About this site

You give it a picture, or five hundred pictures. You write some wording or open a logo file. You decide how big it is relative to each frame, where it sits, whether it repeats across the whole picture, and how visible it should be. It draws that onto every file and hands the files back. That is the entire product, and the depth is in the edge cases rather than in the feature list.

It is a page, not a service. There is no account, no upload, no queue on someone else’s machine and no copy of your work anywhere but your own disk. Your files stay on your disk. This page reads them, draws the mark, writes new files, and keeps nothing — there is no server behind it for a copy to go to.

The largest search category next to this one is people wanting a mark taken off a picture. That work is legitimate — plenty of people own a picture they marked years ago and have lost the original — and it is not done here. It belongs to a sibling site, pictureeraser.com, which is named on this site several times and linked from it nowhere.

The reason is straightforward. A site that sells you a mark and then sells you its removal cannot be believed about either. Every honest sentence on this site about what a mark is worth — and there are a lot of them, because that honesty is the point — would be worth nothing if the tool next door undid it for a click. So this site gives up that traffic on purpose, and the guides say plainly what a mark cannot do instead of implying it can do more.

• It will not take a mark off a picture, in any form, at any time. That is pictureeraser.com.
• It will not become a place to put a caption or a quote on a photograph. Type meant to be read is addtexttophoto.com.
• It will not become a place to drop one decorative element onto a picture to be looked at. That is overlaypicture.com.
• It will not grow a resizer, a compressor or a converter. Those are three other sites and each of them is better at it.
• It will not add accounts, cloud storage or a paid tier that unlocks something the free version deliberately withholds.

Growth here means going downward — more formats that open, more edge cases named rather than hit, more of the guidance that makes the difference between a mark that works and one that merely exists.

Advertising will, eventually. It does not yet: no advertising runs here at the moment, the bands are switched off in the code, and the domain has not been through review. Saying so is cheaper than letting you find an empty gap and wonder what was meant to be in it.

Once the account is approved the placements come back on where they were designed to sit — beneath the working surface and beneath the writing, never in the inspector, never above the picture, never inside the queue — and each one holds its height before it loads, so nothing shoves the page around under your cursor. Block them and the tool behaves identically. No part of this site is ever gated behind seeing one.

The site is one of a family of single-purpose picture tools built around the same engine and the same refusal to send your files anywhere. The parent is credited once, as plain text under the wordmark at the foot of every page. That credit is deliberately not a link, and no link leaving this site appears on more than one page of it.

• The markerOne picture, the full inspector, and a file back in a few seconds.
• A folder at a timeSet the mark against file one, run it across the rest, get a ZIP and a list.
• What a mark is worthThe four things a visible mark stops, and the five it does not.
• PrivacyWhat this page reads, and what it keeps afterwards.