Remove a background without uploading your photo
The background-removal AI runs inside your browser. Your photo is never uploaded, so even sensitive images stay completely private.
Almost every background remover works by uploading your image to a server, removing the background there, and sending the result back. ClearBG doesn't. The AI model downloads to your browser once, then does the cut-out on your own device — your photo never travels across the internet.
That makes it the right tool for anything you wouldn't want on someone else's server: a passport photo, a picture of your kids, an unreleased product, a scanned signature. You still get a clean, full-resolution transparent PNG — just without the privacy trade-off.
Why it stays private
On-device AI
The cut-out is computed in your browser. No upload step exists, so there's no server copy of your photo.
Full-resolution output
Export a lossless transparent PNG (or JPG/WEBP) at the original size — no downscaling, no watermark.
Free & unlimited
No credits, no account, no per-image fee. Remove as many backgrounds as you like.
Tools that run on your device
All free, all private — nothing here uploads your images.
More on privacy
How to check a no-upload claim yourself
Watch the network panel
Every browser ships developer tools with a network tab that lists every request the page makes. Open it, clear it, then run the tool on an image and watch what appears.
A tool that processes locally shows requests for its own code and assets and then nothing while the work happens. A tool that uploads shows a request carrying a payload roughly the size of your file — which is unmistakable, because a photograph is orders of magnitude larger than the page's own traffic.
The offline test is simpler and harder to fake
Load the page, then disconnect from the network entirely, then use the tool. Software that needs a server cannot work without one, so if the result still appears, the computation happened on your machine.
This is a stronger check than reading any policy, because it tests the thing itself rather than a description of it. The one caveat is the first run, which may need to fetch a model before it can go offline.
What a claim of deletion actually promises
Services that upload frequently promise deletion after an interval — an hour, a day. That is a meaningful commitment and a much weaker one than it sounds: it concedes the file was transmitted, stored, and readable by that system for the window in question.
It also cannot cover copies that left the primary store: backups, logs, the CDN, a queue, an error report containing the file. Deletion is a process rather than an event, which is why not receiving the file is a different category of assurance.
Signals that a tool is not local
Some behaviours are only possible with a server, whatever the marketing says.
- A progress bar that tracks 'uploading' rather than processing.
- A result delivered as a link to a hosted file rather than a direct download.
- A hard file-size cap in the low megabytes — a server cost, not a browser limit.
- An account requirement for processing, which implies work tied to an identity.
- Nothing works with the network off, after the page has loaded.
Preguntas frecuentes
How does it remove the background without uploading?
Is the quality as good as tools that upload?
Does it work on my phone?
Can I process several images privately?
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