Remove backgrounds without uploading your photos
Cutting a subject out of its background used to mean tedious work with the pen tool in Photoshop, or handing your photos to an online service that uploads them to a server you don't control. Pixohub's background remover does it automatically and privately: a neural network runs directly inside your browser using WebAssembly, analyzes the image, and separates the foreground subject from everything behind it. Because the AI model executes on your own device, your picture never leaves your computer or phone — a genuine difference when the image is a personal portrait, a client's product shot, or anything confidential.
The result is a transparent PNG: the subject is preserved with soft, natural edges while the background becomes fully see-through. You can drop that cutout onto a new background, a solid color, a marketplace listing, a presentation slide, or a website hero without any leftover fringe. Everything is free, unlimited, and watermark-free.
The first time you use the tool, the browser downloads the AI model (around 40 MB) and caches it, so subsequent removals start instantly. Processing a single image typically takes a few seconds depending on your device — laptops and modern phones handle it comfortably.
What it works best on — and how to get clean edges
The model is trained for general subject segmentation, so it excels at people, portraits, products, cars, furniture, animals, and objects that stand clearly in front of a background. For the sharpest cutout, use a photo where the subject is well-lit and reasonably separated from what's behind it. Busy backgrounds that share the subject's colors, wispy hair, glass, and fine transparent details are the hardest cases for any automatic tool, so expect to occasionally touch up those edges in an editor.
Once the background is gone, Pixohub has the perfect follow-up tools. Turn your cutout into a round avatar with the circle crop tool, place it on a colored frame with add border, or pad it onto a square canvas for social media with expand canvas. When you're ready to publish, shrink the file with our image compressor or convert the transparent PNG to a lighter format with Image to WebP.
Remember to always export as PNG (or WebP) to keep the transparency — saving as JPG would flatten the empty area back to a solid white background, since JPG cannot store an alpha channel.