Remove Background from Product Photos

Most background removers upload your photo to a server, give you a low-resolution preview for free and charge per full-size download. This one runs the model itself in your browser, so every cut-out is free, full resolution and unlimited. Because nothing is uploaded, unreleased products and supplier samples are safe to process.

The model is IS-Net ("Dichotomous Image Segmentation", Apache-2.0), trained to isolate the salient object — a bottle, a shoe, a bag — including thin straps, handles and semi-transparent edges. It runs on your GPU through WebGPU in Chrome and Edge, and on the CPU via WebAssembly elsewhere.

What to expect from the cut-out

Clean, single-product photos on a plain or lightly textured background come out ready to use, with soft edges preserved. Busy lifestyle scenes are harder: the model keeps whatever it judges to be the subject, which for a product on a table usually means the product alone, but props touching the product may be kept with it. Hair, fur and glass are the classic difficult cases for any segmentation model, and they are here too.

Output is the full original resolution. Transparent PNG is right for placing the product on other backgrounds; the pure-white JPEG option produces the RGB 255/255/255 canvas Amazon's main-image rule requires.

Speed

Inference takes roughly one to three seconds per image on a laptop GPU and five to fifteen seconds on CPU. The first cut-out of a session takes a little longer while the engine warms up in the background; after that, batches run one image at a time in a background thread, so the page stays responsive.

When you need more than a cut-out

A cut-out on white is a listing image. A product in a lit scene — on a stone plinth, in water, in a kitchen — is a marketing image, and that is what Glowya's templates generate from the same source photo. Run the cut-out here for the marketplace slot, then use the original photo in a template for the ad and social versions.

Questions

Is it really free and unlimited?

Yes. The model runs on your device, so there is no per-image cost on our side and no reason to cap it. There is no watermark, no resolution limit and no account.

Why is the first cut-out slower than the rest?

The engine starts up in the background the first time you use the tool; once it is warm, each image takes seconds, and later visits start faster.

How does it compare with remove.bg?

For single products on plain backgrounds the results are comparable at full resolution. Commercial services still have the edge on hair, fur, glass and very busy scenes, and they offer manual touch-up tools which this does not.

Does it work on phones?

It runs on recent iPhones and Android phones, but CPU inference is slow there. A laptop is the better place for a batch.

Are my photos uploaded anywhere?

No. Your photos are processed in your browser and never sent to a server.