A tool we
wanted to exist
Inkurs is a free background remover, built and run by brnd.ink, a brand identity studio. We built it because the existing options either gate output behind an account or charge $10 a month for a five-second utility.
For a year, our studio's background-removal workflow ran across three tabs — removebg for hair, Photoshop for the edge cleanup it missed, and Canva when the client was already in there. Each step asked for an account, a credit card, a watermark removal, an upgrade. The faster we worked, the louder the upsells got.
The brutally simple version of the problem: most background removers are optimized for the wrong thing. They're built to convert free users into paid users. Their UX is designed to make the free version frustrating enough that you upgrade. Watermarks. Resolution caps. Forced signups for HD. Save buttons that lead to checkout pages.
What if a background remover was just optimized to remove backgrounds?
The fastest way to start a useful product is to build the version of a tool you've been frustrated by every week, and ship it before anyone tells you why it's a bad idea.
So in early 2026 we shipped inkurs as a side project of brnd.ink, the design studio. The first version did one thing: take an image, return it without a background. No account. No watermark. No upsell modal.
It works, so we're keeping it free. The Pro plan at $3/month is for people who need bulk uploads, API access, or 8K output — work that genuinely costs us compute. Everything else stays free, because a free tool that works honestly is the best advertising we have for the studio that built it.
This page exists because trust matters when you're asking someone to upload images. So here's the audit trail: real studio behind the tool (brnd.ink, with offices in Delhi and New York), real people behind the email (hello@inkurs.com reaches a founder), real privacy policy (/privacy spells out the 60-second deletion window).
That's the whole story. We made the tool we wanted, the price covers the servers, and the studio funds itself doing real work. Email us if anything's broken.