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7 updates
Better checkout
Buy 50 more images right when the free limit runs out
The free-limit and image-too-large panels now offer the one-time $5 pack (50 images, never expires) and go straight to checkout — no subscription, and no hunting through the pricing page. The misleading “unlimited” wording on that panel is gone too.
A new MCP endpoint lets AI coding agents and assistants remove backgrounds, look up passport photo rules and read pricing — billed like the API, with the lookup tools free.
Subscriptions, credit packs and API top-ups can now be paid through Waffo Pancake at checkout; Creem remains available. Prices, credits and quotas are unchanged.
Guide update
The remove.bg shutdown guide gives you a direct next step
The guide now sends API users straight to the developer migration path and occasional users to the free tool or alternative comparison.
Privacy update
Analytics now measures verified signups and completed purchases
When Google Analytics is enabled, it records verified-email, checkout, and confirmed purchase events with order value details, without sending account emails or uploaded images.
Security
Email verification is now required to sign up
New email/password accounts must enter a 6-digit code sent to their email before they can sign in and use the free tier. Existing verified accounts are unchanged.
Improvement
Payment methods now show their real logos
The checkout payment-method picker now shows the official Creem and Waffo Pancake marks instead of a generic card icon.
1 updates
Improvement
Support is now visible in the footer
Every page footer now shows support@backgone.com, so questions, refunds and abuse reports no longer require hunting through the legal pages.
1 updates
Improvement
Pricing is easier to compare, and checkout remembers your plan
The pricing page now shows the free daily limits, tax-exclusive cost per image, and real annual savings; if you choose a paid plan before signing in, BackGone returns you to that plan and continues checkout after you sign in.
1 updates
Fix
Homepage FAQ no longer contradicts itself on GIFs
The video answer on the homepage and white-background page now says video is not supported yet but animated GIFs are, with a direct link to the GIF background remover — one FAQ had claimed we do not handle GIFs while another linked the GIF tool.
3 updates
Content
Blog tutorials completed and search snippets tightened
The Google Slides and iPhone tutorials now state fully verified facts instead of open notes, the white-background page finally says iPhone HEIC photos upload directly and convert in your browser, and 8 over-long Chinese titles plus the sticker page description were tightened so they display better in search results.
Improvement
New pages now show real before-and-after examples
The PNG page shows our own logo going from a white background to a truly transparent file, the sticker page shows a real photo wrapped in a white sticker outline, and the LinkedIn page shows a busy street snapshot turned into a clean profile backdrop — every example produced by the tools themselves.
Fix
Screen-reader labels and cleaner structured data
The sample-image buttons on every tool now announce what they actually show instead of internal file names, and the FAQ structured data no longer contains formatting marks — both match what is on the page.
19 updates
New tool
Remove backgrounds from animated GIFs
Upload an animated GIF and every frame gets its background removed — download it as a transparent GIF or an animated WebP, with the original timing and loop preserved.
More answers on existing pages: background colors, blur, UK/US photo specs
The background-change page now covers blue/black/red/blurred swaps, the UK page answers digital-photo and checker questions, and the US page compares visa vs passport specs — all with official sources.
New tool
Photo to sticker maker with custom outline
Cut out the subject, add a white (or any color) outline with adjustable width, and download a transparent PNG or a WhatsApp-ready 512×512 WebP — free, all in your browser.
No more converting first — HEIC/HEIF photos from an iPhone are converted to JPEG right in your browser and go straight through background removal, batch, and the ID-photo tool.
New guide
New guide: remove a picture background on iPhone
Two honest routes: the built-in Photos lift (iOS 16+) and a free no-app web option with the tool embedded right in the article — HEIC uploads work out of the box.
Watch the 17-second demo inside the Google Slides guide
Recorded at real speed with the real engine: upload a photo, watch the background come off, download the transparent PNG — silent and readable without sound.
New guide: remove image backgrounds for Google Slides
A step-by-step guide to removing an image background for Google Slides — the plan-gated built-in, the free one-click route (you can cut out an image right inside the article), and fixes when the option is missing.
