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Akhouri Anmol Kumar
Akhouri Anmol Kumar

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Photoshop Sends Your Photos to the Cloud. This Doesn't — And It's Free.

Photoshop Sends Your Photos to the Cloud. This Doesn't — And It's Free.

Every "free" online photo editor works the same way: you upload your photo to their server, they process it, you download it back. Your image touched a stranger's computer along the way.

APIC never does that.


🌐 APIC-web — runs entirely on YOUR device

Open it, drop an image, and everything happens locally in your browser. Nothing uploaded. Nothing logged.

Feature What it does
🎨 Edit Filters, brightness, contrast, saturation, blur, rotate, flip
🔄 Convert PNG ⇄ JPEG ⇄ WebP ⇄ BMP ⇄ ICO ⇄ PDF
📦 Compress Shrink to a target file size, not a guess
📐 Resize Exact pixels or percentages
✂️ Remove Background Real on-device AI segmentation
🩹 Remove Object Trained neural net (MI-GAN) fills the gap — like Photoshop's Generative Fill, 100% client-side

👉 Try APIC-web now


🖥️ APIC Desktop — the same power, installed

No tab, no internet needed once it's running. Clean sidebar with dedicated Edit / Convert / Compress / Search modes.

👉 Download APIC Desktop (.zip)

(Also linked from the APIC-web site — but here it is directly.)


Why This Matters

Most "free" tools aren't free — you pay with your photos, your data, your privacy.

APIC flips that: your files stay yours. Always.

Two products. One philosophy: powerful editing shouldn't cost you your privacy.


🚀 Try the web app in 10 seconds. ⭐ Star the repo if it saves you time.

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