PhotoCut Studio is a free web tool to remove the background from images and generate app icons in every size required by iOS, Android, macOS, Windows and the web. It was born from a very specific frustration: most "free" background removers upload your photo to an external server, process it there, and after a few uses ask you to pay or create an account. PhotoCut Studio does exactly the opposite.
All processing — the AI segmentation, the interactive GrabCut cutout, the refine brushes and the icon generation — happens entirely inside your browser. There is no backend that receives, stores or analyzes your images: there is no "upload" because there is nowhere to upload to. It's a technical difference, not just a marketing line, and it's verifiable by opening your browser's developer tools while you use the app: you won't see any network request carrying the contents of your photo. That's why it's a reasonable tool for ID documents, photos of minors, unreleased products or material under NDA.
The app is built with React on top of a custom canvas editor. Automatic segmentation uses a deep-learning model exported to ONNX that runs in the browser via WebAssembly (with WebGPU/WebGL acceleration when the device allows it), downloaded once and cached so it works even offline. The interactive cutout relies on the classic GrabCut algorithm, and edge refinement on pixel-zoom mask brushes. The result is exported with a real alpha channel as PNG or WebP.
PhotoCut Studio is developed and maintained independently by Gabriel Maglia. The site is supported by discreet advertising and voluntary donations — never by selling user data, because we simply don't collect it. You can write to gab.maglia@gmail.com or visit the contact page for questions, bug reports or suggestions.
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