Faster, steadier page loads: every image now reserves its box
All 200+ images across the site now carry their real pixel dimensions, so pages no longer jump as pictures load, and the blog cover image loads with high priority.
Improved
Alternative page: measured alternatives table, free-tier answer
The remove.bg alternative page now compares six tools’ free tiers with our own measured numbers (Photoroom honestly marked “not measured”), answers whether a free alternative exists, and points API users to the migration guide.
Passport page: what’s free, official background rules, more FAQs
The passport photo page now spells out which steps are free and which are paid, links the official US/China/UK/France photo rules for background colors, and answers blue backgrounds, browser vs app, and creating a passport-size photo free.
The remove-white-background page now walks through the three steps in plain words (free, online, to transparent or to white), and the FAQ answers making it transparent, SVG files (export to PNG first), iPhone (works in Safari, convert HEIC first), and video (not supported).
Signature page: PDF-signature guide, e-sign honesty, more FAQs
The signature page now explains how to clean up a signature that lives inside a PDF (screenshot or export first), states plainly that a transparent signature image is not a cryptographic digital signature, and answers four more questions — free tier, AI quality, Canva, and JPG input.
Homepage: what’s actually free, CV photo guidance, more FAQs
Two new homepage sections spell out the free rules (2 a day, 5 signed in, 1024px) and how to use the tool for CV and profile photos, and the FAQ now answers whether it’s free, how to judge the “best” tool, CV photos, and video support.
Improved
API docs: try the API on the page, plus API-key and FAQ sections
The /developers page now lets you upload an image and see the real transparent-PNG result next to the exact curl call, and new sections answer how keys are created and whether a remove.bg key still works (it does not — migration is two changes).
Processing wait now shows elapsed time and an honest estimate
While your image is processed you now see live elapsed seconds plus a realistic "usually 10–30 seconds" note, on desktop and mobile — no more staring at an unmoving spinner.
Improved
Free allowance is visible up front, and walls no longer end empty-handed
The upload card now shows how many free images you have left today. Hitting the daily limit or uploading a photo with no clear subject now offers a one-click sample image (pre-computed, uses no quota), and the no-subject panel shows example photos of what works.
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Improved
Signature tool: completion now offers the right next step
After downloading a signature cutout, the page now offers "see it on a document" (opens the free compose view) and batch signature processing — no more unrelated suggestions. New FAQ entry covers the document preview.
Fifteen real-photo scenes — studio walls, wooden tables, kitchens, outdoor bokeh — with a deterministic contact shadow, composed in your browser. Free on every tier, no AI guesswork, the same result every time.
API: post an image URL instead of bytes, and get WebP back
The background removal API now accepts image_url (https only, fetched server-side) as an alternative to uploading bytes — the request shape remove.bg integrations already use — and format=webp returns a transparent WebP instead of PNG at the same per-image price. Website downloads offer WebP too, on every tier.
Fresh example photos everywhere, and a visual upgrade for feature & tool cards
Ten new real-photo examples join the showcase (silver-haired portraits, leather goods, a fluffy rabbit and more — all processed by our engine). Feature cards now show proof tiles instead of plain icons, and the tools index has thumbnails for every tool.
What do free background removers actually let you download?
We ran the same four photos through six free tiers and recorded export size, watermark, account walls and caps — a measured comparison, not a ranked list. Homepage FAQ now answers "How big is the free download?" too.
Preview your signature on a contract or document — free
On the signature tool, place your extracted signature onto a photo of a contract or document — drag, resize, rotate, and download the composite. Your document never leaves your device.
On phones, both tools now use an app-style layout — bottom action bar, bottom-sheet panels, and thumb-reach download buttons — instead of a shrunken desktop page.
The signature tool’s samples are real signatures now
The “try a sample” thumbnails on the signature page now load actual handwritten signatures instead of generic photos, so the demo matches what the tool is for.
Add BackGone to your home screen and it opens like an app — no browser chrome, one tap from your camera roll to a cutout.
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New feature
Crop your cutout right in the editor — free, on every tier
Free-form or fixed-ratio framing (1:1, 4:3, 3:4, 16:9) with a draggable frame, pinch-free zoom slider, and undo — the background, effects, and shadows you applied stay in the crop.
