Free Online Background Remover
Drop a photo in, pick a colour or go transparent, download — at the photo's full resolution, nothing shrunk.
- 🔒 Free · no sign-in
- 🖥️ Runs in your browser
- 🖼️ Transparent PNG or any colour
- 📐 Full resolution — no quality drop
- ⭐ 4.5 / 5 from our shop owners
1. Add a photo
2. Background
Pick a colour, or keep it transparent for a PNG you can place on anything.
3. Touch up
Missed an edge, or cut away too much? Paint over it.
Preview
Your photo appears here, background removed. Once it is done you can tap Showing: after to compare it with the original.
🔒 Your photo is processed on your own device. It is never uploaded anywhere.
How to remove a photo's background
- Click Add a photo and choose a picture from your phone or computer. You can also drag one onto the box, or paste one you have copied.
- Wait a few seconds while the background is worked out. Nothing is uploaded — this is happening inside your own browser, which is why the first run takes a moment to get ready.
- Leave the background transparent, or tap a colour. White and light blue are the usual choices for a passport or form photo.
- Press Download PNG for a transparent picture, or Download JPG if the form you are filling will only take a JPG.
What you get, exactly
| Cost | Free. No account, no sign-in, no limit on how many photos you do. |
|---|---|
| Photos in | JPG, PNG and WebP. |
| Files out | PNG with a see-through background, or JPG. A JPG cannot hold transparency, so a transparent choice comes out on white. |
| Size out | Your photo's own size, up to about 16 megapixels. The background is found on a smaller copy and the edge laid back over your full-size photo, so detail is kept. |
| At a time | One photo. There is no batch mode yet. |
| Your photo | Stays on your device. It is never sent to us or to anybody else, so there is nothing for us to keep or delete. |
| Needs | A reasonably recent browser, and an internet connection the first time so the cut-out engine can load. |
Where it does well, and where it does not
It is good at a person or an object that stands clearly in front of its background — a passport photo, a portrait, a product on a table. That covers most of what a shop counter is handed.
It struggles, as every tool of this kind does, with loose or frizzy hair at the edges, with a thin object like a wire or a net, with glass and other see-through things, and with a photo where the subject and the background are nearly the same colour or the light is poor. We would rather say so here than promise a perfect cut-out on every photo and have you find out afterwards. If the edge comes out rough, a brighter, sharper photo taken against a plainer wall usually fixes it.
Questions
Is it really free?
Yes. This tool costs nothing and does not ask you to sign in. Some of our other tools do ask for a free account, and our desktop software, Easy Crop, is paid — each page says which it is. Nothing here turns into a payment part-way through.
Do you keep my photo?
No, and we could not: the background is removed by your own browser, on your own device. The photo is never uploaded, so we never have a copy of it.
Where does the 4.5 / 5 rating come from?
It is the average of 375 ratings given by shop owners in the Your Astha WhatsApp group — our own count from our own users, not a Google rating or an independent review.
Can I get a transparent PNG?
Yes. Leave the background on the chequered "transparent" setting and press Download PNG. You can then drop it onto any colour or any other picture.
Can I use it for a passport photo?
You can remove the background here and put white or light blue behind it. But if you need the photo at an exact passport size, and a full sheet to print, use the Passport Photo maker instead — it does the background and the size and the print sheet together.
Is the download the same size as my photo?
Yes, up to about 16 megapixels (around 4000 × 4000 pixels). The background is worked out on a smaller copy so the tool stays quick on a phone, then the cut-out edge is laid back over your original photo, so hair and clothes keep their detail.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes, on a reasonably recent Android phone or iPhone. An older phone may run out of memory on a very large photo; a smaller copy usually goes through.
Can I do many photos at once?
Not yet — it is one photo at a time. For a batch of ID cards on a shop PC, that is what Easy Crop is for.