Clipdrop
A drawer of single-purpose fixes: clean up, uncrop, relight, upscale.
What it is
Useful when you know exactly which defect you are fixing. Cleanup removes an object, Uncrop extends a frame, Relight changes the light direction — each is one screen with no prompt engineering. The free quota resets daily, which makes it a good utility but a poor primary tool for volume work.
Pricing updated 2026-11-12 Official pricing
Singapore pricing; 1,000 operations per tool per day plus high-resolution output.
Open pricingClipdrop pricing explained
Free is SGD 0 with a daily allowance per tool: Text to Image, Uncrop, Background Removal, Upscaler x2, Cleanup and Relight each reset every 24 hours. Pro is SGD 22 a month and lifts those limits to 1,000 operations per tool per day, plus high-resolution output. API is usage-based and quoted separately on its own pricing page. These are Singapore-dollar figures from the official page — Clipdrop bills in local currency, so check the number you are actually charged. If you only fix a handful of images a week, the free tier is genuinely enough.
Free-tier limits are taken from the official pricing page on the update date above. They change often — confirm before you commit to an annual plan.
Clipdrop key features
Cleanup removes objects
Brush over a cable, a passer-by or a blemish and the area is rebuilt from its surroundings — no clone stamp, no repeated undo.
Uncrop extends the frame
You pull the canvas outwards and the model invents the surrounding scene, which is how a square shot becomes a wide banner.
Relight with a direction control
Move the virtual light and the subject is relit to match, so a product shot can be made to fit a scene instead of the other way round.
Background removal and replacement
The same category as remove.bg but sold as one of a dozen tools rather than as the whole product.
Image upscaling
Enlarges a low-resolution asset and sharpens it enough to place next to native-resolution content in a layout.
Text removal from images
Erases a caption or a watermark baked into a picture and rebuilds what was underneath, which is impossible with a crop.
Clipdrop: how it works
A drawer of narrow models
Each tool is a separate inpainting or diffusion model with one job and one screen — the opposite of a single model with a prompt box.
Quotas are counted per tool
Free limits are tracked separately for cleanup, uncrop, relight and the rest, so a heavy week in one tool can run out while others sit unused.
Cloud-only
Images are uploaded for processing. Nothing runs locally, which is the price of not having to install anything.
Clipdrop core strengths
No prompt to write
You point at the defect instead of describing it, which is why a non-designer can fix a photo in under a minute.
Uncrop and Relight are rare
Both operations usually require a full editor with a generative fill subscription, and here they are single screens.
Good enough for e-commerce volume
The output holds up at listing size, which is where most of this work actually goes — nobody is judging these at 400% zoom.
Clipdrop compared with alternatives
| Tool | Clipdrop | remove.bg | Photopea | Upscayl |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best for | Single-purpose image fixes with no prompt engineering | The cleanest one-click cut-out on hair and fur | Layered editing in a browser tab, including PSD files | Batch upscaling on your own GPU with no quota |
| Pricing shape | Free daily quota / Pro SGD 22 per month / API usage-based | Free at low resolution / no standalone paid plan after 1 December 2026 | Free, ad-supported | Free and open source |
| Where files are processed | Cloud | Cloud | Entirely local in the browser | Entirely local, nothing is uploaded |
Written from the official product pages listed under Sources, not copied from another directory. Prices and limits reflect the update date above; features ship faster than reviews, so treat the list as a starting point and confirm on the official site.
Pros and cons
Strengths
- Each tool does one thing with no prompt to write
- Daily free quota is enough for occasional fixes
- Uncrop and Relight are rare outside a full editor
Limitations
- Free limits are per tool, which is confusing to track
- Ownership has moved around, so long-term roadmap is uncertain
- Not a replacement for a real editor on layered work
Clipdrop use cases
Removing a cable from a product shot
Brush the cable out and keep the studio backdrop intact, instead of reshooting because the cable was in frame.
Turning a square photo into a banner
Uncrop the sides to fit a wide header, and the added scene stays consistent with the original lighting.
Matching a cut-out to a scene
Relight a product to the direction of the background so a composite stops looking like a composite.
Cleaning up a screenshot
Remove a name, an avatar or a stray notification from a screenshot before it goes into documentation.
