Acknowledgements

Licenses & credits

Wispframe stands on excellent open-source work and Apple's media frameworks. Everything below is free for commercial use; open-source components are used under the licenses noted, whose terms and notices we retain.

Machine-learning models

Background removal runs fully on-device. All models are free for commercial use.

U²-Net: Salient-object model behind the ONNX background-removal backend.; Apache License 2.0
rembg: Source of the ONNX model exports we download on first use.; MIT License
ONNX Runtime: On-device inference engine (CoreML / Apple Neural Engine).; MIT License
Apple Vision: Person segmentation, face detection, and saliency — a macOS system framework.; Part of macOS (Apple SDK)

Apple system frameworks

Wispframe is built directly on Apple's media stack.

ScreenCaptureKit: Zero-copy screen & window capture.; Part of macOS
VideoToolbox: Hardware H.264 / HEVC / ProRes encoding.; Part of macOS
AVFoundation: Muxing, camera, and audio.; Part of macOS
Core Image: GPU compositing.; Part of macOS

Open-source libraries

Built in Rust. Key dependencies, all under permissive licenses.

objc2: Safe Rust bindings to the Apple frameworks.; MIT License
egui / eframe: The control-panel UI.; MIT / Apache-2.0
image: PNG/GIF encoding & resizing.; MIT / Apache-2.0
ndarray: Model tensor math.; MIT / Apache-2.0
hf-hub: On-demand model download & cache.; Apache-2.0
crossbeam · serde · clap · tracing: Concurrency, serialization, CLI, logging.; MIT / Apache-2.0

Fonts

Inter: Interface typeface.; SIL Open Font License 1.1
JetBrains Mono: Monospace / code typeface.; SIL Open Font License 1.1

Stock media on this site

Placeholder imagery for the marketing pages — free for commercial use, no attribution required. Replaced by our own captures over time.

Unsplash: Background photography and demo stills.; Unsplash License
Mixkit: Placeholder demo clips in the showcase.; Mixkit Free License

Full license texts for the open-source components ship with the app and are available on request at the addresses in each project's repository. Apple, macOS, ScreenCaptureKit, VideoToolbox, AVFoundation, and Vision are trademarks of Apple Inc.; Wispframe is an independent product and is not endorsed by Apple.