About AI-Pix
AI-Pix is a set of six small image tools — compress, convert, resize, colour palette, favicon package and Open Graph image — built on one rule: your files never leave your browser. Each tool is a static page; the work is done by your device with the HTML5 Canvas API, and the result is saved straight back to your disk. There is no upload endpoint to send anything to.
That makes AI-Pix a good fit when you're handling things you shouldn't post to a random website: client logos under NDA, screenshots with personal data, unreleased product images, or just photos that are nobody else's business.
Who makes it
AI-Pix is built and run in the UK by an independent developer as part of a small portfolio of free web tools. It is not a company with a support team — it's one person keeping a handful of useful pages online — so replies to email can take a few days.
How it's funded
Right now, it isn't. Hosting is a static CDN (Cloudflare Pages) and costs nothing at the site's scale. If that changes, the site may carry a small number of display adverts; if it does, they will be consent-gated in the UK/EU and the privacy policy will be updated first. The tools themselves will stay free and will keep processing everything locally.
What "AI" in the name means
Honestly: it started as the domain name, not a description. Most tools here use standard browser image encoding — the same Canvas API every browser ships — and we don't call them AI. The two exceptions are the background remover (ISNet, Apache-2.0) and the upscaler (Real-ESRGAN, BSD-3-Clause), which run real neural networks on your device: each model downloads from this site once and your photo never leaves your browser. We'd rather you know exactly what runs on your files than be impressed by a buzzword.
Open-source components that run in your browser: ONNX Runtime Web (MIT), ISNet (Apache-2.0), Real-ESRGAN (BSD-3-Clause), imagetracerjs (Unlicense) and libheif via heic-to (LGPL-3.0) for reading HEIC photos — the libheif module is loaded as a separate file only when you drop a HEIC, and its source is at github.com/strukturag/libheif.
Contact
Bug reports are especially welcome — say which tool, which browser, and what kind of file (you don't need to send the file itself; we couldn't receive it anyway).