Photo
Cutout
Drop in a photo and the background disappears.
Get for Mac.dmg · 413 KB · or download .zip
- Category
- Photo
- Requires
- macOS 13+
- Size
- 413 KB
- Price
- Free
Preview
About Cutout
Cutout removes the background from a photo, entirely on your Mac.
What it does
- Drop, choose or paste. Drag an image from Finder or a browser, pick a file, or paste from the clipboard.
- Apple's Vision framework. On macOS 14 and later it finds the subjects in the photo, and you can keep one or all of them. macOS 13 uses person segmentation.
- Backgrounds. Check the result on a checkerboard, or put it on white, black or any colour, with an edge feather slider.
- Copy or save. Copy the cutout to the clipboard or save a transparent PNG.
Notes
Nothing is uploaded. The cutout is only as good as Vision's mask, so fine hair and busy backgrounds can leave rough edges. On macOS 13 it only separates people.
Information
- Developer
- SiliconDevKit (generated by AI from a prompt)
- Category
- Photo
- Compatibility
- macOS 13 or later, Apple silicon. Apple silicon Macs only (M1 or later), not Intel
- Size
- 413 KB (.dmg)
- Version
- 1.0
- Price
- Free
- Signing
- Ad-hoc signed, not notarized
The prompt behind it
This app was generated from the prompt below. Paste it into SiliconDevKit to build your own version, then change it however you like.
Build a menu bar app called Cutout that removes image backgrounds on-device. Clicking the menu bar icon opens a popover with a large drop zone that accepts image files dragged from Finder or the browser, plus a Choose File button and paste from the clipboard. Use the Vision framework: VNGenerateForegroundInstanceMaskRequest on macOS 14 and later (isolate all subjects or tap an object to keep only that one), and VNGeneratePersonSegmentationRequest as the fallback on macOS 13. Show the result as a cutout on a checkerboard background, with a before and after toggle, an edge feather slider and a background color picker (transparent, white, black, custom). Add buttons to copy the cutout PNG to the clipboard and to save it as a transparent PNG. Everything runs locally, nothing is uploaded.
Opening it for the first time
- Open the .dmg and drag Cutout onto the Applications folder.
- Open it from Applications. macOS may say it can’t check the app for malicious software. Click Done.
- Open System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway. This is needed once. Why this happens. To share an app without the warning, see how to notarize it.
