Will the "free" part quietly become paid later?

Not the local half — it runs on your own device, we have never paid for server time on its behalf, and so there's nothing to convert to a paid plan. The cloud allowances are set in the admin settings and may move as costs move, which is exactly why we don't put the numbers in the text: the panel above reads them live, so what you see is always the current value.

Do I have to register to use it?

For nearly everything, no. Open the page and you can compress, crop, cut out, convert and open PSDs without ever being asked who you are. An account is only needed once the daily cloud-AI allowance runs out — and that's because each call has a real cost, not because we want the sign-up.

What happens to my images?

With the local tools they never leave your browser, so there's nothing to happen to them — and you can verify that yourself: open the network panel in your developer tools, process a picture, and no request carrying image data appears. The cloud AI features have to send the content in order to compute anything, and the interface says which ones those are before you press.

Is there a paid plan?

There's no consumer plan on sale at the moment. Once you register, cloud AI runs on the account track and the allowance policy is configured centrally. If a paid option ever appears we'll write it plainly on this page rather than quietly moving something free behind a wall.

Is AI photo editing free here: what's always free, what uses an allowance

No hedging: local is free forever, cloud has a daily allowance. Here's the line, item by item.

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The short answer: nearly everything on this site runs in your own browser — no account, no limit, free forever, because it costs us nothing. Only the handful of things that must be computed in the cloud (image generation, scene editing, AI commands) carry a daily free allowance, and when that runs out you'll need an account.

Why the line falls where it does. Compressing, cropping, rotating, filtering and converting are pure computation your own machine handles perfectly well; even the AI cut-out runs its model inside the browser (it downloads the model file once). None of that costs us server time, so there's no reason to charge for it or to ask who you are. Generating an image, on the other hand, calls an outside model and costs real money every single time, so all we can offer is a daily allowance. We don't like the "free for 3 days" design — it locks away the things that were never expensive in the first place.

Key features

Local tools: free forever, unlimited, no account

Compress, resize, crop, rotate, borders, rounded corners, filters, curves, levels, denoise, sharpen, red-eye, skin retouch, pixelate, collage, long images, GIF, format conversion, opening and exporting PSD — all finish in your browser, nothing is uploaded, and there's no counter.

The AI cut-out is local too

People often assume "AI" means "cloud". Not this one: the model runs inside your browser (the model file downloads once and is cached afterwards), the image never leaves, and it uses no allowance.

Cloud AI: a free allowance every day

Image generation, AI scene editing and AI commands call an outside model, and each comes with a daily free allowance. The panel above shows how many you have left right now — read live, not a number typed into the copy.

Running out doesn't block anything else

The cloud allowance and the local tools are unrelated. Use up today's AI runs and you can still compress, crop and cut out exactly as before.

How to use

1
Start from what you want to do

If it's "do something to a picture I already have", it's almost certainly a local tool — just use it, no account.
2
Only generating or having AI read the picture goes to the cloud

Image generation, scene editing and AI commands draw on the allowance, and the interface says so before you press.
3
Register when the allowance isn't enough

Registering is free and takes under a minute. After that you're on the account track and no longer bound by the guest allowance.
4
Come back to this page any time

The panel above always shows your real current allowance, so there's nothing to dig for in settings.

FAQ

Will the "free" part quietly become paid later?: Not the local half — it runs on your own device, we have never paid for server time on its behalf, and so there's nothing to convert to a paid plan. The cloud allowances are set in the admin settings and may move as costs move, which is exactly why we don't put the numbers in the text: the panel above reads them live, so what you see is always the current value.
Do I have to register to use it?: For nearly everything, no. Open the page and you can compress, crop, cut out, convert and open PSDs without ever being asked who you are. An account is only needed once the daily cloud-AI allowance runs out — and that's because each call has a real cost, not because we want the sign-up.
What happens to my images?: With the local tools they never leave your browser, so there's nothing to happen to them — and you can verify that yourself: open the network panel in your developer tools, process a picture, and no request carrying image data appears. The cloud AI features have to send the content in order to compute anything, and the interface says which ones those are before you press.
Is there a paid plan?: There's no consumer plan on sale at the moment. Once you register, cloud AI runs on the account track and the allowance policy is configured centrally. If a paid option ever appears we'll write it plainly on this page rather than quietly moving something free behind a wall.

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