# Photoshop Sends Your Photos to the Cloud. This Doesn't — And It's Free.

> Source: <https://dev.to/akhourianmolkumar/photoshop-sends-your-photos-to-the-cloud-this-doesnt-and-its-free-2iab>
> Published: 2026-09-27 04:13:33+00:00

Every "free" online photo editor works the same way: you upload your photo to their server, they process it, you download it back. Your image touched a stranger's computer along the way.

**APIC never does that.**

Open it, drop an image, and everything happens locally in your browser. Nothing uploaded. Nothing logged.

| Feature | What it does | 
|---|---|
| 🎨 **Edit** | Filters, brightness, contrast, saturation, blur, rotate, flip | 
| 🔄 **Convert** | PNG ⇄ JPEG ⇄ WebP ⇄ BMP ⇄ ICO ⇄ PDF | 
| 📦 **Compress** | Shrink to a *target* file size, not a guess | 
| 📐 **Resize** | Exact pixels or percentages | 
| ✂️ **Remove Background** | Real on-device AI segmentation | 
| 🩹 **Remove Object** | Trained neural net (MI-GAN) fills the gap — like Photoshop's Generative Fill, 100% client-side | 

No tab, no internet needed once it's running. Clean sidebar with dedicated **Edit / Convert / Compress / Search** modes.

*(Also linked from the APIC-web site — but here it is directly.)*

Most "free" tools aren't free — you pay with your photos, your data, your privacy.

**APIC flips that: your files stay yours. Always.**

Two products. One philosophy: **powerful editing shouldn't cost you your privacy.**