Background Eraser

handyCloset Inc.

Contains ads

About this app

This is an application for cutting pictures and for making a picture's background transparent.

The resulting images can be used as stickers with other apps to make a photomontage, collage.


- - - Features - - -

"Magic" mode
- Detects image edges to erase easily & accurately.

"Auto" or "Color" mode
- Erases similar pixels automatically.

It's very important to make a picture's background transparent accurately
if you want to superimpose photos and make good composite photos.

By using this app, you can do it better.

Ratings and reviews

For a free app, this works great. Some photos may need a little manual cleanup, but the cut-in and cut-out tools are simple and most people will figure them out quickly without tutorials. The auto tool is a little tricky at first but works well once you get the hang of it. One suggestion for the developer: adding brush offset/size control and a small time delay option, plus an add/remove option to the magic tool, would make editing faster and more precise. Ads are non-intrusive.

If you're looking to remove the background from an image there's simply no better free app out their. This app is simple and straight forward while being extremely efficient. It does exactly what it promises, nothing more nothing less. I end up using it more than any of my other (five) photo editing apps and in 2+ years it's never let me down. (Bonus Points for having the least obtrusive ads I've seen in an app.) UPDATE: gotta take away those bonus points but still a good app

Fantastic App! I've used it daily for probably 2+ years and routinely recommend it to others! Unlike any other app of its kind it gives you the ability to fine tune your work, working closely along lines and even allows you to work with shadowing. Many others don't even allow you to save as a png without adding a new background like this does. I have yet to find another free app that allows me to get a clean enough removal of the backgroud to create an image that doesn't look photoshopped like I can with this. Only drawback is that its not available for pc. Id love to be able to use it on my laptop as well. Any hope of that happening at some point? Also to those that complain about ads... They really are minimal for a free app. Really just one that pops up after you finish each image... And if you simply use your back button to go back to the beginning instead you can avoid it... Not that its all that lengthy anyway but if your really in a rush you can work around it.

What’s new

Minor bug fixes.