About Foddo

Foddo solves a familiar problem for digital creators, photographers, and independent artists: protecting exclusive images from leaks without ugly watermarks or DRM that punishes paying subscribers.

Our mission

Traditional copyright protection has long relied on obtrusive visible watermarks, destructive raster overlays, or heavy cloud-based digital rights management (DRM). Visible watermarks are easily cropped or removed with modern generative inpainting tools, while cloud DRM locks your buyers into proprietary reader apps.

Foddo takes a different approach: imperceptible, robust forensic watermarking that embeds unique recipient IDs invisibly in standard image files. Your subscribers receive clean, high-resolution photos that look untouched. If an unauthorized copy appears on Telegram, forums, or social media, Foddo Inspect can recover the embedded recipient ID (when the mark survived the route) to trace which recipient leaked the file. Match it against your delivery log.

Local-first architecture and privacy

You should not have to upload unreleased work to a cloud server just to watermark it. Foddo is built local-first:

• Watermark embedding, batch distribution, EXIF metadata hygiene, and forensic inspection run entirely on your Windows computer, using local CPU and GPU acceleration.
• Your high-resolution images never touch outside servers, so unreleased campaigns, private photo drops, and proprietary artwork stay private.
• Multiple complementary methods, including TrustMark neural models, WAM, discrete cosine transform (DCT), and least-significant bit (LSB) techniques, cover different compression and distribution routes.

Company and development

Foddo is developed and maintained by MerginIT e.U., an independent software company founded by Jonas Fröller, based in Leonding, Austria. MerginIT builds focused desktop tools and web utilities around user privacy, speed, and clean software architecture.

Transparent one-time pricing

Many creators prefer to avoid another monthly subscription for essential production utilities. Foddo is offered as a transparent one-time purchase with a perpetual license for desktop use. Our browser tools are free, and they never upload your files.