A free, open-source offline photo editor with on-device background removal.
Last verified · 2026-06-22 · by Moe Ameen
Refloow Photo Studio is a free, open-source desktop photo editor built by Veljko Vuckovic under the Refloow project. Version 1.0.0 was released in June 2026. It is an Electron app that runs natively on Windows 10/11, macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon), and Linux, and it is distributed through GitHub Releases, the Microsoft Store, and the Snap Store. The community edition is licensed under AGPL-3.0, with a separate commercial license available for closed-source use.
Its headline feature is on-device background removal — you drop in a photo and the subject is cut out from its background without uploading anything to a server. Around that sit the everyday editing tools: cropping, horizontal and vertical mirroring, color adjustments for brightness, contrast, saturation, and warmth, multi-photo layering and composition for building composite designs, drag-and-drop file handling, and an undo/redo history of up to 15 actions. It also ships over 40 built-in filters spanning looks like Vintage, Black & White, Cinematic, Cyberpunk, Noir, Polaroid, and Neon.
The pitch is privacy and simplicity. Refloow runs fully offline with no account, no login, no data collection, no ads, and no watermark on exports — your images never leave your machine. System requirements are light: a dual-core 2.0GHz CPU, 2GB of RAM (4GB+ recommended), and around 440MB of storage. Because the removal runs locally, the heavier the cutout the more it leans on your own hardware rather than a cloud GPU.
One thing to keep straight: Refloow is a manual image editor, not a generator or a publisher. It edits photos you already have — removing backgrounds, grading color, compositing layers, applying filters — rather than creating a scene from a text prompt, and it has no path for captioning, resizing per platform, or posting to social. Feature counts and details move as the project ships, so treat any specific number as a snapshot and check the repo for current status.
Refloow gives you a clean, private, offline asset — a product cut out onto transparency, a color-graded portrait, a filtered hero frame. That asset is a building block, not a post, and one polished image is not a posting schedule. Kompozy is the cloud layer that turns that block into published content. Drop a Refloow cutout into Kompozy and it becomes the subject of a Photo Post, a quote graphic, a carousel slide, or a Persona image, with branded on-style captions and overlays layered on through HyperFrames and the frame auto-reformatted to each destination's aspect ratio. Where Refloow is hands-on and one-image-at-a-time, Kompozy is the part that scales the output and ships it.
The repurposing math is the point. A single Refloow-edited image can seed a whole content unit in Kompozy: the image itself for visual feeds, a quote card built on top of it, plus a text post and a thread written in your own voice through your Persona Brief — and Kompozy then schedules and publishes the set across TikTok, Reels, YouTube Shorts, X, LinkedIn, and the rest of the nine supported platforms from one queue. Refloow owns the private, offline pixel work; Kompozy owns the captions, the format fan-out, the schedule, and the publish.
Refloow Photo Studio is a free, open-source desktop photo editor built by Veljko Vuckovic (Refloow), released as version 1.0.0 in June 2026. It runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux as an Electron app and offers on-device background removal plus cropping, mirroring, color adjustments, layering, and over 40 built-in filters — all fully offline.
Yes. Refloow runs entirely on your machine with no account, login, data collection, ads, or watermark. The background removal happens on-device, so your images never get uploaded to a server. It is distributed through GitHub Releases, the Microsoft Store, and the Snap Store.
The community edition is free and open-source under the AGPL-3.0 license. A separate commercial license is available if you need to use it outside AGPL terms. Because it runs locally, there are no per-export or subscription costs — the only resource it uses is your own hardware.
No. Refloow is a manual photo editor — it edits images you already have through background removal, color adjustment, layering, and filters. It is not a text-to-image generator and does not create a scene from a blank prompt.
Refloow produces the edited still but does not publish it. Bring the export into Kompozy to build a Photo Post, quote graphic, carousel, or Persona image on top of it with branded captions, reframe it per platform, and schedule and publish across TikTok, Reels, YouTube Shorts, X, LinkedIn, and more from one queue.