A free alternative to remove.bg

remove.bg says its website will no longer be available from 1 December 2026. This free background remover runs on your device, with no watermark or sign-up.

Before you start

The remove.bg standalone website says it will no longer be available from 1 December 2026 at 9:00 CET, and that its background removal is moving to Canva. If you are looking for another free way to cut out a photo, this page opens the SafeResize background remover. SafeResize is not affiliated with remove.bg or Canva.

It removes the background of any photo, such as a person, a product, a pet, a car or a logo, with an AI model that runs on your own device. Your photo is never uploaded. You get a full-size PNG with a see-through background, up to 12 megapixels (for example 4000 × 3000 pixels). It is free, with no watermark and no sign-up.

Tips

The first time, the page downloads the AI once (about 85 MB) and your browser keeps it. On mobile data, use Wi-Fi for that one download. After that, the next photo starts straight away.

Try it first on a photo you have cut out before, so you know what a good result looks like. Then look at the hard parts: hair, fur, glass and anything see-through.

Photos are done one at a time. After each download, press "Try another photo". On a recent computer each one takes about 10 to 20 seconds.

What to check when you choose a new background remover

Each background remover does things its own way. These are the questions worth asking of any of them, with the plain answer for this one.

Where does your photo go? Here it stays on your device: the AI runs in your browser, and the photo is never uploaded.

What size do you get? Here, the full size of your photo, up to 12 megapixels (for example 4000 × 3000 pixels). A bigger photo is made smaller to that size.

Is there a cost, a watermark or a sign-up? Here, none of them.

What can you save? Here, only a PNG with a see-through background. There is no white or coloured background, no touch-up brush and no batch.

How long does it take on your device? Here, about 10 to 20 seconds a photo on a recent computer, and longer on a phone, after a one-time download of about 85 MB.

How does it do with the hard parts? Try a photo with hair, fur or glass, and look at the edges on the White and Black backdrops. In a big group photo, check that nobody at the edges was missed.

Questions and answers

Is SafeResize part of remove.bg or Canva?

No. SafeResize is a separate free website, and it is not affiliated with remove.bg or Canva. It uses its own AI model, BiRefNet_lite (MIT licence), which runs in your browser with ONNX Runtime Web.

What is happening to remove.bg?

Its standalone website says it will no longer be available from 1 December 2026 at 9:00 CET, and that its background removal is moving to Canva. For anything about your remove.bg account, check the remove.bg website itself.

What can this tool not do?

It only makes a PNG with a see-through background. It does not add a white or coloured background, there is no brush to touch up the edges by hand, and there is no batch: it does one photo at a time. For those, open the PNG in a photo or design app afterwards.

How long does it take?

About 10 to 20 seconds a photo on a recent computer. A phone takes longer, up to a minute or more on an older one. The first photo also waits for the one-time download of the AI.