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Awesome Watermark Remover for Videos
π¬ SOTA Video Watermark Removal: The Ultimate Guide to AI Tools & Research π
π Quick Index & Navigation
βοΈ Cloud SaaS Products | π Open-Source GitHub Projects | π SOTA Model Comparison | π οΈ Tools & Pipelines | π’ News & Milestones | βοΈ Legal & Ethical
A comprehensive, curated collection of State-of-the-Art (SOTA) Video Watermark Removal tools, AI research models, and open-source projects. This repository covers:
- Visible Watermark Removal: Automate the removal of logos, text overlays, timestamps, and station bugs.
- Invisible & Forensic Watermark Stripping: Evaluate and strip invisible metadata/watermarks (e.g., SynthID, TreeRing, C2PA).
- AI-Generated Video Watermark Erasers: Specific models for erasing watermarks from Sora, Runway Gen-3, Seedance, KLing, and Luma Dream Machine.
βοΈ Cloud-Hosted SaaS Products
| Product | Description | Pricing | Free Tier | Company Size (Est. Revenue/Valuation) | Best For |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kapwing | Collaborative cloud video editor with built-in watermark removal and real-time team review. | Free (with watermark); Pro from $16/month | Yes (exports with watermark) | $10.4M ARR / $45.1M Val. (VC Backed) | Teams & collaborative workflows |
| Apowersoft Online | Manual box-selection tool for static watermarks across multiple timestamps. Simple, no installation. | Freemium | Yes | $5M - $10M ARR (WANGXU Tech, ~180 employees) | Simple static watermark removals |
| HitPaw Video Enhancer | Beginner-friendly one-click watermark remover with brush/lasso selection and AI background reconstruction. | Paid plans available | Limited trial | $1.2M ARR / $3.6M Val. (Bootstrapped) | Social media editors & beginners |
| Vmake AI | Browser-based AI remover supporting watermarks, logos, text overlays from video β no signup needed. | Freemium | Yes (no signup) | $500K - $1M ARR (Bootstrapped) | Quick one-off removals |
| Dewatermark.ai | AI-powered video & image watermark removal using CNN + GAN models. One-click upload, auto-detect, clean download. | Credit-based; 50 credits from ~$3.90 | 5-second preview free | $100K - $300K ARR (Bootstrapped) | Creators, marketers, casual users |
| Unwatermark AI | Freemium platform covering video, image, and PDF watermark removal. Credit packs that never expire. | Credits: 50/$3.90, 1000/$16.90 | Daily image quota + 6s video preview | $50K - $150K ARR (Bootstrapped) | Pay-as-you-go users |
| pxz.ai | Fast AI video watermark removal with HD export; standard resolution free. | Paid from $9.99/month | Yes (standard res) | <$50K ARR (Bootstrapped) | Freelancers & content repurposing |
π Open-Source GitHub Projects
| Repository | Description |
|---|---|
IOPaint (fka Lama Cleaner)  | Inpainting tool (LaMa, SD, etc.) widely used for frame-by-frame video watermark removal pipelines via ffmpeg + API. |
gemini-watermark-remover  | 100% client-side browser tool using mathematically precise reverse alpha blending to remove Gemini AI video watermarks. Pure JavaScript. |
WatermarkRemover-AI  | Florence-2 + LaMA powered watermark detection and inpainting for images and videos (Sora, Runway, etc.). PyWebview GUI included. MIT License. |
Deep-Image-Prior WM Removal  | CNN watermark removal using Deep Image Prior with PyTorch. Skip-connections + deep priors for artifact-free restoration. |
multi-delogo  | GUI tool to detect and remove logos/watermarks from videos even when they change position. Auto-detection for text logos. C++ / GPL-3.0. |
video-watermark-removal  | Minimal-setup Python scripts to remove simple static watermarks from videos. Great starting point for custom pipelines. |
