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

A developer released APIC, a free browser-based photo editor that performs all image processing locally on the user's device rather than uploading files to a server. The tool offers filters, format conversion, target-size compression, resizing, and on-device AI features including background removal and MI-GAN-based object removal that runs entirely client-side.

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.