Zero-Server Privacy

LIT is fundamentally different from traditional image editors. When you upload an image here, it never leaves your device. There are no backend servers, no cloud storage, and no hidden data harvesting. All processing happens directly inside your browser using your device's own memory and CPU/GPU.

How It Works

We utilize Transformers.js and WebAssembly (WASM) to run neural networks right in your browser tab. When you select a tool for the first time, your browser securely downloads the required open-source AI model weights and caches them locally. From that point on, you can even use the tool offline. You can manage or delete these cached files at any time using the Storage Manager at the bottom of the tool pages. This means that your images and your data remain locally with you and perfectly private.

Open Source Foundations

Local Image Tools uses open-source models hosted on Hugging Face and GitHub.

• • Background Remover is powered by Xenova/modnet (Apache 2.0).
• • Image Scaler is powered by Xenova/swin2SR-classical-sr (x2 & x4) (Apache 2.0).
• • Privacy Blur is powered by Xenova/detr-resnet-50 (Apache 2.0).
• • Text Extractor is powered by Tesseract.js (Apache 2.0).
• • Magic Eraser is powered by Carve/LaMa-ONNX (Apache 2.0).
• • Smart Captioner is powered by Xenova/vit-gpt2-image-captioning (Apache 2.0).