KLing-Video-WatermarkRemover-Enhancer  | Open-source tool to remove watermarks from KLing AI-generated videos and apply enhancement algorithms. Python. |
ultimate-watermark-remover-gui  | Comprehensive desktop GUI tool for ultimate video watermark, logo, and overlay removal pipelines. Features batch processing and multiple SOTA model integrations. |
Seedance Watermark Remover  | Remove AI-generated watermarks from Seedance 2.0 videos automatically. No GPU required. Python + OpenCV + FFmpeg. |
π SOTA Model & Method Comparison
| Method / Model | Year | Approach | Input Type | Supports Video | Paper | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florence-2 + LaMa π | 2024 | Detect (Florence-2) β Inpaint (LaMa) | Image & Video | β | π Florence-2 | MIT |
| SLBR π₯ | 2022 | Split-then-Refine ResUNet (AAAI 2021) | Image & Batch | β οΈ (frame-level) | π 2012.07680 | Research |
| Deep Image Prior (WM) | 2024 | Self-supervised CNN, no paired training data | Image | β οΈ (frame-level) | π IEEE TCSVT 2024 | Research |
| LaMa (Large Mask Inpainting) β‘ | 2022 | Fourier convolutions for large mask inpainting | Image & Video | β (via pipeline) | π 2109.07161 | Apache 2.0 |
| Stable Diffusion Inpainting π | 2022β2024 | Latent diffusion + masked inpainting | Image & Video | β (via ComfyUI) | π 2112.10752 | CreativeML |
| Deep Image Prior (baseline) | 2025 | Unsupervised DIP for invisible WM removal | Image | β | π 2502.13998 | Research |
| WM-Inpaint Bridge | 2025 | Bridges inpainting β large-area visible WM removal | Image | β οΈ | π 2504.04687 | Research |
| DeWatermark CNN + GAN π‘οΈ | 2025 | Commercial CNN/GAN ensemble; handles semi-transparent overlays | Video | β | Proprietary | Commercial |
| Multi-Delogo (FFmpeg filter) ποΈ | 2018β2025 | Classical delogo + motion tracking, no DL | Video | β | β | GPL-3.0 |
π οΈ Tools, Pipelines & Platforms
- π¨ IOPaint: The most popular open inpainting server (LaMa, SD, etc.) β pair it with ffmpeg for powerful video pipelines.
- πΌοΈ ComfyUI: Node-based diffusion UI β build video watermark removal pipelines using SD Inpainting + video loaders.
- π¬ FFmpeg: The backbone of every video pipeline β frame extraction, reassembly, audio preservation.
- π¬ Dewatermark.ai: Best SaaS option for CNN/GAN-powered clean removal with no technical setup.
- π§ͺ Unwatermark AI: Covers images, video, and PDF; freemium with no-expiry credits.
- π οΈ multi-delogo: Best desktop GUI for classical (non-DL) removal of moving logos.
- π€ WatermarkRemover-AI: Best open-source AI option β Florence-2 detection + LaMa inpainting with a GUI.
π’ News & Major Milestones (2024β2026)
- π₯ AI-Generated Video Watermarks Emerge (2024): With Sora, Runway, Kling, Seedance all embedding visible watermarks, a wave of targeted removers followed.
- π EU AI Act & SynthID Rollout (2024): Google DeepMind's invisible SynthID watermark deployed at scale in Imagen and Veo β spurring open-source invisible-watermark removal research.
- π§ NeurIPS 2024 Invisible Watermark Removal Challenge (2024): First major benchmark competition evaluating robustness of invisible watermarks and the SOTA of removal methods.
- π WM-Inpaint Bridge Paper (Apr 2025): SOTA work bridging image inpainting and large-area visible watermark removal β addresses mask quality dependency in prior DNN methods.
- π‘οΈ Forensic Stealth in WM Removal (2026): New research showing that removing a watermark is not enough β forensic traces remain in pixel statistics even after visual removal.
- β‘ Seedance 2.0 Watermark Remover (2025): Dedicated open-source tool (Python + OpenCV + LaMa) for automatically removing ByteDance's Seedance AI video watermarks. No GPU required.
