Ship a photo editor in your app this sprint
A cross-platform photo editor SDK with 60+ filters, client-side AI background removal, and a fully white-label UI.
- 60+ filters, adjustments & effects
- Client-side AI: background removal, object remove, style transfer
- One SDK for web, iOS, Android
The image editor your roadmap doesn’t have time to build
Stop pricing out the photo-editor feature your customers keep requesting. Ship a real one in 1–2 weeks, then get back to your core product.
Ship Photo Editor in Days, Not Months
npm install. Drop the React component. Configure the toolbar. Your photo editor is live before sprint planning.
One SDK. Web, iOS, Android
Same engine. Same pixel output. Same API surface. A photo edited on web exports identically on mobile.
Zero rendering backend
Client-side photo encoding. No upload queues, no GPU bills, no PII leaving the device unless you choose to upload it.
Trusted by 100+
industry leaders
Integrating IMG.LY’s editor meant we didn’t have to build or maintain a complex editing layer ourselves. That kept our team focused on our core AI ad engine and saved us countless development hours — while still giving our customers the ability to polish and customize creatives at scale.
Hikari Senju
CEO, Omneky
With IMG.LY we built a central creative portal that now powers over 140 dealer campaigns across multiple automotive brands. Before this, asset creation was slow and inconsistent.
Martin Röhr
Product Owner, Digitas
By embedding IMG.LY’s editor we were able to hit key RFP requirements and deliver a template-based creative experience that now serves 1,000+ customers. It helped us win more deals and exceed enterprise expectations without needing to hire dedicated design teams.
Rob Driscoll
Director of PM, Optimizely
Since integrating IMG.LY’s editor, we now deliver 30,000+ ad creatives per month, dramatically shorten time-to-launch, and help our clients cut design spend by up to $10,000 per month.
Logan Welbaum
Founder, Plai
Our customers create over a million personalized postcards each year choosing from over hundreds of templates with IMG.LY’s SDK. It’s the only solution that allows us to build our own specialized, on-brand UI that integrates seamlessly with our platform.
Jeanine Zaalberg
Product Manager, SwissPost
From a developer’s perspective, the most powerful feature of the photo editor is the integration process. It was completely flawless, quick, and easy to integrate.
Stefano Fornari
CTO, Funambol
We compared IMG.LY SDK with other solutions and found that it would be the best fit for us since it provides all the features that are crucial for our use case.
Carem Pereira
SCRUM Manager, HP
Filters, AI, and a UI you can fully white-label
Everything your users expect from a modern photo editor, plus the controls your team needs to ship it inside your product.
For your users
Adjustments & filters.
Fine-tune brightness, contrast, and saturation, then apply from 60+ filters and effects.
Native AI features.
One-click background removal, object remove and add, style transfer, background swap, and on-brand variants, all from a prompt inside the editor.
Color spaces & accuracy.
P3 and sRGB color spaces, color balance, and exposure pipelines for photo workflows where what your users see on screen matches what comes out of the file.
Snapping & alignment guides.
Snap to control points, edges, and grid lines as users drag. Precise placement on every platform: touch, mouse, or keyboard.
Effects & blur.
Layer cinematic effects, vignettes, and adjustable blur to set the mood and direct focus.
Crop & aspect ratios.
One-click crop presets for popular social, web, and print photo sizes.
Custom asset libraries.
Wire any DAM, CDN, or stock provider (Unsplash, Getty, Pexels, or your internal library) as a photo source. Users browse, search, and drop assets into the editor without leaving your app.
Camera capture & zoom.
Built-in camera capture and pinch-to-zoom for native mobile photo workflows. Users shoot, crop, and edit without ever leaving your app.
For your product
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Browse every CE.SDK capability across photo, design, video, print, and AI.
Explore all capabilitiesHow to embed the photo editor into your app
From starter kit to client-side render, four steps to ship a real photo editor.
Drop the photo editor into your app
Clone the photo-editor-ui starter, install @imgly/cesdk, and launch a working editor on web, iOS, or Android. The first integration takes under an hour.
Starter Kits
Theme the UI to match your product
Show or hide tools, rename and reposition controls, swap icons, apply your color palette, and translate every label. Users feel like they never left your app.
Explore customization demos
Wire your assets, fonts, and AI
Connect Unsplash, Getty, Pexels, your DAM, or any custom source as a photo library. Add your fonts and presets, then plug in the AI models you license through the plugin API.
Explore asset demos
Ship to production with client-side encoding
Final photos export in the browser or on the device in JPEG, PNG, or PDF. No render server to scale, no upload queue, no PII leaving the user’s machine.
Why product teams choose the Photo Editor SDK
Ship 1–2 weeks, not 1–2 quarters
The build-vs-buy math has been done by 600+ products before you.
Heyflow estimated 4 engineers × 6 months to build comparable photo editing in-house. Perk Up shipped their core flow on top of our SDK in 2–3 days. Don’t be the team that takes the long road.
White-label down to the last pixel
Your colors. Your fonts. Your toolbar layout. Your labels in 12 languages.
Zero IMG.LY branding. Customize the photo editor UI down to every control and label. Your users open the editor and never see we exist.
One SDK across every surface your customers use
Web. iOS. Android. React Native. Flutter. One license, one engine.
