The remove.bg alternative that never sees your photo.
Same job, opposite architecture: the AI runs on your device, so there's nothing to upload, meter, or watermark.
remove.bg popularized one-click background removal — and a business model to match: your photo goes to their servers, the free tier returns a shrunken preview, and full resolution costs credits. Fair enough; servers cost money.
But the job doesn't need a server anymore. Modern segmentation models run in a browser tab, and on a Mac, Apple's Vision framework does it natively. When your device does the computing, the economics that justify credits and watermarks disappear — and so does the privacy question.
| remove.bg | RenameTo | |
|---|---|---|
| Where your photo goes | Uploaded to their servers | Nowhere — processed on your device |
| Free tier | Preview resolution, credit system | Full resolution, no credits |
| Watermark | No, but resolution-limited | No |
| File processing | Cloud | On-device (browser model downloads once) |
| Batch | Paid API | Drop multiple files; on Mac, rename many at once |
| Cost | Subscription / credits | Browser tool free; Mac app $19 once |
Where remove.bg still wins
Hosted services can be a better fit for extreme edge cases or API pipelines that process thousands of images. For everyday portraits, products, and pets, the on-device route avoids an upload and keeps the photo on your machine.
Free, private, no upload. Ever.
This tool runs entirely on your device. It's built by the team behind RenameTo for Mac — where the same job is just a rename in Finder.
See RenameTo for Mac