Dewatermark
Dewatermark is an AI watermark remover for photos, videos and PDFs. It detects logos, text, timestamps and signatures, then rebuilds the background without blur. Browser-based, with 3 free credits a day, batch mode and an API.
What is Dewatermark?
Dewatermark.AI is an online editor built around a single job: making watermarks disappear. The site describes an inpainting and GAN pipeline, where a convolutional network locates the watermarked area frame by frame and a generative adversarial network rebuilds the background underneath, which is how the vendor justifies its promise of a clean result rather than the blurred patch manual retouching usually leaves behind.
Four automatic models sit behind the upload box. Auto Remove 2.0 handles emoji and simple overlays, Auto Remove 3.0 covers the majority of cases, Auto Remove 4.0 is the newest and is presented as the most accurate, and PRO Remove targets multi-layer or almost invisible marks, with detection announced down to an opacity of 0.02 and a cost of 3 credits per image. A manual brush applies the same inpainting locally, for whatever the automatic pass misses.
The scope reaches well past still images. Photos come in as JPG, JPEG, PNG, WEBP or AVIF, capped at 10 MB and 6000x6000 pixels. Video accepts MP4 and MOV up to 60 minutes, with a free 5-second preview before any credit is spent and an export at the source resolution. PDFs up to 50 MB get their first page processed free as a preview, then the whole document, with layout, fonts and resolution preserved. Batch mode takes up to 50 images at once and returns a ZIP, while side tools cover text removal, emoji removal, background removal and 4x upscaling.
Access is spread just as wide. The browser tool needs no install, a Windows and macOS desktop app is reserved for Pro accounts and still requires a connection, and iOS and Android apps are published. The interface runs in 22 languages. Announced timings are under 3 seconds for a standard image, 5 to 10 seconds in PRO Remove and 2 to 5 seconds through the API. The publisher is XTeam, which its about page places in Singapore and dates to 2022, claiming over 10,000 users a day. Every product page repeats the same caveat: use it only on content you own or are allowed to edit.
What it does
- Detect and erase watermarks, logos, text and timestamps from photos automatically
- Clear watermarks from MP4 and MOV videos frame by frame, with the audio track preserved
- Remove watermarks from PDF files while keeping layout, fonts and resolution intact
- Retouch leftovers and irregular shapes with an AI manual brush
- Process up to 50 images in one batch and collect the results as a ZIP
- Erase emoji and stickers, remove backgrounds and upscale images up to 4x
- Plug the engine into your own stack through a REST API or an MCP server
When to use Dewatermark / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Dewatermark is the right fit.
When to use Dewatermark
- Content creators and social media managers cleaning up visuals they own or are licensed to edit, straight from the browser
- E-commerce and marketplace teams handling supplier photos in volume, with up to 50 images per batch returned as a ZIP
- Photo and video editors facing awkward cases: multi-layer marks, full-frame diagonals or near-invisible overlays below 0.05 opacity that the PRO Remove model targets
- Developers and automation builders who want a REST API or an MCP server, with an API key issued straight away and per-credit pricing published in the open
- Occasional users with no Photoshop skills: nothing to install, and no account required for still images
When not to use Dewatermark
- Anyone hoping to strip watermarks, credits or ownership marks from third-party content without permission, which clause 3.3 of the terms forbids outright
- Users who need offline processing: the Windows and macOS desktop app still talks to the servers, and opens only with a paid Pro account
- Buyers who want a safety net, since there is no refund policy of any kind and unused subscription credits are lost when the period ends
- People expecting full videos or complete PDFs for free: the free tier stops at a 5-second video preview and the first page of a PDF
- Organisations with strict vendor vetting, as no postal address, DPA, sub-processor list or hosting country is published anywhere on the site
How to use Dewatermark
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Open the home page and add an image by drag and drop, by clicking the upload box, or by pasting it with Ctrl+V; no account is needed for still images
- Choose the model before processing: Auto Remove 3.0, Auto Remove 4.0, PRO Remove or Manual
- Let the AI detect the watermark and erase it, then compare the before and after
- Brush over any remaining trace with the manual tool to finish the cleanup
- Download the result as JPG, PNG or WEBP, within the 3 free images a day of the free plan
- For video, upload an MP4 or MOV, watch the free 5-second preview, then spend credits on Get Full HD Video, pick the quality and download
- For PDF, upload a file under 50 MB, check the free first page, then run Get Full and download the document
- For volume, switch to batch mode: upload every file, apply the same settings and collect a ZIP
