Remove background from any image, free.

Yes. No account and no watermark. Fast mode handles up to 20 photos per drop; Private mode has no limit on count or size.

Fast mode sends a copy of the photo, resized to 1024 px on the long side, to our processing server. The cutout comes back in a few seconds and the processing service deletes the photo within an hour; we do not store it. Private mode runs the AI model inside your browser instead: nothing is uploaded and the cutout keeps the original resolution, but the first photo downloads a ~40 MB model. Pick Private for confidential photos or when you need full size.

It uses @imgly/background-removal, an IS-Net segmentation model compiled to WebAssembly that runs inside your browser. The first time, a ~40 MB model downloads to your device and is cached, so later photos start straight away. Nothing about your photo is sent to a server in this mode.

JPG, PNG, WebP, and HEIC. iPhone HEIC photos are converted in the browser automatically before processing, in both modes. The output is a clean cutout regardless of input format.

Three options. PNG keeps full transparency (alpha channel) and is what most editing workflows want. WebP also supports transparency and is roughly 30% smaller than PNG; modern browsers and tools handle it well. JPEG does not support transparency, so the JPEG option is disabled when you choose 'Transparent' background mode. For JPEG, pick 'Solid colour' or 'Image' background instead.

Yes. Pick the 'Solid colour' tab and choose a preset (white, black, red, blue, green) or any custom hex colour. Useful for product photos on white, ID-style red backgrounds, or design comps.

Yes. Pick the 'Image' tab, drop a background image (your studio wallpaper, a beach scene, a brand pattern), and the cutout layers cleanly on top. Three fit modes: Cover fills the canvas (cropping the background if needed), Contain shows the whole background letterboxed, Stretch distorts the background to fit exactly.

Yes. Drop multiple files and every photo is processed in turn with the same background settings, then bundled into a ZIP for one-click download. Fast mode takes 20 photos per drop; Private mode has no cap and loads the model once for the whole batch.

Good for portraits, ID photos, e-commerce product shots and pet photos in both modes. Fine fly-away hairs, fishing line and translucent objects (smoke, glass) can still trip the AI up; for those, a desktop tool with manual brushing (Photoshop, Affinity, GIMP) is the right answer.

The first run downloads the ~40 MB AI model to your browser cache. On a fast connection this takes a few seconds; on a slow one it can take a minute. Later photos start straight away because the model is cached. Fast mode has no download at all, which is why it is the default.

No. When the background is removed and the image is re-encoded, EXIF (date, GPS, camera info) is stripped. This is usually what you want for a cutout intended for design or product use. If you need to preserve metadata on a different workflow, our EXIF Editor lets you copy specific tags back onto the output JPEG.