Tattoo Remover AI
AI photo editing for tattoos, scars and stretch marks.
- Role
- Product Engineer
- Year
- 2026
- Platform
- iOS
- Status
- On the App Store
- Stack
- Swift · SwiftUI · Go · PostgreSQL · RevenueCat
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Tattoo Remover AI lets you remove tattoos, scars and stretch marks from photos, or preview new tattoos on your body before making anything permanent.
You paint over the area you want to change, the app generates the edit, and you can compare the result before saving.
It started as a weekend project and grew into a live consumer app with its own backend, subscriptions, image-generation pipeline and social distribution.
01From removal tool to tattoo editor
The app started as a tattoo removal tool. After short form content began driving traffic and showing strong interest in tattoo transformations more broadly, I expanded it to support adding and previewing tattoos too.
Rather than building a separate product, I extended the same editing workflow: choose a photo, mark the area, describe the change, and generate.
The client is built in SwiftUI, backed by a Go service that can run edits across multiple image-generation providers behind one API.
02Built to ship quickly
I reused authentication, billing and storage foundations from an earlier app rather than rebuilding commodity infrastructure, then focused the work on the parts specific to this product: image selection, masking, generation workflows and the editing experience.
Generations run asynchronously, so the app can submit work, track progress and recover the result when it is ready.
03Distribution
The product is also distributed through short-form social content built around tattoo transformations and deliberately extreme tattoo concepts.
The TikTok account has become a meaningful acquisition channel, with individual posts reaching hundreds of thousands to more than a million views.