Studio product photos. On your own device.

No. All processing happens on your device using Apple's Vision framework. The apps make no network connections at all — they work fully offline, and you can verify that with any network monitoring tool.

Yes. Buy it once and it's yours — unlimited photos, no credits, no renewal, free updates. There's no account and nothing to cancel.

Same product, different devices. StudioDrop Go (£7.99) is the iPhone and iPad app — pick photos from your library and process them anywhere. StudioDrop (£19.99) is the Mac app — drag in whole folders for bulk sessions, with a few desktop extras like custom image backdrops. Both use the same on-device engine and produce identical results. They're separate purchases and each works completely on its own.

It's aimed at higher-volume work — batching hundreds of files from Finder in a sitting, a warm engine between batches, custom image backdrops, and every input format. If you list a handful of items at a time from your phone, Go is the one you want and it's the cheaper answer.

Results depend on the source photo. The big three are even lighting, an uncluttered backdrop, and good tonal contrast between the item and what's behind it — see the photo guide. Fine hair, wire, mesh and clear glass are hard for any tool, cloud or local. If you hit something the app handles badly, email me a sample; that's how it gets better.

The marketplaces' own research says photo quality is decisive. In Etsy's buyer surveys, 90% of shoppers said photo quality was "extremely important" or "very important" to a purchase decision — and Etsy reports it's the single biggest factor in deciding to buy, ahead of postage, reviews and even the item's price. Etsy also found 40% of new sellers find product photography difficult. Online, a buyer can't handle the item, so the photo carries the whole judgement about condition, colour and whether you look like someone worth buying from. See the full breakdown above, or Etsy's Seller Handbook.

I'm a UK reseller, and I'd been paying £49 a year for a batch background remover I was happy with. When the plans changed, my tier became 500 images a month at £69.99 — about two days of shooting for me — with Max at 1,500 a month for £249.99 and Ultra above that at £729.99 a year. Rather than pay a lot more to do the same job, I built an app that does the work on the device instead, sold once, with no limits. The full story is further up the page.

For batch background removal, yes — that's precisely the job it was built to replace, with no monthly fee, no image cap and nothing uploaded. It is not a like-for-like replacement for a whole modern cloud editor: StudioDrop doesn't generate AI backgrounds or restyle photos, and I'm not going to pretend it does. If you need generated scenes, a cloud tool is the better choice. If you need a lot of clean, consistent product shots quickly and cheaply, this is £7.99 once on iPhone or £19.99 on Mac, with no limits. StudioDrop is independent and not affiliated with PhotoRoom.

Seconds per photo, not minutes — and crucially it doesn't scale with your broadband. A cloud remover has to upload every full-resolution image and download the result, so a forty-item listing session means eighty transfers before any work happens. StudioDrop skips all of that: the photo is already on the device doing the processing. On Mac the engine stays loaded between batches, so a folder of several hundred runs unattended while you do something else. Exact speed depends on your device and photo size — an M-series Mac is quicker than an older iPhone.

StudioDrop Go is £7.99 once and the Mac app is £19.99 once, with no cap on how many photos you run. Subscription background removers typically cost £6–£13 a month, so roughly £72–£156 in year one and the same again every year after. Go pays for itself in about six weeks against the cheapest annual plan. There's a full breakdown further up the page.

None. It isn't a cloud service, so there's nothing to meter. Process as many photos as you like, forever, for the one purchase price.

Most reselling platforms prefer square 1:1, which is the default. Portrait 4:5 suits Instagram feed, 2:3 suits pin boards, 9:16 suits stories and short video, and 16:9 suits banners. The long edge is always 2000 pixels, so quality never drops.

iPhone and iPad: iOS or iPadOS 17 or later. Mac: macOS 14 or later on a Mac with an Apple M1 chip or later. Intel Macs aren't supported, because the on-device engine relies on Apple Silicon.

They're your photos of your items — StudioDrop just processes them. There's no watermark, no licence restriction, and no claim on anything you produce.

No. The whole approach depends on Apple's on-device machine learning, which is what makes it fast, private and free of running costs. There's no plan for other platforms.