What Is Photoroom? Is It Free, How Much Does It Cost, How to Remove Backgrounds, Commercial Use, Limits, Cancellation and Refunds

Photoroom is an app that makes product photos ready to sell. It removes the photo's background and replaces it with a solid color, a ready-made template or an AI-generated scene. The same app also adds shadows, removes unwanted objects, resizes images to marketplace dimensions and batch-edits many photos at once.

Who it suits: businesses that sell products on marketplaces or Instagram and shoot their products with their own phone. The official description presents it as an e-commerce-focused tool.

The free account is for personal use only. Preparing photos of a product you sell with a free account violates the terms; details are in the “Commercial use” section.

Account: you sign in with email (a magic code is sent), Google, Apple or Facebook; an account is tied to a single email. Age: the Terms say the service is not directed at children under 13. No phone verification or ID requirement is stated. A subscription screen appears on first launch; you can close it with the X at the top right and continue for free.

!If you are looking for a “Photoroom mod APK” or a cracked version: the official sources only describe installing from the Play Store and state that APK installs will not work. The official sources do not address accounts or payments for such versions; the official app already starts with a free account.

AI tools use “AI credits”. Credits are a monthly balance included in your plan; each generation deducts credits depending on the tool. Background removal, retouching, preset shadows, resizing and sharpening (Image Enhancer) use no credits; these are called “core tools”.

!If you don't like a generation result, you can report it with “Bad result” from the image menu; Photoroom may refund the credits, but it is not guaranteed and there is a limit of 20 a day. AI Backgrounds, AI Shadows, Image Enhancer, AI Expand, Retouch, Studio Shot and the batch tools are not eligible for refunds.

Tool names and screen locations vary by platform (mobile and web have different interfaces). The order below follows the tool names in the official help articles.

1. 1Upload the photo. Start a new design in the app and choose your product photo. For many products there is also a separate batch editing (Batch) section.
2. 2Remove the background. When Photoroom removes the background, the product becomes a separate layer. The background removal tool (Background Remover) can also be opened from the AI tools menu.
3. 3Choose a new backdrop. Use transparent, a solid color, a ready-made template, your own photo or a scene generated with AI Backgrounds.
4. 4Add shadows and fixes. Shadows with AI Shadows, removing unwanted objects or adding new ones with Retouch, dimensions with Resize.
5. 5Export. Every image you save or share counts as 1 export; it is deducted from your monthly quota.

Since every generation uses credits, first clean up the product with credit-free core tools such as background removal, then run the AI tool.

Photoroom's help article suggests opening a blank canvas (Blank), entering the width and height you want in pixels, and then exporting.

Batch editing (Batch): you upload several photos and apply a background, size and logo to all of them at once; you can spread a change made on one photo to the others with “Apply to all”. In batch editing, each image counts as a separate export: downloading 10 images means 10 exports. The batch tools include AI Shot List, Recolor, Product Staging, AI Fashion Models, Edit with AI, Flat Lay, Ghost Mannequin, Ironing and AI Scenes.

!If you choose AI Backgrounds as the background in batch editing, Photoroom does not reuse the same background but generates a new one with the same prompt; the images may come out slightly different from each other. Photos uploaded to batch editing now arrive without automatic background removal (they keep their original background); you apply the new background or template yourself.

In Photoroom, you choose the model only in the AI Backgrounds tool (the “AI Model” setting). Other tools have no model choice. Newer models are higher quality and slower; older ones are fast but lower resolution.

Checked on October 14, 2026. Photoroom states that it may add new models and remove old ones over time.

Photoroom's Claude connector brings the API's features into the Claude chat: background removal, Product Beautifier, Virtual Model, Flat Lay, Ghost Mannequin and image-to-video. API and MCP usage is deducted not from the app's AI credits but from a separate API/MCP wallet; every paid plan includes an API wallet worth the plan price.

1. 1On app.photoroom.com, make sure the API is enabled in your Space and that you are an admin.
2. 2In claude.ai › Settings› then Connectors, add a custom connector named Photoroom with the address above.
3. 3Click Connect; if needed, you are redirected to the Photoroom sign-in.

A personal Claude account needs a paid plan (official article: not free). There is a separate guide for Claude team and enterprise accounts.

The app is a free download and there is a free account plan. The free plan has limited features, few AI credits and no API; the number of credits given to a free account is not stated in the official documentation. Photoroom sells a separate plan for each “Space” (workspace); a subscription applies only to the Space it was purchased for.

!In-app prices on the App Store and Google Play are set per country by the store, and the in-app purchase list does not say which item is weekly, monthly or yearly. Reported by users reviews describe the largest Pro and Max items as their yearly charges. On the web, prices are shown in US dollars; the official sources don't separately cover paying on the web by card from Turkey.

Prices include VAT (official page). On the web you pay by credit/debit card (Stripe); on mobile with your App Store or Google Play payment method. Weekly billing is available only on mobile. There is no lifetime subscription; Pro and Max offer a 7-day trial on yearly billing, once per customer.

Official pricing page last checked on October 28, 2026.

Deleting your account: on mobile, in the app under Manage account › Delete account (cancel your subscription first); in the web app you can't delete the account yourself, the support team deletes it in about 24 hours. Deleting the account does not cancel the subscription.

In short: the free account is for personal, non-commercial use only; images for sales, ads or a store require a paid plan (Pro, Max, Ultra). This section is not legal advice; see Photoroom's Terms page for the conditions.

Support: in the web app, the support icon at the bottom right › Messages; on mobile, from inside the app.

!Cancel the subscription where you bought it (App Store, Google Play or web). Canceling somewhere else does not stop billing. Deleting the account does not cancel the subscription either.

AI credit refunds: credits for a generation that fails due to a technical error are refunded automatically; for a bad result you report it with “Bad result” from the image menu (not guaranteed, limited tool coverage).

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