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danielgatis/rembg A tool that works on your files

Remove a photo's background and save a transparent PNG

  • Open source
  • Runs on your own computer
  • Windows, Mac or Linux
  • Tested 4 Nov 2026

You bring

  • a photo with a foreground subject

You get

  • the original subject on a transparent background
What can it reach?

Only the files you give it, with no network.

How was it tested?

Run on clean Intel and AMD and Apple silicon and ARM machines on 4 Nov 2026. Its check passed on a known sample and rejected deliberately broken results.

This checks the job this page describes, not every feature of the original project.

Project, licence and recipe files

danielgatis/rembg on GitHub

Licence. rembg MIT; U-2-Net Apache-2.0. Includes the model source and licence notice.

The 7 recipe files

Recipe revision fbddd60f283e, from c5b48b0417a0.

Photos and images

Cut out, enlarge and convert photos.

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