About Cut Remove Done
The background remover we wanted to use.
remove.bg closes on 1 December 2026. Lots of shops, designers and developers relied on it. We are building a replacement that is fast, fair and private, and that keeps your photos on your own device.
01Our story
Why this exists.
When remove.bg announced it would shut down, a lot of people suddenly needed somewhere else to go. Most alternatives meant uploading every photo to someone's server and paying per image, with credits that quietly expire.
We thought there was a better way to do it. Modern browsers can run a capable AI model directly on your graphics chip. That means the cutout can happen on your own device, for free, without your photo ever leaving it.
So that is what Cut Remove Done is. A clean editor that does the everyday work in your browser, and later an optional cloud for the hardest images and an API for teams. We are an independent product and have no connection to remove.bg, Kaleido or Canva.
November 2026
Public preview
The editor, batch mode and in-browser removal go live.
1 December 2026
remove.bg closes
Its website and API stop working, as announced.
Next
Cloud and API
Accounts, cloud HD and the hosted API. Follow along on the roadmap.
02What we believe
Four things we will not trade away.
Private by default
The free editor runs on your device. Your photos are not uploaded, so there is nothing for us to store, sell or train on.
Honest pricing
Browser cutouts are free because they cost us nothing to run. Paid credits never expire, and we say plainly what is live and what is not.
Open foundations
We build on open models like BiRefNet_lite (MIT) and standard web tech like WebGPU, not on a black box we cannot explain.
Built to stay
A small, careful product with low running costs is one that does not have to shut down. That is the whole point.
03How it works
Your device does the cutting.
No upload, no queue. Here is what happens when you drop a photo into the editor.
- 01
Load once
Your browser downloads the open BiRefNet_lite model the first time and caches it.
- 02
Cut locally
The model runs on your graphics chip through WebGPU and finds the subject, down to the hair.
- 03
Download
You get a full resolution PNG, JPG or WebP. Nothing was sent to a server.
Older browsers without WebGPU get a simpler engine that also runs on the device. The engineering post explains the details.
04Where we are
What is live, and what is next.
We would rather tell you something is not ready than pretend. The roadmap has the full list.
- Background removal in your browser, free and private
- Full resolution PNG, JPG and WebP downloads
- Erase and restore brushes, backgrounds, shadows, crop and text
- Batch mode with one ZIP download
- Accounts and sign in
- Cloud HD removal for the hardest edges
- A hosted API with the same shape as remove.bg
- Checkout for plans and credit packs
Try it on a photo you have lying around.
Free in your browser, with no account and no watermark. If you have a question first, the help centre probably has the answer.