🪄 Cutaway
Remove image backgrounds with local AI. Unlimited images, full resolution, zero uploads.
Cutaway at a glance
| Price | $24, once — no renewal |
| Replaces | remove.bg at $9/mo (40 credits) — roughly $108 a year, every year |
| Type | Desktop app — runs offline |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Category | Design & Graphics |
Cutaway features
🖱️ Drag & drop batches
Single images or whole folders — JPG, PNG and WebP.
👁️ Before / after preview
Checkerboard view of the transparent result, per image.
🎨 Flexible output
Transparent PNG, white/black, or any custom background color.
📦 Batch export
Pick a folder, hit one button, watch the progress bar.
🔍 Full resolution, always
Your 6000×4000 photo stays 6000×4000. remove.bg's free tier caps at 0.25 MP.
🔒 100% private
The AI model (ONNX, U²-Net family) runs locally. Images never leave your computer.
🪄 Magic eraser
Click an unwanted object and it's gone — AI fills the background. Undo built in.
🧠 Models in the installer
All AI models ship inside the app — nothing downloads, offline from first launch.
$24 once — that's the whole pricing page
remove.bg charges $9/mo (40 credits) — roughly $108 a year, every year. Cutaway is a single payment, and it keeps working whether or not we ever sell another copy.
Or get Cutaway inside the full suite — every app in the catalog, currently $97 for the bundle. See the bundle →
Cutaway guides & pages
Honest answers
Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes — the full source is MIT at github.com/bensblueprints/bg-remover-mvp. Paying $24 gets you the signed installer, 1-click setup and updates instead of building from source.
Is the quality as good as remove.bg?
It uses the same class of segmentation model (U²-Net family via ONNX). On typical product shots and portraits results are comparable; on very fine edges like wispy hair, remove.bg's newest cloud models can still win. You get unlimited retries for free, though.
Do my photos get uploaded?
Never. Inference runs on your CPU via onnxruntime. Every AI model ships inside the installer, so the app makes zero network calls.