About Edit Image
Edit Image is a small, free image editor that runs in your browser. Paste or load a screenshot or photo, mark it up or black out what's private, and copy or save the result. No upload, no account.
I built it for myself. I kept needing to black out a name in a screenshot or add an arrow before sending it on, and the online editors I found wanted to upload the file to a server first. That felt wrong for images with personal details in them, so I wrote one that does the work on your own device instead. It turned out useful enough that I put it online for anyone to use.
It is made by one person, an independent developer, not a company. Because every edit happens locally, your images never reach me or anyone else. You can read exactly what is and is not stored on the privacy page.
The site is free to use. The terms of use cover the rest.
Open-source parts
The AI tools download open-source software and models the first time you use each one, and run them on your device:
- ONNX Runtime Web (MIT licence, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation) runs the face and background models.
- Tesseract.js and its English and German models (Apache 2.0) read text.
- YuNet (MIT licence, Copyright (c) 2020 Shiqi Yu) finds faces.
- BiRefNet (MIT licence, Copyright (c) 2024 ZhengPeng), built on Microsoft's Swin Transformer (MIT licence), removes backgrounds.
The licences page lists everything these include, with the licence texts.