New guide: remove a background in PowerPoint — built-in limits and a free online route
The exact click path for PowerPoint’s Remove Background, what it can’t do (one picture at a time, deck-only, manual hair fixes), and when the free online tool is the faster route.
The result panel now offers two free background effects: blur your original photo behind the cutout like portrait mode, or replace the background with a gradient — 6 presets plus full custom control.
Reliability
Pro requests now survive temporary engine hiccups
When the AI service hiccups under load, paid requests retry automatically up to two extra times instead of failing right away — and a failed run never costs you a credit.
Guides
New guide: a professional headshot with your phone, at home
Window light, a clean background swap, and the exact crop for LinkedIn or a one-inch resume photo — the whole workflow takes about ten minutes and the background step is free.
One-click white, blue, or red ID photo backgrounds
The passport photo tool page now offers one-click cards for the three most requested background colors — click one and it’s pre-selected for your next photo.
The blog listing no longer shows blank or awkwardly cropped cards — all four posts carry covers designed for the layout, so the subject is never cut off.
Guides
New guide: change a photo’s background color, per scene
A new tutorial walks through recoloring a photo’s background in about a minute — white for marketplaces, ID blue or red for documents — plus the Photoshop route for when you actually need it, all free to try.
The remove.bg migration guide is now one click from the homepage
A single quiet line under the tool points to the shutdown guide and the remove.bg alternative page, so the article that helps you migrate is no longer buried behind the blog list.
When your balance reaches zero, you simply keep using the free tier — 5 images a day, right where you are, with a top-up one tap away. Nothing you already made is affected: images generated while paid stay commercially licensed, forever.
The upload card now offers three sample photos below it. Tapping one opens the full editor instantly with the result already there — no upload wait, and it does not count against your daily free images.
Hitting the daily free limit now comes with a clear next step
Instead of a generic error, the limit screen now offers what actually helps: create a free account for 5 images a day (you land right back here), sign in, or upgrade — depending on where you are.
The processing screen used to be a blank card with a spinner. Your uploaded image now stays on screen, dimmed, with the stage progress over it — the wait feels shorter because you can see what is being worked on.
Clarity
Trying a sample never touches your allowance
The upload card now says so in one short parenthetical — samples load instantly in your browser and never count against your daily free images or your credits.
Fix
Two more dead ends now point somewhere
Running out of credits mid-work no longer shows a generic error — it says so plainly and links straight to top-up. And on the ID photo tool, the daily-limit notice is now clickable: sign in or upgrade right from the banner.
Fix
The download options panel stays inside its card, on every screen
On the free plan the “unlock full resolution” option no longer spills out of the panel, and the account dashboard greets you with quick links instead of a placeholder box.
3 updates
Fix
The remove.bg shutdown guide reads clean again
An editorial note in Chinese had been published inside the English article by mistake. It is gone, and the API pricing in that post now matches the self-serve packs on the pricing page.
The privacy policy now names the campaign-source cookie
If you arrive from a campaign link, the visit event records that one utm_source value so we can tell a launch spike from everyday traffic. The policy lists it next to the session and language cookies, and repeats that no other parameters are stored.
remove.bg's API moves to Leonardo.Ai on 1 December 2026. The post walks the field-by-field diff, the three traps that only show up in production, and the prices, latency and image-size limits we measured on our own API — with four charts.
After a download, the cutout page now offers the two things it cannot do itself: batch (up to 20 images, 100 on Pro) and the ID photo tool — which says plainly that many countries forbid retouching a passport photo, and offers the checker first. The finished image also travels with you: open the ID photo tool and it is waiting, kept in your browser only for 30 minutes, never uploaded again.
A single page listing every tool we make — cutout, batch, background colour, white background, shadows, signatures, ID photos, the pre-submission checker, country sizes, marketplace presets and the API — each with the allowance it actually has. The free tier runs every one of them; what it caps is output size (1024px) and commercial use, so you can judge a tool before paying for it.
