Remove a background
in your browser.
A free background remover that runs right here on this page: drop a sprite, an icon or a product shot on a flat backdrop, and download a transparent PNG with clean, defringed edges. No account, no credits, no watermark, and your image never leaves your device.
Background Remover
Photo or busy background? Use AI background removal Restyle & Edit Image can hand back a picture on a transparent background, photos included. It is a separate AI tool that uses credits; your picture is not sent to it.
How it works
How to make a background transparent.
Open a picture
Drop it on the tool, paste it, or choose a file: PNG, JPG, WebP or GIF (the first frame), up to 64 MB.
Check the colour and the edges
The background colour is read from the edges. Click the picture to pick another, and set the tolerance, edge softness, feather and defringe while the preview updates.
Download the PNG
A PNG with a true transparent background, trimmed to its content if you like, ready for a game engine, a slide or a web page.
Want it step by step? Read the guide.
What it does
Clean cut-outs for game art.
Built for sprites, icons and renders on a flat backdrop, where a clean edge matters more than a clever guess.
From the edges, or everywhere
From the edges keeps the same colour inside your subject; Everywhere also clears holes and gaps.
Soft edges kept soft
Edge softness keeps the anti-aliasing, and a feather of up to 4 pixels softens a hard cut.
No coloured fringe
Defringe takes the backdrop's colour out of the edge pixels, so nothing glows pink or white against a new background.
See it on any background
Check the result on a checkerboard, black, white or a colour of your own before you download.
Pricing
Free and private.
It is free because your browser does the work, not our servers.
No account, no credits
Remove backgrounds as often as you like, one image at a time or up to 5 at once in one zip. Batches of up to 50 images come with any subscription.
Never uploaded
Your browser does the work and your image never leaves your device. Nothing is stored, so download your PNG before you close the tab.
Yours, no watermark
Nothing is added to your image and we make no claim on it. Pictures from our AI generators are yours to use commercially, with or without a plan.
Removing more than 5 images at a time? See the plans for batches of up to 50.
More tools
Photo, or a busy background?
This tool keys out one flat colour. For anything else, these help — the AI tool is separate and uses credits.
Photo or busy background? Use AI background removal — Restyle & Edit Image can hand back a picture on a transparent background.
Want the cut-out as a sprite? The Pixel Art Converter turns it into real pixel art — free, and also in your browser.
Building an animation? Pack the frames in the Sprite Sheet Toolkit.
FAQ
The Background Remover, answered.
How do I remove the background from an image?
Drop the picture on the tool, paste it or choose a file. The background colour is read from the picture's edges and removed at once; click the picture to pick a different colour, adjust the tolerance, then download a PNG with a transparent background.
Is it free, and do I have to sign up?
Removing backgrounds one image at a time or up to 5 at once is free, with no account, no credits and no watermark. An account is only for the AI tools and for larger batches, which come with any subscription.
Is my image uploaded?
No. Your browser does the work and your image never leaves your device. Nothing is stored, so download the result before you close the tab.
What kind of background can it remove?
A flat or nearly flat backdrop: a solid colour, a studio white, a green or magenta key colour, a JPEG's slightly noisy white. It is a colour key, so it does not cut a subject out of a photograph or a busy scene — for that, use an AI background removal tool.
What do tolerance and edge softness do?
Tolerance is how far from the background colour a pixel may be and still be removed. Edge softness keeps part of a pixel that is only partly background, so anti-aliased edges stay smooth; at 0 every pixel is kept or removed whole.
Will the colour inside my subject be removed too?
Not with From the edges, the default: it removes only background that connects to the picture's edges, so the white of an eye on a white backdrop survives. Choose Everywhere to also clear holes and gaps, such as the inside of a letter.
What does defringe do?
It takes the background's colour back out of the edge pixels, so a sprite cut from magenta loses its pink rim and one cut from white loses its pale halo. A rim that was drawn on purpose, in a colour of its own, is left alone.
Can it trim the empty space?
Yes. Tick Trim to content to crop the result to the visible pixels, and set a padding to keep a clear border around them.
Can I remove backgrounds from many images at once?
Yes. Drop up to 5 images at once for free, or up to 50 with any subscription: the same settings are used for all of them, and they download as one zip.
How large an image can it open?
Up to 64 MB, 26 megapixels and 16,384 pixels a side, as PNG, JPG, WebP or GIF (the first frame). A picture over about 4 megapixels (2048 × 2048) is reduced by a whole number on the way in, and the download is that size.
Remove your first background.
Drop an image, check the edges and download a transparent PNG — in your browser, for free.