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Cutano - AI Cutout
100% on-device AI cutout — hair-level results, zero uploads
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100% on-device AI cutout — hair-level results, zero uploads
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Hair-level AI cutout that runs 100% on your iPhone. Fine-strand matting with a studio-grade workflow — layers, AI shadows, layered PSD export — and your photos are never uploaded to any server. Private by architecture.
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Why I built this
I'm a solo iOS developer. I kept needing clean cutouts — for product photos, ID-style pictures, silly edits — and every "AI" tool asked me to upload my photos to some server first. That felt wrong: my camera roll is the last place I want to hand to a cloud.
So I built Cutano to do the whole thing on-device. The matting models (Core ML, hair-level fine-strand detail) and all the Metal post-processing run entirely on the iPhone — no uploads, no accounts, no tracking. It's genuinely offline. I also wanted more than a one-tap cutout, so it grew into a small on-device workbench: layers, multi-cutout editing, AI shadows & reflections, and layered PSD export.
Making hair-level matting work well and stay fully local — without a server round-trip — was the hard part, and it's what I'm most proud of.
Feedback that would help most
Which cutout scenarios do you hit a wall on (hair, fur, transparent/reflective objects, complex backgrounds)?
Does "100% on-device" actually change whether you'd trust an app with your photos — and is that a selling point or just table stakes to you?
What one feature would make this worth paying for vs. a free cloud tool?
Any rough edges in the onboarding / first-run experience?
Happy to answer anything — and yes, I read every comment.
Hi PH! I'm the maker of Cutano.
I built it because every cutout tool I tried wanted my photos uploaded to a server first — and for a lot of pictures, that's simply not acceptable. So the whole thing runs on your iPhone: Core ML inference plus Metal GPU refinement, with no upload path anywhere in the app.
The part I cared about most is fine hair and tricky edges — that's where most tools fall apart. Beyond a clean cutout, you get editable layers, AI shadows, and layered PSD export for a real workflow, not just a one-off erase.
Free exports are lower-resolution but watermark-free. Pro unlocks original resolution (up to 8192px) and layered PSD.
For the PH community I'm running a launch deal: lifetime Pro for $0.99 (normally a subscription). It's my way of saying thanks for the feedback — grab it from the app if it's useful to you.
Download Cutano on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6797933216
Mostly I want your honest take: what edge cases break it, what's missing for your workflow, and whether "runs on-device, never uploads" actually matters to you. I'll be here all day replying.