How to cut something out without wrecking the edges
A practical walkthrough for the hard cases: which of the three routes to take, why hair and fur break every automatic cutout, the four failure modes we keep seeing, a six-point check before you use a result, and when reshooting beats masking. Includes the timings we measured at 6, 12, 24 and 50 megapixels.
The size pages now hand you to the checker, and the tools link each other
The pages that list a country’s official photo size had no next step for someone who already has a photo; they now point at the checker, which is free and runs in your browser without uploading. The shadow, background-colour, white-background and signature tools link each other too, so a job that needs two of them no longer means going back to search. The checker’s heading also now names the document it checks.
If you hold both a credit pack (which never expires) and subscription credits (which expire at the end of the period), the pack used to be spent first, so the subscription credits could expire unused. The order is now soonest-to-expire first, and equal expiries are spent oldest first.
If a photo is bigger than the free plan can process, the message no longer just tells you to resize it. It also offers the other route as a button: a paid plan processes uploads at their original resolution, so nothing needs resizing. Most photos never see this: the browser shrinks uploads to 3000px first, and only does this happen when that shrinking fails.
A fixed 1,000 images a day meant a customer who bought the largest top-up would need fifteen days to spend it. The per-key daily limit is now the larger of 1,000 and your current API balance, so a bigger top-up is usable the day you buy it. The website upload path also rejects impossible images up front instead of failing halfway.
We stopped decoding every result just to check for a subject. Above 6 megapixels that check now uses the result file size instead, which frees the memory and CPU that were killing big uploads: 12, 24 and 50 megapixel photos return a full-resolution cutout where they used to fail, and the API ceiling is now 50 megapixels, matching remove.bg. Images above a ceiling get a specific message with the megapixels we measured and how to resize, instead of a platform error page.
The API docs now compare us with where remove.bg sends you
remove.bg's API page points its customers at Leonardo.Ai (part of Canva), and Canva's own public API has no background removal at all. The migration section now carries a second, sourced comparison against Leonardo.Ai: JSON-only versus image-out, stored results versus nothing stored, and $0.1047 versus $0.020–$0.033 per image.
The remove.bg migration page stops asking you to email us
The API section of our remove.bg alternative page said the API was self-serve and then offered a "contact us" button. It now links straight to the API docs, the field-by-field migration table and the self-serve key flow — and the same link sits inside the API question in the FAQ.
Create an API key in your account, top up API credits from $10, and read the whole endpoint contract — request, response, error codes, code samples for curl/Node/Python, and a field-by-field remove.bg migration table. No email required.
API credits are sold in four top-ups — $10 for 300 images, $29 for 1,000, $99 for 4,000 and $299 for 15,000 — which works out at $0.020–$0.033 per image, and they never expire.
Japan (35×45 mm, face 3.2–3.6 cm, retouching that changes how you look is banned) and South Korea (3.5×4.5 cm, face 3.2–3.5 cm, uniform white background) complete the country list — eleven countries now, every number read off an official page.
Four more countries in the size pages and the checker, each read off the official source: Australia 35–40×45–50 mm with the face 32–36 mm, New Zealand 35×45 mm with the head at 80% of the frame and a background that must not be white, India 630×810 px with the face at about 85%, and Singapore 400×514 px. The country list now also works on a phone without sideways scrolling.
Canada: 50×70 mm, and a checker that accepts both official shapes
Canada joins the country pages and the preset list at 50×70 mm with the face 31–36 mm. Its printed photo is 50×70 mm while the online file must be at least 1,800×1,200 px, so the checker now accepts either ratio instead of failing a file the authority accepts.
Two presets added for online submissions: India at 630×810 px and Singapore at 400×514 px, both taken from the respective government page. Canada 50×70 mm is still missing because we could not reach the official page to verify it.
New tool
Check a photo before you submit it
A new checker compares a photo you already have against the official numbers for the country you are applying to — shape, pixel size, file size and background — then prints a checklist you can hand to a photographer, and states plainly which checks it cannot run.
A new page per country — the United States, Britain, China and France so far — states the official size, head height, background, photo age, and whether that country allows the photo to be edited at all, with the government page it came from and the date we last checked it.
