About VanishBG

VanishBG started with a simple frustration: every free background remover on the internet either watermarked our exports, demanded a sign-up, or quietly uploaded our photos to a server we didn't trust. The technology to do this privately, on-device, has existed for years — but no one had built a product around it. So we did. VanishBG is built on top of an open-source AI segmentation model that runs entirely in your browser via WebAssembly and WebGL. The model weights are downloaded once, cached locally, and every subsequent cutout happens on your own device. There are no servers processing your images, no APIs counting your credits, no analytics on your photos. The site is funded by unobtrusive display ads (once approved) and supporter donations — never by selling your data or locking features behind paywalls. We believe privacy is a feature, not a premium tier, and we believe useful tools should be free. If you have feedback, a feature request, or just want to say hi, we'd love to hear from you.

Our mission

Make professional-quality image editing accessible to everyone, everywhere, for free — without sacrificing privacy. Every feature we ship has to pass two tests: is it genuinely useful, and does it respect the user's data?

Our privacy commitment

Your images never leave your device. We don't have a server that processes them, we don't have an API that receives them, and we don't have analytics that track them. The only network call from the editor is the one-time model download from a public CDN — and even that is cached locally after first load.

The team

We're a small, distributed team of engineers and designers who got tired of paywalls. We work on VanishBG in the open — the codebase is public on GitHub, feature requests are tracked publicly, and we ship improvements weekly.