π Community & Discussions
- π οΈ r/StableDiffusion: ComfyUI-based inpainting pipelines for watermark removal.
- π¬ r/MachineLearning: Latest discussion on SynthID, C2PA, and invisible watermarking robustness.
- π¬ IOPaint Discussions: Community scripts for LaMa-based video watermark removal using ffmpeg.
- π₯ r/videography: Practical use-cases and tool comparisons for cleaning stock footage.
π Research & Continuous Learning
- π Hugging Face Daily Papers: Track inpainting and watermark removal pre-prints daily.
- π ArXiv cs.CV β Watermark Removal: Browse the latest computer vision papers.
- π§ Papers With Code β Watermark Removal: Benchmarks, datasets, and reproducible SOTA code.
- ποΈ CLWD Dataset: Standard benchmark dataset for visible watermark removal (10,000+ watermarked images).
- π WAVES Benchmark: Robustness benchmark for evaluating invisible watermark removal methods.
βοΈ Legal & Ethical Considerations
Important: Watermark removal tools are powerful β use them responsibly.
- β Permitted: Removing your own watermarks from your own content, cleaning up archival footage you own, repurposing media you have licensed for modification.
- β Not Permitted: Removing watermarks to infringe copyright, bypass licensing requirements, or misrepresent the origin of AI-generated media (may violate the EU AI Act and similar regulations).
- π Invisible Watermarks: Stripping SynthID, C2PA, or EXIF provenance metadata from AI-generated content may conflict with emerging regulation. Always check local laws.
β€οΈ Support the Project
If this consolidation helps your research or workflows, please consider supporting its maintenance:
- β Star this repo to help others discover it.
- β Support via PayPal
- πͺ Bitcoin:
3LZazKXG18Hxa3LLNAeKYZNtLzCxpv1LyD
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List of Watermark Removing Tools for Videos π Star if you like it! π
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updated Jul 13, 2026
README
Awesome Watermark Remover for Videos
π¬ SOTA Video Watermark Removal: The Ultimate Guide to AI Tools & Research π
π Quick Index & Navigation
βοΈ Cloud SaaS Products | π Open-Source GitHub Projects | π SOTA Model Comparison | π οΈ Tools & Pipelines | π’ News & Milestones | βοΈ Legal & Ethical
A comprehensive, curated collection of State-of-the-Art (SOTA) Video Watermark Removal tools, AI research models, and open-source projects. This repository covers:
- Visible Watermark Removal: Automate the removal of logos, text overlays, timestamps, and station bugs.
- Invisible & Forensic Watermark Stripping: Evaluate and strip invisible metadata/watermarks (e.g., SynthID, TreeRing, C2PA).
- AI-Generated Video Watermark Erasers: Specific models for erasing watermarks from Sora, Runway Gen-3, Seedance, KLing, and Luma Dream Machine.
