A cutout tool that keeps your photos to itself.

EraseIMG started from a simple annoyance: every background remover worth using wanted an account, a subscription, or your original photo sitting on someone else's server. So this one doesn't ask for any of that.

How it actually works

When you drop a photo in, the cutting happens on your own device. A compact image-segmentation model — the kind normally used in research demos — runs directly in your browser using WebAssembly, traces the edge of your subject, and hands back a transparent PNG. Nothing is transmitted to a server for processing; the only network activity is a one-time download of the model itself, cached by your browser for next time.

Why that matters

Most "free" background removers process your image on a remote server, which means your photo — and often a copy of it — leaves your device. For a lot of use cases that's a non-issue. But for product photography under an NDA, portraits of clients, or anything you'd rather not hand to a third party, doing the work locally is a meaningfully different privacy posture, not just a marketing line.

What it's good at

The model behind EraseIMG is tuned for portraits and people — a headshot, a person against a wall, a group photo. It will process other subjects too, but expect rougher edges around fine detail like hair, glass, or wire-thin objects, which is a known limitation of fast, browser-based segmentation rather than something we've chosen not to fix.

What it isn't

EraseIMG is a focused tool, not a full photo editor. It doesn't retouch, resize, or composite images onto new backgrounds — it does one job, and tries to do it well. If you need more, the transparent PNG it gives you drops cleanly into whatever editor you already use.