Nothing is uploaded
The model runs inside your browser tab. Your image never touches a server — ours or anyone’s.
With remove.bg being sunset, a lot of people need a new home for a very routine task. This tool covers the core of that workflow — image in, clean cutout out, transparent PNG down — with two differences worth knowing before you switch.
The first difference is where the work happens. remove.bg uploaded every image to its servers; this tool runs the open-source U²-Net segmentation model inside your browser through WebAssembly. That is why it is free without limits — there is no server bill to meter — and why it is safe for images you would not send to a third party: unreleased products, customer screenshots, ID photos.
The second difference is honest expectations. remove.bg ran large proprietary models; this runs a compact open model on your machine. It does very well on the common cases — people, products, and logos that stand apart from their background — and less well on wisps of hair, fur, and cluttered scenes. For a thumbnail, a slide, a profile photo, or a product shot, the result is typically ready as-is.
Around video, cutouts do their best work as overlays: a presenter freed from their webcam rectangle, a product dropped onto a branded thumbnail, a face on a chapter card. Those are exactly the images Mindstamp places on video as hotspots, buttons, and images — clickable, and reported per viewer.