so the free tier is not a loss-leader with a trapdoor in it. It is just what the thing costs to run, which is nothing.
The model file is cached by your browser after the first download. That is the one wait you have to sit through, and it only happens once per browser. After that the tool works with your network disconnected, which is a decent way to prove to yourself that nothing is being sent.
Checking that for yourself
You do not have to take our word for it, and you should not. Open your browser's developer tools, go to the Network tab, and use the tool. You will see the model coming down. You will not see your image going up, because it never does. Then turn your wifi off: once the model is loaded, the tool keeps working with no network at all, which is not something we could fake. We walk you through both checks here.
Your photo stays on your device.
Not "deleted after 24 hours". Not "encrypted in transit". Never sent. Here is how we prove it.
Frequently asked questions
Is this background remover really free?
Yes, with no catch and no credits. The reason most background removers meter you is that they run the AI on their own GPUs, and that costs them money per image. Ours runs on your device, so an extra image costs us exactly nothing. There is nothing to meter.
Do you upload or store my photo?
No. There is no upload endpoint on this site at all. Your image is read by JavaScript into your browser's memory, processed there, and discarded when you close the tab. You can confirm this yourself: open your browser's Network tab, run the tool, and you will see the model file being downloaded but no image being sent up.
Does it work offline?
After the first run, yes. Once the model is cached your browser has everything it needs, so the tool keeps working with the network off.
Is there a watermark or a resolution cap?
No watermark, and the cutout comes back at the resolution you put in. The mask is computed at a fixed working size and scaled to your image, which is how essentially every matting tool works, including the paid ones.
How good is it on hair and fur?
This is the hard case, and it is where our model earns its keep. It does matting rather than hard segmentation, so it produces soft, partial transparency on wispy edges instead of a cut-out-with-scissors look, and it takes a second pass over the pixels it was least confident about, which is usually hair. It is still not perfect on very fine flyaway strands against a busy background. That is a hard problem for every tool in this category, including the ones you pay for.
Why does the first run take a while?
Because the AI model has to reach your device before it can run there. That is the trade we make for never uploading your photo: either your image travels to the model, or the model travels to your image, and we chose the second one. It happens once per browser. After that the tool starts instantly and keeps working offline.