βοΈ Cloud-Hosted SaaS Products
| Product | Description | Pricing | Free Tier | Company Size (Est. Revenue/Valuation) | Best For |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kapwing | Collaborative cloud video editor with built-in watermark removal and real-time team review. | Free (with watermark); Pro from $16/month | Yes (exports with watermark) | $10.4M ARR / $45.1M Val. (VC Backed) | Teams & collaborative workflows |
| Apowersoft Online | Manual box-selection tool for static watermarks across multiple timestamps. Simple, no installation. | Freemium | Yes | $5M - $10M ARR (WANGXU Tech, ~180 employees) | Simple static watermark removals |
| HitPaw Video Enhancer | Beginner-friendly one-click watermark remover with brush/lasso selection and AI background reconstruction. | Paid plans available | Limited trial | $1.2M ARR / $3.6M Val. (Bootstrapped) | Social media editors & beginners |
| Vmake AI | Browser-based AI remover supporting watermarks, logos, text overlays from video β no signup needed. | Freemium | Yes (no signup) | $500K - $1M ARR (Bootstrapped) | Quick one-off removals |
| Dewatermark.ai | AI-powered video & image watermark removal using CNN + GAN models. One-click upload, auto-detect, clean download. | Credit-based; 50 credits from ~$3.90 | 5-second preview free | $100K - $300K ARR (Bootstrapped) | Creators, marketers, casual users |
| Unwatermark AI | Freemium platform covering video, image, and PDF watermark removal. Credit packs that never expire. | Credits: 50/$3.90, 1000/$16.90 | Daily image quota + 6s video preview | $50K - $150K ARR (Bootstrapped) | Pay-as-you-go users |
| pxz.ai | Fast AI video watermark removal with HD export; standard resolution free. | Paid from $9.99/month | Yes (standard res) | <$50K ARR (Bootstrapped) | Freelancers & content repurposing |
π Open-Source GitHub Projects
| Repository | Description |
|---|---|
| IOPaint (fka Lama Cleaner) | Inpainting tool (LaMa, SD, etc.) widely used for frame-by-frame video watermark removal pipelines via ffmpeg + API. |
| gemini-watermark-remover | 100% client-side browser tool using mathematically precise reverse alpha blending to remove Gemini AI video watermarks. Pure JavaScript. |
| WatermarkRemover-AI | Florence-2 + LaMA powered watermark detection and inpainting for images and videos (Sora, Runway, etc.). PyWebview GUI included. MIT License. |
| Deep-Image-Prior WM Removal | CNN watermark removal using Deep Image Prior with PyTorch. Skip-connections + deep priors for artifact-free restoration. |
| multi-delogo | GUI tool to detect and remove logos/watermarks from videos even when they change position. Auto-detection for text logos. C++ / GPL-3.0. |
| video-watermark-removal | Minimal-setup Python scripts to remove simple static watermarks from videos. Great starting point for custom pipelines. |
| KLing-Video-WatermarkRemover-Enhancer | Open-source tool to remove watermarks from KLing AI-generated videos and apply enhancement algorithms. Python. |
| ultimate-watermark-remover-gui | Comprehensive desktop GUI tool for ultimate video watermark, logo, and overlay removal pipelines. Features batch processing and multiple SOTA model integrations. |
| Seedance Watermark Remover | Remove AI-generated watermarks from Seedance 2.0 videos automatically. No GPU required. Python + OpenCV + FFmpeg. |
π SOTA Model & Method Comparison
| Method / Model | Year | Approach | Input Type | Supports Video | Paper | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florence-2 + LaMa π | 2024 | Detect (Florence-2) β Inpaint (LaMa) | Image & Video | β | π Florence-2 | MIT |
| SLBR π₯ | 2022 | Split-then-Refine ResUNet (AAAI 2021) | Image & Batch | β οΈ (frame-level) | π 2012.07680 | Research |
| Deep Image Prior (WM) | 2024 | Self-supervised CNN, no paired training data | Image | β οΈ (frame-level) | π IEEE TCSVT 2024 | Research |
| LaMa (Large Mask Inpainting) β‘ | 2022 | Fourier convolutions for large mask inpainting | Image & Video | β (via pipeline) | π 2109.07161 | Apache 2.0 |
| Stable Diffusion Inpainting π | 2022β2024 | Latent diffusion + masked inpainting | Image & Video | β (via ComfyUI) | π 2112.10752 | CreativeML |
| Deep Image Prior (baseline) | 2025 | Unsupervised DIP for invisible WM removal | Image | β | π 2502.13998 | Research |
| WM-Inpaint Bridge | 2025 | Bridges inpainting β large-area visible WM removal | Image | β οΈ | π 2504.04687 | Research |
| DeWatermark CNN + GAN π‘οΈ | 2025 | Commercial CNN/GAN ensemble; handles semi-transparent overlays | Video | β | Proprietary | Commercial |
| Multi-Delogo (FFmpeg filter) ποΈ | 2018β2025 | Classical delogo + motion tracking, no DL | Video | β | β | GPL-3.0 |
π οΈ Tools, Pipelines & Platforms
- π¨ IOPaint: The most popular open inpainting server (LaMa, SD, etc.) β pair it with ffmpeg for powerful video pipelines.
