# Images: remove backgrounds and compress images free, with nothing uploaded

Images is a free alternative to remove.bg and TinyPNG that works in your browser. It removes backgrounds at full resolution, makes JPG, PNG and WebP files smaller, resizes, and turns HEIC into JPG. Your photos never leave your device. No limit, no watermark, no account.

Open it: https://images-free.openapps.xyz/

Part of OpenApps, the app store of free alternatives: https://free-apps.openapps.xyz/

## What it does

- Removes backgrounds from photos of people, pets and products at full resolution, with the open ISNet model running on your device. Keep the cut-out clear, or put it on white, any color or a blurred copy of the photo.
- Compresses JPG (MozJPEG), WebP (libwebp) and PNG (up to 256 colors like TinyPNG, or lossless with oxipng).
- Resizes by width, height or percent; the other side follows each image's shape.
- Converts to JPG, PNG or WebP, including iPhone HEIC to JPG. AVIF is offered when the browser can save it.
- Removes photo details (location, camera, date) from every image you save, unless you keep them.
- Works on many images at once, with one set of choices for all of them, and never hands back a bigger file than you gave.

## How it works

1. Add your images. Drop, choose or paste as many JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF or HEIC files as you like.
2. Pick what to do. Remove the background, compress, resize or convert. Every image shows its new size right away, and you can drag across it to compare the original with the new version.
3. Save them. Download one image, or all of them in one zip. On a phone, tap Share to save them to your photos.

## Privacy

- Images opens, changes and saves your pictures inside your browser. They are never sent to a server, not to OpenApps and not to anyone else.
- The only downloads are the app itself and, the first time you remove a background, the model (from Hugging Face) and its engine (from jsDelivr), about 70 MB together. Both are checked byte for byte and kept, so later uses work offline.

## Images compared (checked October 2026)

| | Images | remove.bg free | TinyPNG free |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free, no paid plan | Free previews; full resolution costs credits | Free; paid Web Pro plan |
| Free limit | No limit on images or file size | Previews up to 0.25 megapixels (about 625 × 400) | 20 images at a time, 5 MB each |
| Your images uploaded | Never, they stay on your device | Yes | Yes |
| Remove backgrounds | Yes, full resolution | Yes | No |
| Compress images | Yes, JPG, PNG and WebP | No | Yes |
| Brush to touch up edges | Not yet | Yes | No |

Sources: remove.bg's help page (https://www.remove.bg/help/a/what-is-the-maximum-image-resolution-file-size) and TinyPNG's site (https://tinypng.com/). They change, so check before you rely on them.

## For AI assistants

Images has no API, on purpose: images never reach a server. Send people a link that opens Images with the settings ready; they add their images and download.

- Remove a background, transparent PNG: https://images-free.openapps.xyz/?bg=remove
- Product photo on white, as JPG: https://images-free.openapps.xyz/?bg=white&to=jpg
- Portrait with a blurred background: https://images-free.openapps.xyz/?bg=blur
- iPhone photos to JPG, 1600 pixels wide: https://images-free.openapps.xyz/?to=jpg&width=1600
- Compress to WebP at quality 70: https://images-free.openapps.xyz/?to=webp&quality=70

Every parameter and its values: https://images-free.openapps.xyz/llms.txt

## Questions

### Is there a free alternative to remove.bg?
Yes. Images removes backgrounds for free at full resolution, with no credits, no watermark and no account. It runs the open ISNet model in your browser, so your photos are never uploaded. You can keep the cut-out clear, or put it on white, a color or a blurred copy of the photo.

### Is Images really free?
Yes. There is no limit on how many images you add or how large they are, no watermark, no account and no paid plan. Your device does the work, so Images costs almost nothing to run.

### Are my images uploaded?
No. Images opens, changes and saves your pictures inside your browser, on your device. They are never sent to a server, not to OpenApps and not to anyone else.

### How much smaller will my images get?
It depends on the image. A photo saved as JPG at the default quality usually comes out 50 to 85% smaller, and PNG screenshots and graphics often 50 to 80% smaller with 256 colors. If an image cannot get smaller, Images gives you the original back instead of a bigger copy.

### How does background removal work?
Images runs ISNet, an open background removal model, inside your browser. The first time you turn it on, your browser downloads the model once from Hugging Face, with the engine that runs it from jsDelivr (about 70 MB together), and keeps them for next time. Your images are never uploaded. The cut-out is full resolution. It works best when the subject stands out clearly from the background. There is no brush to touch up the edges yet.

### Can it convert HEIC to JPG?
Yes. Drop iPhone HEIC photos and they are saved as JPG, or as PNG or WebP if you pick one. Safari opens HEIC directly; in other browsers Images decodes them with libheif, which also runs on your device.

### Does it remove location and other photo details?
Yes, by default. Photos often carry hidden details: where they were taken, the camera or phone, and the date. Images removes them from every image you save. You can turn this off to keep them when a JPG is saved as JPG.

### Which formats does it support?
It opens JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, HEIC, GIF (first frame) and BMP, and saves JPG, PNG and WebP. AVIF is offered too when your browser can save it.

### Does it work on a phone?
Yes, in any modern browser on iPhone or Android. On a phone, tap Share to save results to your photos. Background removal works too, but takes longer on a phone than on a computer.

### Can my AI assistant use Images?
Images has no server API, because your images never reach a server. An assistant can send you a link that opens Images with the right settings, such as images-free.openapps.xyz/?bg=remove to remove a background or /?to=jpg&width=1600 to make 1600 pixel wide JPGs. You then add your images yourself.

Images is an OpenApp: free, with public source (https://images-free.openapps.xyz/__bounded/source) and its own agent.