Background remover
Drop in an image and the subject is separated from everything behind it. The work happens on your own device, so nothing is uploaded and there is no queue to wait in.
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Nothing leaves your device
The model is downloaded to your browser and the image is processed there. No copy is sent to a server, so there is nothing to delete afterwards.
You choose the subject
Automatic tools guess which object matters. Here you can draw a box around the one you actually want, which settles it for busy photos with several objects.
Free with no export limit
No account, no credits, no watermark, no reduced-resolution preview. The file you download is the full-size cutout.
How to remove a background, step by step
- 1
Add your image
Drag a file onto the frame, choose one from your device, or paste from the clipboard with Ctrl+V.
- 2
Mark what to keep
Drag a box around your subject and leave a little room around it. Skip this and press Full image to let the model decide on its own.
- 3
Clean up if needed
Use the erase and restore brushes on any edge the model got wrong. Every stroke can be undone.
- 4
Download
Export a transparent PNG or WebP, or flatten onto a solid colour as JPEG.
What this background remover actually does
A segmentation model looks at your image and predicts, pixel by pixel, which parts belong to the subject and which belong to the background. The prediction becomes an alpha channel: the subject stays opaque, everything else becomes transparent.
Because the model is a salient-object segmenter, it is looking for a distinct thing in a scene — a person, a bottle, a chair, a dog. That is why the result on a photo with one clear subject is far better than on a texture like a sky, a wall or a crowd where nothing stands out.
Why running it locally matters
Most free background removers upload your file, process it on a server and hand back a result. That is fine for a holiday snapshot and less fine for an unreleased product shot, a client's photo, or a document with a face in it.
This tool downloads the model once and runs it in your browser with WebAssembly. The first run takes longer because the model has to arrive; after that it is cached and subsequent images start almost immediately.
When it works well, and when it does not
Expect good results on product shots, portraits, pets, furniture, vehicles and anything else with a recognisable outline against a different-looking background.
Expect poor results when there is no single subject: skies, clouds, water, foliage textures, dense crowds, or a flat-lay where a dozen items compete. In those cases the model often finds nothing at all — and this tool tells you so instead of handing you an empty file.
Common jobs this handles
Marketplace listings
Cut the product out, then export it on white for platforms that require a plain background.
Slides and documents
A transparent logo or headshot sits on any slide colour without an ugly white rectangle around it.
Thumbnails and social posts
Lift a person out of a photo and place them over a different background in your design tool.
Frequently asked questions
Is this background remover really free?
Yes. There is no account, no credit system and no watermark, and the exported file is full resolution. The site is funded by ads placed away from the tool itself.
Are my images uploaded anywhere?
No. The segmentation model is downloaded to your browser and your image is processed on your own device. The image data never goes to our servers because there is no server-side processing step.
Why is the first image slower than the rest?
The first run downloads the model, which is tens of megabytes. Your browser caches it, so the second and later images skip that step.
What image formats can I use?
PNG, JPG, WebP and AVIF inputs up to 10MB. Exports are PNG or WebP for transparency, or JPEG when you want a solid colour behind the subject.
The result came out empty. What went wrong?
The model found nothing it considered a subject. That usually means the picture is a texture or scene rather than an object — a sky or a wall, for example — or that your focus box was drawn tightly inside the object with no surrounding background visible. Draw a slightly wider box and try again.
Go deeper
How to remove a background
A practical walkthrough for removing an image background: what to select, which quality setting to use, how to fix edges, and which format to export.
How AI removal works
What a segmentation model actually does to your image, why it needs context around the subject, and the kinds of pictures it cannot handle at all.