- πΌοΈ ComfyUI: Node-based diffusion UI β build video watermark removal pipelines using SD Inpainting + video loaders.
- π¬ FFmpeg: The backbone of every video pipeline β frame extraction, reassembly, audio preservation.
- π¬ Dewatermark.ai: Best SaaS option for CNN/GAN-powered clean removal with no technical setup.
- π§ͺ Unwatermark AI: Covers images, video, and PDF; freemium with no-expiry credits.
- π οΈ multi-delogo: Best desktop GUI for classical (non-DL) removal of moving logos.
- π€ WatermarkRemover-AI: Best open-source AI option β Florence-2 detection + LaMa inpainting with a GUI.
π’ News & Major Milestones (2024β2026)
- π₯ AI-Generated Video Watermarks Emerge (2024): With Sora, Runway, Kling, Seedance all embedding visible watermarks, a wave of targeted removers followed.
- π EU AI Act & SynthID Rollout (2024): Google DeepMind's invisible SynthID watermark deployed at scale in Imagen and Veo β spurring open-source invisible-watermark removal research.
- π§ NeurIPS 2024 Invisible Watermark Removal Challenge (2024): First major benchmark competition evaluating robustness of invisible watermarks and the SOTA of removal methods.
- π WM-Inpaint Bridge Paper (Apr 2025): SOTA work bridging image inpainting and large-area visible watermark removal β addresses mask quality dependency in prior DNN methods.
- π‘οΈ Forensic Stealth in WM Removal (2026): New research showing that removing a watermark is not enough β forensic traces remain in pixel statistics even after visual removal.
- β‘ Seedance 2.0 Watermark Remover (2025): Dedicated open-source tool (Python + OpenCV + LaMa) for automatically removing ByteDance's Seedance AI video watermarks. No GPU required.
π Community & Discussions
- π οΈ r/StableDiffusion: ComfyUI-based inpainting pipelines for watermark removal.
- π¬ r/MachineLearning: Latest discussion on SynthID, C2PA, and invisible watermarking robustness.
- π¬ IOPaint Discussions: Community scripts for LaMa-based video watermark removal using ffmpeg.
- π₯ r/videography: Practical use-cases and tool comparisons for cleaning stock footage.
π Research & Continuous Learning
- π Hugging Face Daily Papers: Track inpainting and watermark removal pre-prints daily.
- π ArXiv cs.CV β Watermark Removal: Browse the latest computer vision papers.
- π§ Papers With Code β Watermark Removal: Benchmarks, datasets, and reproducible SOTA code.
- ποΈ CLWD Dataset: Standard benchmark dataset for visible watermark removal (10,000+ watermarked images).
- π WAVES Benchmark: Robustness benchmark for evaluating invisible watermark removal methods.
βοΈ Legal & Ethical Considerations
Important: Watermark removal tools are powerful β use them responsibly.
- β Permitted: Removing your own watermarks from your own content, cleaning up archival footage you own, repurposing media you have licensed for modification.
- β Not Permitted: Removing watermarks to infringe copyright, bypass licensing requirements, or misrepresent the origin of AI-generated media (may violate the EU AI Act and similar regulations).
- π Invisible Watermarks: Stripping SynthID, C2PA, or EXIF provenance metadata from AI-generated content may conflict with emerging regulation. Always check local laws.
β€οΈ Support the Project
If this consolidation helps your research or workflows, please consider supporting its maintenance:
- β Star this repo to help others discover it.
- β Support via PayPal
- πͺ Bitcoin:
3LZazKXG18Hxa3LLNAeKYZNtLzCxpv1LyD
β¨ Star History
Maintained by ishandutta2007. PRs are always welcome!
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