- For desktop, download the Windows or macOS app from the tools page, sign in with a Pro account, add your images, click Process and save
- For code, create a key in the API management section of your account and send a POST request to https://platform.dewatermark.ai/api/object_removal/v2/erase with the X-API-KEY header
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Images, video and PDF handled by the same vendor, a combination few watermark removers cover
- Free preview before any credit is spent: 5 seconds of video, the first page of a PDF
- A genuinely free entry point at 3 credits a day, with no account required for still images
- Pricing published in detail up to 100,000 credits, with no mandatory sales call
- The same credits work in the web app, the desktop app and the API
- Very low unit cost by the vendor's own benchmark, down to 0.006 USD per image at 100,000 images
- PRO Remove model aimed at near-invisible watermarks below 0.05 opacity
Cons
- Corporate transparency is thin: no postal address, no registration details, and XTeam in the footer as the only company name
- Legal documents look lifted from a third-party template and never rewritten, with a privacy policy dated 19/12/2018 that talks about removing the background and terms citing RemoveBG in clauses 4.4 and 4.5, while the team is announced in Singapore
- No refunds under any circumstances, and unused subscription credits expire at the end of the period
- The desktop app is paid, needs a Pro account and still requires an internet connection, so no offline use
- The pricing page contradicts itself on the free tier: 3 credits a day on the plan card, 2 credits a day in its own refund FAQ
- No DPA, no sub-processor list, no hosting country and no minimum age published anywhere
- Stale structured data on the home page, where the FAQ markup denies batch processing and limits formats to JPG and PNG against the rendered page, and the declared logo URL returns a 404; Pro prices themselves appear only after JavaScript rendering
Pricing & Plans
A free plan is available: 0 USD, free forever, with 3 free credits per day, one credit covering one image with the 3.0 and 4.0 models, three credits with PRO Remove and one credit per second of video. The lowest paid entry point is the monthly Pro Pack at 6.00 USD per month for 100 credits, rising to 10, 15 and 20 USD for 200, 500 and 1,000 credits; annual billing halves the rate, from 36 USD for 1,200 credits. One-off Pay as you go packs start at 7 USD for 100 credits and run to 800 USD for 100,000 credits, where the unit price falls to 0.008 USD per credit. The API is advertised from 0.83 USD per 1,000 images and Enterprise terms are quoted on request. Payment is accepted by card, PayPal, cryptocurrency through Telegram and iOS or Android in-app purchase.
- 0 USD
- free forever
- 3 credits per day
- covering image
- video and text removal plus the manual editor
- 6 USD for 100 credits
- 10 USD for 200
- 15 USD for 500 and 20 USD for 1
- 000 credits per month
- 36 USD for 1
- 200 credits
- 60 USD for 2
- 400
- 90 USD for 6
- 000 and 120 USD for 12
- 000 credits per year
- 7 USD for 100 credits
- 18 USD for 500
- 25 USD for 1
- 000
- 80 USD for 5
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- 120 USD for 10
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- quoted on request
- by email or Telegram
- best quality up to 24 MP
- 4x upscaling
- batch processing
- full-length video and no ads
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Dewatermark handles your data.
GDPR overview
Compliance is claimed rather than demonstrated. The privacy policy, versioned 19/12/2018, states that data is processed exclusively on the basis of legal rules, naming the GDPR, the Austrian Data Protection Act and the Austrian Telecommunications Act 2003. It lists the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection (Articles 15 to 18, 20 and 21), the right to withdraw consent at any time, and confirms that no automated decision-making or profiling takes place. It points complaints to the Austrian supervisory authority, but the sentence announcing that authority's address stops dead with nothing after it. No Article 27 representative is designated, no data protection officer is named, and no legal or privacy email is published: support@dewatermark.ai is the only address. The document still describes background removal and the terms cite RemoveBG, marks of a third-party template never rewritten.
Who owns the data?
Ownership stays with the user. Clause 2.2.3 of the terms of service states that you retain all rights and ownership of your content and that dewatermark.ai claims no ownership rights over it. In return, clause 2.2.2 grants the publisher a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free and sublicensable licence to use, reproduce, publicly display, distribute, modify, translate and create derivative works from that content, bounded by a stated purpose: operating or improving the services and software. Clause 3.2 pushes the burden back to you, warranting that you hold every right needed over the photos you upload. The privacy policy adds that images are neither shared with third parties nor published.
