About EditXo

EditXo is a free photo editor that runs entirely inside your web browser. It was built around one rule: your photos never leave your device. This page explains who makes it, how that works, how you can check it yourself, and where it sits next to other editors.

Why it exists

Almost every “free online photo editor” uploads your picture to a server, runs the edit there, and sends the result back. That is why they can add watermarks, cap free use, ask you to sign up, and keep copies. For a quick crop of a holiday photo that may not matter. For a passport photo, a product shot before launch, a child’s picture or a medical image, it does. EditXo was built because browsers can now do this work themselves, so there was no longer a reason to send the photo anywhere.

How it works

Modern browsers include two capabilities that make a server unnecessary: WebGL, which lets the page use your graphics card for real-time adjustments and filters, and WebAssembly, which lets the page run compiled code such as an AI model at near-native speed. EditXo uses both. The AI background remover is an ONNX model that downloads to your browser once (about 10 MB), is cached, and then runs on your own processor. Saved projects live in your browser’s local storage. Nothing about your image is sent to us.

The only network requests the app makes are to load the app itself, to fetch the AI model the first time, and, if you use the Support or Contact form, to send the text you typed. Those forms never attach your photo.

How to verify it yourself

1. Open EditXo and press F12 (or Cmd+Option+I on a Mac) to open developer tools.
2. Select the Network tab.
3. Drop in a photo, apply a filter, run Remove BG, and export.
4. Look at the list. You will see the model files download the first time, and no request carrying your image. You can even disconnect from the internet after the model has loaded and keep editing.

What it does

• AI background removal with edge refinement, and background replacement.
• Seventeen adjustment sliders, curves, levels, HSL and colour grading.
• Filters, portrait retouching presets, and one-click auto-enhance, sharpen and denoise.
• Crop, rotate, flip, straighten and resize.
• Layers, text, drawing, shapes and stickers.
• Batch edits, and export to PNG, JPG, WebP or AVIF.

Each tool has its own page with instructions and limits: see all tools.

What it does not do (yet)

No AI upscaling, no object removal, no blur-background effect, and batch mode does not yet resize or remove backgrounds. We would rather say so here than let you find out after uploading nothing and getting nowhere. These are on the roadmap in roughly that order.

How it compares

Photopea also runs locally in the browser and is far more powerful: it is a Photoshop-style editor with PSD support. If you need layers, masks and professional tooling, use Photopea. EditXo is for the common jobs, done in a few clicks, with on-device AI background removal built in.

Canva, Fotor, Pixlr, remove.bg, Photoroom and most others upload your image to their servers. They offer more features in some areas, including AI upscaling and object removal, usually behind an account or a paid tier. EditXo trades those for privacy, no signup and no watermark.

Who makes it

EditXo is built by a small independent team based in Adelaide, Australia. It is not backed by a photo-stock company or an AI platform, and it does not sell data, because it never has any. Guides on this site are written and checked by the team against the editor itself. If EditXo is useful to you, telling someone about it is the best way to help.

Contact

Questions, bugs and ideas: use the Support button in the editor, or the contact page. Both go straight to the team.