Features
Remove the background.
Keep converting.
PicSquish removes backgrounds in two ways — a precise colour-key tool for flat backgrounds, and on-device AI subject detection for complex scenes. Then it carries straight on into your conversion pipeline.
Two methods. One step.
Most background removal tools are standalone — you remove the background, export a PNG, then take that into a converter or editor to finish the job. PicSquish does it all in one pass. Remove the background, crop, resize, adjust, and convert to AVIF or WebP in a single operation. Your originals are never touched.
Colour Key
Pick a colour from the background and PicSquish floods out everything that matches. Works best when the background is a solid or near-solid colour — product photography on white, screenshots with a flat backdrop, or graphics on a single-colour background.
- Tolerance control — match exact colours or expand to similar shades
- Feathering for soft, natural-looking edges
- Preview updates in real time on the canvas
AI Background Removal
For complex backgrounds — landscapes, textured scenes, mixed environments — the AI mode uses on-device machine learning to detect the subject and separate it from everything behind it. On-device, no upload, no subscription.
- Works on photos, product shots, portraits, and illustrated content
- Preserves fine detail at subject edges
Transparency through the whole pipeline
Backgrounds are replaced with transparency. From there, PicSquish keeps the alpha channel through the full conversion pipeline.
PNG, WebP, AVIF
Preserve transparency natively. Export with a clean, fully transparent background ready for web, app, or print use.
HEIC
AVIF export supports 8-bit and 10-bit depth options while preserving alpha.
JPEG & TIFF
Automatically flattened against white (or any colour you choose) since these formats don’t support alpha.
Batch mode
Process a folder of product images in one pass. Each image is processed independently — per-image errors skip automatically without stopping the batch.
Compared to other tools
Pixelmator Pro has ML background removal, but it’s a full image editor — you pay for a lot of capability you may not need, and there’s no conversion pipeline once you’re done. No other desktop image converter in this category offers background removal at all.
PicSquish removes the background and converts the result. In one step.