Silhouette - Clean Cutouts

Silhouette is a native macOS background-removal app built for photographers, designers, and e-commerce teams who need pixel-perfect cutouts in bulk, on their own machine, without sending a single pixel to the cloud. Drop in a folder of images, pick a model, tune the edge, and export clean transparent PNGs (or JPEG/HEIC on a solid background) straight from the Mac.

FREE TO DOWNLOAD

Download Silhouette free and process single images with any of the four on-device models below. Export individual cutouts with no account, no trial timer, and no quota on single-image work.

Unlock Silhouette Pro for catalog work: queue entire collections, export hundreds of cutouts in one click, and run every marketplace check below. Pay once, with no subscription. Pro unlocks permanently on every Mac you sign into, and it is shareable with your family.

KEY FEATURES

• Four On-Device Models — Pick the right engine for the job. Apple Vision for instant, always-available matting. IS-Net DIS for general-purpose segmentation. MODNet for portraits and hair. BiRefNet for state-of-the-art edges on fine detail and translucent subjects.

• Marketplace Presets — Export straight to Shopify, Amazon, Etsy, eBay, or Google Shopping dimensions. Silhouette trims the subject out of its frame, fits and pads it to each canvas, and names the file from a template you control. (Pro)

• Grounding Shadows — Drop a contact, soft drop, or floor-fade shadow under the subject so a product reads as standing on the page instead of floating. Composited locally with Core Image, never generated, and kept clear of the readiness background check so a shadowed white export still scores clean. (Pro)

• Readiness Reports — Score every export against the marketplace's rules before you upload: dimensions, minimum resolution, background, margins, and crop risk. Review pass/fail in the app or write a report next to the images, then work the failures: each one carries the fix that clears it, applied without leaving the report. (Pro)

• Product Fidelity Checks — Confirm the cutout did not damage the product itself. Silhouette re-reads the finished export on-device and flags a logo the matte sliced through, label text that stopped reading, a barcode that no longer scans, and color that drifted from the source. (Pro)

• Shortcuts Export — Run a whole collection from Shortcuts or Siri without opening a window. Pick a preset, include the readiness report, and come back to checked exports in your output folder. (Pro)

• Collections & Batch Processing — Organize images into Collections, configure settings once, and process the whole set. Silhouette tracks which images are done, pending, or outdated, so you can iterate on settings without reprocessing everything. (Pro)

• Real Edge Control — Tune the mask with the dials that actually matter: threshold, edge refinement, matte gamma, and Flip TTA for cleaner hair and fur. Paint regions to include or exclude, and pick the subject you want in a multi-object scene.

• Flexible Export — PNG, JPEG, or HEIC. Keep transparency or composite on white, black, or any custom hex background. Choose a destination folder, pick a filename suffix, and preserve the source folder structure.

• Model Manager — Download large models (BiRefNet is around 440 MB) with verified checksums, pinned licenses, and one-click removal. Only Vision ships in the binary, so you fetch only what you need.

PRIVACY BY DESIGN

Every model runs locally on your Mac. No uploads, no accounts, no cloud quotas, no telemetry. Your client's unreleased product photos never leave the machine. The readiness and fidelity checks run on-device too, on Apple's Vision framework. Silhouette is fully sandboxed and collects zero analytics.

BUILT FOR PROFESSIONALS

Silhouette is a workstation tool, not a one-click consumer toy. It is built for catalog-ready PNGs, mockup and editorial compositing, and full shoots processed with consistent settings. Requires macOS 26 and Apple Silicon.