Visa photo sizes now say which country they are for
The 35×45mm preset was labelled as a US visa size — a US visa photo is 2×2 inches — so it now reads as Schengen, German, Italian, Japanese and Korean. Every preset shows its millimetre size, and the page states plainly which countries allow a background edit and which forbid it.
Better posts
Every post now ends with where to go next
At the end of a post you now get a short list of the pages that continue the topic, plus one button straight into the tool — no scrolling back to find the entrance.
Straight answers
The API says it is in private beta
The pricing and remove.bg-migration pages no longer quote a per-image API price we cannot stand behind yet — they state that the API is in private beta and how to ask for access.
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New look
Our own mark, in the browser tab
The icon in your browser tab — and on your phone when you add us to the home screen — is now the BackGone mark: a white italic B on our green, set in the same typeface as the name in the header. The card you see when the site is shared uses it too.
Trust & safety
A clear way to report abuse
A new reporting page — linked from the footer and the terms — spells out what we do with a report, how quickly, and what we cannot do; a confirmed violation can now be blocked from the tool entirely.
One concept, one word, everywhere: the credits you pay for are always “credits” (never confused with your free daily images), full-size downloads are always “full resolution”, and the free images you get each day are always your “free allowance”. The English across every page was rewritten by hand to read like it was written here, not translated — no filler adjectives, no jargon leaking into error messages, and page descriptions that fit what search engines actually show.
Fixed
Shadows and reflections now sit exactly where they should
Ground shadows used to start too low — on some photos they fell off the bottom of the frame — and reflections cut off early. Both now anchor to the bottom of your subject, and we re-rendered the demos on the shadow page so every panel shows the whole product.
Add a soft drop shadow (free), a perspective ground shadow, or a mirror reflection — drawn on your own device from your cutout’s real edges, so you get the same result every time. Pro users can add shadows to a whole batch at once, and the new shadow page shows real before-and-after examples.
On phones, the remover now works like an editor app: the image fills the screen, panels for background colors and platform presets slide up from a bottom toolbar, hold to compare with your original, undo and redo, and a download menu that shows the exact pixel size — Standard is free, Original comes with paid plans.
Accessibility
Small hint text is easier to read
The fine print around the upload box (file formats, size limits) now meets WCAG AA contrast in both light and dark themes.
Faster
Example images load faster on every screen
Showcase photos now arrive in a size that fits your screen — phones and tablets get smaller versions, saving hundreds of KB per page.
Faster
Pages load noticeably faster
Every page now loads only the text it actually shows, cutting the amount of code it downloads by ~30% for a faster first visit, especially on mobile.
New page
Signature background remover
Take a photo of your handwritten signature and get back a transparent PNG — paper, paper texture, and shadows gone — ready to drop into PDFs, Word, and DocuSign. The page also shows three U.S. presidents’ signatures lifted clean off aged paper by the same engine.
Upgrade links now open in a new tab and checkout returns to its own confirmation page — and when you come back to the tool, your image and settings are still there, with a one-click button to redo the capped result at full resolution.
Turn any product photo into an Amazon, Shopify, eBay, or Etsy-compliant image — exact size, pure white background, 85% frame fill — with a live badge that checks your actual image against the rules. Free at 1024px; every paid plan, credit packs included, unlocks the all-platform size pack, and Pro adds batch presets and per-image quality checks.
Passport and visa photo sizes in 6 presets and 7 background colours, with a print-ready 4R sheet layout — check your authority's rule on editing photos before you submit.
We've written down how we run BackGone, including a day-by-day plan for December 1, so the tool stays fast and support stays quick when a lot of remove.bg users arrive at once.
8 updates
Launch
BackGone is live
Remove image backgrounds with AI, right in your browser — free to try, no signup, results in seconds.
support@backgone.com is live, and order receipts and account emails now land in your inbox.
1 updates
Design
Built around a three-second loop
We modeled the core experience on the tool you already know: upload box on the first screen, try it before any signup, and pay only after you like the result.
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Kickoff
BackGone begins
We tested AI background-removal models hands-on and picked the one that gave the best quality for the price — which is why the core tool is free.
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