Background Remover
100% privateCut the subject out of any photo. It is processed on this device and never uploaded — and you get it back at full resolution.
Handles products, objects, logos and pets. Downloads once (about 4 MB), then works offline. Not for portraits — switch above if there is a person in the photo.
Advanced options
Crisp gives a sharp outline that suits logos and boxy objects. Softer flatters hair and fur but can look slightly hazy.
Left alone this picks PNG for a transparent cutout and JPG for a solid backdrop. JPG cannot store transparency at all.
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Step by step
How to remove a background from a photo
Four steps, no account, no email address, no watermark, and no cap on the resolution you get back.
Add your photo
Drag it anywhere onto this page, or press Choose a photo. Nothing is sent when you do — the browser simply gets permission to read the file off your disk. JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, GIF, BMP and iPhone HEIC all work.
Decide what goes behind
Transparent gives you a PNG you can drop onto any design. Solid colour gives you a clean backdrop — white for shopping listings and passport-style photos, green if you are going to key it out in a video editor.
Say what is in it
Two different AI models, because no small one is good at both. Object suits products, logos, pets and food. Person is built for hair and fur and is far better on portraits — it downloads 26 MB the first time you pick it. Both then work offline.
Compare, then download
Drag the slider across the result to check the edges against the original. When you are happy, the button saves it at exactly the resolution you started with.
Private by design
Why this background remover can’t leak your photo
Every popular background remover uploads your picture to a server, cuts it out there, and hands you a download link. People put headshots, ID photos, pictures of their children and unreleased product shots through these. That is a stranger’s machine holding a copy of all of it. This one works differently, and you can verify that yourself.
The model comes to you
Instead of sending your photo to where the AI lives, the AI is downloaded to your browser once and runs on your device. Your picture never enters a network request, so there is no copy of it anywhere for us to keep, lose or be compelled to hand over.
Nothing stored
The photo and the cutout live only in this tab’s memory. Close the tab and both are gone immediately — no processing queue, no temporary folder, no “we delete files after an hour” promise you have to take on trust.
Full size, no catch
No sign-up, no credits, no watermark, and no downscaled “preview” with the real file behind a subscription. You get back exactly the resolution you put in, every time.
To be precise about what does leave your device — because “100% private” is easy to say and worth checking. Three things, none of them your photo:
1. The first time you press the button, this page downloads the AI model and the code that runs it from this site — about 4 MB for objects, 26 MB for people. That is a normal file download, in the direction of your device, and it is why the first cutout is slower than the ones after it. Nothing about your photo is attached to it, and it is stored on your device so it never downloads again.
2. When a cutout finishes, this page sends one anonymous message to our counter saying “background-remover was used”. No image, no file name, no dimensions, nothing identifying you. It exists so the usage number above is a real one rather than something we invented.
3. Google Analytics records the page view and that a cutout happened, the same as on every other page of this site. We don’t send it anything about your picture. You can block it and the tool works exactly the same.
Your photo is in none of them. It never enters a network request at all — and unlike a promise, that is something you can check. Do one cutout, then turn off your wifi, reload this page and do another. It still works, because by then the model is already on your device. No upload-based background remover can pass that test.
At a glance
Tool specifications
| Input | JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, GIF, BMP and iPhone HEIC |
|---|---|
| Output | PNG or WebP with transparency, or JPG on a solid colour |
| Output resolution | Identical to the input. Never downscaled, never watermarked |
| Maximum image size | 50 megapixels, or 150 MB; a warning above 25 MB |
| Models | Objects: U²-Netp (Apache-2.0, 4 MB). People: MODNet (Apache-2.0, 26 MB) |
| First run | Downloads the model once, from this site. Roughly 7 MB total for objects |
| Later runs | No download at all. Around a second for objects, a few for people |
| Where processing happens | In your browser, on your device — nothing is uploaded |
| Works offline | Yes, once you have done one cutout, including as an installed app |
| Batch | One photo at a time |
| Sign-up | Not required, not offered |
| Price | Free |
Questions
Removing backgrounds, answered
Is my photo uploaded anywhere?
How does this compare to remove.bg or Photoroom?
Why did the first one take so much longer?
Why does hair look soft or blurry at the edges?
Can I put the subject on a white background instead?
Do I get the full resolution, or a watermarked preview?
Does it work offline?
Do I need to sign up or pay?
Keep it handy
Save it, share it, or tell us what’s missing
Come back to it
Bookmark the page, or pin it to your saved tools so it sits at the top of the tools list on this device. Worth doing here more than elsewhere — the model stays on your device, so the second visit is instant.
Cutout not clean enough?
Tell us what the model got wrong — a subject it missed, an edge it mangled, or a control you wanted and couldn’t find. That feedback is what decides which model ships next. The form opens with the tool already filled in.
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Every one of these runs the same way — on your device, with nothing uploaded.