Crop Images Online — Free Image Cropper
Trim a photo to any size or aspect ratio, right in your browser.
🔒 Runs in your browser — files never uploaded ⚡ No signup 💯 Free
Drag inside the box to move it, or pull an edge to resize.
Simplified layout on small screens — the full version is on desktop.
Cropping is the fastest way to fix a photo. Straighten out a bad frame, cut a subject away from a busy background, or force an image into the exact shape a profile picture, thumbnail or banner slot demands.
This cropper runs entirely on your own device. Nothing is uploaded, so there is no queue and no copy of your photo left on somebody else's server — drag the box, and the cropped file is ready immediately.
How to use Crop Image
- Add your image. Drag it onto the box above, or tap to browse. JPG, PNG, WebP and GIF all work.
- Pick an aspect ratio, or leave it on Free to crop to any shape. Choosing a ratio locks the box so it cannot drift out of proportion while you drag.
- Position the box. Drag inside it to move, or pull a corner to resize. If you need an exact crop, type the pixel values into the four boxes instead.
- Click Crop image and download the result.
Which aspect ratio do you actually need?
Most cropping is done to satisfy something else's requirements, so it helps to know the common ones:
- 1:1 square — profile pictures nearly everywhere, and Instagram feed posts.
- 4:5 portrait — the tallest shape Instagram will show in the feed without cropping it for you.
- 9:16 — full-screen vertical: Stories, Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts.
- 16:9 — YouTube thumbnails, presentation slides, most video.
- 3:2 — what most cameras shoot natively, and the shape of a 6×4 print.
- 2:1 — wide banners and header images.
Cropping does not reduce quality
Cutting pixels away is not the same as compressing them. The pixels you keep are the exact pixels you started with, so a crop is lossless in the way that matters — you are simply keeping fewer of them.
The one thing to watch is that the quality slider re-encodes the result. Leave it at 92% or above and the difference is invisible. If you need a guaranteed byte-for-byte copy of the remaining pixels, choose PNG as the output format instead.
Crop first, then resize
If you need a specific pixel size — say a 400×400 avatar — crop to the right shape first, then run the result through the image resizer to hit the exact dimensions. Doing it in that order means the resizer scales a correctly proportioned image instead of squashing one.
Frequently asked questions
Is my image uploaded anywhere?
No. The crop happens inside your browser using your own device's processor. Your image never travels over the network, which also means there is no file size limit imposed by an upload and no waiting in a queue.
Does cropping reduce the quality of my photo?
Not the part you keep. Cropping discards pixels outside your selection and leaves the rest untouched. The only quality decision is the output setting — at 92% or above the re-encoding is invisible, and choosing PNG avoids it entirely.
How do I crop to an exact pixel size?
Type the numbers into the Left, Top, Width and Height boxes instead of dragging. They are in the original image's own pixels, so a 400 in Width means 400 real pixels regardless of how large the preview looks on your screen.
Can I crop to a circle?
Not here — this tool produces rectangles. JPG has no transparency, so a circular crop only works as a PNG, and for a profile picture you almost never need one: nearly every site that displays avatars as circles does that masking itself. Crop to a 1:1 square and it will appear round.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes. Drag inside the box to move it and pull a corner to resize. The mid-edge handles are hidden on touch screens because they are too small to hit reliably with a finger — the corners do the same job.
What image formats can I crop?
JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF and BMP — anything your browser can display. Animated GIFs are flattened to their first frame. For HEIC photos from an iPhone, convert them first with the HEIC to JPG converter.