About Blur.photo

Blur.photo is a free tool for blurring or completely removing the background of a photo. There are two things that make it different from most photo editors you'll find online: it costs nothing to use, and it never uploads your photo anywhere.

Most "remove background" tools work by sending your photo to a server, running the processing there, and sending the result back. Blur.photo does the entire job — the AI model that separates your subject from the background, and the blur effect itself — directly on your own device, using WebAssembly for the machine learning model and WebGL for the blur rendering. Your photo never leaves your browser. We don't see it, store it, or have any way to access it.

That also means it keeps working without an internet connection once the page and its model have loaded once — the site can be installed and used like a regular app.

Why it exists

A lot of people just need to blur a background or cut out a subject for a one-off photo — a profile picture, a product photo, a quick edit before sharing something. That shouldn't require an account, a subscription, or trusting a third party with a personal photo. Blur.photo is built around that one job.

Questions or feedback

Reach out at support@blur.photo.