Guide · the suite
Which tool do I need?
Eleven tools, one rule each. Find your job below: every answer is free, account-less, and deletes your files automatically.
Photos
"I'm about to share this photo and don't want my location/device in it."Metadata Remover →
"This old photo is faded / blurry / black-and-white."PicReviver →
"I need this subject cut out, with a transparent background."BGNinja →
"Convert this iPhone HEIC photo to a JPG that opens anywhere."ConvertNinja →
"This PNG screenshot is far too big to e-mail — make it smaller."ConvertNinja →
"I saved an image from a website and it is a WEBP that nothing will open."ConvertNinja →
"The upload form only accepts PNG and my file is a JPG."ConvertNinja →
"My website loads slowly because the images are heavy PNGs."ConvertNinja →
Audio
"I want the instrumental / the vocals / one instrument from a song."StemGrab →
"This recording has background hum, hiss, fans or traffic behind the voice."CleanGrab →
"My video sounds noisy and I don't want to open a video editor to fix it."CleanGrab →
"I want to clean up the sound before uploading this to YouTube."CleanGrab →
"I need this meeting / interview / lecture as text."ScribeGrab →
Video
"Remove the background from this clip, no green screen needed."VideoBGNinja →
Documents
"Turn this phone photo of a page into a clean scan or PDF."ScanReviver →
The order you chain them in changes the result
Most jobs need two or three tools, and the sequence isn't arbitrary. A few orders are reliably better, for reasons that are worth knowing once:
- Restore before you cut out. A background remover decides where the subject ends by looking at edges. Sharpen and clean the photo first and those edges are clearer, so the cutout is more accurate. Do it the other way round and you're restoring an already-committed edge.
- Clean the audio before you transcribe it. Speech recognition loses accuracy on a noisy recording, and no amount of correcting the text afterwards recovers a word the model never heard. Noise removal first, transcription second.
- Separate stems before transcribing a song. Lyrics come out far better from an isolated vocal than from a full mix, because the instruments aren't competing with the voice.
- Strip the metadata last. Any tool that saves a new file can write new metadata into it — a software tag at minimum. If privacy is the point, make the strip the final step, after every edit is done.
- Convert the format last, too. Each lossy save costs a little detail, so do your editing in the best format you have and convert once, at the end, to whatever the destination wants.
- Upscale at the end. Enlarging first means every later step works on four times the pixels for no benefit, and takes four times as long.
Three chains that come up constantly: old family photo → restore → erase the date stamp → strip metadata → print. Product photo for a listing → remove the background → convert to JPG at the size the site wants → strip metadata. Interview recording → remove noise → transcribe → edit the text.
Limits, at a glance
Every tool is free with no account, and every result is deleted automatically within 45 minutes. What differs is how much you can put in at once:
- Metadata Remover — 25 MB per photo. JPG, PNG, WebP and HEIC; TIFF is deliberately refused rather than half-cleaned.
- PicReviver — 99 MB and about 60 megapixels per photo, five photos per job.
- BGNinja — 99 MB and 40 megapixels per image.
- WatermarkNinja — 40 MB per image.
- PassportNinja — 99 MB per photo.
- ScanReviver — 10 pages per job, 40 megapixels per page.
- ConvertNinja — no server limit at all: the conversion runs inside your own browser, so your device sets the ceiling and nothing is uploaded.
- StemGrab — 20 minutes of audio, up to 2 GB.
- ScribeGrab — 90 minutes of audio or video, up to 2 GB.
- CleanGrab — 60 minutes of audio or video, up to 1 GB.
- VideoBGNinja — 60 seconds of video, up to 1 GB.
What none of these tools do
Worth being straight about, so you don't spend twenty minutes looking for a feature that isn't here:
- No generating images or voices from a prompt. Everything here works on a file you already have.
- No downloading from YouTube, Spotify or any other platform. Bring the file; the tools don't fetch it for you.
- No face swapping and no "make this person do something". Face restoration repairs the face that's in the photo, and stops there.
- No handwriting recognition. Text recognition handles printed and typed pages well and handwriting badly, which is a property of the technology rather than a setting.
- No video editing. No trimming, no titles, no timeline. Audio inside a video can be cleaned and a background can be removed; that's the extent of it.
- No file storage. Results are wiped within 45 minutes by design, so download what you need before you close the tab.
- No batch of five hundred files, and no API. These are tools for a job in front of you, not a pipeline.
- Nothing that pretends a limit isn't there. Where a result has a ceiling — a very reverberant room, a watermark across the middle of a busy photo, a photo too small to enlarge usefully — the guide pages say so rather than promising a miracle.
Combining tools
The tools chain nicely: restore an old photo with PicReviver, cut it out with BGNinja, and strip the file's metadata here before posting. Or split a song with StemGrab and transcribe the isolated vocal with ScribeGrab. Every step is free, so experiment away.