A small tool, built with care

CutoutKit started as a Saturday-afternoon side project. We needed to remove the backgrounds from a few dozen product photos for a friend's online shop, and every tool we tried either watermarked the result, asked us to create an account, or quietly uploaded the photos to a server we didn't recognise. None of those felt right for a job that should take ten seconds.

So we built our own. The original CutoutKit background remover runs entirely inside your browser using a modern image-segmentation model and WebAssembly. There is no upload step, no account, no watermark, and no usage cap. We pay for the hosting and bandwidth with clearly-labeled advertising shown around the tool — never on top of it, and never designed to look like a button.

What we believe

• Tools should respect the people using them. No dark patterns, no fake download buttons, no scary upsells.
• Your photos are yours. The original remover keeps them on your device. Optional AI background replacements send photos for online processing only with your consent.
• Free should mean free. Ads keep the lights on; you should never have to pay or sign up to use a basic utility.
• The web is a great app platform. We'd rather invest in making the browser version excellent than ship a Mac app, an iOS app, an Android app, and a Windows app.

Get in touch

Questions, feature requests, or weird edge cases you'd like us to handle better? We genuinely read every message — head to the contact page to say hello.