Hey Product Hunt 👋

I built BG-Zero because every time I needed to remove a background from a photo, I had to choose between:

① Uploading my image to some random server (privacy 😬)
② Paying $10/month for a tool I use twice a week (wallet 😬)
③ Wrestling with Photoshop's select-subject tool (time 😬)

None of them felt right. So I built BG-Zero:

→ Everything runs in your browser. Your images literally never touch a server. You can cut your wifi after the first load and it still works.
→ Three AI engines bundled — imgly's IS-Net for balance, Hugging Face's RMBG-1.4 for portraits, and rembg-web with 7 specialized models (anime, human segmentation, etc.) when you need the right tool for the job.
→ A manual mode: for when AI isn't good enough — color picker + flood fill + protective mask brush. The escape hatch I always wished remove.bg had.
→ Free forever, no watermark, no signup, fully open source (AGPL-3.0).

The whole thing is a bet that "local-first" isn't just a nice-to-have for image editing — it's the only way it should have been done from day one.

A few things I'd genuinely love your feedback on:

1. Which engine gives you the best result on your images? I'm curious whether the default (imgly) is actually the right default.
2. Any image type where all three engines fail? I want to make the manual mode easier to reach for those.
3. Would a batch mode (drop 20 images, get 20 PNGs back) be useful, or is that overkill for a privacy-first tool?

Happy to answer anything about the architecture, the AGPL-3.0 choice, or how WebGPU + WASM makes this viable in 2026.

→ Source: https://github.com/q153877011/bg...
→ Privacy policy: https://bg-zero.online/privacy

Thanks for taking a look 🙏

BG-Zero

Remove backgrounds instantly, zero uploads, zero cost

Remove backgrounds instantly, zero uploads, zero cost