diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 73ad0b00b..7ad7ece88 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ This release notably changes to using N-API. 🎉
 * Remove unused private field `backend` in the `Backend` class. (#2229)
 * Add Node.js v20 to CI. (#2237)
 * Replaced `dtslint` with `tsd` (#2313)
+* Replaced `simple-get ` with ` Node.js builtin` `fetch` (#2309)
 ### Added
 * Added string tags to support class detection
 ### Fixed
diff --git a/lib/image.js b/lib/image.js
index 4a37849ee..fec6dadbc 100644
--- a/lib/image.js
+++ b/lib/image.js
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ const bindings = require('./bindings')
 const Image = module.exports = bindings.Image
 const util = require('util')
 
-// Lazily loaded simple-get
-let get
+// Lazily loaded fetch
+let fetch = global.fetch || require('node-fetch')
 
 const { GetSource, SetSource } = bindings
 
@@ -47,20 +47,20 @@ Object.defineProperty(Image.prototype, 'src', {
           }
         }
 
-        if (!get) get = require('simple-get')
-
-        get.concat({
-          url: val,
+        fetch(val, {
+          method: 'GET',
           headers: { 'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/102.0.0.0 Safari/537.36' }
-        }, (err, res, data) => {
-          if (err) return onerror(err)
-
-          if (res.statusCode < 200 || res.statusCode >= 300) {
-            return onerror(new Error(`Server responded with ${res.statusCode}`))
-          }
-
-          setSource(this, data)
         })
+          .then(res => {
+            if (!res.ok) {
+              throw new Error(`Server responded with ${res.statusCode}`)
+            }
+            return res.arrayBuffer()
+          })
+          .then(data => {
+            setSource(this, Buffer.from(data))
+          })
+          .catch(onerror)
       } else { // local file path assumed
         setSource(this, val)
       }
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index c4e340972..27f79dc26 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -46,8 +46,7 @@
   ],
   "dependencies": {
     "node-addon-api": "^7.0.0",
-    "prebuild-install": "^7.1.1",
-    "simple-get": "^3.0.3"
+    "prebuild-install": "^7.1.1"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@types/node": "^10.12.18",