Background removal without the upload
The famous background removers all work the same way: your photo goes up to their server, their GPU cuts it out, and the result comes back — along with limits, watermarks and per-image credits. This tool takes the other road: it runs the ISNet segmentation model (via the open @imgly/background-removal library) in WebAssembly/WebGPU in your own browser. The first use downloads the model — roughly 88 MB for the model plus its runtime — from this website, once; your browser caches it, and from then on removal is fully on-device and works without any photo ever leaving your hands.
How to use it
- Add a photo — people and products with a reasonably distinct background work best.
- Press Remove background. First use: watch the model download progress. Later uses skip straight to processing (still a few seconds of on-device compute).
- Check the cutout on the checkerboard, optionally place it on white or a brand colour, and download.
Honest quality notes
On-device models are good, not magical: clean portraits and product shots cut out beautifully; flyaway hair, fur, transparent objects (glass, veils) and busy same-colour backgrounds will have rough edges that the big server GPUs handle better. If the first use feels heavy, that is the trade you are making — an 88 MB one-time model download instead of your photos living on someone else's server forever.