Three engines

Same photo, different answers

Most tools give you one model and call it a day. Pluck ships three, because pictures disagree about what "the subject" is — and sometimes the interesting question is which answer you meant.

A photo of a painting

Apple Vision lifts the framed painting — the object. Clean Cut reaches into the frame and takes the cat. Drag to compare the two answers.

Vision's result: the whole framed painting, lifted as one object

Clean Cut's result: just the cat from inside the painting

Vision Clean Cut

A glass of wine

Fine Edges keeps real transparency — the checkerboard shows through the glass, because glass is see-through. No other engine here does that.

A wine glass photographed against a background

Fine Edges' result: the glass cut out with true transparency

Original Fine Edges

Why Pluck

Small, sharp, and honest about how it works

Nothing to upload, nowhere to leak

Matting runs on your Mac's own silicon — Apple's Vision framework or a local Core ML model. There's no account and no upload path in the app. At all.

Three engines, three opinions

Vision answers instantly and says so when there's no subject. Clean Cut nails hard edges and line art. Fine Edges keeps every strand of hair. Switch per photo, compare live.

A Mac app, not a website in a box

Drag in, or just ⌘V. One window: your cutouts in a grid or a list, a before/after wipe beside them, export when you're done. It behaves like your other windows because it's built like them.

Your agent can drive it

The same engine ships as a pluck CLI — JSON output, honest exit codes, no GUI. Claude or any coding agent can batch a folder in one line.

Big models, only if you ask

The high-quality engines are an 83 MB download away, checksummed against the signed app. Update checks compare local files — they cost zero network requests.

Free means free

No watermark. No "HD unlocks for $9.99/week". No trial timer. MIT-licensed — read the code, build it yourself, keep it forever.

The app

One window, everything in reach

Cutouts land in a grid or a list; the inspector compares each one against its original and switches engines in place.

Pluck's main window: a grid of cutouts with a before/after comparison in the inspector — The real window — grid, inspector, and a wipe that starts at the golden section.

Privacy

The complete list of what ever goes online

A privacy promise is worth exactly what its exceptions are worth. Here are all of them — both of them:

Model download

Only when you click Download or run pluck models pull. Fetched from this repo's GitHub Releases and verified against a checksum pinned inside the signed app.

Off switch Doesn't happen unless you ask.

Update check

Once a day the app asks GitHub if there's a newer version. Nothing about you or your photos goes along for the ride.

Off switch Settings → General. Off means silence.

Terminal & agents

The same engine, one command away

Structured output, meaningful exit codes, no GUI ever. Script it yourself, or hand the included agent skill to Claude.

pluck photo.jpg                        # → photo.png, background gone
pluck shots/*.jpg -o cutouts/ --json   # a folder at a time, NDJSON out
pluck photo.jpg --model birefnet-lite-matting
pluck models list                      # what this machine can run