Background remover, photo blur & retouch. A full photo editor, offline, no ads.
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Photobe is a photo editor that removes backgrounds, blurs them, and retouches portraits — on your phone, with no ads and no account. Cut out a subject in one tap, get a transparent PNG, and keep going with forty tools behind it.
REMOVE BACKGROUND IN ONE TAP
One tap separates the subject from its background and leaves a real transparent PNG — the background gone, not painted over in white.
• A background eraser and a background changer in one
• Select just the hair, the clothes, the skin, or the whole head, without tracing an outline by hand
• Brush and erase yourself whenever you want the last word over the automatic selection
• Save as PNG for stickers, product shots, logos and profile pictures
BLUR THE BACKGROUND, NOT THE PERSON
Portrait blur finds your subject and softens everything behind it — the depth a phone lens does not give you.
• Auto blur the background, or paint the blur exactly where you want it
• Lens, motion, zoom, spin and smart blur, each with its own controls
• Tilt shift for a miniature look, and mosaic to hide a face, a plate or an address
RETOUCH THAT STILL LOOKS LIKE SKIN
• Smooth skin while the eyes and lips stay sharp
• Heal blemishes, whiten teeth, remove red-eye, even out skin tone
• Lip tint and eye colour that follow the real contours of a face, not a sticker pasted over it
• Hair colour from naturals through to vivid shades, with the strands still showing
• Gentle reshaping, and a detail brush for eyes, hair and fabric
A FULL PHOTO EDITOR BEHIND IT
• Crop, free crop, straighten, rotate, flip, resize, perspective correction
• Brightness, contrast, saturation, clarity, curves, and selective local adjustments
• Filters, black and white, oil paint, sketch, comic, pop art, colour splash
• Text in 25 typefaces with outlines, shadows, bend and textured fills
• Stickers, shapes, frames, borders, lens flare, overlays and masks
• Draw on layers you can reorder, clone stamp, dispersion, liquify and stretch
• Collage layouts, saved at full resolution
WHAT PEOPLE USE IT FOR
• Product photos for a shop listing — subject cut out, background swapped
• Profile pictures and thumbnails on a clean, blurred or transparent background
• Chat stickers made from your own photos
• Portraits that need the background softened rather than erased
• Anything you would rather not upload to a background remover website
YOUR PHOTOS STAY ON YOUR PHONE
Every edit is computed on the device. Your photos are not uploaded, not queued on a server, and not used to train anything. Google Play services delivers the background-removal model once, on first use; after that Photobe runs offline, with no connection at all — on a plane, underground, or on a bad signal. There are no ads anywhere in the app.
FREE AND PREMIUM
Free: crop, free crop, straighten, rotate and flip, the full set of adjustments — brightness, contrast, saturation, clarity and the rest — and selective local adjustments. Exports carry a small watermark.
Premium unlocks everything else: background removal, cutout, retouch, effects and filters, text, stickers, draw, collage — and removes the watermark. It is a subscription billed through Google Play, and you can cancel any time from your Play account.
WHAT PHOTOBE DOES NOT DO
It does not generate images. No AI art, no style transfer, no sky replacement, no templates. The AI here is on-device segmentation that finds a subject, hair, clothes and faces — nothing here invents pixels that were not in your photograph.
Photobe is a photo editor built for the work, not for a feed. Questions, or found a bug? Email us. A person reads it.