About LocalCut Studio

LocalCut Studio is a free collection of image utilities designed to run entirely inside your web browser. The name says exactly what it is: every file is cut, cropped, compressed, or converted locally — on your device — never on our servers.

It was built out of frustration with existing image tools: almost all of them require you to upload your photos to an unknown server, wait for a conversion, and download the result — which means your personal photos, ID documents and client work pass through someone else's infrastructure. LocalCut Studio takes the opposite approach.

Every tool on this site uses modern browser technologies — the Canvas API, WebAssembly, Web Workers and open-source JavaScript libraries — to perform the same operations locally. Your file is opened by your browser, processed on your device, and saved back to your device. Nothing is uploaded.

What we offer

Background removal, image compression, resizing, cropping, PDF conversion in both directions, ZIP packaging of arbitrary files, passport photo generation, background colour changing, a manual clone-stamp retouching tool, batch processing, OCR in English, Hindi and Telugu, QR code generation and a simple image editor.

What we don't do

We do not offer accounts, cloud storage, or a paid plan. We do not upload your files. We do not train AI models on your images. We do not sell data. The AI models and JavaScript libraries are loaded from public CDNs (mainly jsDelivr) only when a tool is first used; the model files themselves contain no user data.

How the site is funded

LocalCut Studio is free to use. Once the site has been reviewed and approved by our advertising partner, unobtrusive display ads will appear alongside some articles. They will never overlay the tool buttons, the file picker or the download buttons. The advertising is what funds the servers that serve the static pages, and there is no paywall or subscription.

Contact

Questions, bug reports or feature requests are welcome — please use the contact page.