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Background Remover

Remove the background from a photo with AI that runs on your device. Save a transparent PNG or pick a new color. Your photo is never uploaded.

How to use

Background Remover in three steps

  1. 01

    Drop, paste or browse for a photo.

  2. 02

    Wait while the AI separates the subject from the background.

  3. 03

    Keep it transparent or pick a color, then download.

Guide · 4 min readHow to remove the background from a photo for freeGet a clean cut-out with a transparent background, made on your device, plus the tools already built into your computer or phone.

FAQ

Good to know

No. The AI model runs inside this browser tab, on your device's graphics chip. Your photo is processed in memory and never leaves your device.

The AI model, about 115 MB, comes from Hugging Face, and the engine that runs it (up to 27 MB) from this site. Your browser keeps both, so later photos start much sooner.

Any browser with WebGPU and enough graphics memory: recent Chrome and Edge on computers, Chrome on many Android phones, Safari 26 and Firefox on Windows. A photo takes from a few seconds to about half a minute, depending on the device.

Yes. The cut-out is saved at the photo's original size: a PNG with a transparent background, or a JPG on the color you choose.

BiRefNet lite, an open-source segmentation model released under the MIT license, run by ONNX Runtime Web.

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