Image Tools
13 toolsCompress, convert, resize, and edit images in your browser.
Image tools
About Image Tools
Images are usually the heaviest assets on any page, and the difference between a fast site and a slow one often comes down to whether someone took thirty seconds to compress and resize images before uploading them. Our image tools handle the most common image jobs — compression, format conversion, resizing, cropping, favicon generation, and QR codes — entirely in your browser, with no upload-and-wait cycle.
Everyday Image Jobs, Solved Instantly
The Image Compressor is built around a simple problem: most images straight out of a camera or a design tool are far larger than they need to be for the web, and shrinking them meaningfully reduces page load time without a visible quality loss. The WebP Converter, PNG to JPG, and JPG to PNG tools solve the equally common problem of needing a specific format for a specific use case — WebP for modern browsers that support it, JPG when you need broad compatibility and smaller file sizes for photos, PNG when you need transparency or lossless quality for graphics and screenshots. The Image Resizer lets you set exact pixel dimensions or scale proportionally, which matters when a platform has strict upload requirements (a profile photo, a banner ad, a product thumbnail). The Image Cropper adds a visual, draggable crop interface so you can frame exactly the part of an image you need without guessing at coordinates.
Beyond the core conversion and compression tools, the Favicon Generator takes a single source image and produces a complete set of favicon sizes and formats for browsers, iOS home screens, and Android — a task that's fiddly to do by hand but takes seconds here. The QR Code Generator, one of the most-used tools on the platform, turns any URL, plain text, or contact card into a scannable code, with options for size and error-correction level, ready to drop into a poster, a business card, or a digital menu.
Everything Runs Locally — Your Images Never Leave Your Device
Every tool in this category uses the browser's built-in Canvas API to read, transform, and re-encode images entirely on your device. That means when you compress a photo, resize a screenshot, or crop a design mockup, the image data never gets uploaded to a server — there's no upload progress bar because there's no upload at all. This matters for obvious privacy reasons (unreleased product photos, personal photos, client work under NDA) but it also has a practical benefit: processing starts the instant you select a file, rather than waiting on a network round-trip, which makes these tools noticeably faster than typical server-based image editors for single-image tasks. Because everything happens locally, there's also no file size limit imposed by an upload quota — the practical ceiling is only how much your browser and device can comfortably handle in memory.
Quality, Format, and Compression Tradeoffs
Choosing the right format and compression level is less obvious than it seems, and our tools are built to make good defaults easy while still giving you control. JPG uses lossy compression and is best for photographs where a small amount of quality loss is imperceptible but the file size savings are significant. PNG uses lossless compression and is the right choice when you need pixel-perfect accuracy or transparency, such as logos, icons, and screenshots with text. WebP generally beats both at equivalent visual quality, offering smaller file sizes than JPG and support for transparency like PNG, which is why it's become the default recommendation for web images in modern browsers — though JPG and PNG remain necessary for compatibility with older systems, certain CMS platforms, and print workflows. The Image Compressor lets you dial in a quality percentage and see the resulting file size before you download, so you're never guessing at the tradeoff between visual fidelity and load time.
Who Uses These Tools
Web developers and designers use the compressor and format converters as a pre-upload step before adding images to a CMS or codebase, keeping page weight down without manual per-image tuning. Marketers and social media managers use the resizer and cropper to hit exact dimension requirements for ad platforms and social networks, which frequently reject uploads that don't match their spec. Small business owners use the QR code generator for print materials — menus, flyers, product packaging — linking straight to a website or contact card. And anyone building a new site or app uses the favicon generator once per project to produce the full icon set browsers and mobile home screens expect, without needing to learn the specifics of every platform's icon requirements.