Reuse rights
Because ownership never changes hands, you can reuse the cleaned images, videos and PDFs you get back without asking the publisher for permission, on one condition the terms make yours alone: holding the rights to the source file, since clause 3.2 requires it and clause 3.3 turns third-party content into a hard limit. On the publisher's side, the privacy policy says uploads travel SSL/TLS encrypted and serve only to produce the result offered for download, adding that they are not shared with third parties, not published and that nothing else is done with them. Usage statistics are kept without the images. Clause 2.1 allows the IP address to be stored to check for excessive use of the platform, server logs record IP, date, time, request, file, volume, browser, operating system and referrer, and Google Analytics runs with IP anonymisation through the _ga (two years), _gid (one day) and _gat (one minute) cookies. One ambiguity survives: that promise to do nothing else sits next to a licence covering improvement of the services, and the home page offers an opt-in box to send the original and result images to the team so the tool can be improved.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
No hosting location is published: no country, no region, no cloud provider, no trust or security page. What can be observed is infrastructure rather than jurisdiction. The domain sits behind Cloudflare and resolves to 104.18.6.186 (AS13335), an anycast address whose geolocation says nothing about where images are actually processed; API calls go to platform.dewatermark.ai and static resources to assets.dewatermark.ai. On the protection side, the privacy policy states that images are transferred SSL/TLS encrypted, and the product pages repeat that all file transfers use HTTPS encryption. Server logs, which record IP address, date, time, request, file, volume, browser, operating system and referrer, are kept for a maximum of three months. Google Analytics runs with IP anonymisation, and the policy acknowledges that the data is generally transmitted to a Google server in the United States. Everything else is undocumented, and the Austrian law clause in the terms belongs to a third-party template rather than to any declared European establishment.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Dewatermark.
- Copyright responsibility is transferred to you in full: clauses 3.3 and 3.4 forbid removing marks from third-party content, and every consequence of doing so is yours
- Liability is capped at 100 euros by clause 4.3 and any guarantee of result is excluded by clauses 4.1 and 4.2, so a botched batch of client assets is not compensable
- Nothing is refundable in any circumstance under clauses 7.3 and 7.7, and unused subscription credits vanish at the end of the period, which quietly encourages buying more than you need
- The upload licence in clause 2.2.2 is broad, covering reproduction, modification, derivative works and sublicensing for operating or improving the services, which sits awkwardly next to the policy's promise to do nothing else with your images
- The legal paperwork is out of step with the product and with itself: a 2018 privacy policy about background removal, terms citing RemoveBG, Austrian law and a Vienna court while the team is announced in Singapore, and two different figures for the free tier on the same pricing page
- No postal address, no complete legal identity, no DPA, no Article 27 representative and no sub-processor list, which makes enforcing your rights difficult in practice
- Ease breeds habit: a tool that erases a mark in three seconds makes it very easy to stop asking whether you had the right to, and to start treating other people's work as raw material
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Close to zero on the web: nothing to install, no account needed for still images, and an upload by drag and drop, click or Ctrl+V. Slightly more for the desktop app, which means downloading a Windows or macOS installer and signing in with a Pro account. For developers it stays light: create a key in the API management section of your account, then send a single multipart POST with an X-API-KEY header, with cURL and Python samples provided and an announced time to first API call of immediately. An MCP server is also available for connecting an AI agent.
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Frequently asked questions
Is Dewatermark free to use?
Which files can I upload, and what are the size limits?
Does it really work on video and PDF, not just photos?
What is a credit, and do unused credits carry over?
Can I process several images at once?
How fast is it?
Can I use it on my phone or on my computer without a browser?
What happens to the files I upload?
Is removing a watermark legal?
Can I get a refund, or a student discount?
Should you pick Dewatermark?
Dewatermark is a specialist, and it shows. Very few vendors cover images, video and PDF from the same engine, and fewer still let you see the result before paying: five seconds of video and the first page of a PDF come free, which turns buying credits into an informed decision rather than a bet. The grid is public and granular all the way to 100,000 credits, the free tier is real at three credits a day, and the same credits feed the web app, the desktop app and the API. For a creator tidying up their own visuals, an e-commerce team pushing fifty product shots through at once, or a developer wiring a single POST call into a pipeline, the offer is coherent and inexpensive.
The weak side is documentary rather than technical. Corporate transparency is close to nil: no postal address, no registration details, a footer that says only XTeam while the about page places the team in Singapore. The legal corpus has visibly been taken from a third-party template and never rewritten, with a privacy policy dated 19 December 2018 that still describes background removal, terms citing RemoveBG and Austrian courts, no DPA, no sub-processor list and no hosting country. Liability is capped at 100 euros, nothing is refundable, and the site cannot even keep its own free tier straight, promising three credits a day on one line and two on another.
The tool also hands back the responsibility that matters most. Removing a watermark is lawful on content you own or are licensed to edit, and unlawful on anything else; Dewatermark says so on every product page. The legal risk stays with the user, entirely.
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