Changelog · 1.0.6
What shipped, and when
Every application release and every study, newest first, with the date it went out. Corrections are recorded here too rather than quietly edited away.
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AwaCut 1.0.6: your photos keep going after you activate
When the 10 free photos are used up, the rest of your photos now wait in the list, with a count of how many are left, and carry on by themselves the moment you activate a key. Nothing to add again, nothing to restart. The licence window is now translated into all 48 interface languages, with buying and activating each one click away.
AwaCut 1.0.5: phone photos come out upright, HEIC on Mac
Photos from phones now come out the right way up. Phones store many pictures sideways with a note saying how to turn them, and earlier versions ignored that note, so a portrait could export lying on its side. On a Mac, AwaCut now also opens HEIC, the iPhone's photo format, directly. The Chinese interface is now in Traditional characters. And the updates follow the licence: when a licence lapses AwaCut keeps working, as the terms have always said; versions published while it was active still install, and newer ones are announced with a link to renew.
AwaCut 1.0.4: the Windows installer is signed
The Windows installer is now signed with a code signing certificate issued by Certum to AYA MIM S.R.L., the company that makes AwaCut. When you install, Windows shows AYA MIM S.R.L. as the publisher instead of an unknown publisher. For the first weeks Windows may still ask you to confirm while it gets to know the new signature. Nothing changes in how you use the app.
AwaCut 1.0.3: the licence check keeps working
A maintenance update, and the reason to install it is a date. Polar, the store that checks your licence, changes its default API version on 1 October 2026. AwaCut 1.0.3 asks for a fixed version, so the check keeps working after that day. The update also moves the cutout engine and the app's libraries to their current releases. Nothing changes in how you use the app. AwaCut looks for updates when you open it, so open it once before 1 October. Among them is a fix published on 14 September in the TLS library that AwaCut uses to reach the store and to check for updates.
Transparent PNG: the guide, and a help center
Two new pages. A guide to exporting transparent PNGs: which of PNG, WebP and JPG actually keep an alpha channel, the three things that most often make a cutout come back white, and how to convert a whole folder at once. And a help center with seventeen support answers about installing on each platform, batches, output formats and how the licence behaves offline, each one checked against the application's own source rather than against our marketing copy.
remove.bg's own questions, answered
The migration page now answers three more questions in the words remove.bg uses on its own FAQ, including what happens to account data. One of them carries a deadline worth passing on: remove.bg says the credit usage report and the invoices cannot be downloaded after 1 December 2026, and sellers need those invoices for their accounting long after the service is gone.
Background Removal Pricing Index: the open dataset behind the cost study
The cost study now sits on a named, downloadable dataset: every published plan of remove.bg, Slazzer, Erase.bg, Pixelcut, Photoshop and AwaCut on the date it was read (append-only, so it becomes a price history), plus the computed yearly cost of 100 to 10,000 images a month and the marginal cost of one more image. Two CSV files, CC BY 4.0, data dictionary and known limitations on the page, Dataset schema, a social card drawn from the numbers. The interest disclosure is stated in the first screen.
Data study: what 1,000 background removals actually cost
New data study computing the yearly cost of bulk background removal across credit, subscription and flat pricing, from published prices (July 2026), including the exact volume where flat pricing wins.
How to remove the background from 500 photos at once
Answer page: one folder, one drop, then a single export. The timing first published here was an estimate; it was replaced on 2026-09-08 by a measured benchmark, about 3 seconds an image and roughly 25 minutes for 500 on an Apple Silicon Mac.
AwaCut 1.0.2: cleaner edges, safer exports
AwaCut now measures the photo's original background and removes its tint from semi-transparent edges (hair, fur, glass), so cutouts drop cleanly onto any new background. Also fixes a rare case where exporting into the originals' folder through a symlinked path could overwrite the source photo.
The best bulk background removers in 2026, honestly compared
Editorial roundup of 9 tools grouped by what each does best, with dated pricing and full disclosure that AwaCut is ours.
AwaCut 1.0 released
First public release: bulk background removal for macOS, Windows and Linux, fully offline, flat $29/year with unlimited images.