These image tools cover the everyday jobs people bring to a picture: making it bigger and sharper, cutting out the background, reading its text, turning it into a prompt, changing its format, resizing, compressing, blurring, splitting, pixelating, inverting or flipping it. AI tools run on GPU servers and use credits; the converters and editors run in your browser for free.
AI image tools and free browser tools
Some jobs need a trained model and serious computing power. Upscaling with Real-ESRGAN, separating a subject from its background and reading or describing a picture all run on GPU servers, which is why those image tools use credits. Everyone receives 2 free credits a day, and one-time packs cover heavier use.
Other jobs are simple arithmetic on pixels. Converting a format, resizing or compressing a file, cutting a picture into tiles, blurring, pixelating, inverting or flipping it can all be done by your own browser in seconds. Those tools are free, have no daily limit and keep working even when your connection drops.
Which image tools upload your files
The AI tools upload the picture so a model can process it: upscaling, unblurring and background removal run on fal.ai, while image to text, image to prompt and alt text run on Google Gemini through OpenRouter. Results are stored so you can download them, and signed-in users keep upscaled images in a workspace until they delete them.
The browser tools never upload anything. The picture is decoded, changed and saved on your device, which makes them a good choice for private screenshots, client work and documents you would rather not send anywhere.
Picking the right tool for common jobs
For a product photo, remove the background, upscale the cut-out if it is small, and convert the result to JPG on white for marketplaces or keep the PNG for layouts. For a social post, the splitter turns one picture into a grid or a carousel, and the flipper makes a subject face into the frame.
For pictures saved from the web, the converters turn WebP, AVIF and JFIF files into JPG or PNG that every app opens. For text in a photo or a screenshot, image to text extracts and translates it; for AI art, image to prompt writes the description a generator needs.
Formats the image tools accept
The AI tools take JPG, PNG and WebP files up to 10 MB for background removal and text tools, and up to 25 MB for the upscaler, which shrinks large photos in your browser before uploading. The browser tools read anything your browser can decode, which also includes AVIF, GIF, BMP and HEIC photos from iPhones.
If a file is refused, convert it first. The AVIF to JPG converter handles most modern formats, and the upscaler links to it when you drop an AVIF, GIF or BMP file on it.
How credits work across the AI image tools
Every AI job costs one credit, except a 4x upscale, which costs two because it produces four times as many pixels as a 2x run. The same free daily credits and purchased packs cover all of the AI image tools, so you can spend them on whichever job matters today.
Jobs that fail on our side never keep a credit, and purchased credits do not expire. The free browser tools never use credits at all, however often you run them.
Image tools for designers and developers
Front-end developers use the converters to normalise assets before they enter a repository, the alt text generator to fill in accessible descriptions, and the splitter to cut sprite sheets into frames. Designers upscale small client logos, remove backgrounds from product shots and turn reference pictures into prompts for mood boards.
None of these steps needs a desktop app or an account, which makes them handy on a borrowed laptop or in the middle of a review call.
Image tools for students and teachers
Students photograph whiteboards and textbook pages and turn them into searchable notes with image to text, or translate a foreign-language handout in the same step. Teachers split pictures into puzzle pieces, pixelate answers on a slide until it is time to reveal them, and upscale small diagrams so they stay sharp on a projector.
Chaining tools together
Results from one tool feed straight into the next. An old scanned photo can be upscaled, then inverted if it was a negative, then split for a print layout. A screenshot can be cropped to the text you need, read with image to text and translated in the same step.
Because the browser tools are free, experiment with them as much as you like, and save credits for the AI steps where they make the biggest difference.