Same filters, same adjustments, same color pipeline on every platform. A photo edited on web exports identically on mobile. One subscription covers them all.
An SDK made by developers for developers
Install CE.SDK with one command, plug it into your existing upload or creation flows, and stay in control with a clean, documented API.
npm create vite@latest your-project-name -- --template react-ts && cd your-project-namenpm install @cesdk/cesdk-jsnpm create vite@latest your-project-name -- --template vue-ts && cd your-project-namenpm install @cesdk/cesdk-jsng new your-project-name && cd your-project-namenpm install @cesdk/cesdk-jsnpm create vite@latest your-project-name -- --template svelte-ts && cd your-project-namenpm install @cesdk/cesdk-jsnpx create-next-app@latest your-project-name --typescript && cd your-project-namenpm install @cesdk/cesdk-jsnpm create vite@latest your-project-name -- --template vanilla-ts && cd your-project-namenpm install @cesdk/cesdk-jsNative editing for iOS and Android
The same creative engine, shipped as native SDKs for every mobile stack.
pod 'IMGLYUI'pod installimplementation("ly.img:editor:1.53.0")npm install @imgly/editor-react-nativeflutter pub add imgly_editorBring the editor to the desktop
Embed CE.SDK in Electron and native macOS apps with the same API.
npm install @cesdk/cesdk-jspod 'IMGLYUI'pod installpod 'IMGLYUI'pod installRender headlessly at scale
Run the same engine server-side for batch rendering and creative automation.
npm install @cesdk/nodeimport CreativeEngine from '@cesdk/node';
Cut integration to minutes with IMG.LY Agent Skills
CE.SDK Agent Skills give AI coding assistants bundled documentation, guided code generation, and autonomous project scaffolding for building editor and creative workflows across 10 web frameworks.
claude plugin marketplace add imgly/agent-skillsclaude plugin install cesdk@imglynpx skills add imgly/agent-skills -a claude-codenpx skills add imgly/agent-skills --skill docs-react -a claude-codegit clone https://github.com/imgly/agent-skills.gitcp -r agent-skills/plugins/cesdk/skills/docs-react .claude/skills/cesdk-docs-reactLearn more about Agent Skills
The photo-editing pipeline your security team will sign off on
Client-side by default. 10+ years in production. 600+ products already through their own security review.
Photo editing runs on the user’s device
User images never leave the browser or device unless you choose to upload them. No PII flowing through our servers, no third-party retention, GDPR-compliant by architecture.
Battle-tested at scale
500M+ creations per month across 600+ products. Optimizely ships 1,000+ customer editors on our SDK (Gap, IBM, Wall Street Journal). 47+ releases in the last 12 months. See the changelog.
Build-vs-buy, solved
We’ve handled a decade of browser changes, codec quirks, and color-management edge cases. Your team handles your core product. Dedicated support and SLAs on enterprise plans. Engineers reply within an hour.
More from IMG.LY
Open the demo. Then ship the real thing
A 30-day free trial gets you the same SDK Postbuddy uses to print 1M+ personalized postcards a year. Talk to a human about your use case. We reply within an hour during business hours.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Photo Editor SDK is a fully-featured photo editing SDK you embed directly into your application. One engine powers filters, adjustments, templates, and AI-assisted editing across web, iOS, and Android.
The Photo Editor SDK runs on the web (JavaScript, React, Angular, Vue, Svelte, Next.js) and on mobile (iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter), so you can ship a consistent editor across every surface.
Yes. The UI is fully customizable and white-labelable — show or hide tools, reposition and rename controls, apply your brand theme, and translate every label so the editor feels native to your app.
Yes. You can start a 30-day free trial with full access to all photo editing features. Contact our team to get started.
All photo editing runs client-side using WebAssembly and WebGL for hardware-accelerated performance. User images never leave the device unless you choose to upload them, and there is no rendering backend to operate.
The Photo Editor SDK imports PNG, JPEG, and TGA and exports PNG, JPEG, TGA, and print-ready PDF, with configurable quality and compression settings.
Yes. The SDK is storage-agnostic and supports custom asset sources, so you can connect any CDN, DAM, or stock provider such as Unsplash, Getty Images, or Pexels.
Background removal runs in the browser via @imgly/background-removal. No server, no PII upload. Image generation, style transfer, swap background, and object remove/add route through plug-in adapters; you bring your own model (OpenAI, Anthropic, Recraft, Flux, etc.). All surfaced inside the editor UI.
Yes. Our engine runs both interactive and headless. The same scene format powers a user editing a photo on the web and your Node.js worker rendering 10,000 variants overnight.
AI plugins are available today for the web SDK. Native AI features for iOS and Android are on the roadmap and coming soon.
Yes. The AI plugins are model-agnostic — connect commercial or open-source models through custom endpoints using the open plugin architecture.
Pricing scales with monthly active users (MAU) who interact with the editor. Typical photo-editor deployments run $600–2,000/month. 30-day free trial; no credit card. Contact sales for a quote.
Yes. Commercial licenses allow full white-labeling — remove all IMG.LY branding and present the photo editor as a native part of your product.
Yes. Enterprise licenses include custom terms, dedicated support, SLAs, and volume discounts. Contact us to discuss your requirements.