Your photos stay yours.

BG Poof removes photo backgrounds on your device. Your photo is never sent to our server. There are no accounts, watermarks, or paid download tiers.

How it works

The first time you use BG Poof, your browser downloads about 100 MB of background-removal software and model files. It saves the model locally when browser storage is available, so later visits can reuse it. Processing speed depends on your device. Clearing site data removes the cached model.

Photos are kept in memory while you use the page, then released when you replace them, close the page, or clear the result. The server receives ordinary requests for the website and model files, but never your photo. Cloudflare, our hosting provider, collects cookie-free page-performance metrics. These metrics do not include your photo. About Cloudflare Web Analytics.

JPG, PNG, and WebP photos are supported up to 25 MB and 25 megapixels, with a maximum side length of 8,192 pixels. Downloads retain the original pixel dimensions. Fine hair, glass, shadows, and busy backgrounds can need additional editing; this is an independent background remover and results will differ from remove.bg.

Open source & credits

Download BG Poof’s source. The application code is available under the MIT license. Model files can be retrieved using the included download script.

Background removal uses IMG.LY’s IS-Net ONNX model, published with MIT license metadata, based on Highly Accurate Dichotomous Image Segmentation (DIS) by Xuebin Qin and collaborators. Upstream Apache 2.0 license.

Inference uses Microsoft’s ONNX Runtime. MIT license. The interface also uses React, Lucide, and Base UI; dependency notices are included in the source package.

Example photo by Helena Lopes on Unsplash, used under the Unsplash License. Its example cutout was processed with this site’s own engine.

BG Poof is independent and is not affiliated with remove.bg or Canva.