15+ APIs · generation, processing & automation
Ship image features.Without Building Image Infrastructure.
One platform to generate, edit and automate visuals - backgrounds, resize, watermark, OCR and more. REST APIs with API keys, webhooks and batch processing built in.
Generation
- Create Image
- Get Template
- Create PDF
Processing
- Remove BG
- Resize
- Compress
- Watermark
- OCR
Automation
- Projects
- Batch jobs
- Webhooks
Create Image × 1,000 · project: launch-q2
Webhook delivered
POST https://api.acme.io/hooks/picnie → batch.completed
Engineering teams ship image features on Picnie
You shouldn't run your own image factory.
Picnie is programmable infrastructure - so your team ships product features instead of babysitting FFmpeg clusters.
You maintain brittle ImageMagick scripts for every resize, crop and watermark variant
Call Resize Image, Compress Image and Add Watermark endpoints from your backend
Personalized certificates and ads require a designer in the loop
Get Template + Create Image fills dynamic fields at scale from your data
Image features slip quarters because visual ops were never a first-class API
Ship with REST + Postman docs - or wire Zapier, Make and Pabbly for no-code flows
API-first image ops
Everything your platform needs - nothing you have to host yourself.
REST APIs
HTTP endpoints for image generation and editing. Every call uses your API key in the Authorization header.
- Create Image from templates
- Create Project for batching
- Postman collection available
Image utilities
AI-powered operations you would otherwise host yourself - background removal, OCR, watermarking and optimization.
- Remove Background
- Transcribe Image (OCR)
- Resize, Crop, Compress
Integrations
Connect Picnie to the rest of your stack without writing glue code for every workflow.
- Zapier, Make & Pabbly
- Google Sheets
- Any language via HTTP
Teams & templates
Shared templates, team invites and project workspaces - so ops and engineering use the same assets.
- Get My Templates
- Get My Projects
- White-label friendly for SaaS
Documented endpoints from Picnie
See the full reference on docs.picnie.com, including Upload Asset, Add Watermark, Convert Image, Create PDF and more.
- API key required on every request
- Projects to organize batch work
- Test with the Postman collection
- Ideal for SaaS, eCommerce, EdTech and fintech
Available APIs
- POSTCreate Image
Fill a template with dynamic data → PNG/JPG
- POSTGet Template
Fetch templates and dynamic field definitions
- POSTCreate Project
Workspace to batch images by client or campaign
- POSTRemove Background
AI cutout for product and portrait shots
- POSTResize Image
Exact dimensions for social, ads and thumbnails
- POSTCompress Image
Smaller files for web and email delivery
- POSTTranscribe Image
OCR - extract text from IDs and documents
- POSTCrop Image
Crop with position control for responsive UIs
Typical integration flow
Organize by campaign
Dynamic fields
Personalized output
Ship to CDN
Projects, templates, then utilities.
Group work in a project, pull the right template, generate images with Create Image, then call Resize or Compress before you store URLs in your database or CDN.
- Certificates, badges and invoices from templates
- Product photos via Remove Background + Resize
- Receipts and IDs via Transcribe Image (OCR)
- No-code automations via Zapier, Make or Pabbly
Built for products that move pixels programmatically
SaaS platforms
Offer white-labeled visual automation - templates and utilities behind your UI.
eCommerce
Automate product photo editing - backgrounds, resize and compression for listings.
Fintech & KYC
Transcribe Image (OCR) to digitize IDs, receipts and scanned forms.
EdTech & events
Generate certificates, badges and event creatives with Create Image.
Creative tools
Embed advanced editing - crop, watermark, convert and filter workflows.
Marketing & social
Scale banners and social visuals via API or Sheets + integrations.
Live in production in four steps
- STEP 01
Get your API key
Add it to the Authorization header on every request.
- STEP 02
Explore in Postman
Use Picnie’s Postman collection to try endpoints.
- STEP 03
Integrate in code
Call from Node, Python, Go or any HTTP client.
- STEP 04
Automate further
Wire Zapier, Make, Pabbly or Google Sheets.
REST plus no-code bridges
Ship from your codebase with HTTP - or let ops wire Picnie through Zapier, Make, Pabbly and Google Sheets. Same APIs, two paths to production.
Code-first
REST from any stack
Authenticate with an API key, call endpoints from your service, and receive results via response body or webhook when batch jobs finish.
- Authorization header on every request
- Create Image, utilities & project APIs
- Webhooks for async and batch completion
REST API
15+ documented POST endpoints
Postman
Collection to try before you ship
cURL / HTTP
Node, Python, Go or any client
Your backend
API key + webhooks + batch jobs
No-code
Automations without deploys
Connect Picnie to spreadsheets, forms and SaaS tools so marketing and ops can run image workflows without opening a PR.
Zapier
Trigger image jobs from 5,000+ apps without writing code.
Make
Visual scenarios that chain Picnie with CRM, sheets and stores.
Pabbly
Affordable automation for ops teams that prefer drag-and-drop.
Google Sheets
Bulk-generate or process rows - popular with non-engineers.
Use REST for your product · use no-code for internal teams - or combine both on the same account.
Call the API from any stack
Picnie does not ship an official SDK - use standard HTTP from your language of choice, or start with the Postman collection linked in the API reference.
- Authorization header with your API key
- Create Image for template-based generation
- Utility endpoints for edit operations
Example · Remove Background
curl -X POST https://picnie.com/api/v1/remove-background \
-H "Authorization: YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{ "image_url": "https://…/product.jpg" }'Example · Create Image
curl -X POST …/create-image \
-H "Authorization: YOUR_API_KEY" \
-d '{ "template_id": "…", "modifications": { … } }'Engineering teams building on Picnie
Scalable Visual Automation That Transformed Our Publishing Workflows
“Picnie has drastically improved how we handle visual content. We now auto-generate launch graphics, promo assets, and PDFs using Google Sheets + Picnie’s API, cutting manual design time in half. The no-code setup made it easy for our team, and the templates ensure our branding remains consistent across all channels.”
A very good tool for automation!!!!
“Okay now the team at Picnie has added a template editor this is a game changer for helping to automate social media posts and ads. The support is super responsive and always happy to help. I integrated a template with Albato and OpenAI to automatically build a year's worth of content with minimal effort.”
Good for Automation
“If you use Zapier, Make, Activepieces etc, this app is great to automate social media text, blog post header images and personalized customer images. A few editor issues with text shadows, but otherwise very useful.”
Developer FAQs
Ship the image feature.
Not the image factory.
Get an API key and explore the REST reference and Postman collection - no SDK required.