A Photoroom alternative built for people who sell online
Background removal as clean as the tools you know, plus everything else a seller needs — bulk clean-up, scenes, product videos, listing text and a marketplace photo check. One account, one price.
The short answer
Photoroom is a popular phone-first photo editor with templates and AI backgrounds, and on a yearly plan it starts cheaper than PicMerchant. If you mostly make quick social posts from your phone, it’s a good tool.
PicMerchant is built around selling: clean cutouts you can finish by hand, bulk logo and watermark removal, a check against each marketplace’s photo rules, listing text, product videos made from your real photos, and Photo Storage your whole team can share — monthly, cancel any time.
Price side by side
| Free | Main plan | Bigger plan | Pay as you go | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PicMerchant | Free trial: 10 background removals, 3 AI edits, 1 video — no card | $19.99/mo Seller: unlimited background removal*, 50 AI edits, 10 videos, 100 listing kits, 25 GB storage | $39.99/mo Business: 200 AI edits, 50 videos, 3 team members, 250 GB | Credits that never expire: 25 for $7, 100 for $20, 500 for $75 |
| Photoroom | Free to start; paid plans have a free trial | $7.50/mo Pro, billed yearly: 1,000 exports a month | $20.99/mo Max, billed yearly: 3,000 exports a month | Ultra $82.50/mo billed yearly; exports up to 2K on Pro and Max |
*“Unlimited” means normal use by one shop — up to 2,000 background removals a month on Seller. See PicMerchant pricing.
Photoroom prices from Photoroom's pricing page, checked September 2026.
Why sellers switch to PicMerchant
- Month to month — no yearly commitment needed for the best price.
- Your real product, never redrawn. Scenes keep your actual photo of the product.
- Marketplace rules built in, so a main photo isn’t rejected by Amazon or Walmart.
- Works the same on a computer and a phone.
Everything else that comes with it
Photoroom is mainly about the photo. PicMerchant is built for the whole job of selling online, so the same account does all of this:
Works on your Mac
Nothing to download or install. It runs in Safari or Chrome on any Mac, and the same account works on a PC, iPhone or iPad.
Fix a cutout by hand
Tap to keep or remove a spot, a scalpel for clean edges and a hair brush — the same kind of hand tools pros expect.
Whole batches at once
Drop in a folder of photos: backgrounds off, logos and watermarks off, dark photos brightened — in one pass.
AI edits
Refresh a tired photo, combine two photos, or put your real product in a new scene.
Product videos
Turn your photos into a short video with captions and a voice — for listings, TikTok, Facebook and YouTube.
Listing kits
Titles, keywords and a description written from your product, ready to paste.
Marketplace photo check
One click tells you if a photo meets Amazon, Walmart, eBay, Etsy, Shopify, Google and Facebook rules, and downloads every size.
Photo Storage and a drive
Folders like your hard drive. Connect it to a Mac or PC and drag photos in and out like any drive.
Made for teams
Invite employees so everyone works from the same photos (Business plan).
Try it on your own photos
Sign up free — no card. Upload a few of the photos you’d normally put through Photoroom and compare the results yourself.
Start free See how it worksQuestions
Can I use PicMerchant on my phone like Photoroom?
Yes. It runs in your phone’s browser — nothing to install — and on a computer with bigger screens for batch work.
Can I bring photos I already cut out somewhere else?
Yes. Already-cut PNGs keep their cut exactly as they are, and cleaning them up (logos, brightness) doesn’t cut them again.
Does it work on a Mac?
Yes. PicMerchant runs in Safari or Chrome on a Mac with nothing to install, and Photo Storage can show up in Finder like a drive. See PicMerchant on a Mac.
Do I need to install anything?
No. PicMerchant runs in your browser on a Mac, PC, iPhone or iPad.
Is PicMerchant connected to Photoroom?
No. PicMerchant is a separate company and is not affiliated with Photoroom.
Clipping Magic, remove.bg, Photoroom, Pixelcut, Canva, Adobe Express, PhotoScissors and Slazzer are trademarks of their owners. PicMerchant is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any of them. Their prices were taken from their own pricing pages in September and October 2026 and can change — check their sites for today’s prices.