ProMatte
AI background removal for OBS that never leaves your PC
Details
- External ID
- 1248537
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- ProMatte
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 15, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Video Streaming, Open Source, GitHub, Video
- Fetched at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 1:16 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 1:16 a.m.
Description
ProMatte is a free, open-source filter for OBS Studio that removes, blurs or replaces your webcam background in real time. It runs entirely on your own machine: no cloud, no account, no telemetry, and camera frames are never uploaded or saved. It was built and tuned on a 2017 dual-core laptop with a GeForce 940MX, deliberately, so that the numbers behind it come from close to the worst case rather than from a workstation. Every performance figure published names the machine it was measured on.
Enrichment
- Theme
- image editing and background removal tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- local ai background removal plugin for obs live streamers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Writing a native OBS C/C++ plugin that does real-time neural network background segmentation locally on low-end hardware requires deep graphics pipeline and inference runtime knowledge.
What it would actually take: The plugin must be authored in C or C++ targeting the libobs API, integrating an embedded inference engine like ONNX Runtime, DirectML, or OpenCV DNN. The hardest challenge is optimizing a segmentation model (e.g., RobustVideoMatting or MediaPipe Selfie) to process 30-60 FPS video frames in raw YUV/RGBA color spaces without dropping frames or consuming excessive CPU/GPU on modest hardware. This demands expertise in computer vision, video frame buffer manipulation, and native desktop plugin development.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 77 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #31 of 78 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 227 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Remove Backgrounds For Free (AI LOCAL) · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Video Background Remover · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- PicBGRemover · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- WebRemoveBG · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Cutout · ph · 2026-09-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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