Clipdrop
Stability AI's no-nonsense toolkit for background removal, relighting, and quick image cleanup.
What is Clipdrop?
Clipdrop is a collection of small, fast, single-purpose image tools: remove a background in one click, relight a subject, upscale a blurry photo, or clean up an unwanted object. There's no chat interface and barely any settings — you upload an image, pick a tool, and get a result in seconds.
Owned by Stability AI, Clipdrop grew out of a mobile app for isolating objects from photos and expanded into a full web toolkit once Stability folded it into its ecosystem. It deliberately avoids being an all-purpose AI editor — instead it's a shelf of sharp, narrow tools that do one job each, aimed at people who just need a background gone or a photo sharpened without opening Photoshop.
Key features
- One-click background removal
- Relighting tool to change a subject's lighting direction
- Cleanup tool to erase unwanted objects or people
- Image upscaler for low-resolution photos
- Text-to-image generation via Stable Diffusion
- API access for developers to embed tools into their own apps
Pros
- Extremely fast for the specific tasks it's built for
- No learning curve — pick a tool, drop an image, done
- API makes it easy to bolt individual tools into other products
Cons
- Not a general creative tool — no layers, no real editing depth
- Free tier credits disappear quickly if you use it regularly
- Results on complex backgrounds or tricky lighting can still need manual touch-ups
