SukeSuke Maker

Free · No sign-up · Runs in your browser

Invisible on the timeline.
Revealed on tap.

Make the viral X (Twitter) "transparent PNG trick" in seconds. Drop an image, choose what to hide, export.

Drag & drop an image here
Click / tap to browse · paste works too

See the difference

Left = timeline, right = after tapping. Drag the slider.

Timeline view (hidden) Tapped view (revealed)
Tap-to-reveal demo
Tap to reveal!

Three steps

  1. 1

    Drop an image

    Drag & drop into the box above, or tap to browse on mobile.

  2. 2

    Choose what to hide

    Pick colors with the eyedropper, refine with the brush. The Timeline view shows exactly how X will render it.

  3. 3

    Export & post

    Save the PNG and post it from the X web app (x.com). Posting from the mobile app destroys the transparency!

How the trick works

The tool punches a fine 1-pixel checkerboard of transparent holes into the areas you hide. When X generates its downscaled timeline preview, those meshed areas average out to semi-transparent and get rounded to fully transparent by X's image pipeline — so they vanish from the timeline. The full-size image you see after tapping isn't downscaled, so your eye reads the 50% mesh as a normal picture.

Posting tips for X

  1. Always post from the web app (x.com)

    The mobile app converts images to JPEG, destroying the transparency entirely.

  2. Aim for a long edge of 2400px or more

    The "Optimize for X" export handles this automatically.

  3. Exports are PNG-8 (256 colors)

    The only format X keeps transparent at large sizes.

  4. Posting from a phone

    Save the PNG to Files, then open x.com in Safari or Chrome and attach it.

  5. Dark mode breaks the effect

    Hidden areas may become visible. This trick assumes viewers use light mode.

FAQ

The transparency disappeared when I posted

Posting from the mobile app converts images to JPEG. Always post from x.com in a browser, and use the "Optimize for X" export option.

The hidden area is faintly visible on the timeline

Increase "Hiding strength" to 55% or 60% in the export dialog, and check with the Timeline view before posting.

The revealed image looks slightly dark

Half of the pixels in hidden areas are transparent — that's inherent to the trick. It blends with the viewer's background.

The exported colors look slightly different

Exports use 256-color PNG-8 with dithering. Full-color PNGs get converted to JPEG by X (destroying the transparency), so PNG-8 is required to keep the effect.

How is this different from "image changes when tapped" tools?

Those blend two images with semi-transparency; SukeSuke Maker punches a fine transparency mesh so the region disappears from the timeline entirely.

Does it work in dark mode?

Dark mode breaks it — hidden areas can show through on dark-mode phones. The trick assumes viewers are in light mode (a limitation of the genre itself). Use the Timeline view's background toggle to check both.

Does it work on iPhone?

Creating and saving works fine on iPhone, and the saved PNG keeps its format. Just don't post from the X app (it converts to JPEG) — save the PNG to Files, then open x.com in Safari and attach it there.

Is it free?

Yes — free, no account needed, everything runs in your browser.