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Image tools that never upload your photos

Every tool here runs on your device. Your photos are processed in the browser and never sent to a server — no account, no cloud, no tracking.

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Most "free" online image tools upload your photo to their servers to do the work. That means a private document, a customer's product shot or a picture of your family passes through — and is often stored on — someone else's computer. ClearBG is built the opposite way: the processing runs inside your own browser, so the image never leaves your device.

That single design choice is what makes ClearBG genuinely private. There is nothing to sign up for, no image is transmitted, and there is no server-side copy to leak, cache or train on. You can use every tool below on sensitive images — IDs, bank statements, medical photos, unreleased designs — with none of the usual risk.

Why it stays private

Private by design

The AI and every edit run locally. Your photos are never uploaded, stored or seen by anyone — not even us.

Nothing to upload

No account, no cloud, no API keys. Drop an image in and it's processed on the spot, in the page.

No data kept

Because nothing reaches a server, there's no history, no tracking pixel on the tools, and nothing to delete later.

Tools that run on your device

All free, all private — nothing here uploads your images.

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What 'runs on your device' means technically

Where the computation physically happens

A conventional image service accepts an upload, processes the file on a server it controls, and sends a result back. Your file exists on that machine for at least the duration of the job, and in practice for as long as the operator's retention policy says.

These tools compile the same work — segmentation models, image codecs, PDF rendering, text recognition — to WebAssembly and run it inside the browser tab. The file is read from disk into the page's memory, transformed there, and written back out. There is no request carrying it anywhere, because no part of the pipeline lives anywhere else.

Why this is a structural property, not a policy

A privacy policy is a promise about what a company will do with data it already holds. It can be revised, misapplied, or made irrelevant by a breach or an acquisition, and none of those events require anyone to act in bad faith.

An architecture that never receives the data has nothing to revise. The distinction matters most for exactly the files people are most careful with — identity documents, medical letters, photographs of children — and it is the one claim an upload-based competitor cannot copy without rebuilding their product.

What the server still sees

It would be dishonest to claim nothing is observable. Requesting a page is a request, so the hosting provider sees an IP address, a timestamp and which URL was fetched, exactly as it does for any website.

The AI model weights are fetched once from a public CDN, so that CDN sees a download of a public file. What none of them see is your image, because it is never part of any request.

The costs of doing it this way

Local processing is a real trade rather than a free win, and it is worth being straight about the losses.

  • The first background removal downloads a model, which is a genuine wait on a slow connection.
  • Your device does the work, so an old phone is slower than a rented GPU would be.
  • Very large files are bounded by the tab's memory rather than by a server's.
  • Cloud services with far larger models beat these tools on the hardest inputs.

Frequently asked questions

Are my images really not uploaded?
Correct. The tools use your browser's own canvas and, for background removal, an AI model that runs on your device. The image data stays in the page — it is never sent to ClearBG or any third party.
How can it be free if nothing is uploaded?
There are no servers doing the heavy lifting, so there's almost nothing to pay for. The tools are free and unlimited, with no watermark and no per-image cost.
Is this safe for sensitive documents?
Yes — that's the main reason to use it. Because the file never leaves your device, redacting an ID, stripping GPS data from a photo or cleaning up a bank statement is far safer than on a tool that uploads.
Do I need to install anything?
No. It runs in any modern browser. You can optionally install it as an app (PWA) so it opens in its own window and keeps working offline.

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