A remove.bg alternative that never sees your photo
Mordant removes image backgrounds on your own Mac, using the subject-detection built into macOS. There is no server in the loop, so there is no upload, no queue, no account, and no monthly resolution allowance.
What an online tool has to do first
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It has to receive your file. A web service cannot work on something it does not have, so the first step is always a copy of your file leaving your machine and arriving on a computer you do not control.
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It has to keep it long enough to work. However short that window is, and whatever the policy says about deleting it afterwards, the file was somewhere else while the work happened.
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It has to stay paid for. A tool that lives on someone's server stops existing when that server does — along with whatever you were relying on it to keep doing.
What this does instead
Drop a photograph on the plate and the subject is lifted the moment it lands. Correct whatever the lift got wrong with a brush, then write a cutout at full resolution — your photographs are read from disk, worked on in memory, and written where you say.
- Subject lifted on arrival
- Full resolution, no watermark
- Your photographs stay on this Mac
The other five
- Frankensheet — Contact sheets without handing over the folder
- Changeling — A CloudConvert alternative that works with the Wi-Fi off
- Maskelyne — An alternative to uploading a video to convert it
- Nepenthe — Redaction that does not start with an upload
- Imprimatur — A QR Code generator with nothing to keep paying for
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